The New Deal

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Chapter 15

• The New Deal

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt

• Compassionate
• Self-confident
• Good communication
• skills
• Sworn in-March, 1933

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New Deal

• FDRs program to end the depression
• 3 main goals
• Relief
• Recovery
• Reform

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New Deal

• Supported by a political coalition that included
• Rural Democrats
• Unionized Industrial Workers
• African Americans

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New Deal

• Deficit Spending act of a government paying out
  more money than it is taking in results in debt
• Pump Priming John Maynard Keynes
• Hundred Days much activity by the government to
  enact programs FDR wanted
• Bank Holiday build confidence in the banking
  system

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RELIEF

• ALPHABET SOUP
• Relief programs to create jobs and foster
  regional development
• Civilian Conservation Corp CCC hired young
  men to plant trees and build roads
• Increasing consumer purchasing power was a major
  goal of the New Deal

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New Deal under attack

• Critics
• FDR had not done enough to help poor and elderly
• FDR trying to establish a dictatorship
• Supreme Court declared National Industrial
  Recover Act and 1st Agricultural Adjustment Act
  unconstitutional

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Second Hundred Days

• Eleanor Roosevelt wife of FDR
• Fought for equality for women and minorities
• eyes and ears of the president

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Youth and Professionals

• Works Progress Administration WPA most
  responsible for putting people to work
• National Youth Administration NYA aid and
  employment for youth

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Labor

• Maximum hours and minimum wage
• Wagner Act protected workers right to
  collective bargaining
• Congress of Industrial Organizations CIO
  1930s by Walter Reuther

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Elderly

• Social Security economic security for retired
  workers and financial benefits for millions of
  other Americans through unemployment insurance
  and aid to people unable to work
• Social Security was designed to not only help the
  economy recover but as a reform in the economy
• WE STILL HAVE THIS PROGRAM!

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3rd New Deal

• No too much additional deficit spending
• Depression not ended by New Deal programs
• Many people helped

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New Deal Affects Many Groups

• Women Frances Perkins Secretary of Labor
  1st female cabinet member

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• African- Americans FDR established the Black
  Cabinet to advise him
• Mary McLeod Bethune - adviser

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Lasting Impact

• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation FDIC
  insure bank deposits
• Tennessee Valley Authority - TVA control
  flooding on the Tennessee River and produce
  electricity
• Federal Housing Administration FHA low
  interest loans for first time home buyers
• Securities and Exchange Commission SEC
  government regulation of stock brokers and stock
  exchange
• Fair Labor Standards Act minimum wages and
  maximum hours
• National Labor Relations Act enforce labor laws

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Society and Culture

• Movies means of escape
• Radio popular Orson Wells
• Literature
• Richard Wright Native Son
• John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath