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The Great Depression, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and His New Deal Created by: Emily Thorpe

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  • 1. The Great Depression, FranklinD. Roosevelt, and His NewDeal Created by: Emily Thorpe

2. Those Who Play Must Pay The1920s Come to an Abrupt Halt Stock market crash of 1929 didNOT cause the Great Depression Other Factors Involved Industrial and agriculturaloverproduction Unequal distribution of wealthin America Over-extension of credit &high individual debt Poor international economydue to World War I Weak American banks 3. Herbert Hoovers Response Voluntary Measures National CreditAssociation Organization forUnemployment Relief Limited GovernmentIntervention Thought businessesshould be self-regulating Called the Do NothingPresident 4. 1932 Presidential Election Candidates Herbert Hoover - (R) Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) - (D) Roosevelts Platform More active government New ideas to get out of Depression 5. 1932 Election Results 6. Restoration of ConfidenceBegins 7. National Banking Crisis Between 1930 & 1932 there waswidespread bank failure FDR called Congress back into session onMarch 6th, 1933 & enacted anemergency bank proposal By the end of March, citizens put theirtrust back into the bank system 8. Its Time For a New Deal Purposes of This Plan Relief:Recovery: Create jobs for the Provide the economy withunemployed the tools to succeed again Protect farmers fromforeclosureReform:Overall Goal: Government regulation ofbanksSave Capitalism Abolish child labor Conserve farm lands 9. First New Deal (1933-1934) The first hundred days March 9th to June 16th,1933 All efforts went towardsaiding big business,agriculture, &unemployed Alphabet Soup 10. Civilian Conservation Corps(CCC) Provided jobs to cityboys Would be paid $30monthly to do work inenvironment Successful tool at thistime 11. Civil Works Administration (CWA) Provided jobs for theunemployed toencourage moral Developed from theFederal Emergency ReliefAdministration (FERA) Provided a budget toaid states in helping theunemployed 12. Reform for Financial Matters Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Oversee stock and bond markets Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Insure bank deposits that reach up to $5,000 13. Tennessee Valley Authority(TVA) Aided one of the mostdevastated areas of country Dams & hydroelectric plantsbuilt Provided jobs & electricity 14. Agricultural Adjustment Act(AAA) Confronted the problemof overproduction Created the AgriculturalAdjustmentAdministration (AAA) Goal to raise farm pricesby encouraging farmersto produce less 15. National Industrial Recovery Act(NIRA) Created the Public Works Administration (PWA) & the National Recovery Administration (NRA) NRA Created a partnership between businesses, labor, & the government Labor Reforms 16. Second New Deal (1935-1936) Although First New Dealwas successful, manywere still unemployed FDR Presented list ofreforms to Congress inSpring 1935 Requested & received$4.8 billion in relief 17. Works Progress Administration(WPA) Able to employ 25% of countrys workforce Low paying & temporary jobs to avoid competition with private enterprises Types of Jobs Repaired infrastructure Ex: roads, bridges Built schools 18. Social Security Act of 1935 Created a national pension fund, unemploymentinsurance program, & public assistance programs Pension would be financed by a payroll taxstarting in 1937 Flaws to this law 19. Wagner Act of 1935 Prohibited employers from engaging in a variety of unfair labor practices Created the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) 20. FDRs Second Term (1937-1940) Court packing Rise of Nazis in Germany Loss of New Dealmomentum Fair Labor Standards Act Abolished child labor Gave minimum hourlywage (40 cents) Gave maximum workweek (40 hours) 21. Why It All Matters Physical rehabilitation to the nation Provided help to suffering citizens Revitalization of Politics Extension of the definition of democracy Strengthened the executive branchs power Did not end the Great Depression 22. Works Cited Information: online-history.org/us2-docs/FDR-New-Deal.ppt Information: users.ipfw.edu/gatesb/H106h.PPT Information: American Passages A History of the United States by EdwardAyers, David Oshinsky, Lewis Gould, & Jean Soderlund FDR Picture - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt Soup Kitchen Picture -http://blsciblogs.baruch.cuny.edu/his1005spring2011/tag/great-depression/ FDR Inaugural Address Audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm3Bntsp2ck Political Cartoon - http://willrabbe.com/microblog/2011/2/10/fdr-hoover-inauguration-1933.html Electoral Map - http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fil:1932_Electoral_Map.png 23. Works Cited Continued FDR Inaugural Picture - http://voiceseducation.org/content/first-inaugural-address-franklin-d-roosevelt Alphabet Soup Cartoon -http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/money_13.html CCC Badge - http://www.colorado.gov/dpa/doit/archives/ccc/cccscope.html CCC Picture - http://siliconcowboy.wordpress.com/2010/04/10/fdrs-civilian-conservation-corps-was-created-on-april-10-1933/ Civil Works Picture - http://content.lib.washington.edu/civilworksweb/index.html TVA Graphic - http://newdeal.feri.org/tva/index.htm TVA Map - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Valley_Authority 24. Works Cited Continued Famers Picture - http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6696 NRA Picture - http://shopfloor.org/tag/wwii FDR New Deal Pin - http://thehayride.com/2012/01/people-like-jesse-jackson-will-never-understand-the-damage-fdrs-new-deal-inflicted-on-our-nation/ WPA Picture - http://www.americana-music-and-memories.com/works-progress-administration.html FDR Wheelchair Picture -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/FDR_in_wheel_chair FDR and Press Picture - http://history.howstuffworks.com/world-war-ii/start-world-war-27.htm 25. Works Cited Continued Social Security Picture - http://biggovernment.com/tag/social-security/ NLRB Picture - http://www.sjsapush.com/ch25.php Why Cant You Give My Dad A Job? - http://www.profi-forex.us/news/entry4000000221.html