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The Hundred Days During the first 100 days of FDR’s Presidency Congress and the President had passed and signed more than 15 major laws that helped provide; Relief, Recovery, and Reform. This Period lasted from March 9, 1933 until June 16, 1933 and is when many of the laws that made up the First New Deal were passed. Many Americans were hopeful that these laws would help them and improve the economy, but some people would become critical of the President’s New Deal

Critics of the New Deal By the end of the Hundred Days, millions of Americans had benefited from the New Deal programs. Confidence in the Nation’s future was also restored. Although the New Deal was funded through Deficit Spending Roosevelt did so very reluctantly. Funding the New Deal programs in this way led many Conservatives to argue that Roosevelt spent too much on direct relief and used New Deal policies to control business and socialize the economy. Conservatives were particularly angered by the Agricultural Adjustment Act and the National Industrial Recovery Act, which they believed gave the federal government too much control over agriculture and industry. Many critics believed the New Deal interfered with the workings of a free-market economy.

Critics of the New Deal Liberal critics argued that the New Deal did not go far enough to help the poor and to reform the nation’s economic system. Some liberal critics of Roosevelt’s New Deal were; Charles Coughlin a Roman Catholic priest from Detroit who favored a guaranteed annual income for Americans and nationalization of all US banks. Dr. Francis Townsend was a doctor from Long Beach, California and thought the New Deal didn’t do enough to help the elderly and created a plan to provide a pension or monthly benefits to the old aged. This is very similar to a plan to care for the elderly that will be passed through Congress during the New Deal. Huey Long was a Senator from Louisiana and wanted to see a nationwide social program called Share-Our-Wealth under which Long promised something for all types of Americans.

Roosevelt’s Court Packing Plan The US Supreme Court struck down the National Industrial Recovery Act as unconstitutional in In 1936 the Court also struck down the Agricultural Adjustment Act. Fearing the Supreme Court would further overturn New Deal legislation the President proposed a plan to Congress to reorganize the Supreme Court add six new justices. Many people believed that the president was violating the principles of judicial independence and the separation of powers. In 1937 an elderly Justice retired and the President was able to appoint Hugo Black a liberal justice and help prevent future opposition to New Deal legislation. During his time in office FDR appointed 7 new Supreme Court Justices.

Classwork Read Chapter 15 Section 2 Pages 495 – 501 Main Idea Questions A – D SkillBuilders; Page 497 # 1-2