New Deal

CAUSES

• GD worsens• Businesses & banks fail• People continue to suffer and lose hope• FDR elected in 1932

EFFECTS

• Congress passes a series of acts to provide relief, jobs, & financial reform

• Supreme Court strikes down several acts as unconstitutional

• FDR tries to add favorable judges to Supreme Court

• Federal gov’t expands• Some hope is restored

New Deal

Supporters• Poor/needy people• Democrats• Broad public support

Critics• Those against big gov’t &

deficit spending• Republicans• Big business• Supreme Court