FDR (Franklin Delano Roosevelt) Responds to the Great Depression

I. The Impact of the Great Depression on Ordinary Americans

A. Unemployment, Eviction, and Hunger

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U.S. Unemployment Rate 1929-1940

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B. Falling Fathers, Falling Birth Rates

C. Failing Farmers, the Dust Bowl, and Hoovervilles

D. Soup Kitchens, Bread Lines, and the Limits of Local Relief

II. FDR Proposes a New Deal

A. FDR’s Fireside Chats Appeal to the “Forgotten Man”

B. FDR’s Inaugural Address & the First Hundred Days

• “This Nation asks for action, and action now. “

• “Our greatest primary task is to put people to work…. It can be accomplished in part by direct recruiting by the Government itself, treating the task as we would treat the emergency of a war.”

C. Three Competing and Conflicting Goals

– Relief – Immediate End to Human Suffering

– Recovery – Bring US Out of Depression

– Reform – Make Sure Depression Cant Happen Again

III. The 1st Hundred Days and Alphabet Soup

New Deal Program Summary Relief, Recovery or Reform?

Glass-Steagall Act FDIC -- government insures deposits up to $5,000

Recovery/Reform

Civilian Conservation Corps

Environmental projects to give jobs to young men

Relief/Recovery

Home Owners’ Loan Corporation

(HOLC)

Government loans money to homeowners so that they can pay mortgages

Relief/Recovery

Agricultural Adjustment Act

Government loans money to farms so they can pay mortgages

Relief/Recovery

National Recovery Act (NRA)

Minimum wages, maximum hours/week, the Blue Eagle

Relief/Recovery

FDR (Franklin Delano Roosevelt) Responds to the Great Depression

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