Modern America
Name: _____________________________________
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Alphabet Soup: New Deal Programs and Reforms
FDR took a three-pronged (3 stages) approach to the Depression: relief, recovery, and reform. The three were a
natural outgrowth of one another. There was some overlap between types of programs.
Relief: immediate action taken to halt economic deterioration.
I. FDR announced a four-day _____________________ to begin on Monday, March 6. During that time, FDR
promised, Congress would work on coming up with a plan to save the failing banking industry. By March 9,
Congress passed the Emergency Banking Act of 1933, which did what?
a. How successful was it?
II. Civilian Conservation Corps. (CCC): (April 1933) provided temporary jobs to unmarried single white adult males (ages
18-25) in reforestation, road construction, prevention of forest erosion, and help in disaster type situations.
Participants lived in barracks-type housing. (Roosevelt’s “Tree Army”)
a. Achievements:
b. Criticism?
III. Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA): (May 1933) gave immediate help to those that needed it in the form of cash
payments. Gave money to states to distribute to the needy. Otherwise known as a form of
“___________________.” President Franklin Roosevelt appointed __________________________ as its chief
administrator. By the end of his first day on the job, Hopkins had issued grants totaling more than $_______________.
Recovery: “pump priming”, temporary programs to restart flow of consumer demand