The document summarizes Franklin D. Roosevelt and his New Deal programs implemented during the Great Depression. It describes the economic and social conditions preceding his presidency. FDR enacted relief programs providing jobs and aid to farmers, unemployed citizens, and businesses. New agencies were created like the CCC, WPA, AAA, SEC, FDIC and NLRB. The New Deal aimed to provide relief, reform, and recovery from the Depression through active government intervention.

1. The Great Depression, Franklin
D. Roosevelt, and His New
Deal
Created by: Emily Thorpe

2. Those Who Play Must Pay – The
1920s Come to an Abrupt Halt
 Stock market crash of 1929 did
NOT cause the Great Depression
 Other Factors Involved
 Industrial and agricultural
overproduction
 Unequal distribution of wealth
in America
 Over-extension of credit &
high individual debt
 Poor international economy
due to World War I
 Weak American banks

3. Herbert Hoover’s Response
 Voluntary Measures
 National Credit
Association
 Organization for
Unemployment Relief
 Limited Government
Intervention
 Thought businesses
should be self-
regulating
 Called the “Do Nothing”
President

4. 1932 Presidential Election
 Candidates
 Herbert Hoover - (R)
 Franklin D. Roosevelt
(FDR) - (D)
 Roosevelt’s Platform
 More active
government
 New ideas to get out of
Depression

5. 1932 Election Results

6. Restoration of Confidence
Begins

7. National Banking Crisis
 Between 1930 & 1932 there was
widespread bank failure
 FDR called Congress back into session on
March 6th, 1933 & enacted an
emergency bank proposal
 By the end of March, citizens put their
trust back into the bank system

8. It’s Time For a New Deal –
Purposes of This Plan
Relief: Recovery:
 Create jobs for the  Provide the economy with
unemployed the tools to succeed again
 Protect farmers from
foreclosure
Reform: Overall Goal:
 Government regulation of
banks Save Capitalism
 Abolish child labor
 Conserve farm lands

9. First New Deal (1933-1934)
 “The first hundred days” –
March 9th to June 16th,
1933
 All efforts went towards
aiding big business,
agriculture, &
unemployed
 “Alphabet Soup”

10. Civilian Conservation Corps
(CCC)
 Provided jobs to “city
boys”
 Would be paid $30
monthly to do work in
environment
 Successful tool at this
time

11. Civil Works Administration (CWA)
 Provided jobs for the
unemployed to
encourage moral
 Developed from the
Federal Emergency Relief
Administration (FERA)
 Provided a budget to
aid states in helping the
unemployed

12. Reform for Financial Matters
 Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
 Oversee stock and bond markets
 Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
 Insure bank deposits that reach up to $5,000

13. Tennessee Valley Authority
(TVA)
 Aided one of the most
devastated areas of country
 Dams & hydroelectric plants
built
 Provided jobs & electricity

14. Agricultural Adjustment Act
(AAA)
 Confronted the problem
of overproduction
 Created the Agricultural
Adjustment
Administration (AAA)
 Goal to raise farm prices
by encouraging farmers
to produce less

15. National Industrial Recovery Act
(NIRA)
 Created the Public Works
Administration (PWA) &
the National Recovery
Administration (NRA)
 NRA
 Created a partnership
between businesses,
labor, & the
government
 Labor Reforms

16. Second New Deal (1935-1936)
 Although First New Deal
was successful, many
were still unemployed
 FDR Presented list of
reforms to Congress in
Spring 1935
 Requested & received
$4.8 billion in relief

17. Works Progress Administration
(WPA)
 Able to employ 25% of
country’s workforce
 Low paying &
temporary jobs to
avoid competition with
private enterprises
 Types of Jobs
 Repaired infrastructure
 Ex: roads, bridges
 Built schools

18. Social Security Act of 1935
 Created a national pension fund, unemployment
insurance program, & public assistance programs
 Pension would be financed by a payroll tax
starting in 1937
 Flaws to this law

19. Wagner Act of 1935
 Prohibited employers
from engaging in a
variety of unfair labor
practices
 Created the National
Labor Relations Board
(NLRB)

20. FDR’s Second Term (1937-1940)
 “Court packing”
 Rise of Nazis in Germany
 Loss of New Deal
momentum
 Fair Labor Standards Act
 Abolished child labor
 Gave minimum hourly
wage (40 cents)
 Gave maximum work
week (40 hours)

21. Why It All Matters
 Physical rehabilitation to the nation
 Provided help to suffering citizens
 Revitalization of Politics
 Extension of the definition of democracy
 Strengthened the executive branch’s power
 Did not end the Great Depression

22. Works Cited
 Information: online-history.org/us2-docs/FDR-New-Deal.ppt
 Information: users.ipfw.edu/gatesb/H106h.PPT
 Information: American Passages – A History of the United States by Edward
Ayers, David Oshinsky, Lewis Gould, & Jean Soderlund
 FDR Picture - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt
 Soup Kitchen Picture -
http://blsciblogs.baruch.cuny.edu/his1005spring2011/tag/great-depression/
 FDR Inaugural Address Audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm3Bntsp2ck
 Political Cartoon - http://willrabbe.com/microblog/2011/2/10/fdr-hoover-
inauguration-1933.html
 Electoral Map - http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fil:1932_Electoral_Map.png

23. Works Cited Continued
 FDR Inaugural Picture - http://voiceseducation.org/content/first-inaugural-address-
franklin-d-roosevelt
 Alphabet Soup Cartoon -
http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/money_13.html
 CCC Badge - http://www.colorado.gov/dpa/doit/archives/ccc/cccscope.html
 CCC Picture - http://siliconcowboy.wordpress.com/2010/04/10/fdrs-civilian-
conservation-corps-was-created-on-april-10-1933/
 Civil Works Picture - http://content.lib.washington.edu/civilworksweb/index.html
 TVA Graphic - http://newdeal.feri.org/tva/index.htm
 TVA Map - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Valley_Authority

24. Works Cited Continued
 Famers Picture - http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6696
 NRA Picture - http://shopfloor.org/tag/wwii
 FDR New Deal Pin - http://thehayride.com/2012/01/people-like-jesse-jackson-will-
never-understand-the-damage-fdrs-new-deal-inflicted-on-our-nation/
 WPA Picture - http://www.americana-music-and-memories.com/works-progress-
administration.html
 FDR Wheelchair Picture -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/FDR_in_whe
el_chair
 FDR and Press Picture - http://history.howstuffworks.com/world-war-ii/start-world-
war-27.htm

25. Works Cited Continued
 Social Security Picture - http://biggovernment.com/tag/social-security/
 NLRB Picture - http://www.sjsapush.com/ch25.php
 “Why Can’t You Give My Dad A Job?” - http://www.profi-
forex.us/news/entry4000000221.html