The New Deal

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• Chapter 9

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Lecture Review Questions

1. What was the first thing FDR do as President?
2. How did the New Deal break tradition and expand
   executive power?
3. Why were there 2 new deals?
4. How did people react to the reforms?
5. Did the New Deal end the Depression?

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Changing of the Guard

• Franklin Delano Roosevelt Won the 1932 Election!
• Campaign Song Happy Days are here again!
• Roosevelt easily won the 1932 presidential
  election by promising what?
• A New Deal For Americans!
• FDR immediately aimed to restore hope and the
  economy
• How did Franklin D. Roosevelt communicate his
  ideas to Americans and rally support for them?
• Fireside chats

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First Hundred Days

• New Deal FDRs relief, recovery and reform
  programs aimed at fighting the G.D.
• Why did FDR declare a bank holiday early in his
  administration?
• To inspect banks financial health
• 15. What 4 things did FDR do his first Hundred
  Days as President to the help Americans?
• Declared a bank holiday.
• Created the
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
  insured bank deposits up to 5,000
• Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
  regulated the stock market and made it safe for
  investors
• Provided Relief and work with
• Public works programs govt-funded projects to
  build public facilities

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How to Help the People?

• The New Deal Breaks Tradition
• Government takes an active role in commerce
• National Industrial Recovery Act
• What was the NRA and what did it accomplish?
• National Recovery Administration
• Regulated business in order to turn business
  cycle around.
• Minimum wages for workers
• Minimum prices for goods

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A Second New Deal

• Second New Deal Second Hundred Days
• Brought electricity to rural areas
• Wagner Act legalized union membership,
  collective bargaining and closed shops
• Social Security Act
• Old-age pensions/survivors benefits
• Unemployment insurance
• Aid for dependent children, the blind and
  disabled

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Critics

• New Deal does too much
• Govt too powerful
• New Deal doesnt do enough
• Too much attention paid to banks and business
• Demagogues leaders who manipulate people with
  half-truths and scare tactics
• Father Coughlin communists in charge!
• Huey Long Share Our Wealth program

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FDR the Supreme Court

• Supreme Court opposed the New Deal
• President has no power to regulate inter-state
  commerce
• Court Packing FDR attempted to appoint 6 new
  Justices sympathetic to his New Deal

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Women of the New Deal

• Eleanor Roosevelt
• Defied tradition by aggressively promoting the
  New Deal
• Mary McLeod Bethune
• Organized the unofficial black cabinet
• Francis Perkins
• First woman appointed Sec. of Labor
• Dorothea Lange
• Photographs helped win aid for migrant workers

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Not a Miracle Cure

• Recession of 1937
• Rising national debt
• Labor Unions ? rise in membership and power
• Sit-down strikes
• Discrimination in New Deal programs
• New Deal only provided temporary relief

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New Deal Legacies

• Public works projects still visible
• Bridges, dams, hospitals, parks
• Social Security
• Legacy of hope
• Legacy of debt (9,198,377,804,543.39 ) through
  deficit spending
• Deficit spending spending more than you are
  taking in
• Legacy of government involvement in the lives of
  average citizens