APUSH - New Deal

Protected farmers from price drops by providing crop subsidies to reduce production, educational programs to teach methods of preventing soil erosion.

Provided public works jobs at $15/week to four million workers in 1934.

Sent 250K young men to work camps to preform reforestation and conservation tasks. Removed surplus of workers from cities, provided healthy conditions for boys, provided money for families

Distributed millions of dollars of direct aid to unemployed workers.

Created federally insured bank deposits ($2500 per investor at first) to prevent bank failures

Created NRA to enforce codes of fair competition, minimum wages, and to permit collective bargaining of workers.

Provided part-time employment to more than two million college and high school students.

Received $3.3 billion appropriation from Congress for public works projects.

Encouraged farmers to join cooperatives to bring electricity to farms. Despite its efforts, by 1940 only 40% of American farms were electrified.

Regulated stock market and restricted margin buying

Response to critics (Dr. Townsend and Huey Long), it provided pensions, unemployment insurance, and aid to blind, deaf, disabled, and dependent children.

Federal government build series of dams to prevent flooding and sell electricity. First public competition with private power industries.

Allowed workers to join unions and outlawed union-busting tactics by management.

Employed 8.5 million workers in construction and other jobs, but more importantly provided work in arts, theater, and literary projects.