America's Great Depression and Roosevelt's New Deal

Works Progress Administration (WPA)

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Fiddlin' Bill Hensley, mountain fiddler, Asheville, North Carolina

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Poster for the National Recovery Administration (NRA), during the Great Depression, Atlanta, Georgia, 1930s.

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Roosevelt’s New Deal Recovery programs focused on stabilizing the economy by creating long-term employment opportunities, decreasing agricultural supply to drive prices up, and helping homeowners pay mortgages and stay in their homes, which also kept the banks solvent.
 Within the first One Hundred Days, Congress enacted 15 major pieces of legislation establishing New Deal agencies and programs. Among the Recovery programs were the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA), which “established codes of fair practice for individual industries … to promote industrial growth,” and the National Recovery Administration (NRA). The NRA was one of the most controversial of the New Deal programs because it required government-based industrial regulation. Some of the rules, viewed as pro-union, included “defining labor standards, and raising wages.”
 Three of the New Deal Recovery programs are the focus of this section of the exhibition. The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) worked to “ease the desperate plight of farmers,” and is still considered one of the more controversial New Deal programs. The Works Progress Administration (WPA) provided work for a variety of professionals including nurses, librarians, artists, and craftsmen. And, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) would provide employment and hydroelectric power to areas of the country that hadn’t had access to it before.
"Teaching With Documents: FDR's Fireside Chat on the Purposes and Foundations of the Recovery Program,” from the National Archives and Records Administration. http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/fdr-fireside/#documents

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Children of a WPA (Work Projects Administration) worker's family near Siloam, Greene County, Georgia

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A trip around the world at story hour time Story hour club--W.P.A library center

Recovery Programs

What happened?

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the Depression-Era President

Relief Programs

Relief and Recovery Workers

The New Deal's Legacy

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Tennessee Valley Authority Director visits the site of the Aurora Dam

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President Franklin Roosevelt wanted to not only provide jobs for people, but also raise the country out of the Depression through innovative programs. Roosevelt specified that he wanted “a corporation clothed with the power of government but possessed of the flexibility and initiative of a private enterprise.” In 1933, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) was established with the intention of bringing modernization and organization to natural resources and energy to parts of Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Virginia.
The TVA, which exists today, is the nation’s largest public power provider. Along with providing the area with low-cost electricity, the TVA also manages natural resources and a wide range of environmental and technical issues.
“From the New Deal to a New Century,” Tennessee Valley Authority. http://www.tva.com/abouttva/history.htm

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(Printed verso reads: "GIGANTIC KENTUCKY DAM. Built across the Tennessee River in Western Kentucky by the Tennessee Valley Authority at a cost of $115,000,000. The huge dam is 8,412 feet long and 206 feet high. Beautiful Kentucky Lake, 184 miles long and a shoreline of 2,400 miles in Kentucky and Tennessee, is one of the major recreational areas in the United States.")

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University of Kentucky

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Kentucky Dam, T.V.A. Project On The Tennessee River Near Paducah. (Printed verso reads: "THE KENTUCKY DAM - As The Artist Sees It - is the Tennessee Valley Authority's water control project now under construction on the Tennessee River, 22.3 miles above its mouthat Paducah, Ky. The total length of the dam, including lock, when completed will be 8,700 feet. The Reservoir and Navigation Pool formed will extend from the dam to Pickwick Landing Dam, a distance of 184.4 miles, and will have a shore line of 1,580 miles. The total cost of the Kentucky Dam Project will be $95,000,000, and date of completion is set for June, 1945.")

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