Olivia Ronchetti Presley Stevens Brian Tarhon RURAL ELECTRIFICATION ADMINISTRATION (REA)
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Olivia RonchettiPresley Stevens Brian Tarhon
RURAL ELECTRIFICATION ADMINISTRATION
(REA)
Information
Created to bring electricity to rural areas
Established in 1935 in Warm Springs, GA
Morris Cooke designed the fi rst rural electrification system
Rural Georgia played a role in illuminating the nations farms and rural back roads
Issues & Criticism
Prohibitive to farmers Utility companies
opposed the ideaMost people didn’t
want the government to interfere
People thought that farmers did not have the skills to mange electric companies
INFORMATION & ISSUES
Served 288,000 households Established 417 rural electric cooperativesBy 1938 almost 1.5 million farms had received
electricityBy 1939 rural households with electricity had risen to
25%
STATISTICS
Social Security Administration (SSA)By: Hana Smith, Dylan Dameron, Dom Blaylock, Hailey Figur
Social Security Administration This act instituted
mandatory old age insurance. It also issued benefits in proportion to the previous earnings of those over 65. The original levy was 1%, but the rate has increased. They helped furnish old age penitentiaries. This act also sparked a crusade for old age penitentiaries.
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This is a picture of a ticket of someone's social security number , and with out this number you cant get the money from social security . Each person has a card like this which allows them to get money without working . For example some one who is retired could have this and this is there social security card .
The SSA or Social Security Act was administrated by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in August 14, 1935 . The act was trying to solve the issue of unemployment and retired people with not enough money. The act also caused a rise in taxes and only employees and industry commercial occupation were eligible under the protection of the SSA
Social Security Administration
Tennessee Valley AuthorityTVA
By: Connor W, Valerie P and Kayra K
TVA built dams on the Tennessee River to control the flooding and generate electricity. Three North Georgia lakes are now apart of the TVA.
TVA’s territory are Mississippi, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia.
Descriptions of the TVA
Covers 80,000 square miles and serves more than 9 million people.
Sells electricity to 155 power distributors customers and 56 directly served industries and federal facilities.
Statistics of the TVA
Federal Housing Administration Act of 1937
(FHA)Erin Tapley, Ethan Helms, Greer Flint, and Lamisa Karim
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Information and statistics
FHA was created to insure home loans for low-income families. It insured banks, mortgage companies, and other lenders, thereby encouraging the construction of new homes and repair of existing structures. It was FDR’s hope that the law would also provide employment in the construction industry.
The new law established The USHA ( United States Housing Authority) that provided $500 Million in loans for low-cost housing projects across the country.
The USHA was empowered to advance loans amounting 90% of project costs, at low interest and on 60- year terms.
By the end of 1940, over 500 USHA projects were in progress or had been completed, with loan contracts of %691 Million
USHA and Statistics
The new law established The USHA ( United States Housing Authority) that provided $500 Million in loans for low-cost housing projects across the country.
The USHA was empowered to advance loans amounting 90% of project costs, at low interest and on 60- year terms.
By the end of 1940, over 500 USHA projects were in progress or had been completed, with loan contracts of %691 million.
By 1934, The FHA insured 34 million home mortgages.
The FHA now has 4.8 million insured.
Criticisms/Issues
Some of the criticisms of it were that it met the needs of existing home owners and those able to purchase homes but did little for the poor and the African- Americans living in the slums.
Landlords in the real- estate industry believed that the rental and sales market would be undercut by cheaper public housing.
Some were afraid of the budgeting impact of a costly public housing and many congress men from more rural parts of the country feared that such a program would help cities instead of smaller communities.
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Many house got foreclosed and the FHA help stop foreclosure.
(NIRA)
By Elijah, Tina, and Luke
NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL RECOVERY
ACT
PROBLEM• 1935 NIRA was declared unconstitounal.• Roosevelt's NIRA posed a major threat to mill
owners, and it didn’t take long for trouble to break out.
• Industry workers were supposed to do the same amount of work in 8 hours instead of 12 hours with the same pay and the work was brutal and impossible and clearly against the intent of law
• 45,000 union workers protested and many were arrested
SOLUTION• NIRA was designed to help workers by setting minimum
wages, permitting them to organize unions, allowing factories to cut back on production.
• Companies were required to write industry wide codes of fair competition that effectively fixed wages and prices, established production and quotas.
• NIRA suspended antitrust laws and supported an alliance of industries.
• Industrial production increased 55% by the end.
The AAA(Agricultural Adjustment Act)BY MAYA NISSENBAUM, BEN ZELLER, DAVID ROSS, AND CYLE FORTE
About it…• Supports farmers by limiting supply• Congress declared that it was “the policy of congress” to
balance supply and demand for farm commodities so that prices would support a decent purchasing power for farmers… this was known as “parity”
• Controlled the supply of 7 “Basic Crops”- Corn wheat, cotton, rice, peanuts, tobacco, and milk- by offering payments to farmers in return for taking some of their land out of farming, not planting a crop
• Critics admitted that this law helped to revive hope in farm communities
• Farmers were put on local committees and spoke their minds
• Government checks began to flow• Legislation remained the basis for all farm programs in
the following 70 years of the 20th century • Benefit payments to farmers totaled 1.5 billion by 1936
Civilian Conservation Corps
By: Jack Magill, Radman Karbasyoun, Allen Hadzic, Parker Mills
Facts
The CCC provided jobs for young single men They built forest trails and roads, planted trees to reforest
the land, and control flooding Created 200 men work camps which employed 78,000
people They worked in labor camps, there was 200-300 men per
labor camp They were called the tree army They made 25-30 dollars a month, 20 which went to their
families and the rest they kept Men learned skill for a career during WWII
Criticism / issues
A man Named Eugene Tallmadge argued about state affairs African Americans were not given fair opportunities to get a
job or were payed less The camps were segregated African Americans were often discouraged or even prevented
from enlisting
Georgia Facts
They built pine mountain park They planted more than 22 million trees Built half a million erosion-control dams Ran more than 3,600 mile of telephone lines Built state parks, lakes and many ponds Created Indian Springs, and Vogel Worked on Chickamauga, Kennesaw mountain,
Andersonville, Fort Pulaski, Appalachian trail