HIST 1312 1st Edition Lecture 25 Outline of Last Lecture I. Great DepressionA. Stock Market CrashB. Federal Reserve ResponseC. Hawley-Smoot TarifD. Associational PrinciplesE. Reconstruction Finance Corp. (RFC) II. Election of 1932A. Hoover vs FDRIII. FDRA. Emergency Banking ActB. FDICC. Fireside ChatsD. Glass-Steagall ActE. Gold not Legal to OwnOutline 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 AgenciesA. T.V.A.B. R.E.A.III. Recovery AgenciesA. N.I.R.A.B. U.S. vs Schlecter PoultryC. A.A.A.Current Lecturel.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 notto 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
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