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The Great Depression and Unemployed

=My Video= The PWA was a small form of relief for the middle classes. It helped them get jobs and be able to get some food and other things they needed. It allowed them to be a little less stressed. The PWA was a miracle for those who had just about nothing anymore. As people began to see the job opportunities that the PWA gave to others. Unlike the WPA, the PWA didn’t hire people directly they had private construction companies hiring workers on the open market. They had to see what they could do and what they didn’t know how to do. Frances Perkins was the first to suggest a federally financed public works program. She was backed-up by Harold L. Ickes, James Farley, and Henry Wallace. The program was to fix and build airports, large electricity-generating dams, major warships for the Navy, and bridges, as well as 70% of the new schools and one-third of the hospitals built. They built 11,428 roads and 7,488 schools. They built the Triborough Bridge,Lincoln Tunnel, Grand Coulee Dam, the Overseas Bridge and they also electrified the Pennsylvania Railroad. With the goal of providing employment, stabilizing power, and contributing to revival of american industry. With the help of the people in congress the PWA was access to a new working relief. As many said the PWA was the centerpiece of the new deal. The criticism began shortly after the administration developed. Reeves argued that the competitive administration used by Roosevelt made inefficiency and delays. The competition over spent the funds and needed to give more to the community so they could finish the building.

=The Great Depression and the New Deal= The Great Depression was a time era where happiness no longer was known. Everyone was affected by it, it made people lose everything and without it we wouldn't have had the new deal. The Great depression was the worst time period, next to the Civil War. The era was full of nothing but sorrow and starving. The men lost their jobs and houses, growing to many crop, women having to do odd jobs outside the home, and the children in suffer for food and warmth.


 * What opposition was there to Roosevelt's New Deal? What role did the Supreme Court play in balancing what America needed and what was Constitutionally allowed (see "Roosevelt and the New Deal" page 780)?
 * Re-read Legacy of the New Deal" pages 792-93. What perspectives are there on the effectiveness of the New Deal? How well did it work?

=Reflection= I have learned that making a video is a pain in the butt. There is just so much to do to it. First you have to write out what you are going to record. Then you have to record it in the garage band,then export it then add it to your thing. Second you have to find the pictures then add them and to make it awsome you have to add effects. And alot more.