Chapter 15 A New Deal Fights the Depression
Americans Get a New Deal Electing Franklin Delano Roosevelt --Franklin Delano Roosevelt Waiting For Roosevelt to Take Over --New Deal
Americans Get a New Deal (Cont’d) The Hundred Days An Important Fireside Chat Regulating Banking and Finance --Glass-Steagall Act --Federal Securities Act
Helping the American People Rural Assistance --The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) Providing Work Projects --Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) --National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) Promoting Fair Practices Food, Clothing, and Shelter
The New Deal Comes Under Attack --Deficit Spending The Supreme Court Reacts Three Firey Critics --Huey Long
Chapter 15 Section 2 The Second New Deal Takes Hold
The Second Hundred Days -Eleanor Roosevelt Reflecting FDR
Helping Farmers Focusing on Farms
Roosevelt Extends Relief -Works Progress Administration (WPA) -National Youth Administration
Improving Labor and Other Reforms Improving Labor Conditions -Wagner Act The Social Security Act -Social Security Act Expanding and Regulating Utilities
Chapter 15 Section 3 The New Deal Affects Many Groups
The New Deal Brings New Opportunities Women Make Their Mark -Frances Perkins Discrimination –Workplace –NRA wage codes –Married women in the workplace
African American Activism A. Philip Randolph African Americans Take Leadership Roles –Mary McLeod Bethune –NYA –“Black Cabinet” –Marian Anderson and Eleanor Roosevelt
The President Fails to Support Civil Rights -anti-lynching laws and the -poll tax -Discrimination in New Deal Agencies -Southern Tenant Farmers Union Mexican American Fortunes -Discrimination
Native Americans Gain Support -John Collier: Commissioner of Indian Affairs Indian Reorganization Act Economic – Cultural – Political -
FDR Creates the New Deal Coalition -New Deal Coalition: Labor Unions Flourish –“Friend of Labor” –Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) – formerly the Committee for Industrial Organization Labor Disputes –Sit down strike –Republic Steel- FDR Wins in 1936
Chapter 15 Section 4 Culture in the 1930’s
The Lure of Motion Pictures and Radio Movies Are a Hit! -Gone with the Wind Radio Entertains -Orson Welles
The Arts in Depression America Artists Decorate America -Grant Wood Woody Guthrie Sings of America Diverse Writers Depict American Life -Richard Wright -The Grapes of Wrath
Chapter 15 Section 5 The Impact of the New Deal
New Deal Reforms Endure Supporters and Critics of the New Deal Expanding Government’s Role in the Economy -Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) -Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Protecting Workers’ Rights -National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Banking and Finance
Social and Environmental Effects Social Security –Old age insurance –Unemployment –Disabled families The Rural Scene - Commodity Credit Corporation - Parity The Environment –Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) –Soil Conservation Service –Taylor Grazing Act (1934) –Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)