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New Deal
Roosevelt's Economic Plan
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Civilian Conservation Corporation: Recovery -offered work to unemployed young men. Offered houseing, planted trees, built bridges and parks. | CCC |
| Tennessee Valley Authority: Recovery - built dams and provided inexpensive electricity to southern states. | TVA |
| Federal Housing Administration: Reform to regulate mortgage interest rates for homeowner loans. | FHA |
| Social Security Act: Relief passed in 1935 to provide Americans with retirement benefits. Mandated unemployment and disability insurance. Workers and employers pay into this fund. | SSA |
| Securities and Exchange Commission: Reform to oversee the stocks and bonds market. It regulates to protect the investors and public from abuses. | SEC |
| Benefitted most workers and continues to do so. Reform: Set minimum wage, created 9-5 workday and established a 5 day workweek. It mandated a 5 day; 40 hour workweek establishing overtime after that. This was not established to create a shorter work week, | Fair Labor Standards Act |
| Chats or informative and easily understood radio addresses to the American public to restore confidence. These chats brought FDR right into every American's living room. | Fireside Chats |
| Giving unemployed, needy people government jobs. | Work relief |
| Grants of money paid to someone. | Subsidy |
| The new laws and proposed by FDR and passed by Congress during Roosevelt's administration. | New Deal |
| Our 32nd President: Frankiin D. Roosevelt -1933 to 1945. died in office. | FDR |
| Purchasing stock by paying only a fraction of its worth and borrowing the rest from their broker in hopes of paying him back. | Buying on Margin |
| An organized system for buing and selling shares or investments in corporations. | Stock Exchange |
| Fail to meet loan payments. | Default |
| Aid to the needy. | Relief |
| Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation - Reform set to renew confidence in banks. Guaranteed funds in the bank up to $2,500 then and $100,000 now. | FDIC |