Programs of the New Deal by Mrs. Braunstein

Who was helped (who was not?)

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By: Names

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Name of Program & Visual

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Date & Description of the Program

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Successful/Effective?

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Extension to Today?

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Is this program still going?

Or has it morphed into something new by similar?

By: Shane, Cassandra, Aana

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Alexander, Lea

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By: Nico, Aanya, and Rohan

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By: Brandon, Shivani, Kate

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Lucas, Monika, James

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By: Manya, Ethan, Ryu

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By: Kyra, Abby, and Clara

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By: Connor, Tyler, Josh

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By Kaito, Alan, and Shayla

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Public Works Administration

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By: Niharika Prachanda, Mia Molina, Von Roberts

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Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC)

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Date & Description of the Program

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The Home Owners Loan Corporation was established on June 13, 1933, with the purpose of refunding the overdue mortgages of families with long-term loans at lower interest rates. HOLC created a housing appraisal system with color-coded maps that categorized the riskiness of lending to households in different neighborhoods based on economic measures.

Who was helped? (who was not?)

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The CCC provided jobs for young, unskilled, unemployed men, and over its 9 years of work, it employed about 3 million men throughout the nation. There was discrimination against African American men who enrolled, as they capped their numbers, heavily segregated them, and were not allowed to hold supervisory positions.

Emergency Banking Act

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Tennessee Valley Authority

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Who was helped (Who wasn't?)

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The program aided struggling homeowners who were unable to pay for their houses, refunding the overdue mortgages of over 1 million families in 3 years. However, it was also a key promoter of redlining, and drove racial residential segregation and wealth inequality.

Date & Description

2024-01-22 19:05:00 UTC

The Civilian Conservation Corps was a voluntary government work program that started in 1933 to help unemployed, unmarried men between the ages of 18-29. the corporation would help these men find part time jobs in workers programs to improve Americas public land, forest and parks.

Date and Description of the Program

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The Program was created on May 18, 1933. It was made to oversee the construction of dams to control flooding, create cheap electric power, and improve navigation in the Tennessee Valley basin. It carefully manages the nation's fifth-largest river to reduce flood damage, provide recreation, and protect aquatic life.

Extension to Today

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In 1936, the Supreme Court ruled that the Agricultural Adjustment Act was unconstitutional and was dissolved as a result of U.S. V Butler. This was because the act was controversial as food supplies were decreasing as the nation desperately needed food. Following reform and policies that prioritize the management of crop prices and soil conservation, the act was ratified again in 1938 and is still in effect to this day.

Who Was Helped

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The TVA mainly helped the residents and farmers(Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia). Residents were helped from the improvement of living conditions with affordable electricity costs. The farmers were benefited by new programs that helped improve soil conservation and other agricultural practices.

8128712 — 2024-01-22 19:05:07 UTC

Agricultural Adjustment Act

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Date & Description of the Program

8128712 — 2024-01-22 19:05:30 UTC

The Glass-Steagall Act was signed on June 16th, 1933, and included policies such as creating the FDIC to insure deposits and prevent bank runs, and separating commercial and investment banking.

Extension to Today?

2024-01-22 19:05:43 UTC

The program was terminated on February 3, 1954. However it's influences still remain today as Redlining maps are still referenced today to disproportionately target minorities and segregate low-asset neighborhoods throughout the U.S., attributing to the racial wealth gap.

Date and Description of the Program

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The Securities Act of 1933 was created and passed into law to protect investors after the stock market crash of 1929. The Securities Act of 1933 was designed to create transparency in the financial statements of corporations.

Who was helped (who was not)?

8128712 — 2024-01-22 19:05:44 UTC

Depositors who wanted to worry less about their money were helped by the creation of the FDIC. However, investors and bankers had a harder time making money because of the separation of commercial and investment banks, which led to the policy eventually being eroded.

Successful/Effective?

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The Glass-Steagall Act, made in 1933, tried to keep banks stable by keeping their regular and investment activities separate. It was changed in 1999, and opinions differ on its effectiveness. Supporters believe it prevented problems, while others think its rules became old as well as hurting how competitive banks could be.

Successful/Effective?

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The Home Owners Loan Corporation was a very successful program. Around one million homes were saved because of the HOLC. Approximately 800,000 people were able to repair their HOLC loans as well repairing them on time.

Extension to Today?

8128712 — 2024-01-22 19:06:05 UTC

The Glass-Steagall Act is in not effect anymore, it was repealed by the Clinton Administration in 1999 due to concerns about the limitations that it imposed on bank sectors. Some economists believe that the changes made to the policy in 1999 by removing some provisions were directly responsible for the 2008 financial crash, while others regarded it as a mistake but think the Great Recession was caused by other factors, and still others think that the 1999 alterations were the right move.

Who was helped

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This act allied with industry by pausing laws that limited growth of business. It also helped workers by stabilizing wages.

Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)

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Successful/Effective?

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The success of the program depends on who is asked, some may say that it was extremely effective while others may think that it was not at all. Many argue that it stabilized the agricultural markets and aided the farmers while others believe that it displaced tenant farmers and was completely unconstitutional.

Date and Description

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On March 9th, 1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt passed the Emergency Banking Act. The act created a federal reserve to stabilize the U.S. economy by making a national bank that would oversee monetary policy.

Extension to today

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The vast criticism the NRA faced led to it being abolished in a 1935 Supreme Court case. It was seen as improperly giving legislative powers to the executive branch.

Successful/ effective

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The TVA was very successful during its first 20 years. By the end of the second World War, it had become the leading electricity supplier in the US. It also was able to stop the steady rise in energy costs.

Description

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Passed on June 16, 1933 by the National Recovery Administration (NRA), the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) authorized the president to regulate the industry to stimulate economic recovery. It developed codes of fair competition to govern whole industries. It established minimum wages for workers and minimum prices for goods that businesses sold.

Date and Description

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The PWA was a large-scale construction agency that was created thanks to the National Industrial Recovery Act in June of 1933. It was designed to reduce unemployment by hiring the unemployed to build new public buildings, roads, bridges, and subways, all of which would increase purchasing power.

Who was helped:

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The PWA helped average workers the most, who recieved wages for their work on dams, roads, and other public work projects.

Who was helped and who was not

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The Emergency Banking Act helped those who were affected economically by the Great Depression, and helped them regain confidence in the banking system.

Successful/Effective

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The Emergency Banking Act was successful overall because it restored confidence. Customers brought back and deposited the money they had originally withdrawn from the banks. Within two weeks, Americans had deposited more than half the currency that was taken out before.

Extension to today

2024-01-22 19:08:37 UTC

The act was repealed in 1933. It was replaced by a long-term response including the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) which continues to insure deposits today.

Who was and was not helped by AAA?

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The AAA benefited North Carolina farmers, landowners and rural communities. Farmers had a bigger income, meaning that landowners were paid more, and rural communities were able to improve economic conditions. Consumers were harmed by the AAA as the reduced food production led to higher food prices for consumers.

Extension to Today?

2024-01-22 19:08:59 UTC

Today the Securities Act requires companies that sell stocks and bonds to disclose their information, such as their assets and financial health. It is one of the many laws today that protect investors from investment fraud.

Date and Description of the Program

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The Federal Emergency Relief Act was created on May 12, 1933. The act established the Federal Emergency Relief Administration which is a grant-making agency authorized to distribute federal aid to the states for relief. The act distributed roughly $3.1 billion and employed around 20 million people.

National Industrial Recovery Act

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Successful/effective?

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Though the Public Works Administraion was successful in employing the unemployed, they spent over $6 million and did not manage to bring industrial activity back to pre-Depression times. In addition it failed to meet one of its biggest objectives: the construction of many affordable, quality housing units.

Extension to today

2024-01-22 19:10:29 UTC

Today it is still the leading public power supplier in the US. They also work to manage the river system to control flooding, make rivers easier to travel, provide recreation, and protect water quality.

Successful/Effective

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No, the NRA was not successful. From its beginning the NRA faced criticism from business owners, congress and other economic intellectuals. Finally, unhappy labor unions fought with little success for bargaining promised by the NIRA. These codes did not help the economy, and by raising prices made the economy worse.

Successful/Effective

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The Securities Act was successful in revealing disclosure agreements to the public for new security issues, prior to the passage of the act companies could promise large profits for investing in their stocks without revealing relevant information to the buyer.

Who Was Helped

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The people who benefited from the SEC were ordinary investors. The SEC is responsible for overseeing the securities industry in the United States protecting investors from fraud.

Extension To Today?

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FERA was shut down in 1935 and is now taken over by two federal agencies, the WPA and the Social Security Administration. The FERA was also disbanded, and most responsibilities of the administration were incorporated into the Works Progress Administration and other New Deal agencies.

Date and Description

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The AAA was put into place at two different times, once originally and then after it was revised and put into place again. This happened in 1933 and 1938. The first wave aimed to decrease production and increase prices while the second focused on the conservation of farms themselves.

Who Was Helped

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This act was supposed to give states money so that they could create jobs. The act mostly helped workers by giving them jobs. The goal was to create a stable economy by creating jobs for these workers.

Effects today

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When the U.S. entered WWII, the CCC was no longer necessary (because of the need for armed forces). The CCC last for nine years planing billions of trees, constructing thousands of miles of roads and trails, thousands of miles of telephone lines, grew the number of people fighting forest fires and fire prevention operations. They built dams, bridges, builds, and more. They also created state parks.

Extension to Today

2024-01-22 19:15:57 UTC

The PWA experienced administrative troubles and failed to return the industrial work level to pre-depression level. The PWA's powers were transferred to the Federal Works Agency in 1943. The Federal Works Agency which the PWA was ended in 1949. The PWA was responsible for the construction of thousands of homes, roads, building, and other projects that we still use today.

Successful/Effective

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The main goal of this was to get people jobs to get the economy running. While it successfully got a lot of people jobs, you cannot say that it was a complete success because the program only got some of the people jobs than it wanted to. It shut down because the states did not know how to use the money effectively to get people jobs.

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

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Successful/Effective?

2024-01-23 01:11:43 UTC

It was one of the most effective programs in FDR's New Deal as it provided work, meals, shelter, uniforms, and a monthly wage for millions. It also planted more than three billion trees and constructed trails and shelters in more than 800 parks across the nation during its time and overall shaped the nation's national/state parks.

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"Civilian Conservation Corps workers building a rock dam in Missouri"

Devin S.

2024-01-24 06:32:42 UTC

Works Progress Administration

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Date and Description

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It was set up on May 6, 1935, by presidential order (FDR). The Works Progress Administration was an American new deal program that employed millions of jobseekers to carry out public works projects including but not limited to, the construction of public buildings and roads.

Who was helped

2024-01-24 06:36:34 UTC

It vastly helped the unemployed population in America by giving them jobs building infrastructure with an average yearly income of $1200.

Succesful?

2024-01-24 06:39:12 UTC

Yes it was successful as at its peak in the depression (1398) it gave jobs to around 3 million people. It gave citizens money and built up the infrastructure building nearly 620,000 miles of road and 10,000 bridges. These jobs allowed those people to have money put back into the market helping the economy.

Extension to Today

2024-01-24 06:39:27 UTC

It later dissolved into the Bureau of Public Roads, the Public Buildings Branch of the Procurement Division, the Branch of Buildings Management of the National Park Service, the United States Housing Authority, and the Public Works Administration under the newly created Federal Works Agency. Created at the same time, the Federal Security Agency assumed the WPA's responsibility for the National Youth Administration. It was eventually terminated during WW2 as unemployment was no longer an issue.