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Roosevelt’s goal was to “weed out” The over privileged & lift up the underprivileged

What is Magna Carta?

Plan didn’t include a fourth of all workers – farm laborers and domestic servants

What is a regressive tax?

Text• Record chronologically what you

consider to be the most important points

Unit 5: Chapter 10 pg. 255-258 The Second New Deal, 1935 1) New laws protected labor’s rights to organize & bargain collectively a, Wagner National Labor Relations Act, dubbed “labor’s Magna Carta” b. NLRB: est. to enforce provisions of the Act 2) Social Security Act: provided unemployment compensation, old- age pensions, and aid for dependent mothers , children, and the blind a. Financed through a regressive payroll tax on employers & employees

3) Banking Act of 1935: increased authority of the federal Reserve Board over the nation’s currency a. provided a graduated income tax and increased estate and corporate taxes4) “Dust Bowl” 1932 dust storms blew away top soil destroying agriculture in the mid west a. Resettlement Administration established for land reform and to help poor farmers5) Emergency Relief Appropriation Act, 1935: 5$ billion spent to create jobs a. WPA: created 9 million jobs

Set precedent for progressive taxes

Grapes of Wrath

Problem exceeded its resources

Most jobs involved constructionAlso developed jobs for artistNYA: part time jobs for students

6) Election of 1936 a. Roosevelt’s coalition: Southern Democrats, Middle-Class workers, Urban Ethnic Groups

Conservative critics made up a minority of the voter

Roosevelt won by the largest margin in history: 523 to 8 electoral votes