New Deal

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RRR

RELIEF

REFORM

•RECOVERY

THE FIRST 100 DAYS

CLOSES BANKS: ESTABLISH FDIC

(Federal Deposit Insurance Company)

Ensured Savings accounts up to $100,000

Get Americans to trust banks again

AMERICANS GET RELIEF

CREATES PUBLIC WORKS PROGRAMS

Get money to the needy & low income families FAST!

ALPHABET SOUP

FERA: Federal Emergency Relief Agency Sends federal money

to local areas

CWA: Civil Works Administration Provided jobs on

public projects.

MORE ALPHABET SOUPTHE FIRST 1OO DAYS

CCC: CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS 2.5 MILLION

SINGLE MALES PUT TO WORK IN NATION’S FORESTS, BEACHES, ETC.

EVEN MORE ALPHABET SOUP

PWA: PUBLIC WORKS ADMINISTRATIONAAA: Agricultural Adjustment AdministrationTVA: Tennessee Valley Authority

WHAT DO THESE HAVE IN COMMON?

CRITICISM OF THE NEW DEAL

SUCCESS? OR FAILURE?Supreme Court

thought FDR was gaining too much power

monarchy

UP AGAINST THE SUPREME COURT

NRA AAA

A SECOND NEW DEAL

MORE AGGRESSIVEMORE SOCIAL WELFARE PROGRAMSSTRICTER CONTROLS ON BUSINESSSTRONGER SUPPORT FOR UNIONSHIGHER TAXES ON THE RICH.MORE ALPHABET SOUP: NEW AGENCIES

TO ATTACK POVERTY AND CREATE JOBS AND HELP FARMERS.

NEW LAWS PASSED

WAGNER ACT WHICH LEADS TO THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD

SOCIAL SECURITY ACT

NIRA: NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL RECOVERY ACT: Regulates wages Working conditions Production & prices

IS EVERYBODY HAPPY NOW?

NO: WHILE THE NEW

DEAL HELPED SOME PEOPLE OUT OF THEIR MISERY, IT DID NOT END THE DEPRESSION

MANY PEOPLE CRITICISED

ROOSEVELTAND HIS PROGRAMS

IT’S UNFAIR:

WOMENMINORITIES

JOBS STILL FAVORED WHITE MALES

NO PROTECTION FOR DOMESTIC SERVICE

PROGRAMS TENDED TO REINFORCE RACISM ESPECIALLY IN THE SEGREGATED SOUTH.

POLITICAL RIGHT

THE WEALTHYPROGRAMS ARE

SOCIALISTICFEAR OF

GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE IN LIVES WITH THINGS LIKE SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS

POLITICAL LEFT: WANTED A REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH

NEW DEAL: NOT RADICAL ENOUGHSTILL: UNEQUAL DISTRIBUTION OF

WEALTHSOCIALISTSHUEY LONGFATHER

COUGHLIN

LASTING EFFECTS OF THE NEW DEAL: TODAY

PRESIDENCYMORE ACTIVE

ROLESOLVES

PROBLEMSMAKES

PROGRAMS

LABOR UNIONSNEW DEAL

CHANGES RELATIONS BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AND UNION FOREVER.

CULTURE: TODAY THANKS TO THE NEW DEAL PROGRAMS

SUPPORTS THE ARTS THROUGH PUBLIC PROGRAMS

GREAT WORKS OF LITERATURE PRODUCED: GRAPES OF WRATH, GONE WITH THE WIND, ETC.

ENTERTAINMENT: RADIO & MOVIES

BEFORE AND AFTER THE NEW DEAL

BEFORE: WOMEN AND

MINORITIES NOT ALLOWED IN UNIONS

.NO COLLECTIVE

BARGAINING ALLOWED BY GOVERNMENT

AFTER : JOBS WELCOME

WORKERS REGARDLESS OF SEX OR RACE.

STRIKES: FLINT SIT DOWN

STRIKE

WHAT’S LEFT TODAY OF FDR AND HIS NEW DEAL?

FDICSOCIAL SECURITYGREAT PUBLIC WORKS MONUMENTS:

BRIDGES DAMS PUBLIC BUILDINGS SEWAGE SYSTEMS HOSPITALS CCC PROJECTS TVA PROJECTS