In an effort to "put Americans back to work" during the Great Depression, the
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) enrolled over 100,000 young Michigan men to perform a variety of conservation and reforestation projects. Between 1933 and 1942, the Michigan CCC planted 484 million trees, spent 140,000 days fighting forest fires and constructed 7,000 miles of truck trails, 504 bridges and 222 buildings.
President Franklin Roosevelt needed innovative solutions if the New Deal was to lift the nation out of the depths of the Great Depression, and TVA was one of his most innovative ideas. Roosevelt envisioned TVA as a totally different kind of agency. He asked Congress to create “a corporation clothed with the power of government but possessed of the flexibility and initiative of a private enterprise.” On May 18, 1933, Congress passed the TVA act. Right from the start, TVA established a unique problem-solving approach to fulfilling its mission-integrated resource management. Each issue TVA faced—whether it was power production, navigation, flood control, malaria prevention, reforestation, or erosion control—was studied in its broadest context.
The N.R.A was an act called for industrial self-regulation and declared that codes of fair competition-for the protection of consumers, competitors, and employers-were to be drafted for the various industries of the country and were to be subject to public hearings. The administration was empowered to make voluntary agreements dealing with hours of work, rates of pay, and the fixing of prices.
The AAA paid farmers not to grow crops and not to produce dairy produce such as milk and butter. It also paid them not to raise pigs and lambs. The money to pay the farmers for cutting back production of about 30% was raised by a tax on companies that bought the farm products and processed them into food and clothing. The AAA also became involved in trying to help farmers destroyed by the creation of the in 1934.
The Federal Emergency Relief Administration, or , is a government program founded by as part of the New Deal intended to provide funding for areas in need. Different from insurance, the financial aid given is not bought or assured with a policy. Like the , the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or , is designed to benefit people in an event that could challenge our society. The Federal Emergency Management Agency provides help to floundering areas and restores faith in government’s capability to help the USA.
Conclusion- All of these Organisations above were out to help the American people but only a selection were successful I believe the W.P.A, T.V.A, C.C.C and the F.E.M.A were successful this is because these systems revived the Americans faith in the government and actually physically helped them e.g.: providing jobs, improving living standards and reviving faith in the Government. The A.A.A and the N.R.A on the other hand I believe were failures/ unsuccessful this is because of the following… The A.A.A paid farmers not to grow the same crops and persuade them to grow new things, the farmers did this but later paid the price when the dust bowl swept America, they now couldn’t grow anything because all the nutrients had been taken out of the soil because of all the new crops they were growing, therefore this was a waste of Government money and added to the problems the Government had to deal with. The N.R.A I believe didn’t work because if a worker was part of the union and demanded a certain wage he would be sacked and because of the large amount of demand for work, bosses could hire someone for half of what the union member wanted. Overall the “new deal” was both successful and Unsuccessful in solving the problems until 1941 for the reasons that I have stated above. I believe Roosevelt had the right ideas on trying to drag America out of the depression but had underestimated the depth that America was in and didn’t fully understand the circumstances workers were in when they demanded an increase in wage. I do believe and conclude that the “new deal” was successful towards the people up to 1941 and that it restored the faith in America, this showed when the American people elected Roosevelt 4 terms in a row.
