Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition.
Describe the Work Progress Administration:
put people back to work through civil projects and doing things like sponsoring artist
Describe the Social Security Act:
provided pension for the elderly, established unemployment insurance, established insurance for work related accidents, and provided aid for poverty stricken mothers, children, the blind, and the disabled
Describe how FDR favored Labor Unions in the New Deal:
FDR believed that to get out of the GD had to raise the standard of living for industrial workers so gets Wagner Act passed which recognizes employee’s rights to join labor unions and collective bargain
Describe the problems FDR had with the SC and his solutions: Given FDR’s popularity probably could have been a successful plan, because the court started to agree with New Deal programs and one of his biggest opponents resigned allowing him to appoint someone favoring the New Deal
Describe the Effects of the New Deal:
Changed US gov from laissez faire approach to accepting responsibility to prime the pump of the economy
Thursday, April 1, 2010
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