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1. :
•Americans blamed Hoover for economic problems
•FDR was assistant secretary of navy and governor of New York
prior to running for president
•FDR criticized Hoover’s response to the depression
•Roosevelt planned to turn the economy around by providing
relief for the poor; public works programs; lowering tariffs
I. The Election of 1932 Incumbent--(of an official or regime) currently holding office.

2. • People identified with Roosevelt’s
struggles and admired his courage
• Believed government’s role
should be expanded to help solve
social problems
• FDR was a reform-minded
Democrat
• Eleanor Roosevelt became
involved in social issues and spoke
publicly about injustices
II. A Political Partnership

3. III. Roosevelt takes Action:
The New Deal- The First Hundred Days
Program of relief, recovery, and
reform
Relief for those suffering the
effects of the Great Depression
Recovery of the depressed
economy
Reforms that would help
prevent serious economic
crises in the future.
Objectives were to provide
emergency assistance to the
needy, to end the existing
depression, and to prevent similar
problems in the future

4. New Deal Programs
•Known as initialisms because of
the abbreviations for the new
agencies
•Called Alphabet Soup
• The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA):
gave subsidy to farmers to grow fewer
crops.
• National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA):
mandated that businesses cooperate with
each other to set prices and levels of
production.
• The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC):
Americans were paid to work on a variety
of conservation projects.

5. •Called a “bank holiday” to prevent
more withdrawals and bank
failures
•Had congress enact banking
reforms
•Passed the Emergency Banking
Act and the FDIC -Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation

6. TVA
•The Tennessee Valley Authority’s goal was to
transform the region by developing the
resources of the Tennessee River

7. :
• The Federal Securities Act helped
by forcing companies to share
certain financial information with
the public; helped investors
make wiser choices; and restored
confidence in the fairness of the
markets
Roosevelt Takes Action (cont.)

8. :
• Liberals thought it didn’t do enough
• Conservatives thought it went too far
• Some provisions were struck down by the
Supreme Court
• Father Charles Coughlin, once a supporter of FDR,
turned against him because he claimed Roosevelt
was not doing enough to curb the power of
bankers and financial leaders.
• Huey P. Long’s Share our Wealth Society wanted
to raise taxes on the wealthy, give every family
$5000 to buy a home plus an income of $2500 a
year
IV. Trouble for the New Deal

9. :
• Ended most direct payments and
focused on work relief.
• Key programs in the Second Hundred
days were the Works Progress
Administration (WPA), and Social
Security
I. The Second Hundred Days

10. Artwork created by the WPA
• http://whowhatwhy.org/2014/09/01/labor-day-images-from-the-
great-depression-and-the-wpa/
<<< Strawberry Stadium constructed by the WPA and opened in 1937

11. The second hundred days continued.
• The Social Security Act provided a
pension for many Americans age 65
and older; included a system of
unemployment insurance
• Many people who did not approve of
the first New Deal approved of the
second one because it required people
to work for their pay.

12. II. Reviving Organized Labor
• New Deal programs helped to revive
organized labor by establishing the National
Labor Relations Board; outlawed anti-labor
practices; gave workers the right to form
unions and bargain collectively
• Collective bargaining helped labor unions by
protecting the right of workers to organize
• Sit-down strikes had an advantage over
traditional strikes by keeping management
from bringing in security forces to scatter
picketers or use traditional strike-breaking
techniques
.

13. II. Reviving Organized Labor
• AFL-smaller unions
representing skilled
workers organized within
specific crafts
• CIO-unskilled workers
organized across
industries, such as the
automobile industry
.

14. III. The Election of 1936
• FDR worked hard to win votes that might
go to the Union Party
• Republican candidate Alf Landon carried
only two states
• Democrats gained in both houses of
Congress and won 26 of the 33 races for
governor
• Rural Electrification Act helped by
bringing electricity to houses rural areas
• Major shift in American Politics- Northern
African Americans switched to the
Democratic Party

15. IV. A Troubled Year - 1937
• Attempt to reorganize the courts was
controversial (Court Packing Plan)
• Packing the court would upset the
balance of power in government.
• Democrats rebelled
• Sharp drop in the stock market
• 2 million Americans lost their jobs
• FDR increased the deficit by seeking
large sums of money to fund
programs

16. I. New Roles for Women and African
Americans
• Women and African American’s were offered
hope for expanded roles in public life
• Served in prominent government posts
• Frances Perkins-- President Franklin D.
Roosevelt appointed her be to the U.S.
Secretary of Labor, the first women to hold a
U.S. cabinet position.
• Member of the Brain Trust
• Brain Trust-- members were college
professors, lawyers, and economists who
helped Roosevelt formulate new policies

17. II. African Americans and the New Deal
Black Cabinet: led by Mary McLeod
Bethune; advisors to the president
Powerful symbol of rising African
American influence in the government

18. •Women and African Americans were still
discriminated against in pay and had fewer job
opportunities
•FDR didn’t fight racial discrimination because he
was afraid it would hurt more than help because
Southern Democrats would block his bills

19. III. Telling the Story of the Depression
• Painters and sculptors created
works depicting the struggles of
the working class
• Books and plays focused on the
plight of the poor
• Photographers photographed
and documented the struggles of
everyday life

20. Popular Entertainment in the 1930s
• Movies, radio, jazz, swing
• Movies showing luxurious
lifestyles helped people
escape from their
problems
• Radio provided
information as well as
entertainment

21. • Popular Movies in the 1930’s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oYh1ycMTAs

22. The Impact of the New Deal
• Helped poor Americans
• Less successful in delivering
economic recovery
• Changed the relationship between
citizens and government
• Government became much bigger
• Roadways, bridges, dams, public
buildings, and public art were
built/created

23. Limits of the New Deal
• Never reached all the people it was
intended to help
• Jobs programs didn’t pay well
• Permitted discrimination
• As a result of the New Deal, Americans
began to look to government regularly for
help.

24. This is a Joke… Haha
PS.—You have to understand each economic system to
understand the joke. Study and you may laugh more.

25. The End of the New Deal
• Court-packing fight
• Economic downturn of 1937-38
• Stand-off with congress
• Attention was turning to another war in Europe

26. Practice for the test.
Copy and answer the following:
1) Explain the Court Packing Plan proposed by FDR.
2) Why was the Court Packing Plan resisted by the
Democratic dominated Congress?