New Deal

The New Deal was a program which involved laws that Franklin D. Roosevelt passed to provide economic relief, recovery, and reform, during the Great Depression.

Some of the Major Programs included:

Federal Deposit Insurance Commission (FDIC) - The FDIC also known as the Emergency Banking Act, was a program that shut down all the banks to check the health of the banks, and  to make sure that it is secure to restore American faith in the banks.

Securities and Exchange Commission  (SEC) - The SEC program was intended to expose full information on the stocks, and the SEC would be the ones regulating the market.

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) - The TVA program helped farmers and created more job opportunities like restoring a power plant, that would help the Tennessee River Valley.

Social Security Act (SSA) - The SSA provided a insurance to the elderly workers, workers caught in accidents, the unemployed, for dependent mothers and children, and the handicapped.

National Labor Relations Board (NLRA) - The NLRA also known as the Wagner Act, it helped look into allegations of wrong-doings by workers, and others, and also conducing elections, and deciding and resolving cases. 

Works Progress Administration (WPA) - The WPA helped provided about 8 million Americans work, by building or reconstructing schools, hospitals, airfields, etc.

Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) - The FLSA banned child labor, and also set a minimum wage for workers.

Dust Bowl

The Dust Bowl was a period in the 1930's where there were many severe sandstorms that affect the United States, economically, and agriculturally. It caused droughts and hurt many farmers along the way. The droughts limited food supply, and the sandstorms ended up darkened the sky. This was a horrible follow up of the stock market crash that just occurred. The dust bowl mainly affected the region of Oklahoma, and the states near it. America was already going through a tough time with the economy, but now the dust storms made it even worse. Many people, ended up moving out west to find safety and jobs during the Dust Bowl.

Map:


This is a map of the states that were effected by the dust bowl.

Pictures:

This is a picture of what the dust storms looked like.

These men are caught in the Dust Storms or also known as the "black blizzards"

The Dust Bowl wrecked and damaged the agriculture and the lives of the people.

By: Dorothea Lange, a photograph of a "32 year old poverty-stricken mother," who was affected by the dust bowl. It shows the hardships that it brought to families.

Many of the people  affected by the Dust Bowl (named "Okies") sought out refugee and went to the West Coast.