The second new deal
More Aid to the farmers
2nd new deal included further help for the farmers.10% of all farmers had electricity , largely because utility companies did not find it profitable to run electric lines to communities with small populations. The REA loaned money to the electric utilists to build power lines to communities with small populations.
what was the court packing?
FDR plan to add up to six new justices to the nine-member Supreme court after the Court had ruled that some New Deal legislation was unconstitutional
Franklin Roosevelt
Franklin Roosevelt won an overwhelming victory in the presidential election of 1936.He received 61 percent of the votes, compared to just 37 percent for his republican challenger Alfred M. Landon
how did the second new deal help the country?
Roosevelt used legislation pass during the second new dealt address the problems of the elderly , the poor and the unemployed. It created a new public-work projects ; it helped farmers ; and enacted measures to protect workers rights.
what was the work progress administration? How did it help the people?
congress appropriated $5 billion for new jobs and created the WPA to administer the program. The WPA built or improved a good part of the nation's highways, dredged rivers and harbors, and promoted soil and water conservation. by 1943 the WPA had employed more than 8 million people and spent about $11 Billion. Its workers built more than 650,000 miles of highway and 1250,000 public building. All of these were expensive though the government paid for them by spending money they did not even have.
Congress of Industrial organization
labor organization founded in the 1930's that represented unskilled industrial workers.
water problems were solved
many of the new deal public workers water projects had an enormous impact on the development of the american west. In 1941 the department of the interior's Bonneville powers administration hired folk singers Woody Guthrie for one month to write songs for a movie they had made promoting the benefits of electricity.
what did the AFL represent ?
the AFL represented skilled workers- such as plumbers, carpenters and electrician- who joined trade or craft union. Few worker in the major industries belonged to the AFL and the union made little effect to organize them.
Social security eases the burden on older Americans.
the UN was one of the few industrialized nations in the world that did not have some form of pension system for the nations in the world that did not have some form of pension system for the elderly.In addition to creating a pension system for retirees, the Social Security Act that congress enacted established unemployment insurance or workers who lost their jobs.The Social Security Act had many flaws. At first, it did not apply to domestics or farm workers , since African Americans to disproportionately employed in these fields, they were not legible for many of the benefits of social security.
what was the fair Labor standard act
this act was passed in 1938 ; it provided workers with additional rights. it established a minimum wage, initially at 25 cents per hour , and a maximum workweek of 44 hours. It also outlaw children labor.
president Roosevelt excepted the court to trick down other New Deal measures, limiting his ability to enact new reforms.
true or false (true)
