How Does the New Deal Change the Social, Political, and Economic Landscape of the US?
Who’s Affected? Unions Women African Americans Native Americans Mexican-American City/Urban Voters Shifting Politics . . . African Americans become big supporters of FDR and the Democratic Party. Why is this historically ironic?
Election of 1900
Election of 1956
22nd Amendment “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once.” -- Passed Congress in 1947 Ratified in 1951
Culture
New Deal Reforms . . . Today
Agriculture Subsidies Minimum Wage Social Security FDIC SEC TVA NLRB Agriculture Subsidies