-programs to continue kelp for working class Americans and their families -WPA Works Progress Administration -to help Youth, Professionals & other workers (150,000 Buildings) -Social Security Act old age pensions 65, unemployment, aid to families with children, aid to those disabled -Rural Electrification Administration 2 nd New Deal

-programs to continue kelp for working class Americans and their families -WPA Works Progress Administration -Social Security Act old age pensions, unemployment, aid to families with children -Rural Electrification Administration More Programs

-programs to continue kelp for working class Americans and their families -WPA Works Progress Administration -Social Security Act old age pensions, unemployment, aid to families with children -Rural Electrification Administration REA: laws to regulate & expand Electricity * % % More Programs

-programs to continue kelp for working class Americans and their families -WPA Works Progress Administration -Social Security Act old age pensions, unemployment, aid to families with children -Rural Electrification Administration More Programs

-programs to continue kelp for working class Americans and their families -WPA Works Progress Administration -Social Security Act old age pensions, unemployment, aid to families with children -Rural Electrification Administration More Programs

-programs to continue kelp for working class Americans and their families -WPA Works Progress Administration -Social Security Act old age pensions, unemployment, aid to families with children -Rural Electrification Administration More Programs

Labor Relations -National Labor Relations Act--- (Wagner Act) (Senator) NLRB right to unionize (Collective Bargaining) anti-union practices banned, would not let BIG Businesses threaten Unions -Fair Labor Standards ACT minimum wage, 40 hour week *.25cents HR in cents HR in Growth of AFL, CIO

Court Packing -Several New Deal programs ruled unconstitutional AAA, NRA Why?: AAA: Agriculture is local, NOT FEDERAL Laws given to Leg/Exe Branch to regulate the industry went beyond Const. Powers -Roosevelt proposed adding new justices : Court Reform Bill, *add on 6 more justices -seen as a threat to checks and balances

Court Packing -Several New Deal programs ruled unconstitutional AAA, NRA -Roosevelt proposed adding new justices -seen as a threat to checks and balances

Women in the Depression -Eleanor Roosevelt : *urged FDR to appoint W & AA to higher Positions -several women named to high gov’t positions Francis Perkins Sec. Of Labor: 1 st F Cabinet Member, played a major role in the creation of Social Security -working women faced resentment -women’s wages still lower than men -gov’t programs gave preferences to men

Women in the Depression -Eleanor Roosevelt -several women named to high gov’t positions Francis Perkins Sec. Of Labor -working women faced resentment -women’s wages still lower than men -gov’t programs gave preferences to men

African Americans -Mary McLeod Bethune friend of Eleanor Roosevelt established “Black Cabinet” to help influence FDR on Racial Issues -Concert of Marian Anderson at the Lincoln Memorial -Roosevelt never fully committed to civil rights, afraid he would upset Dem White voters in the South -African Americans came to support the Democratic Party

Art and Literature -many artists displayed the reality of the Depression, very serious -Federal Arts Project (WPA): funded many artist to go back to work -Grant Wood American Gothic Richard Wright Native Son -John Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath

Art and Literature -many artists displayed the reality of the Depression -Federal Arts Project (WPA) -Grant Wood American Gothic -Richard Wright Native Son -John Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath

Radio Entertains the Masses -family entertainment -soap operas: Days of Our Lives= 1 st Radio show, Sponsored by soap -Children’s Programs Green Hornet, Lone Ranger -Variety shows and plays: NBC Bob Hope, George Burns Orson Welles: most renowned Radio Broadcast of all Time! “War of the Worlds”: Aliens taking over the world! *Hindenburg Crash, May,

Entertainment -Marx Brothers :popular Actors *Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers becomes AM. Favorite Dance Partners -Gangster films - Little Caesar, The Public Enemy - Frank Capra, Jimmy Stewart ”Mr. Smith goes to Washington” ”It’s a wonderful Life” Wonderful Life

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Wonderful Life

Motion Pictures Most Popular Movies of ALL time -Gone with the Wind, 1939 YOu need Kissing Badly! -Wizard of Oz, Snow White and Seven Dwarfs, Unreal dazzling Animation of Walt Disney Work!

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Motion Pictures -Gone with the Wind, Wizard of Oz, Snow White and Seven Dwarfs, 1937

End of the New Deal -”I see 1/3 of a nation ill -housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished” FDR -by 1937, some recovery, enough to convince many Americans the Depression was ending -gov’t pulls back programs and depression returns!!! Unemployment rose from 7 Million to 10 Million opposition grows to continued gov’t control -international affairs begin to take precedence, In Europe & Japan

End of the New Deal -”I see 1/3 of a nation ill -housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished” -by 1937, some recovery -gov’t pulls back programs and depression returns -opposition grows to continued gov’t control -international affairs begin to take precedence