GA after World War IVersión en línea SS8H8 Includes the Great Depression and the New Deal por Andrea Height 1 Great Depression 2 Civilian Conservation Corps 3 Agricultural Adjustment Act 4 Rural Electrificaton 5 Social Security Administration 6 Warm Springs 7 Eugene Talmadge longest period of high unemployment and low economic activity caused by speculation and the stock market crash high tariffs kept countries from buying and selling to each other factories and farmers overproduced people borrowed more money than they could repay provided jobs for young single men to preserve natural resources built roads, parks, trails and planted trees helped with sewer projects, flood control, and recreational facilities paid farmers NOT to plant crops on part of their land a problem with the program was that money went only to landowners not to tenant farmers rovided subsidies (money) to limit production so prices could go up on limited supplies provided low interest loans to organizations that would extend power lines to rural areas made farming easier because of electric water pumps, lights, appliances provided retirement and unemployment insurance from the federal government money would come from taxes paid by workers and employers the only New Deal program still around today place in Georgia visited by president Roosevelt used as a treatment facility for president Roosevelt’s polio referred to as the “Little White House” place where president Roosevelt died conservative white supremacist elected as governor of Georgia in the 1930s and 40s did not like government intervention initially opposed New Deal programs
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