National Recovery Administration

president to fix it. The Great Depression was a difficult time to live through, in times where surviving is more important than living it is hard to move forward. The New Deal helped the people struggling by creating acts like the NIRA (National Industrial Recovery Act) that regulated working hours and wages to address unemployment and banned child labor, and the AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Act) that provided loans to farmers facing bankruptcy. Roosevelt brought the improvement the US so…

“It’s not a question of whether you will hurt, or of how much you will hurt; it’s a question of what you will do, and how well you will do it...”(Brown 40). People went through emotional turmoil throughout the Great Depression. The book The Boys in the Boat is by Daniel James Brown, and it is about a guy by the name of Joe Rantz. Joe Rantz had gone to college during the Great Depression, and he joined the rowing team in order to keep his scholarship. The book talks about how he survived the…

THE NEW DEAL PROJECT Krista L. Sweet New Deal Project Introduction Franklin D. Roosevelt’s idea of the “New Deal Project,” was to promote the economy into recovery. The New Deal Project was known as the solution to the Great Depression. Franklin’s presidency was also known as the “New Deal.” The Breakdown of the Great Depression Many people began leaving the Dust Bowl states. Making the Pacific Northwest population grow steadily. Federal agencies began to create a vast public program for…

According to Document 1, the National Youth Administration allowed teenagers to obtain jobs to make money. Teenagers worked long hours, but were able to help support their families and provided enough money for them to stay in school. The National Youth Administration provided much needed relief to entire families as teenagers were able to find jobs to boost family incomes and to receive an education…

This poster conveys the popular belief at the time, that a woman’s primary role is in the household. The purpose of The Works Progress Administration was to employ millions of individuals for projects specifically in the construction sector. However, this poster implies that a woman had no place in the work sphere outside of the household. Furthermore, the fact that it states that the job…

Programs on the Agriculture Adjustment Administration, the article states, The New Deal Programs on the AAA stated that, “Many could not believe that the federal government was condoning such an action when many Americans were starving. This was declared unconstitutional later on.” This shows that some organizations only cared about the people they were helping and that problem. A person can argue that there can’t be starvation if the WPA, or Works Progress Administration, was giving out hot…

In 1933 when Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office, he passed a series of documents called the New Deal. These documents were created in hope to push recovery in America and pull it out of the Great Depression. This New Deal supplied workers with jobs by creating government funded works projects to help better develop the country. Many of these jobs were specifically directed to artists. Before this time never before in history have artists been considered "workers". But because of the New Deal,…

non-compliance and market manipulation. Facing an unprecedented economic depression, FDR would adapt TR’s role as a reformists to help throat the economic downturn. In an attempt to jump start American industry, FDR created the NIRA which, championed national economic planning over that of individuals and competition. The NIRA, as discussed earlier created two new federal agencies, the NRA and the PWA. These new government appendages were charged with boosting the nation’s economy. The PWA…

country faced high unemployment rates, devaluation of the dollar, and bank failures along with a general sense of hopelessness. As Franklin Delano Roosevelt entered the presidential office, he promised the people relief from the Great Depression, recovery from the major economic collapse, and reform to avoid similar situations in years to come. All of this was encompassed under his New Deal programs. In his first hundred days in office, FDR enacted dozens of bills and programs in hopes of…

legislative initiatives included the National Labor Relations Act and the Social Security Act and agencies such as the National Recovery Administration. According to Wilson, the New Deal “ushered a new era of liberal public policy making” [2] Looking back on the New Deal, it was actually surprising that healthcare was not part of it’s social reforms. Roosevelt tried to gain the support of the American Medical Association and other key constituencies to push for a national healthcare system, but…