1930s Culture and The New Deal

1930s: Cultural Icons Will RogersWoody Guthrie

Top 2 Films of the 1930s The Wizard of OzGone with the Wind

The Rise of the Child Star Shirley TempleLittle Rascals(Our Gang)

Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire

The Big Scare Orson Welles and the War of the Worlds

Key Symbol Empire State Building

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Won by landslide in st Amendment: Repeal of Prohibition Fireside Chats The New Deal and “Alphabet Soup” Court Packing Plan (1937) Elected 4 times Died in Office in 1945

New Deal for the Nation

The New Deal: 3 Key Objectives Relief Reform Recovery

Alphabet Soup The New Deal Group Exercise

Name Review for Quiz __ F_ _ Charles Lindbergh A. Folk Singer During Great Depression ___I__ Shirley Temple B. Harlem Renaissance Poet/Writer ___E_ _ Orson Welles C. Harlem Renaissance jazz musician/singer ___J___ John Scopes D. Wrote “Great Gatsby”/ Lost Generation author ___L _ _ Duke Ellington E. “War of the Worlds” (Radio: Martian invasion) ___H__ Charlie Chaplin F. First person to fly solo across the Atlantic. ___A _ Woody Guthrie G. 1920s Composer “Rhapsody in Blue ___K __ Ginger Rogers H. Silent Film Actor ___C__ Louie Armstrong I. Major child actress during the 1930s ___D__ F. Scott Fitzgerald J. Teacher put on trial for teaching evolution. ___G __ George Gershwin K. Actress in dance duo with Fred Astaire ___ ___ MN __ Dutch Schultz L. Harlem Jazz Composer/Orchestra Leader ___B__ Langston Hughes M. NYC Gangster _______ Franklin Roosevelt N.

Alphabet Soup Summaries W.P.A. (Works Progress Administration): established to put men to work on jobs of public usefulness. 5,900 schoolhouses built or repaired; parks, playgrounds, and pools built; roads, streets, and sewage plants built; 1,000 airfields laid out; 2,500 hospitals placed in areas not previously served. Established under the $4.8 billion Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935, the WPA lasted until 1943 and employed at least 8.5 million people at an average of $2 a day. They built thousands of roads, bridges, schools, post offices and other public construction projects. In addition, under the ** WPA's Arts Program, thousands of unemployed writers, musicians, artists, actors, and photographers temporarily went on the federal payroll, producing public projects ranging from murals to national park guidebooks. C.C.C. (Civilian Conservation Corps): Created in 1933, the CCC took unmarried men aged from relief rolls and sent them into the woods and fields to plant trees, build parks, roads, and fight soil erosion on federal lands. F.E.R.A. (Federal Emergency Management Association): Created in 1933, FERA supported nearly five million households each month and funded thousands of work projects for the unemployed. It also provided vaccinations and literacy classes for millions of poor people. F.D.I.C. (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation): To help improve the banking system, restore confidence in banks, and encourage savings, Congress created the FDIC to insure bank customers against the loss of up to $5,000 their deposits if their bank should fail. F.H.A. (Federal Housing Administration): The FHA was created in 1934 to stimulate the building industry by providing small loans for home construction. N.L.R.A. (National Labor Relations Act): The NLRA (also called the Wagner Act) of 1935 created the National Labor Relations Board to protect the rights or organized labor to organize and collectively bargain with employers. S.E.C. (Securities and Exchange Commission): The SEC was created in 1934 to serve as a federal "watchdog" administrative agency to protect public and private investors from stock market fraud, deception and insider manipulation on Wall Street. P.W.A. (Public Works Administration): Established in1933, it gave emergency loans to keep private industry from collapsing.