Political figures

Herbert Hoover (18741964)

Term: 31st President of the United
States (19291933)
Born: August 10, 1874, West Branch,
Iowa
Died: October 20, 1964, New York
City, New York
Political Party: Republican

"We in America today are nearer to
the final triumph over poverty than
ever before in the history of any land."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
(18821945)
Term: 32nd President of the United
States (19331945)
Born: January 30, 1882, Hyde Park,
New York
Died: April 12, 1945, Warm Springs,
Georgia
Political Party: Democrat
The country needs and . . . demands
bold, persistent
experimentation. It is common sense to
take a method
and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly
and try another.
But above all, try something.
New Deal
First New Deal (19331934)
Proposed by Franklin
Roosevelt.

The Hundred Days.

Focused the "3 Rs": Relief,
Recovery, and Reform.
Devaluation of dollar.


Name of Act or Agency Major Provisions
National Recovery
Administration (NRA),
1933
Helped industry set up
fair codes of
cooperation, gave labour
the right of collective
bargaining.
Civilian Conservation
Corps (CCC), 1933
Set up work camps for
conservation.
Tennessee Valley
Authority (TVA), 1933
Set up publicly owned
corporation to develop
resources of the area
Gold Reserve Act, 1934
Gave federal government
control over devaluing
the dollar.
Reciprocal Trade
Agreements Act, 1934
Gave the President the
power to bargain with
other countries for
mutual tariff reductions.
Series of domestic programs enacted between 1933 and 1938.
Second New Deal (19351938)
Characteristics
Priming the Pump

Parity

Farm Security
Administration (FSA)

End of the Reform
Name of Act or Agency Major Provisions
Works Progress
Administration (WPA),
1935
Provided for large-scale
national work programs.
Rural Electrification
Administration (REA),
1935
Provided isolated rural
areas with low-cost
electricity.
Social Security Act, 1935
Provided unemployment
compensation and set up
a system of old age
insurance.
Agricultural Adjustment
Act (second AAA), 1938
Provided for government
purchase and storage of
farm surpluses to help
maintain farmers
income.
The Grapes of Wrath
American realist novel written by
John Steinbeck and published in
1939.

The novel is set during The Great
Depression, it focuses on the
Joads, a poor family of tenant
farmers from Oklahoma. They are
trapped in the Dust Bowl, which
leads them to set out for
California, along with other
Okies, in search of better living
conditions.