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The New Deal

• Chapter 23 Sections 1-3

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)

• Wins election of 1932 by a landslide. FDR 472
  electoral votes to Hoovers 59.
• FDR promises America a New Deal
• Quotes pg. 640

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FDR

• Hundred Days pushes through program after
  program to create jobs, provide relief.
• Closes the banks inspects banks, insures
  savings of up to 5,000.
• Creates Public Works Programs government funded
  projects to build public facilities.

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Programs

• CWA
• Civil Works Administration
• Gave jobs to unemployed, they built or improved
  roads, parks, airports, and other facilities

• CCC
• Civilian Conservation Corps
• 2.5 million men work on forests, beaches, and
  parks. They earn 1 a day but are boarded in
  camps and fed.

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Programs

• NIRA
• National Industrial Recovery
  Act
• Wants to increase prices and help businesses.
  Regulates wages, working conditions, production
  and prices, sets minimum wage.

• PWA
• Public Works Administration
• Provides jobs to build projects such as Grand
  Coulee Dam, road connecting Key West to Florida,
  and Triborough Bridge in New York.

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More Programs

• SEC
• Securities and Exchange Commission
• Regulates the stock market, regulates buying
  stock on margin.

• HOLC
• Home Owners Loan
  Corporation
• Refinances home mortgages for middle class, so
  people can keep their homes.

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Still More Programs

• AAA
• Agricultural Adjustment Administration
• Tries to raise farm prices, pays farmers not to
  produce. Some farmers plow under fields and
  destroy livestock.

• TVA
• Tennessee Valley Authority
• Tennessee Valley one of the countrys least
  modernized regions. Provides jobs building a dam
  and provides cheap hydroelectric power to region.

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End of the Honeymoon

• What happens to FDRs New Deal legislation?
• What is FDRs response? Give specific examples.

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Homework

• FDR in his first hundred days passed many
  programs to provide relief, create jobs, or
  stimulate the economy. Your job is to create a
  public works agency for this school, or
  community. You need to identify the goal of the
  program, the people who would qualify to work in
  the program, the people who would benefit from
  the program, and the way it would impact your
  school or community.

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Writing Assignment

• What kind of advice do you think a survivor of
  the Great Depression might give younger adults
  today?

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Writing Assignment

• The text quotes Harry Hopkins as saying Give a
  man a dole handout and you save his body and
  destroy his spirit. Give him a job and pay him an
  assured wage and you save both the body and the
  spirit.
• Explain the relevance of this way of thinking to
  the New Deal.
• Do you think this saying is true? Why or why
  not?
• Do you think this is what we do in our country
  today? Do we give out a dole or do we give
  someone a job and pay him an assured wage when
  they lose their job or need help? Support your
  answer.

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Group Assignment

• Get into your group and go over your answers to
  the writing assignment.
• Decide as a group what you believe for question
  number 3.
• As a group decide what would you do to change,
  fix, or improve America in this area of providing
  relief for people in need or without a job.