New Deal Part 2 Review
Directions: Under each complete the phrase, answer the question, fill in the blank, or define the definition.
Describe the Work Progress Administration: it put people back to work through civil projects and doing things like sponsoring artists
Describe the Social Security Act: provided pension for the elderly, established unemployment insurance, established insurance for work related accidents and provided aid for poverty stricken mothers, children, the blind, and the disabled
Describe how FDR favored Labor Unions in the New Deal: he believed that to get out of the GD had to raise the standards of living for industrial workers so gets Wagner Act passed which recognized employees’ rights to join labor union and collective bargaining, also established minimum wages, limit workweeks, and outlaws child labor
Describe the problems FDR had with the SC and his solutions: the SC did had struck down many of his programs ruling that the president did not have the ability to regulate interstate commerce; FDR came up with a plan to add 6 new judges who realistically would be New Deal supporters
Describe the Effects of the New Deal: changed the US government from laissez-faire approach to accepting responsibility to prime the pump of the economy, turned US into welfare state with US government accepting responsibility to help the poor
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