The document summarizes several New Deal programs and policies established during the 1930s including the Farm Security Administration which helped tenant farmers become landowners, the Works Progress Administration which created jobs for unskilled workers on infrastructure projects, and the Social Security Act which provided old-age pensions, unemployment benefits, and aid to families with children. It also discusses the Rural Electrification Administration which brought electricity to rural areas and improvements to labor relations through acts protecting unionization rights and establishing minimum wage and maximum hour standards.

1. Farm Security Administration—loan money to help tenant
farmer become landholders.
Work Progress Administration—To create jobs for the
unskilled building roads, streets, etc.
Social Security Act—to provide old age pension,
unemployment aid to families with children. Started
in 1945.
Rural Electrification Administration—to provide
electricity for rural areas.
More Programs 2nd New Deal

2. -2nd New Deal
-programs to help farmers and farm workers
-WPA
Works Progress Administration
-Social Security Act
old age pensions, unemployment, aid to families with
children
-Rural Electrification Administration
More Programs

3. -2nd New Deal
-programs to help farmers and farm workers
-WPA
Works Progress Administration
-Social Security Act
old age pensions, unemployment, aid to families with
children
-Rural Electrification Administration
More Programs

4. -2nd New Deal
-programs to help farmers and farm workers
-WPA
Works Progress Administration
-Social Security Act
old age pensions, unemployment, aid to families with
children
-Rural Electrification Administration
More Programs

5. -2nd New Deal
-programs to help farmers and farm workers
-WPA
Works Progress Administration
-Social Security Act
old age pensions, unemployment, aid to families with
children
-Rural Electrification Administration
More Programs

6. -2nd New Deal
-programs to help farmers and farm workers
-WPA
Works Progress Administration
-Social Security Act
old age pensions, unemployment, aid to families with
children
-Rural Electrification Administration
More Programs

7. Labor Relations Improve
National Labor Relations Act known as the Wagner
Acct—people have the right to unionize and anti-
union practices were banned. The government has
the right to be an mediator.
Fair Labor Standards Act—Set up minimum wage and a
40 hour work week. First minimum wage was 25
cents per hour.
These acts led to the growth of the American
Federation of Labor and the Committee on Industrial
Organization.
(Skilled and Unskilled workers)
Memorial Day Massacre—10 killed and 84 wounded when
a company ordered to negotiate with works.
NLRB v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp.—Company was
found guilty of unfair labor practices and order to
pay and rehire workers with back pay.

8. Court Packing
Several New Deal Programs were ruled unconstitutional
by the U.S. Supreme Court.
1. Agricultural Adjustment Act.
2. National Relations Act.
Roosevelt proposed adding new justices to the Supreme
Court. It was called Court Packing.
Court Packing means appointing judges who would
benefit Roosevelt’s causes.
Court Packing was seen as a threat to checks and
balances.

9. Court Packing
-Several New Deal programs ruled unconstitutional
AAA, NRA
-Roosevelt proposed adding new justices
-seen as a threat to checks and balances

10. Women in the Depression
Eleanor Roosevelt helped women and minorities.
Several women were appointed to high government
positions.
Francis Perkins became Secretary of Labor.
Working women faced resentment.
Women’s wages still were lower than men.
Government programs gave preferences to men.

11. Women in the Depression
-Eleanor Roosevelt
-several women named to high gov’t positions
Francis Perkins
Sec. Of Labor
-working women faced resentment
-women’s wages still lower than men
-gov’t programs gave preferences to men

12. African Americans
Mary McLeod Bethune was a Friend of Eleanor
Roosevelt.
1. She was appointed head of the “Black Cabinet”
to inform the president on minority affairs.
Marion Anderson’s Concert
1. It was held at the Lincoln Memorial.
2. She was denied the right to sing at
Constitutional Union Hall because of her color.
Franklin D. Roosevelt never fully committed to civil
rights.
African Americans came to support the Democratic
Party because of his relief programs. They
became basically Democrats starting in 1946.

13. Art and Literature
Many artists displayed the reality of the
depression.
Work Progress Administration—to provide jobs in
garment making, teaching, writing and art.
Grant Wood was a painter of American Gothic.
Richard Wright was a Black Writer who wrote
“Native Son” a young man trying to survive in a
racist world.
John Steinbeck wrote “The Grapes of Wrath” about
the dust bowl.
Zora Neal Hurston was a Black Writer who wrote
during this time “Their Eyes Are Watching God”
about a young women growing up in Florida.

14. Art and Literature
-many artists displayed the reality of the
Depression
-Federal Arts Project (WPA)
-Grant Wood
American Gothic
-Richard Wright
Native Son
-John Steinbeck
Grapes of Wrath

15. Motion Pictures
“Gone With The Wind” was a motion picture on the
Civil War that came out in 1939.
“Wizard of Oz” was starring Judy Garland came out
in 1939.
“Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” was an
animation by Walt Disney that came out in 1937.

16. Motion Pictures
-Gone with the Wind, 1939
-Wizard of Oz, 1939
-Snow White and Seven Dwarfs, 1937

17. Entertainment
Marx Brothers were known for comedy.
Gangster Film:
“Little Caesar” and “Public Enemy”
Family Entertainment Movies:
“Mr. Smith Goes To Washington”
“It’s A Wonderful Life”
Both portrayed honest, kindhearted people winning
out over greed.

18. Radio Entertains the Masses
Family Entertainment
Soap Operas—”The Guiding Light”
Children’s Programs:
“The Green Hornet” and “The Lone Ranger”
Variety Shows—Bob Hope and George Burns
Orson Wells in “War of the Worlds”

19. End of the New Deal
“I see 1/3 of a nation ill housed, ill-clad, and ill-
nourished.”
By 1937 some recovery.
Government pulls back payment and depression returns.
Opposition grows to continued government control.
International Affairs began to take precedence.
Imperialistic Nations are on the rise: Germany, Italy
and Japan.
Nazism, Fascism and Dictatorship.

20. End of the New Deal
-”I see 1/3 of a nation ill -housed, ill-clad, ill-
nourished”
-by 1937, some recovery
-gov’t pulls back programs and depression returns
-opposition grows to continued gov’t control
-international affairs begin to take precedence