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POL 499: Senior Seminar in Political Science: FDR: Helpful Resources
Book Reviews
Please note: This is not an all-encompassing list of book review resources
- JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR has book reviews and other resources you will find helpful for this project.
Second New Deal Legislation
- Social Security BillA plan for social insurance as a safeguard "against the hazards and vicissitudes of life.
- Emergency Relief Appropriation ActApril 8, 1935: Congress approved the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935, the work relief bill that funded the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
- Fair Labor Standards Act (1938)Established a Wage and Hour Division in the Department of Labor to enforce its provisions
- Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment ActAttempted to keep acreage out of production
- Bankhead–Jones Farm Tenancy ActThe purpose of the law was to provide long-term loans to farm tenants and sharecroppers, to provide short-term loans to other farmers for “livestock, equipment and supplies,” and to purchase land no longer fit for agricultural use and then utilize that land for other, more suitable purposes
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- Roosevelt's speech to Congress on the Second New DealPresents the United States president's annual message from 1935 to the joint meeting of the two Houses of Congress, regarding the second New Deal of domestic programs. The intent of the American Constitution; The recovery and reform in the economic conditions of the United States.