HIST 1312 1st Edition Lecture 25 Outline of Last Lecture I Great Depression A Stock Market Crash B Federal Reserve Response C Hawley Smoot Tarif D Associational Principles E Reconstruction Finance Corp RFC II Election of 1932 A Hoover vs FDR III FDR A B C D E Emergency Banking Act FDIC Fireside Chats Glass Steagall Act Gold not Legal to Own Outline of Current Lecture I Work Relief Agencies A C C C B C W A C W P A and P W A II Reform Agencies A T V A B R E A III Recovery Agencies A N I R A B U S vs Schlecter Poultry C A A A Current Lecture l A After FDR gets elected his New Deal is defined He wants get people re employed so he creates the C C C Civilian Conservation Corporation which only hired young single males These males had to set up camps where they built shelters Meals were provided These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute and during the day they had to plant trees and put down fertilizer because of the Dust Bowl They got 25 of their pay and the other 75 would be sent back to their families B The C W A stood for Civil Works Administration and they employed men and women These people built and improved roads bridges schools airports recreational fields they helped out teachers artists writers and historians C The W P A or the Works Progress Administration and the P W A or the Public Works Administration did the same things They made the Golden Gate Bridge the Botanical Gardens and Lake Texoma ll A The T V A was created which was the Tennessee Valley Agency They produced gunpowder and the government puts up a dam in Alabama They also use nitrates in fertilizer and they show people how to sew and can food This was the most successful agency of the new deal because it raised people s awareness of how to do things and how to protect themselves B The R E A or the Rural Electrification Administration made sure rural areas across the country were provided with cheap electricity Houses made a small payment every month to pay of the electricity note and if you paid to much you got a rebate By the 1950 s this was so successful everyone had electricity and then they started putting in telephones and the internet lll A The N I R A or the National Industrial Recovery Administration was a sticker that people could put in the windows of their shops basically saying they re patriotic so more people went to these business Businesses with this stamp had to abide by the government rules of this administration The government decided production quotas and made fixed prices and made companies include Clause in 7A which guaranteed collective bargaining and employment B Schlecter had a poultry farm in New York and New Jersey and he could only sell top grade chickens He runs out of top grade chickens in New York so he uses some of his chickens in New Jersey for New York Because of this he got arrested and the government ruled that the N I R A was unconstitutional C In 1933 the A A A was formed or the Agricultural Adjustment Administration which stated that 8 commodities were being overproduced They tried to persuade farmers not to produce these items by giving them a check to not farm them They put a special tax on the food industry alone The government declared this unconstitutional because taxes must be uniform they can t just target one group
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