Question | Answer |
What were the three goals of the New Deal? | relief, recovery and reform |
What is the New Deal? | Franklin Delano Roosevelt's plan to help fix the problems with the U.S. economy during the Great Depression. |
What does the Social Security Administration (SSA) do? | provides financial (money) assistance or help for elderly, disabled and unemployed |
What did the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) do? | employed young men in outdoor projects. These young men built many bridges, paved roads and developed parks. |
What is the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)? | insurance for banks, government protection for banks to keep banks from going bankrupt |
What is the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC)? | regulated the stock market by preventing the buying of stock without enough money to pay for it |
Which president formed the New Deal? | President Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
Why did Roosevelt develop the New Deal? | to spark the economy and put people back to work |
Who paid for all of the New Deal programs? | the government |
What are relief programs? | programs set out to help with the feeding and housing of the poorest American citizens |
What are recovery programs? | programs designed to help businesses recover by putting money back into the hands of people so they could spend it |
What are reform programs? | programs that attempted to change the system and prevent the conditions that caused the Great Depression |