New Deal Programs and Names of Unit 6

Purpose: to hire unemployed young men to work on public service projects. Built forest trails, roads, parks, sewers, airports, ball fields, schools, hospitals

• Civilian Conservation Corps

• Rural Electrification Administration

• Agricultural Adjustment Act

• Social Security Act

The government offered subsidies (money) to the landowner and told the landowner the payment should be distributed to those who lived on and worked the land.

• Civilian Conservation Corps

• Rural Electrification Administration

• Agricultural Adjustment Act

• Social Security Act

Many tenant farmers were without work due to the decreased production of crops; this was one of the factors that led to urbanization (moving to cities) and the end of sharecropping and tenant farming in GA.

• Civilian Conservation Corps

• Rural Electrification Administration

• Agricultural Adjustment Act

• Social Security Act

In 9 years, over 3 million worked in the program and planted millions of trees throughout the country.

• Civilian Conservation Corps

• Rural Electrification Administration

• Agricultural Adjustment Act

• Social Security Act

The projects included erosion control, flood prevention, and public parks.

• Civilian Conservation Corps

• Rural Electrification Administration

• Agricultural Adjustment Act

• Social Security Act

They earned $30 a month, $25 had to be sent back to their families.

• Civilian Conservation Corps

• Rural Electrification Administration

• Agricultural Adjustment Act

• Social Security Act

loaned over $300 million to farmers’ cooperatives to extend power lines and buy power wholesale.

• Civilian Conservation Corps

• Rural Electrification Administration

• Agricultural Adjustment Act

• Social Security Act

Made farm life much easier due to water pumps, lights, milking machines, & appliances

• Civilian Conservation Corps

• Rural Electrification Administration

• Agricultural Adjustment Act

• Social Security Act

“paid” farmers not to plant crops

• Civilian Conservation Corps

• Rural Electrification Administration

• Agricultural Adjustment Act

• Social Security Act

Retirement and unemployment insurance are paid for by taxes on workers and their employers.

• Civilian Conservation Corps

• Rural Electrification Administration

• Agricultural Adjustment Act

• Social Security Act