Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Advanced Placement United States History
Chapter 34 Kennedy/Cohen/Bailey
American Pageant Lecture Outline
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Franklin D. RooseveltsNew Deal Administration

• 19321933-37
• 19361937-41
• 19401941-45
• 19441945-Died

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Inaugural Address

• Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself.
• Not Your Fault
• The Evil Money Changers
• Nothing Wrong with Democracy
• Only Reforms Needed
• This Nation will Endure

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The Disabled President

• FDR was Paralyzed From
• the Waist, Confined to a
• Wheelchair Facts the
• Public did not Know

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The Presidents Lady

• Eleanor Roosevelt
• Independent Minded
• Politically Active
• FDRS Right Arm
• Served as Eyes , Ears Legs for FDR

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A Political First Lady Became Advocate for

• Minorities
• Women
• Children
• Working Class Labor Unions
• Disabled

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Eleanor Roosevelt Womens Advocate
Womens Press Corps

• Eleanor Roosevelt
• announced
• First Lady Press
• Conferences open to
• Women Reporters Only

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Eleanor Roosevelt Editorial Writer

• ER Wrote a Daily
• Column called
• My Day
• Published by
• Major Newspapers
• Across the Nation

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Eleanor Roosevelt Civil Libertarian

• Eleanor Roosevelt
• intervened with the
• Dept. of the Interior
• to get Marian Anderson
• a stage at the Lincoln Memorial for
• her concert in 1939

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Marian Anderson, World Class Opera Singer,

• had been barred from singing at
• Constitution Hall
• simply because
• she was
• African-American
• and Jim Crow Laws
• forbid Blacks mixing with Whites

April 9, 1939
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100 Days Congress

• Enacted
• New Deal
• Legislation
• 1933

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Bank Holiday March 6, 1933
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Fireside Chats - Radio

• Direct
• Communication
• With
• American
• People
• By Radio

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Americans Listen at Their Firesides
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Emergency Banking Relief ActMarch 9, 1933

• Authorized FDR to Regulate Banking Industry
  and Reopen
• Solvent Banks

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Beer and Wine Revenue Act

• March 9, 1933
• Heralds
• End of
• Prohibition

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Unemployment Relief Act, March March 31, 1933

• Creates CCC

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Civilian Conservation Corps3 Million Men
1933-1942

• Unemployed Youth
• Age 18-25 could
• serve 3 years for
• 30 a month with
• 25 sent to family

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Civilian Conservation Corps

• CCC Provided
• Food/Clothing
• Education
• Job Training
• Family Assistance
• Outdoor Living

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Agricultural Adjustment ActAAA May 12, 1933

• Creates Artificial
• Scarcity in order
• to Raise Price of
• Farm Products
• Creating Profits
• for Farmer

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Tennessee Valley Authority ActTVA May 18,
1933

• Created Jobs, Flood
• Control, Cheap
• Electricity in the
• Poorest Region
• of the Nation

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National Industrial Recovery ActJune 16, 1933

• Creates
• National
• Recovery
• Administration
• And
• Public Works
• Administration

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National Recovery Administration NRA

• Industrial Codes
• Established
• Governing Wages,
• Product Standards,
• Prices, Unions are
• Okayed

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Public Works Administration PWA

• Federally Financed
• Work Programs for
• Unemployed
• Public Buildings,
• Highways, Dams,
• Air Ports Parks

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Glass-Steagall Banking Reform Act

• June 16, 1933
• Federal
• Deposit
• Insurance
• Corporation

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Civil Works AdministrationNovember 9, 1933

• Created by FDR during
• winter of 1933 to create
• federally sponsored
• makework or
• boondoggling such as
• raking leaves, sweeping
• streets, picking up trash

25 National Unemployment
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Works Progress AdministrationWPA May 6, 1935

• Federal work programs
• that built schools,
• highways, post offices,
• but also hired artists,
• students, musicians,
• writers and other white
• collar workers such as
• John Steinbeck

9 Million Employed
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Social Security Act August 14, 1935

• Unemployment
• Insurance
• and
• Old Age
• Pensions

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Social Security Act August 14, 1935

• Provided payments
• for unemployed,
• aged,
• dependent children,
• handicapped
• financed by
• payroll tax

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Enemies of the New Deal

• Father Charles Coughlin
• Dr. Francis Townsend
• Senator Huey Long
• U.S. Supreme Court
• American Liberty League

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Rev. Charles Coughlin The Radio Priest

• Union
• For
• Social
• Justice

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Dr. Francis Townsend

• Old Age
• Pension
• Plan
• Townsend Clubs

Aid to the Elderly Poor
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Senator Huey Long of Louisiana

• The Kingfish
• Share Our Wealth Plan

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U.S. Supreme Court

• Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes
• Court Opposed
• New Deal
• Programs

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U.S. Supreme Court

• declares unconstitutional
• NRA - 1936
• AAA - 1936
• Threatens
• Social Security
• Act

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U.S. Supreme Court

• FDR
• Proposes
• Court-Packing
• Plan
• Fails

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Roosevelts New Deal

• The End

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Credits

• CCC - http//www.cccalumni.org/
• FDR Presidential Library http//www.fdrlibrary.m
  arist.edu/
• Library of Congress http//www.loc.gov/rr/print/
  
• National Archives http//www.nara.gov/
• NRA http//www/spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USSARna
  r.htm
• New Deal Network http//newdeal.feri.org/library
  /index.htm4
• Roaring 20s http//cvip.fresno.comjsh33/roar.h
  tml
• Smithsonian Institute http//americanhistory.si.
  edu/sweatshops/
• history/2t51.htm

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Credits (contd)

• Social Security photos - http//www.historyteach
  er.net/
• APUSH-Course/Weblinks/Weblinks23.htm
• Coughlin photo -http//www.ssa.gov/history/cough.h
  tml
• Long photo - http//www.ssa.gov/history/longsen.ht
  ml
• Elderly photo - http//www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/i
  mages/
• photodb/27-0622a.gif
• Court cartoon - http//newdeal.feri.org/court/010.
  htm
• Court cartoon - http//newdeal.feri.org/court/126.
  htm

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Credits (contd)

• Photo of Eleanor Women Reporters Steven M.
  Gillon Cathy D. Matson, The American
  Experiment, Houghton Mifflin (2002), p. 1000.
• Marian Anderson - http//www.library.upenn.edu/
• special/photos/anderson/493.html
• Marian Anderson - Washington, D.C., April 9, 1939