9.3 The New Deal

President during the Great Depression and WWII--creator of the New Deal programs

A series of reforms enacted by the Franklin Roosevelt administration between 1933 and 1942 with the goal of ending the Great Depression.

basis of New Deal; the government spent money it didn't have (credit) to stimulate the economy

issued by FDR in which banks were closed to examine which were healthy and should reopen and which should not

FDR's method of weekly communication to the American people; gave people confidence that the government was actively fighting the Great Depression

relief, recover, reform (the purposes of the New Deal)

one of the New Deal R's to provide relief checks and quick employment

Granted federal money to state and local government to be used to help the unemployed.

provided temporary jobs in the federal government; established under FERA in 1933

provided money for states to construct roads, bridges, and dams

provided a wide-array of jobs to address unemployment, including jobs for artists, authors, teachers, and doctors

Hired young, unemployed men to work on land projects throughout the country, employed over 3 million people.

one of New Deal's R's to create programs to stimulate agriculture production, industry and provide jobs in order for financial systems to improve

paid farmers subsidies to not produce crops to hopefully increase the cost of crops

hired thousands of workers in the Tennessee Valley to build dams, power plants, and work to control flooding and erosion; brought electricity to the South for the first time