Alan Brinkley, American History 14/e Chapter 24: The New Deal

Highlights Launching the New Deal The New Deal in Transition The New Deal in Disarray Limits and Legacies of the New Deal © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Launching the New Deal Restoring Confidence Roosevelt’s Personality “Bank Holiday” Prohibition Repealed The radio president (FDR Library) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Launching the New Deal Agricultural Adjustment Industrial Recovery Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) “Rural Electrification” Industrial Recovery National Recovery Act (NRA) Section 7(a) Farmer with his allotment of cotton seed which he has just bought cooperatively at Roanoke Farms, NC (Library of Congress) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Tennessee Valley Authority Launching the New Deal The Tennessee Valley Authority © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Launching the New Deal Regional Planning Tennessee Valley Authority Currency, Banks, and the Stock Market Glass-Steagall Act Security and Exchange Commission © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Launching the New Deal The Growth of Federal Relief Civil Works Administration (CVA) Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) CCC workers, Prince Georges County, MD (Library of Congress) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The New Deal in Transition Critics of the New Deal American Liberty League Townsend Plan Huey Long Share-Our-Wealth Society Townsend Plan supporter, Columbus, Kansas (Library of Congress) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The New Deal in Transition The “Second New Deal” National Labor Relations Board Labor Militancy Industrial Unionism Committee on Industrial Organization (CIO) Striking zinc miner, Columbus, Kansas (Library of Congress) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The New Deal in Transition Organizing Battles Sit-Down Strike Organized Labor’s Rapid Growth Coca-Cola strike, Sikeston, Missouri (Library of Congress) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The New Deal in Transition Social Security Unemployment Insurance Social Security poster, 1935 (Library of Congress) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The New Deal in Transition New Directions in Relief Works Progress Administration (WPA) Visions of the WPA (Library of Congress) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The New Deal in Transition Unemployment, 1920-1945 © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The New Deal in Transition The 1936 “Referendum” Alf Landon Electoral Realignment © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The New Deal in Transition Federal Budget Surplus/Deficit and GNP, 1920-1940 © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The New Deal in Disarray The Court Fight Court Packing Retrenchment and Recession Roosevelt Recession End of the New Deal © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Limits and Legacies of the New Deal The Idea of the “Broker State” Establishment of the “Broker State” African Americans and the New Deal “Black Cabinet” Existing Discrimination Reinforced Harlem grocery store, 1940 (Library of Congress) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Limits and Legacies of the New Deal The New Deal and the “Indian Problem” John Collier Indian Reorganization Act Indian house, Mescalero Indian Reservation, New Mexico (Library of Congress) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Limits and Legacies of the New Deal Women and the New Deal Symbolic Gains for Women Prevailing Gender Norms Buttressed © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Limits and Legacies of the New Deal The New Deal in the West and the South Failure to Challenge Jim Crow New Deal’s Legacy in the West President Roosevelt speaking at Bismarck, North Dakota (Library of Congress) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Limits and Legacies of the New Deal The New Deal and the National Economy Failure to Achieve Recovery Federal Welfare State Established The New Deal and American Politics New Expectations of Government © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.