Focus Question: What was FDR’s “New Deal” and how did it seek to end the Great Depression? Franklin Delano Roosevelt Do Now: Read and annotate “The Bonus Army” and answer the question (handout).

Hoover and the Depression When the Depression started in 1929, Herbert Hoover was President. Hoover believed in a policy of laissez-faire (“let it be”). Many Americans felt that Hoover was not doing enough to help them. President Hoover “Hooverville” in Central Park, NYC

FDR & the New Deal FDR ran for President in 1932 against Hoover. FDR promised Americans a “New Deal”  more gov’t help. In 1932, FDR won a huge election victory over Hoover. FDR Campaign pin, 1932

The Election of 1932

unemployment hunger homelessness banks failed drought The New Deal: A series of government programs aimed at helping people survive the Depression. Social Problem New Deal Solution unemployment hunger homelessness banks failed drought

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Image 1 President Franklin D. Roosevelt Broadcasting his First Fireside Chat Regarding the Banking Crisis, from the White House, Washington, D.C. Source: National Archives and Records Administration

Image 2 Men in the Civilian Conservation Corps work in the Saint Joe National Forest in Idaho. (Source: https://kids.britannica.com/kids/assembly/view/88080)

Image 3 Agricultural Adjustment Administration poster Source: excerpted from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agricultural_Adjustment_Act#/media/File:Taos_County,_New_Mexico._Mr._Tenoriom,_AAA_representative_in_office._-_NARA_-_521975.jpg

Image 4 1933 Drawing by Clifford Berryman: "The Spirit of the New Deal."

Image 5 Public Works Administration construction of Lock and Dam on the Upper Mississippi River in Missouri, 1934. Source: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration

Image 6 Seal of the Securities and Exchange Commission

Image 7 Works Progress Administration Composers' Forum-Laboratory, Poster announcing concert series at the WPA Federal Music Theatre Source: Work Projects Administration Poster Collection - Library of Congress Catalog: http://lccn.loc.gov/98513497

Image 8 Map of Tennessee Valley Authority dams and electrification Source: Foner, Give me Liberty! (5th Edition, volume 2, p. 827)

Image 9 CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations) Picketers Jeering at Workers Entering a Mill Source: Foner, Give Me Liberty! (online resources) Date and location information missing.

Image 10 A 1935 poster promoting the new Social Security system. Source: Library of Congress

Image 11 A worker fights for the 40-hour workweek circa 1938. (Image courtesy of AFSCME)

Work relief (create jobs) The New Deal: A series of government programs aimed at helping people survive the Depression. Social Problem New Deal Solution unemployment Work relief (create jobs) hunger Direct relief (provide food and money) homelessness Build housing, provide loans/mortgages banks failed Protections for banking; bank regulation drought Irrigation projects

New Deal programs that still exist Social Security (retirement, disability) FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation: bank account protection) SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission – regulates stock market) Fair Labor Standards Act Federal Housing Administration (home loans) Federal Communications Commission (media) Farm Credit Association Tennessee Valley Authority

HOMEWORK Write two paragraphs that answer this question: What was FDR’s New Deal and how did it seek to end the Great Depression? Paragraph 1: Using your class notes and completed work, describe the problems that people experienced during the Great Depression. Paragraph 2: Using your New Deal Programs Graphic Organizer, describe the ways that the New Deal tried to help people. Refer to at least THREE programs in your response.