The Depression and New Deal

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The Depression and New Deal

• Chapter 25
• AP US History

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Part I Problems of the Great Depression
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Summary of the Psychological Effects

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• B.
• C.

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Impact on Health

• A.
• B.
• C.

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Family Problems

• Living conditions changed
• Divorce decreased
• Unemployed men felt like failures.
• Women blamed

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Part II The Political Response to the Great
Depression
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Hoovers Philosophy
REMINDER Slide

• Believed economic problems beyond US control.
• Key to recovery confidence in economy.
• Blamed for depression b/c of passive attitude
• Hawley-Smoot Tariff 1930 protected domestic
  industries.
• Wanted state local governments to handle
  recovery

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FDRs Philosophy Approach

• A.
• B.
• C.
• D.

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FDR First 100 Days in Office

• Inaugural Address
• Economy Act
• Prohibition Ended

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New Deal Critic

• Father Charles Coughlin

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New Deal Critics Continued

• Huey Long Who was he?
• B. Huey Long wanted

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2nd New Deal

• 1st New Deal focused on relief
• 2nd New Deal focused on social reform
• 1935 FDR began sending to Congress new
  legislative initiatives
• Radical shift to the left? OR Tentative step to
  the left?
• WPA, Wagner Act, Social Security Act