Objectives Explain and analyze the expansion of federal powers. This is specifically focused on how the Federal Government and different branches within the federal government have expanded their power during FDR’s presidency.

FDR and the New Deal -the expanding role of government and the growing power of the President.

Opposition to the new deal Not everyone was wholly in support of the New Deal Many thought that it gave too much power to the Federal Government New Deal Agencies like the National Recovery Administration and the Agricultural Adjustment Bureau were criticized because they gave government too much control over prices.

Conflict with the Supreme Court Agencies like the NRA were declared unconstitutional because they gave the President too much power and they were trying to control business unfairly. The Judicial branch pushed back against FDR’s New Deal

President FDR Executive Branch Checks and Balances No branch is to be more powerful than any other branch…FDR doesn’t like this. President FDR Executive Branch

FDR’s Court-Packing Scheme The Supreme Court won’t approve FDR’s New Deal legislation. FDR tries to add 6 new positions to the 9 judge system of the Supreme Court. He figures that this will give him a majority and he can pass whatever he wants.

FDR wanted to have ALL the cards in his hand

Public Response to Roosevelt’s court Packing Scheme

Public Response to Roosevelt's Court Packing Scheme

Other Opposition Business leaders and anti-New Deal politicians got together to create the AMERICAN LIBERTY LEAGUE. Its purpose was to organize opposition to the New Deal and “teach the necessity of respect for the rights of person and property.” Conservative Democrats and Republicans

Ending the Great DEPRESSION World War II World War II broke out in Europe in the late 1930s. The United States begins selling weapons to the Allies. After the Bombing of Pearl Harbor the United States mobilizes once again for total war.

Ending the Great Depression This boom in the production of war goods provides just the spark necessary to jump start the American economy and ultimately bring the Great Depression to an end.