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Brinkley, The Unfinished
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 Launching the New Deal
 Restoring Confidence
 “Bank Holiday”
Declared
The Radio President
The only thing we have
to fear is fear itself!
- Franklin
Roosevelt

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 Launching the New Deal
 Restoring Confidence
 “Bank Holiday” Declared
 Emergency Banking Act
 Securities and Exchange Commission

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 Launching the New Deal
 Agricultural Adjustment
 Large Farmers
Favored
Farmer with his allotment of cotton seed
which he has just bought cooperatively at
Roanoke Farms, NC (Library of Congress)
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 Launching the New Deal
 Agricultural Adjustment
 Large Farmers Favored
 Farm Security Administration
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 Launching the New Deal
 Industrial Recovery
 National Recovery Administration Established
 Section 7(a)
 Failure of the NRA
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 Launching the New Deal
 Regional Planning
 Tennessee Valley Authority
 Benefits of the TVA
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The Tennessee
Valley Authority

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 Launching the New Deal
 The Growth of Federal Relief
 FERA
 Civilian Conservation Corps
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CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) workers,
Prince Georges County, Maryland
(Library of Congress)

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 The New Deal in Transition
 Critics of the New Deal
 American Liberty League Established
 Dr. Francis Townsend
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Townsend Plan supporter.
Columbus, Kansas
(Library of Congress)

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 The New Deal in Transition
 Critics of the New Deal
 American Liberty League Established
 Dr. Francis Townsend
 Father Charles Coughlin
 Long’s Share-Our-Wealth Plan
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 The New Deal in Transition
 The “Second New Deal”
 Holding Company Act
 National Labor Relations Board
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 The New Deal in Transition
 Labor Militancy
 CIO Founded
Striking zinc miner. Columbus,
Kansas (Library of Congress)
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 The New Deal in Transition
 Organizing Battles
 Sit-Down Strike
Coca-Cola strike,
Sikeston, Missouri
(Library of Congress)
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 The New Deal in Transition
 Organizing Battles
 Sit-Down Strike
 “Memorial Day Massacre”
 Rapid Union Growth
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 The New Deal in Transition
 Social Security
 Need-Based Direct Assistance
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Social Security
Poster, 1935

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 The New Deal in Transition
 New Directions in Relief
 Harry Hopkins
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Visions of the WPA

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 The New Deal in Transition
 The 1936 “Referendum”
 Alf Landon
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Unemployment,
1920-1945

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 The New Deal in Transition
 The 1936 “Referendum”
 Alf Landon
 Electoral Realignment
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 The New Deal in Disarray
 The Court Fight
 “Court-Packing Plan” Defeated
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 The New Deal in Disarray
 Retrenchment and Recession
 Sources of “Roosevelt Recession”
 End of the New Deal
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 Limits and Legacies of the New Deal
 African Americans and the New Deal
 The “Black Cabinet”
 Discrimination Reinforced
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Harlem Grocery Store, 1940

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 Limits and Legacies of the New Deal
 The New Deal and the “Indian Problem”
 Indian Reorganization Act
Indian house, Mescalero Indian Reservation,
New Mexico (Library of Congress)
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 Limits and Legacies of the New Deal
 Women and the New Deal
 Frances Perkins
Mrs. Roosevelt addressing group at Cumberland Homesteads. Crossville, TN
(Library of Congress)
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 Limits and Legacies of the New Deal
 Women and the New Deal
 Frances Perkins
 Prevailing Gender Norms Accepted
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 Limits and Legacies of the New Deal
 The New Deal in the West
 Grand Coulee Dam
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 Limits and Legacies of the
New Deal
 The New Deal, the
Economy, and Politics
 The New Deal’s Economic
Legacy
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Federal Budget Surplus/Deficit
and GNP, 1920-1940

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 Limits and Legacies of the New Deal
 The New Deal, the Economy, and Politics
 The New Deal’s Economic Legacy
 American Welfare State Established
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President Roosevelt speaking at
Bismarck, North Dakota
(Library of Congress)

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 Debating the Past:
The New Deal
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