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Slide1
The New Deal
Chapter 23
Go through timeline on page 766
Read Setting the Scene on page 768
Slide2The 20th Amendment
The Lame Duck AmendmentChanged the date of the inaugural to January 20 from March 4Shortened the time period between the election and the new president taking officeWhy did this make sense before now?
Slide3Restoring the Nation’s Hope
Read page 768-769
Fireside Chats
A series of radio broadcasts made by FDR to the nation
New Deal
The relief, recovery, and reform programs of FDR’s administration aimed at combating the Great Depression
Slide4The First Hundred Days
Assignment:Worksheet
Slide5The First Hundred Days
WERE PACKEDhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdZZZKvCRmUWhat did FDR do to banks on March 5, 1933?Closed banks for the next 4 daysWhat was the Emergency Banking Act?Gave government the right to inspect banksWhy did it help it help? Or, what was the result? Worked
Slide6The First Hundred Days Ctn.
What was the FDIC?Effects?Federal Deposit Insurance CorporationIn 1933 The Federal Securities Act was passedIt required companies to provide information about their finances if they offered stock for saleWhat was the SEC?Securities and Exchange CommissionGoing off the gold standard pg. 770
Slide7The First Hundred Days Ctn.
FERA – Federal Emergency Relief AdministrationGoal: Create jobs!What were public work programs?Government funded projects to build public facilitiesThe Civil Works Administration put the unemployed to workWorked on buildingsImproved Roads, parks, airports, and other facilitiesGave 4 million people jobs
Slide8The First Hundred Days Ctn.
Quote from an Alabaman
“When I got that card, it was the biggest day in my whole life. At last I could say, ‘I’ve got a job.”
Slide9The First Hundred Days Ctn.
What was the CCC?
Civilian Conservation Corps
Put more then 2.5 million unmarried men to work
Worked on maintaining forests, beaches, and parks
Lived in camps for free and received free food
NRA: National Recovery Administration
Codes regulated wage competition, working conditions, production, and prices
Who made these codes?
What was the end result? Things they did do? Page 772
Made it even worse
Slide10The First Hundred Days Ctn.
What is HOLC?
Home Owner’s Loan Corporation
What is the purpose of HOLC?
Refinance mortgages
The Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Tried to raise farm prices by paying subsidies to farmers…
In order to get them to cut production of certain crops
Americans response?
Didn’t quite understand…
Slide11Key Players in the New Deal
Groundbreaking Appointments
Women to a cabinet post
African Americans to policymaking posts
What did Mary McLeod Bethune do?
Eleanor Roosevelt – Page 773
Slide12Assignment
Read pages 774 – 776
Slide13Quiz
What did the REA (Rural Electrification Administration) provide for the United States?
What is a closed shop?
Name one thing the Social Security Act did?
E.C. What was the name of the candidate who ran against FDR in the 1936 election?
Slide14The New Deal Falters and the 2nd New Deal
Page 774
The Second New Deal (2
nd
hundred days)
More social welfare, stricter controls over business, stronger support for unions, and higher taxes on the rich
WPA (Works Progress Administration)
Gave jobs to 8 million people
Built or improved tons of playgrounds, schools, hospitals, and airfields
Slide15The New Deal Falters and the 2nd New Deal Ctn.
Resettlement Administration (Late the Farm Security Administration)
The agency loaned money to owners of small farms
Helped give land back to tenants and sharecroppers
Rural Electrification Administration (REA)
Offered loans to electric companies and farm cooperatives to build out to rural areas
Slide16The New Deal Falters and the 2nd New Deal Ctn.
The Wagner Act
Legalized collective bargaining and closed shops
Outlawed spying on union activities and blacklisting
Supreme Court upheld this law
The Social Security Act Page 776
Old-age pensions and survivors’ benefits
Unemployment insurance
Aid for dependent children, the blind, and the
diabled
Slide17The 1936 Election
What happened?
Slide18Assignment
Go to the computer lab and find a website that discusses one of the Major New Deal Agencies/Laws more in depth
Write a half page summary of the agency/law and then write a paragraph or so about what the website has to say about the success of the lack of success/success of the agency/law.
A list of the laws is on page 775
Slide19The New Deal’s Critics
Read Setting the Scene on page 777Limitations to the New DealWomen: Gave them lower wages and preferred men for jobsQuote on page 778African AmericansNo professional jobs offeredLower pay than whites for the same workKept them from doing skilled jobsLynching's increased and nothing was done2 Quotes on page 778
Slide20The New Deal’s Critics Ctn.
Political CriticsNew Deal Does Too MuchAccused FDR of being a socialist Read middle of page on 779American Liberty League formedAccused FDR of limiting freedom in an unconstitutional wayNew Deal Does Not Do EnoughBasically run by socialistsBelieved that government should take over factories and farms
Slide21The New Deal’s Critics Ctn.
Other CriticsDemagoguesLeaders who manipulate people with half-truths, deceptive promises, and scare tactics.Father Coughlin – Pg. 780NationalizationHuey Long Pg. 781
Slide22Work Time
Slide23Modern-Day Critics
What did they say?
Hindered Economic Progress
Threatened American Free Enterprise
Encouraged inefficient use of resources
Created a dangerously powerful federal bureaucracy
Example: pg. 782 – Middle
Slide24Modern-Day Critics Ctn.
Biggest criticism
Deficit spending
– What is it?
Paying out more money than you receive
So if our revenue is $120 billion and we spend $180 billion our deficit spending is $60 billion.
The “Crowding-out effect”
Making less money available for private borrowing by businesses and consumers
Slide25The Big Question
Did the New Deal violate the free-market system that Americans have traditionally cherished?
OR did providing direct relief to many of the nation’s suffering citizens prove to be a worthwhile compromise?
Thoughts?
Slide26The Court-Packing Fiasco
Why was FDR annoyed with the Supreme Court?They wouldn’t pass his policiesWhat did he try to do?Make the court largerWhat was the reaction of Republicans and Southern Democrats?Slightly upset…
Slide27Last Days of the New Deal
Setting the SceneRead page 785The Recession of 1937What is a recession?See chart on page 786What did FDR want for the budget?Revenue is equal to expenses
Slide28Unions Triumph
What Act protected unions and union membership?Wagner ActJohn L. Lewis became the president of the Congress of Industrial OrganizationsWhat is a coalition?Alliance of groups with similar goals
Slide29An Era of Strikes
What was a sit-down strike?Workers stop working but don’t leave…Why did they do it this way?Keep scabs out Did they work against Ford?Read page 787-88
Slide30The New Deal’s Effects
What did authors during the Depression write about?The Dust Bowl and discriminationWhat were films about?Optimistic or whole different worldsThe WPA and the artsRead page 789
Slide31Lasting New Deal Achievements
People expected more government intervention in their lives
Many New Deal bridges, dams, tunnels, public buildings, and hospitals exist to this day
Agencies still around
Tennessee Valley Authority
FDIC
SEC
Slide32Lasting New Deal Achievements Ctn.
Social Security
Page 791
How is the era a legacy of hope?
Page 791
Slide33Quiz Time!
Name one modern-day critique of FDR’s New Deals
Which branch of government did the “Court-Packing Fiasco” have to do with?
FDR wanted a balanced budget that had ________ equal to its expenses.
What was it called when workers would stop working but not leave the workplace?
What is one lasting New Deal achievement?
Slide34Father Coughlin Speech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXKeiTTN7Wc
Slide35What does God say government’s role is to be in its citizens lives?
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