Fdr'S New Deal Programs
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3FDR’s New Deal Programs
Name: ________________________________________
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt believed the federal government should take an active role in solving the problems of the Great Depression. He pledged to the American people a New Deal. This New
Deal would be the broad title for what would be dozens of government programs and policies designed to end the immediate suffering (relief), solve the economic crisis (recovery), and prevent future
economic disasters (reform). Listed below are a few of the more popular programs of the New Deal.
Directions: Complete the chart with information from your notes, textbook (Chapter 23), or using the internet.
Program
Purpose or Reason for It
What did it do? How did it Work?
Whom did it
(write out the full name)
(List the problems that were happening)
Was this relief, recovery, and/or reform?
help?
Bank Holiday
- Bank runs (people rushing to the
Relief and Recovery
- Banks
Created by the Emergency
bank to withdraw their savings)
1) Closed all banks for 4 days and required a federal audit of each
- Consumers
Banking Act (1933)
caused 11,000+ banks to fail by 1933
bank’s books to verify that they were sound (good)
- Even the healthy banks failed
2) Only good banks were reopened
- The public had lost faith/confidence
3) $1 billion was re-deposited into banks
in banks
4) Consumer confidence was restored
FDIC
Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation
Created by the Glass-Stegall Act
(1933)
SEC
CCC
TVA
AAA
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