Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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Franklin Delano RooseveltNew Deal
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Bring hope back

• 1st step was to restore public confidence in the
  nations bank (FDIC)
• 2nd step providing relief and creating jobs (FERA
  stemmed into CWA)
• Industry wide codes (NIRA)
• Assisting homeowners and farmers
• AAA, TVA, FHA, HOLC

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New Deal falters

• New programs failed to bring about significant
  economic improvement
• People worried that the new programs were giving
  too much power to the government
• Supreme court shot down NIRA, AAA

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New Deal take two

• Included more
• Social welfare
• Stricter controls over business
• Stronger support for unions
• Higher taxes on the rich

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Women and minorities

• Men received preference
• Women received lower wages
• African Americans were kept out of skilled jobs
• Social Security Act excluded 2/3 of working
  African Americans

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Critics coming out of the wood work

• New Deal does too much (Republicans)
• Led by the American Liberty League
• Limited individual freedom in an unconstitutional
  manner
• New Deal does not do enough (Progressives
  Socialist)
• State should take over factories
• Create a new economic system

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More critics

• Father Coughlin
• Advocated government take over of private
  property and banks
• Radio broadcast grew reckless
• Started to support Hitler Mussolini
• Roman Catholic officials order him to stop
• Huey Long
• Redistribution of wealth

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Recession of 1937

• A period of slow business activity
• Unions triumph
• New labor organizations (Committee for Industrial
  Organization)
• Sit-down strikes laborers stop working but
  refuse to leave the building

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1930s captured in time
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Continued
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