| basic aims | Relief help victims of depression
Recovery encourage economic recovery
Reform reform the economic system |
| change no1 | emergency banking closed banks for a four day holiday. banks were inspected and only well run banks were permitted to reopen |
| Change no2 | Economy act this cut pay of everyone working for the government and armed forces by 15% this saved nearly 1 billion |
| Change no3 | The beer act allowed alchohol to be sold legalising this put gangsters out of business and money could be made by taxing it. |
| Alphabet agencies | AAA agricultural adjustment agency helped farmers by paying them to destroy food as over production had killed the ground.
CCC civilian conservation corps provided jobs to large number of young men in conservation schemes this created jobs for 2.5 million men.
TVA Tennessee valley authority this scheme brought hydro electric power to seven states on of the worst affected areas of the country dams and power plants were built creating many jobs. |
| success | The new deal created jobs for example 2.5 million 18-25 year olds worked in the CCC.
1932 saw 4000 bank failures. The new deal lowered this to well below 250
During what was often called the second new deal 1935 to 1938 Roosevelt introduced the national security act a system to pay pensions and welfare payments better. |
| Failure | The new deal did not solve unemployment and there was always at least one in ten people unemployed in the USA
Women still faced serious discrimination in all sorts of ways some wages for women were lower for men women made around £525 and £1000 men
There was still severe poverty and poor farmland in parts of Oklahoma as only larger scale farmers got help |
| opposition | Republicans believed in rugged individualism and thought that FDR was behaving like a dictator thought he SSA would make people lazy
Business didn't like government getting involved in their business they didn't want to pay social security contributions.
Rich didn't like to pay higher taxes bitter because FDR policies had taken away some of their power |
| it didnt go far enough' | Huey Long: proposed a share our wealth scheme all fortunes over £5 million should be confiscated and shared. 7.5 million followed him. swore to give each family a radio car a house and cheap food and free education.
Father Coughlin the radio priest: broadcast his ideas to 40 million on sunday evening. he promised work and fair wages for all. fireside chats |
| went against the constitution | the supreme court: 11 out of the 16 alphabet agencies were decreed unconstitutional in cases heard by the supreme court. the believed Roosevelt had tried to impose the power of the federal government on state government. |
