A New Deal for America

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A New Deal for America
A Nation on the road to recovery

• I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for
  the American People.
• -FDR 1932

Created by Stacy Van Zummeren 2005 For
www.bringinghistoryhome.org
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• The First Hundred Days

March 5, 1933 - June 16, 1933
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Emergency Banking Act
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Alphabet Soup
FHA
NYA
FCA
FCIC
USHA
FERA
FCC
CCC
AAA
REA
PWA
HOLC
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F E R A

• Federal

Emergency
Relief
Administration
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Provided people with the things they needed to
survive
food
clothing
money
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CCC

• Civilian
• Conservation
• Corps

Took needy young men off the streets and put them
to work in forests and national parks
-carved out roads and hiking trails
-cleaned up beaches
-cleared camping areas
Many of these are still in use today - look for
the CCC signs!
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CCC was also responsible for

• helping to end the horrible conditions of the
  Dust Bowl by planting over 2 million trees in a
  wide belt from Texas up to the Dakotas.
• These trees helped keep the topsoil in place.

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WPA

• Works Progress Administration
• Provided jobs for 2 million workers

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Slum clearance
Construction of school and hospital buildings
Flood control
Rural electrification
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Federal Art Project
photographers
writers
painters
performers
sculptors
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Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA

• Created in 1933 to ease economic hardship in
  the Tennessee River Valley (Tennessee, Kentucky,
  Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia)
• Taught better farming methods
• Replanted trees
• Built dams

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AAA
Agricultural Adjustment Association
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NRA
National Recovery Act
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HOLC
Home Owners Loan Corporation
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Did it all work?

• What happened next?

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Resources

• Turck, Mary C. The Dirty Thirties. Logan
  Perfection Learning Corporation, 2002.
• New Deal. World Book Encyclopedia. 14th
  volume. 1976.
• httpschools.clipart.com
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• www.americaslibrary.gov/ es/tn/es_tn_tva_1_e.html
  
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• www.theroadwanderer.net/ 66Oklahoma/route66OK.htm
  
• www.washingtonhistory.org/wshs/tes/
• www.vtstateparks.com/htm/ccc