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:
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:
FDR believed that to get out of the GD had to raise the standard of living for industrial workers so he gets Wagner act passed which recognizes employee’s rights to join labor unions and collective bargains.

Describe the problems FDR had with the SC and his solutions:
The SC had struck down many of his program ruling that the president didn’t have the ability to regulate interstate commerce. FDR came up with a plan to add up to six new judges who realistically would be New Deal supporters.

Describe the Effects of the New Deal:
Changed U.S government from laissez faire approach to accepting responsibility to prime the pump of the economy. Turned U.S into welfare state with US government accepting responsibility to help the poor. U.S government took new active approach to the environment. It increased the power of the president because of creation of new agencies executive branch had more power through running them.