15.2 Notes: The Second New Deal

Economy improved under the acts of the first 100 days, but more was needed.

1.  How was FDR's re-election in 1936 seen as a mandate for continued change?
    Voter Confidence

2. How did FDR seek to help farmers after the AAA was struck down?

• Soil Conservation Act
• paid farmers to cut production of soil depleting crops
• Second AAA
• also paid farmers to practice conservation
• Resettlement Administration (RA)
• loans to tenant farmers and sharecroppers

3. How was the jobs program expanded?

• Works Progress Adminstration (WPA)
• paid artists, musicians, actors, writers, teachers, construction workers, health care, etc
• National Youth Administration (NYA) gave jobs to young people
• kept them in school

4.  What was the New Deal for Labor?

• Wagner Act (National Labor Relations Act)
• allowed collective bargaining (unions)
• banned firing union reps
• Fair Labor Standards Act
• set max hours at 44 per week
• set min wage at 25 cents/ hour

5.  What did the New Deal do for the elderly, disabled and poor?

•    Old age insurance for those over 65
• half paid from workers; half from employers
• Unemployment compensation $15-18 week
• Aid to Families w/ Dependent Children (AFDC)
• $$ sent to states to distribute

6.  How were more people provided with electricity and otehr services?

• Rural Electrification Admin (REA)
• Brought electricity to rural areas (1935)
• Public Utility Holding Co
• Outlawed monopolies on utilities