Well for the essay part, I am going to give you all the things needed
for credit (I hope) but these are the basic ideas behind the answers so
they should work. If you want to you can expand you answers which I
strongly suggest, because if you copy what I have exactly then this
will look very bad. Do try and reword your answer cause I don't want to
be accused of cheating, I am only helping. Also I didn't do one so look
into it.
61 a) Lack of
diversification in American economy, prosperity depended on basic & few
industries (construction/automobile)
b) Maldistribution of purchasing power,
weakness in consumer demand
c) Credit
structure, farmers in debt and could not pay back loans, loans were given out
too easily
d) US position
in international trade, European markets interest in American goods declines
e) International
debt structure, US would not reduce or forgive foreign debts, loaned money to
European countries.
67 a) Wanted business leaders to not cut production or
workers, spend more money on work programs and etc…, and help out farmers
b) Companies did
cut production and workers, didn’t spend enough money or for enough time,
didn’t really help the farmers
130 AAA- Agricultural Adjustment Administration/ to reduce
crop production and end agricultural surplus and the spiral downward of their
prices/ paying farmers not to produce
NRA- National
Recovery Administration/ minimum wage, maximum hour weeks, no more child labor,
raise purchasing power, increase employment/ failed to meet these goals
TVA- Tennessee
Valley Authority/ provide cheap electricity, construct waterways, stop
flooding/ Built dams to stop flooding and to harvest electricity, and built waterways
SEC- Securities
Exchange Commission/ regulate the stock market/ they policed the stock market
(This is not really mentioned in the book so check this part)
CCC- Civilian
Conservation Corps/ employ youth, prevent crime, reforest & conserve
environment/ created parks and camps, employed youth to construct camps and to
conduct conservation projects
131 a) Right-Reckless spending, economic crackpots,
socialist/ Left- not totally against the new deal
b) That the
gov. was spending way too much money, knew nothing about the economy and had
many socialist points in their plans.
c) Roosevelt did not want to lose the support he needed for
re-election so he changed the new deal mostly due to the pressure on him
133 I am sorry but I did not want to do this one, it looked
like it would take too much time so I went to bed instead. Someone better do it
though
134 a) Women- was never hostile to feminism but also did not
do too much to help women either, Roosevelt
appointed the first female to his cabinet, special protection for women
b) Minorities-
for blacks it really refused to make equality a significant part of its agenda,
Indians were given the tools needed to rebuild their tribes, like the right to
own land
