Good afterlunch! Please get out any notes you may have from your homework reading and be prepared for a short notes quiz. You may use any of your own hand-written notes. Please remember your academic integrity.
EOC Schedule Write it down! English II or English III (not AICE Lang) Math II or Math III Biology Chemistry
Unit 4 Assessment – Self-Score Use the Rubric and the student sample from Tuesday’s class. Score the level and points that you think you earned on Part A and on Part B
Critics of the New Deal Conservatives Liberals Deficit spending, Socialism Supreme Court NRA, AAA Liberals Father Charles Coughlin Francis Townsend Huey Long
New Deal Changes Course: The 2nd New Deal 1935-’36 Unity fading Increasing criticism FDR - business-class and wealthy Focus on helping the most disadvantaged Relief & Reform
The Second New Deal ‘35 Works Progress Admin. $11 B for Pub. Works Federal Writer’s Project Federal Music Project Federal Theater Project
2nd New Deal: Helping the Disadvantaged FDR feared effect of liberal critics Resettlement Administration REA Wagner Act – NLRB* Wealth Tax Social Security Act*
Critics of New Deal & FDR Alf Landon XIV. 1936 Election Critics of New Deal & FDR Alf Landon
New Deal Coalition – cities, farmers, unions, women, Northern Blacks, Southerners, immigrants
Minorities & The New Deal A mixed record Programs often discriminated FDR opposed NAACP Anti-Lynching Campaign FDR’s Appointments Symbolic gestures
Environment, the West, Indians Efforts to stop soil erosion Taylor Grazing Act ‘34 National Parks Olympic N.P., Shenandoah N.P. Dams TVA, Hoover Dam, Grand Coulee American Indians Indian Reorganization Act ‘34
FDR & Supreme Court 1936 FDR’s Problem His Plan “The Court Packing Scheme” Reaction Result The Nine Old Men
End of the New Deal Roosevelt Recession ’37 Last ND legislation Why? Left wing – fear of deficits stopped govt from doing more Right wing – too much regulation halted business growth Last ND legislation Housing Act ’37 Fair Labor Standards Act ’38 – Min wage, overtime, child labor AAA ‘38 Growing conservative opposition Over by 1939 World events would take center stage
XVII. Legacy of the New Deal Did it work? Creation of “welfare state” Size & Cost of Federal Govt. Power & Scope of Govt. New Deal Coalition – Political realignment
GQ#4 - Based on his leadership of the USA in the 1930s, how far does Franklin Roosevelt deserve his reputation as one of the great US presidents?