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Second New Deal
New deal pt.2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| RA | Resettlement Administration: Helped tenant farmers who had not been helped by AAA and moved over 500,000 families to better quality land and housing |
| FSA | Farm Security Administration: Replaced the RA in 1937 and gave special loans to small farmers to buy their land as well as building camps to provide decent living conditions and work for migrant workers |
| WPA | Works Progress Administration: Brought together all organisations whose aim was to create jobs for office workers, and even unemployed actors, artists, and photographers |
| WA | Wagner Act: Forced employers to allow trade unions in their companies and to let them negotiate pay and conditions. it reduced unemployment as it made it illegal to sack workers for being in a union and set up a National Labour Board to oversee dis.. |
| SSA | Social Security Act: Provided state pensions for the elderly and for widows. Provided help for sick and disabled people. It set up a scheme for unemployment insurance. Employers and workers made a small contribution to a special fund each week. If une m w |
| What was the works progress administration later renamed? | Works project administration |
| What did opponents of the new deal do? | They coined these jobs and work creation schemes "boondoggles" in the newspapers. |
| What did opps of new deal claim? | Claimed that over 3 million of taxpayers money was wasted on pointless jobs that did not contribute to economic growth. (Over one billion was being spent on helping the poorest farmers) |
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