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  1. Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Most popular of New Deal agencies. Provided employment in government camps for young men. Their work was useful- including reforestation, fighting fires, flood control, and swamp drainage. Civil Works Administration (CWA) This was created by FDR himself. It was designed to provide temporary jobs during the ...

    • Introduction
    • FDR, The Three R’s, & Alphabet Soup
    • Reform
    • Critics of The New Deal
    • Court Packing Plan
    • The Effects of The New Deal

    Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR), the 32nd president of the United States, sought to fight the worst parts of the Great Depression through his legislative agenda, nicknamed the New Deal. This changed the role of the federal government in new ways (mostly by expanding it) and changed the alignment of political parties (this is one of two major time p...

    FDR’s first priority was supporting the failing bank systems. He quickly declared a Banking Holiday backed by the Emergency Banking Relief Act, where the banks would close and then the federal government would allow those it had inspected and found to be safe to reopen. This helped to restore public confidence in the banks and reversed the runs on ...

    Reform primarily occured as part of the Second New Deal. The First New Deal focused primarily on establishing the "alphabet agencies" that covered all three R's, whereas the Second New Deal was reform focused. Two major reforms also came about as a part of the Second New Deal.

    Not everyone agreed with FDR’s proposals, and he received opposition and criticism from people on his left (more progressive and liberal) and on his right (more conservative and traditional).

    Conservatives were shocked at the new levels of government intrusion and spending and the New Deal’s pro-union stances. They too had a point: the New Deal was a radical increase in government spending and oversight. The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) invalidated several New Dealprograms, such as the AAA. FDR planned to add more justice...

    The effects of the New Dealwere controversial and remain so to this day. That being said, most historians—and the College Board—state that while the New Deal did not entirely end the Great Depression(that would be WWII), it did leave a lasting impact on the United States. First, its programs fundamentally and (so-far) permanently changed the relati...

  2. Historians commonly speak of a First New Deal (1933-1934), with the “alphabet soup” of relief, recovery, and reform agencies it created, and a Second New Deal (1935-1938) that offered further legislative reforms and created the groundwork for today’s modern social welfare system.

  3. Regardless, many of the programs found in FDR's "alphabet soup" exist to this day. In response to the unprecedented economic stupor that was the Great Depression, FDR created an armada of government bureaus and regulatory agencies, known colloquially as "Alphabet Agencies".

  4. New Deal Alphabet Soup Agencies. 3:35. 30. 30. 1x. Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal platform created an incredible number of federal agencies to carry out new policies and regulations. Almost all of these agencies had an acronym like the CCC, TVA, or HOLC. Therefore, they came to be known as FDR's "Alphabet Soup Agencies" or just "Alphabet ...

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