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The New DealAlphabet Agencies
WPA
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Key Quotes: FDR’s Inauguration Speech
This Nation asks for action, and action now. Our
greatest primary task is to put people to work. I shall
ask congress for broad executive power to wage
was against the emergency.
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The New Deal: Alphabet Agencies
The Alphabet Agencies were set up to help reverse the ‘Spiral of Depression.’
The main aim was to pump money back into the economy by giving the unemployed jobs.
Not everyone within the Democratic Party agreed exactly how this should be done.
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Causes of the Depression
Fewer goods are sold.
Demanddrops.
In order to stay in businesscompanies cut
wages
People lose theirconfidence &
start saving their money
Demanddrops even
further.
Companies are forced to cut costs
by laying people off
Even more peopleLose their confidenceAnd spend less money
People lose their jobs.
The Spiral Of
Depression
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Reversing the Spiral of Depression
Government Spending $
Alphabet Agencies
More Jobs
More Spending
Demand for goods increases
More goods have to be produced
More people withJobs = more pay $
More Spending
Demand for goods increases
More goods have to be produced
More Jobs
More Pay = More Taxes
Cycle of
Prosperity!
Democrats called this Process
‘Pump Priming’
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How do you put the USA back to work?
Harry Hopkins Harold Ickes
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Harry HopkinsWork Relief preserves a
man’s morale. It saves his skill. It gives him a
chance to do something socially useful
Set up two key Alphabet Agencies: CWA & WPA which aimed to help the unskilled unemployed.
Criticised for wasting taxpayers money on ‘boondoggles.’
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CWA = Civil Works Administration
Built 800,000 km of roads.
Built 40,000 schools Built 500 airports &
rebuilt 500 more. Built 150,000 public
toilets.
Paid people to sweep up leaves in the parks.
Paid unemployed actors to give free shows.
Hired 100 people to scare pigeons away with balloons from public buildings in Washington DC.Boondoggling
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Harold Ickes
Set up the PWA which gave jobs to the skilled unemployed.
Was very careful how he spent taxpayer’s money.
‘My PWA will will give work to the unemployed
by creating things of lasting use to the nation.’
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PWA = Public Works Administration
Built 70% of USA Schools.
Built 35% of USA Hospitals.
Built for river dams. Electrified the New
York Washington railway.
Built 50 military airports.
Built two aircraft carriers.
Built four cruisers & destroyers for the US Navy.
Built a new sewage system in Chicago.
PWA only provided jobs for the skilled unemployed!
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What about the unskilled unemployed?
In response to being accused of ‘boondoggling’, when he gave unemployed librarians jobs cataloguing historical documents, Hopkins replied:
‘Hell, they’ve got to eat just like other people.’
In 1934, the CWA was shut down because it was wasting money
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What about the unskilled unemployed?
• In 1935, after a terrible winter FDR decided to help the unskilled unemployed by setting up WPA with Harry Hopkins in charge.
• The PWA continued working until 1939.
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WPA = Works Progress Administration
Built 11,000 schools. Built 70,000 km of
roads. La Guardia airport in
New York. Employed
photographers to make a record of the Depression.
Employed 12,000 Actors to put on plays and concerts to cheer people up!
Employed artists and painters to make paintings for display in schools and public buildings.
Gave work to 2 million people a year.‘Boondoggles?’
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Recap: Reversing the Spiral of Depression
Government Spending $
Alphabet Agencies
More Jobs
More Spending
Demand for goods increases
More goods have to be produced
More people withJobs = more pay $
More Spending
Demand for goods increases
More goods have to be produced
More Jobs
More Pay = More Taxes
Cycle of
Prosperity!
Democrats called this Process
‘Pump Priming’
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Summary
Spiral of Depression Pump Priming Unskilled & Skilled
workers ‘Boondoggling’ CWA, WPA & PWA Alphabet Agencies
Key Words
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Exam Question 1
• How useful is this source for explaining how the New Deal put America back to work?
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Answer
PWA = Public Works Administration.
‘Alphabet Agency’ designed to reverse the ‘Spiral of Depression’ and kick start demand
Jobs created for skilled construction workers: E.g. Builders & Plumbers deducted from poster
No mention of WPA which was set up to create jobs for the unskilled workers such as actors & photographers.
Photograph taken by a WPA photographer.
For Against
A good answer = an answer which includes one from each column.
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Exam Question 2
• How successful was the New deal at putting USA back to work? Use the source and your knowledge to explain your answer.
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Answer
FDR = Roosevelt taking ‘Action’ to end the Depression.
FDR is Pouring tax payers money to reverse the ‘Spiral of Depression.’ = ‘Pump Priming.’
New Deal wasting money 16 billion spent on ‘boondoggles’ jobs created by alphabet agencies such as CWA & WPA.
E.G. Scaring pigeons with balloons
For Against
A good answer= an answer which includes one from each column.