FDR and The New Deal

1. Describe how people struggled to survive during the depression.
People struggled to survive during the great depression and lost their jobs, houses, and had to live on the streets. Some lived in parks and had to cover themselves with newspaper to stay warm. People waited for hours in line to get bread and/or soup.

2. How was what happened to men during the Great Depression different from what happened to women? Children?
Men were not used to being unemployed and got very upset. There became alot of homless people on the streets. Women would try to support their families but many believed that women shouldnt be working if there were unemployed men so women starved. and Children would become very ill and have to work in sweat shops to support their families and themselves.

3. Describe the causes and effects (on people) because of the Dust Bowl.
Farmers used tractors to break up the grasslands and plant millions of acres of new farmland. Farms exhausted the land through over production of crops. There was no way to keep the soil down becuase the winds in the 1930's were so rough.
Plagued by dust storms, thousands of farmers and sharecroppers were forced to leave their land. Most of them headed west on route 66. Hundres of thousands of farm families had migrated to Cailifornia and other pacific coast states.

Objective: Summarize the initial steps Franklin D. Roosevelt took to reform banking and finance.

4. What was the New Deal and its three general goals? (The 3 Rs)
1.Reliefe for the needy
2.economic recovery
3.Financial reform

5. What did Roosevelt do during the Hundred Days?
During the Hundred Days, Congress passed 15 major peices of New Deal Legislation. Laws significally expanded the federal governments rold in the nations economy. His first step as president was to carry out reforms in banking.

6. Why were Roosevelt's fireside chats significant?
Roosevelts fireside chats were so significant becuase it made people believe that he was talking directly towards them.

7. Describe four significant agencies and/or bills that tightened regulation of banking and finance.
Glass-Steagall Act- Established the federal Deposit Insurance Agency which provided federal insurance for individual bank accounts up to $5000.
Federal Securiteis Act- Required corporations to provide complete information on all stock offerings and made them liable for any misrepresentations.
Agricultural Adjustment Act- sought to raise crop prices by lowering production, which the government achieved by paying farmers to leave a certain amount of crop unseeded.
Civilian Conservation Corps-put young men ages 18-25 to work on building roads, developing parks, planting trees, and helping soil-erosion and flood-control projects.