New Deal: Relief, Recovery, Reform

TVA - Tennessee Valley Authority

Created jobs building dams to control flooding in the Tennessee River Valley

WPA - Works Progress Administration

Created jobs building roads, parks, bridges and public buildings

Federal Art Project

Employed artists, writers and musicians

New Deal

Franklin D Roosevelt's plan for helping the US economy during the Great Depression

F.D.R.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the President of the United States during the Depression and WWII. He instituted the New Deal. Served from 1933 to 1945, he was the only president in U.S. history to be elected to four terms

CCC - Civilian Conservation Corps

Gave jobs to young men to plant trees, build bridges and parks, and set up flood control projects

FDIC - Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Insured savings accounts in banks approved by the government

AAA - Agricultural Adjustment Act

Paid farmers to grow fewer crops so prices could rise

SSA - Social Security Act

Set up a system of pensions for elderly, unemployed, and handicapped

liberal

a person who want the government to do more for its citizens

conservative

a person who wants the government to do less for its citizens

fireside chat

a radio speech to Americans given by Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Anti-Semitism

the practice of hating Jewish people simply because they are Jewish

Relief

to give help immediately to jobless workers who were in need

Recovery

to give help to banks, businesses, farmers and workers to recover from the Great depression

Reform

to make long term changes in the economy so that a depression would never happen again