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FDR New Deal: A. Relief Measures

The New Deal was FDR's response to the Great Depression and included relief, recovery, and reform programs. It aimed to provide jobs, relief, and reform the economy through agencies like the WPA, CCC, AAA, FDIC, and Social Security. Conservatives criticized it as too socialist and for increasing the national debt and government's role in the economy. The long-term impacts fundamentally changed the relationship between citizens and their government.

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FDR New Deal: A. Relief Measures

The New Deal was FDR's response to the Great Depression and included relief, recovery, and reform programs. It aimed to provide jobs, relief, and reform the economy through agencies like the WPA, CCC, AAA, FDIC, and Social Security. Conservatives criticized it as too socialist and for increasing the national debt and government's role in the economy. The long-term impacts fundamentally changed the relationship between citizens and their government.

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FDR New Deal

1. Introduction
The New Deal was a series of programs and projects instituted during the Great Depression by President
Franklin D. Roosevelt that aimed to restore prosperity to Americans. When Roosevelt took office in
1933, he acted swiftly to stabilize the economy and provide jobs and relief to those who were suffering.
Over the next eight years, the government instituted a series of experimental New Deal projects and
programs, such as the CCC, the WPA, the TVA, the SEC and others. Roosevelt’s New Deal fundamentally
and permanently changed the U.S. federal government by expanding its size and scope—especially its
role in the economy.

2. Understanding the New Deal

3. Purposes of the New Deal


A. Relief Measures
I. Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)
On May 12, 1933, the United States Congress created the Federal Emergency Relief Administration
(FERA). This organization's purpose was initially to distribute 500 million dollars in federal funds to state
agencies. These funds were grants and not loans. Thus, the state governments did not have to repay
these funds. FERA eventually distributed billions of dollars to the states.

II. The Works Progress Administration (WPA)


The Works Progress Administration (WPA), which employed millions of Americans in public works
projects, from constructing bridges and roads to painting murals and writing plays.

III. The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)


The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), which employed young, single men at federally funded jobs on
government lands.
B. Recovery Measures
I. The National Recovery Act (NRA)
The National Recovery Act (NRA), which sought to boost businesses’ profits and workers’ wages by
establishing industry-by-industry codes that set prices and wages, as well as guaranteeing workers the
right to organize into unions.

II. The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)


The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA), which boosted agricultural prices by offering government
subsidies to farmers to reduce output.

III. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)


The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), which guaranteed individuals that money they
deposited in a bank would be repaid to them by the federal government in the event that their bank
went out of business.

C. Reforms Measures
I. The Social Security Act
The Social Security Act, which required workers and employers to contribute—through a payroll tax—to
the Social Security trust fund. That fund, in turn, makes monthly payments to retirees over the age of
65, as well as to the long-term disabled.

II. Tennessee Valley Authority


The TVA, or Tennessee Valley Authority, was established in 1933 as one of President Roosevelt’s
Depression-era New Deal programs, providing jobs and electricity to the rural Tennessee River Valley, an
area that spans seven states in the South. The TVA was envisioned as a federally-owned electric utility
and regional economic development agency. It still exists today as the nation’s largest public power
provider.

4. Criticisms of Conservative Opponents


Conservative opponents said the New Deal went too far:

 It was socialism (killed individualism)


 It added to the national debt ($35 billion)
 It wasted money on relief and encouraged idleness
 It violated the constitution & states’ rights
 It increased the power of the
5. New Deal Success of Failure

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