QUIZ THURSDAY! (Red Scare, 1920s, Great Depression, FDR’s New Deal) DO NOW: Copy the AIM and questions below outlined in RED. Then, use the following video and pictures below to answer. Abandoned farm in the Dust Bowl area. Oklahoma. 1936 Dust bowl farmer raising fence to keep it from being buried under drifting sand. Cimarron County, Oklahoma. 1936 VIDEO (19:00) Where did the “Dust Bowl” occur in the U.S.? What caused the “Dust Bowl? Based on the video and images above, what were the effects of the Dust Bowl?

Aim: How did FDR attempt to solve the problems created by the Great Depression?

Where do we go next? 46 of 48 states! Great Depression made Hoover a “VICTIM” and made FDR a “SAVIOR” FDR Appealed to Protestants & Catholics, farmers & workers, native-born Americans & immigrants “I voted for Herbert Hoover in 1928,” she wrote. “God forgive me and keep me alive at least until the polls open!” Takes office in 1933 – unemployment rate was 25%!! The great task of solving economic problems and increasing confidence 46 of 48 states!

For the four months between FDR’s election and inauguration in March 1933, Hoover was still president (“lame-duck”) He offered to help FDR with the depression, but FDR said NO. DON’T COPY

FDR’s 1st inaugural address Washington, D.C. March 4, 1933 “I’m the guy your girlfriend warned you about.” “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”

What is the message of the cartoon? How do you know? What is important about the DATE? What are some of the problems FDR will face upon becoming president? 1933: 20th amendment – lame duck amendment (March 4th moved to January 20th)

Public Relations Efforts: FDR’s Fireside Chats Roosevelt’s Fireside Chats FDR gave the nation regular updates on the status and health of the nation by giving these “fireside chats”

Public Relations: Eleanor Roosevelt’s travels Roosevelt’s Fireside Chats

The Impact of Fireside Chats Listen to the excerpt of the March 12, 1933 fireside chat about the bank crisis. While you listen: take notes on what you HEAR… How does he make you feel? What is the information he is providing? What did you notice about the fireside chat and how FDR is speaking to the people? Did anything stick out to you? Did his fireside chat help clarify anything for you? How does FDR use these “chats” to get the people’s support? What makes them so special? VIDEO

First “Hundred Days” begins… (March 9, 1933) First 100 days in office = creates government intervention programs Part of his larger NEW DEAL “broad executive power that would be given to me if we were in fact invaded by a foreign foe.” FDR requested from Congress broad executive power to begin his “New Deal”

Which one is MOST important to handle FIRST? The New Deal focused on the three “Rs” New Deal Programs Relief Relief and jobs to lower unemployment Recovery Stimulate the economy to end the depression Reform Correct economic problems and prevent future depressions

FDR’s “Brain Trust” Group of closest advisers (helped him in NY before presidency) Frances Perkins = secretary of labor (first woman to ever serve in a president’s cabinet) THINK: Why is Congress going to support every idea FDR had in the First Hundred Days despite them being radical changes?

1st New Deal: (RECOVERY) FDR first addresses the BANK crisis… Four-day “bank holiday” = all banks closed and inspected by federal regulators to determine which banks were healthy…

ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT DELIVERED BY RADIO FROM THE WHITE HOUSE – May 7, 1933 On a Sunday night a week after my Inauguration I used the radio to tell you about the banking crisis and the measures we were taking to meet it. I think that in that way I made clear to the country various facts that might otherwise have been misunderstood and in general provided a means of understanding which did much to restore confidence. Tonight, eight weeks later, I come for the second time to give you my report -- in the same spirit and by the same means to tell you about what we have been doing and what we are planning to do. …First, we are giving opportunity of employment to one-quarter of a million of the unemployed, especially the young men who have dependents, to go into the forestry and flood prevention work. Next, the Congress is about to pass legislation that will greatly ease the mortgage distress among the farmers and the home owners of the nation, by providing for the easing of the burden of debt now bearing so heavily upon millions of our people. Our next step in seeking immediate relief is a grant of half a billion dollars to help the states, counties and municipalities in their duty to care for those who need direct and Immediate relief. The Congress also passed legislation authorizing the sale of beer in such states as desired. This has already resulted in considerable reemployment and, incidentally, has provided much needed tax revenue. We are planning to ask the Congress for legislation to enable the Government to undertake public works, thus stimulating directly and indirectly the employment of many others in well- considered projects.

FDR’s Alphabet Soup FDR came up with the New Deal as a means of helping the American people through the depression. A good way to remember the New Deal is the expression “Alphabet Soup” because each of his programs is generally remembered by an abbreviation of its title. Tomorrow, we will analyze these programs…