A New Deal for America I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American People. -FDR 1932 A Nation on the road to recovery… Created by Stacy.

A “New Deal” for America

“I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American People.”

-FDR 1932

A Nation on the road to recovery…

Created by Stacy Van Zummeren 2005For www.bringinghistoryhome.org

The First Hundred

Days

March 5, 1933 - June 16, 1933

“Alphabet Soup”

NYA

AAA

CCC

PWA

FCAFCIC

FCCFERA

REA

FHA

HOLC

USHA

F E R A Federal

AdministrationRelief

Emergency

Provided peoplewith the things they needed to survive…

clothing

food

money

CivilianConservation

Corps

Took needy young men off the streets and put them to work in forests and national parks

Many of these are still in use today - look for the CCC signs!

-carved out roads and hiking trails-cleaned up beaches-cleared camping areas

CCC was also responsible for

helping to end the horrible conditions of the Dust Bowl by planting over 2 million trees in a wide belt from Texas up to the Dakotas.

These trees helped keep the topsoil in place.

WPA

Works Progress AdministrationProvided jobs for 2 million workers

Slum clearance

Flood control

Rural electrification

Construction of school and hospital buildings

Federal Art Project

painters

sculptors

photographers

performers

writers

Tennessee Valley Authority

Created in 1933 to ease economic hardship in the Tennessee River Valley (Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia)

• Taught better farming methods

• Replanted trees• Built dams

AgriculturalAdjustmentAssociation

National Recovery

Act

Home Owners Loan Corporation

Did it all work?

What happened next?

Resources

Turck, Mary C. The Dirty Thirties. Logan: Perfection Learning Corporation, 2002.

“New Deal.” World Book Encyclopedia. 14th volume. 1976.

http:schools.clipart.com

http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/t/3/t3b/courses/cas500fall2004/cas500fall2004syllabus.htm

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www.americaslibrary.gov/ es/tn/es_tn_tva_1_e.html

http://www.fruitfromwashington.com/Varieties/art/images/wpa_artexhibit.jpg

www.theroadwanderer.net/ 66Oklahoma/route66OK.htm

www.washingtonhistory.org/wshs/tes/ www.vtstateparks.com/htm/ccc