During this session, congress passed numerous laws aimed at providing relief for victims of the Depression, speeding economic recovery, and reforming financial, business, agricultural, and industrial practices. ... One of the most important of all of the laws passed was the National Industrial Recovery Act of June 1933, which created the National Recovery Administration. The NIRA was an emergency measure with the purpose of encouraging industrial recovery and help to fight off widespread unemployment. ... However, many labor provisions of the NRA were reinstated in later legislations such as F...

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(National Industrial Recovery Act). ... Within this Act the N.R.A (Nation Recovery Administration) was set up. ... (Agricultural Adjustment Act). ... The reason why this Act had so much opposition was because farmers had started to put the prices of food up at a time when thousands of people were starving. ... Even though Roosevelt's New Deal had some success, it had a lot of opposition. ...

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Since America had continually been increasing it's industrial power, it had an enormous amount of capitol to invest as it saw fit. ... Even industrial workers, whose strikes for higher pay had availed them little in previous decades, benefited. From 1922-1929, the national income was up 40% from $60.7 billion to $87.2 billion, (Cronon 341). ... The depression was the worst in the history of the United States and proved to be a terrible price to pay for the false sense of prosperity and national well -being of the roaring Twenties. ... When Germany refused to pay all that was demanded, Fra...

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The National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) was the most innovative early New Deal measure. ... The National Recovery Administration approved and enforced a set of competitive codes for each industry to help ensure fair competition in each. ... The pressures for new legislation abated after 1937, and opposition to extending the New Deal mounted rapidly, especially in the South. By 1939 public attention focused increasingly on foreign policy and national defense. ... Dramas were acted out by small groups, in which each member played various characters. ...

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This concept basically states that there will be two levels of government, the national and the state. Federalism states that the national and state governments are separate entities and have formal authority over the same area and people. ... Washington put his newly acquired freedom to use when he started a black industrial school at Tuskegee, Alabama. ... Led by Carrie Chapman Catt, women suffragists formed the National American Women's Suffrage Association (NAWSA) in...

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Wolfgang Schivelbusch's Three New Deals and John Garraty's New Deal, National Socialism, and The Great Depression discusses America under president Franklin D. ... In the United States head of the National Recovery Administration, Hugh Johnson implemented the symbol of the Blue Eagle to pressure businesses into complying with the agency's code. ... Garraty compares the response to the Depression between the industrial nations most profoundly affected by the crisis: the United States and Germany from 1933 to 1937. He views the two Western industrial societies as fundamentally ...

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