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The Birth of the New Deal. War brought about irreversible socioeconomic changes in. The Great War and the New Era; The Great Depression and the New Deal. Bonneville and Grand Coulee Dams brought. FDR introduces the lend-lease program on. Roosevelt’s Lend-Lease program is brought before the U.
US History/Great Depression and New Deal. Timeline of the Great Depression. Year. Month. Events.
October. The stock market crashes, marking the end of six years of unparalleled prosperity for most sectors of the American economy. By October 2. 9, stock prices had plummeted and banks were calling in loans. An estimated $3. 0 billion in stock values . President Hoover remained optimistic however stating that . Nearly six thousand unemployed individuals worked at selling apples for five cents apiece. The bill fell to defeat in the Senate, however, 6.
Most people supported the 'New Deal' policies of. Americans had supported Roosevelt's New Deal program because it offered.
The vets maintained their determination to stay camped out until they got their pay. January. Texas congressman Wright Patman introduces legislation authorizing immediate payment of . It allotted bonuses, in the form of . President Hoover was against payment of these funds, saying it would cost the Treasury $4 billion. February. In Minneapolis, several hundred men and women blew up a grocery market with some C4. One of the store's owners pulled out a gun to stop the looters, but was leapt upon and had his arm broken.
Seven people were arrested. Resentment of . In Los Angeles, California, Mexican Americans found themselves being accused of stealing jobs from . During the month, 6,0. March. Three thousand unemployed workers march on the Ford Motor Company's plant in River Rouge, Michigan.
Dearborn police and Ford's company guards attack, killing four workers and injuring many more. December. New York's Bank of the United States collapses. At the time of the collapse, the bank had over $2. January. Congress establishes the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. Expenditures averaged about $8.
May. More than 3. World War I vets leave Portland, Oregon en route to Washington DC to urge Congress to pass the Bonus Bill. It took them eighteen days to reach Washington DC. June. Determined to collect their . On June 1. 5, the House passed Congressman Wright Patman's .
The vets maintained their determination to stay camped out until they got their pay. July. Hoover signs a $1. Hoover set a July 2. On July 2. 8, when some . Violence erupted, leading to the deaths of two veterans. Hoover ordered Federal troops, under the command of General Douglas Mac.
Arthur, to assist DC police in clearing the veterans. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation is authorized to lend needy states sums from the national Treasury. The money was to target relief and public works projects. November. Franklin Delano Roosevelt is elected President in a landslide over Herbert Hoover. Roosevelt received 2.
Hoover. 1. 93. 3March. Before a crowd of 1. Capitol Plaza in Washington DC, Franklin Delano Roosevelt is inaugurated president. FDR tells the crowd, . In their need they have registered a mandate that they want direct, vigorous action.
They have asked for discipline and direction under leadership. They have made me the present instrument of their wishes. In the spirit of the gift I take it. During that time, FDR promised, Congress would work on coming up with a plan to save the failing banking industry. By March 9, Congress passed the Emergency Banking Act of 1. By month's end, three- quarters of the nation's closed banks were back in business. On March 1. 2, FDR delivers the first of what came to be known as his .
Designed as a relief and employment program for young men between the ages of 1. CCC was envisioned by FDR as a kind of volunteer . The first 2. 50,0. At its peak in 1. CCC would include 5. May. The Federal Emergency Relief Administration is created by Congress. President Franklin Roosevelt appointed Harry L.
Hopkins as its chief administrator. By the end of his first day on the job, Hopkins had Issued grants totaling more than $5 million. The National Industrial Recovery Act is introduced into Congress.
Under Title 1 of the act, the National Recovery Administration was designated to maintain some form of price and wage controls. Section 7(a) of the act guaranteed labor the right to organize and bargain collectively. The National Labor Board was set up to negotiate disputes between labor and management. The Tennessee Valley Authority is created.
A federally run hydroelectric power program, the TVA act was considered a huge experiment in social planning. The TVA also built dams, produced and sold fertilizer, reforested the Tennessee Valley area and developed recreational lands. The creation of this service was made necessary by the years of drought and dust that plagued the Southwestern Panhandle states. September. In an effort to stabilize prices, the federal agricultural program orders the slaughter of more than 6 million pigs. Many citizens protested this action since most of the meat went to waste.
October. The Civil Works Administration is established. Devised as a wide scale program that could employ up to 4 million people, the C. W. A was involved in the building of bridges, schools, hospitals, airports, parks and playgrounds- Additionally, C. W. A. Early in 1. Congress authorized $9. C. W. A. 1. 93. 4May. A three- day dust storm blows an estimated 3.
West and Southwest and deposits it as far east as New York and Boston. Some East Coast cities were forced to ignite street lamps during the day to see through the blowing dust.
November. Father Charles E. Coughlin establishes the Union for Social Justice.
Using the radio airwaves as his pulpit. Father Coughlin railed against . The program employed more than 8. These individuals, drawing a salary of only $4. In addition, the WPA put thousands of artists .
The WPA would remain in existence until 1. Business Week magazine announces that . The NYA worked on two levels: a student work program and an out- of- school program.
The student work program provided students with odd jobs that paid them enough to stay in school. The out- of- school program set young people up with various jobs ranging from house painting to cleaning local parks, and eventually came to include vocational training. July. FDR signs the Wagner National Labor Relations Act.
The goal of the act was to validate union authority and supervise union elections. August. The Social Security Act of 1. FDR. Among the most controversial stipulations of the act was that Social Security would be financed through a payroll tax. Davis called the signing of the act . No longer could 'rugged individualism' convincingly insist that government, though obliged to provide a climate favorable for the growth of business profits, had no responsibility whatever for the welfare of the human beings who did the work from which the profit was reaped. The value of common stock and shares dropped by 4. At the beginning of 1.
Herbert Hoover had become president, but he himself had had little responsibility for the crash. The same formula that generated the profits of the 1. In the 1. 92. 0s more middle- class people were buying stocks, traditionally a pastime for the rich.
Investors bought shares on margin: instead of paying the whole amount, they only paid for a portion of the purchase, at the same time taking out a loan with their stockbrokers to pay for those shares. The investors hoped that by the time the shares were sold they would make enough money to pay back the loan and interest with some profit remaining for themselves. The banks financing the loans let investors use the stocks as collateral. As failing businesses stopped depositing money in banks, the expected credit for those loans no longer existed. Buying on margin led to an extremely unstable stock market. Investors' uncontrolled purchases on margin eventually led to a collapse of the stock market on October 2.
Black Thursday. However, adding to the crash of '2. The desire for consumer durables (expensive items such as refrigerators, radios, and automobiles) went down as Americans could not pay for what they had. This was led by housing declines in 1.
The buying spree had been encouraged by short- term payment plans, a pattern begun by car companies. Instead of paying the full purchase price at point of sale, the item was paid for by installments from the purchaser's monthly paychecks.
These plans allowed consumer debt services to absorb a greater part of that purchaser's income, resulting in corporate debt being diminished more quickly and effectively. Yet they did not allow for excess purchasing capacity - - lower production by the corporate producers - - which could have absorbed the surplus production more effectively. The decline in the want for new durables in turn affected the companies and workers that produced these items. A downward spiral was set in motion.
A panicking bank would call in loans and foreclose mortgages in a desperate attempt to stay afloat. Penniless farmers had to finance the next year's crop by using their homes as collateral: now they lost them. Families lost not only their source of income but their life savings.
Farm prices were plummeting, but farmers were already in deep debt, and crop prices were too low to allow them to pay off what they already owed. Banks failed as the contributing farmers defaulted on loans.
Some of the nation's largest banks had failed to maintain adequate reserves and made unwise business decisions. The banking system was completely unprepared for a crash. International influences also contributed to the Great Depression. Still paying off the debts of World War I, nations adopted the practice of Protectionism. This meant that foreign goods were subject to tariffs, or import duties, so that foreign products would cost more and local products would cost less. The reduced cost of local goods would then boost the local economy at the expense of foreign competitors. In reacting against this, and in response to its own isolationism, the United States had enacted extremely high tariffs.
American businesses lost several foreign markets. International credit structure was another cause of the crash. At the end of World War I, Germany and other European nations owed enormous sums of money to American banks.
The countries were often unable to quickly repay these debts.