 Respond on the slip of paper at your seat:  3 things you KNOW about the Great Depression Era (GDE)  2 connections you have to the GDE  1 lingering questions you have about the GDE.  BRING YOUR TEXTBOOKS TOMORROW (April 13)

Chapter 34 “The Great Depression and New Deal”

 Bonus Army  WWI Vets marched on DC in 1932 to lobby Congress for payment of bonus  Hoover called in Army to remove B.A.  Significance: Hoover appeared heartless to already angry Americans

 FDR won with “I pledge you, I pledge myself to a new deal for the American people.”  Vague but promised to balance the budget and gov aid to those affected by the Great Depression  FDR won by a landslide; African- Americans began to shift from Rep. to Democrat

 5 months Americans had to wait for the transition from Hoover to FDR  Hoover tried to bind FDR’s plans  American economy came to a virtual halt  21 st Amendment repealed prohibition  20 th Amendment president’s new term moved from March to January

 FDR “winged” it as he took office  Fireside chats to communicate with American people (future POTUS will make weekly addresses with American people)  3 R’s: Relief, Recovery, & Reform  Unprecedented passage of legislation  “alphabet soup”  =First New Deal

 Which New Deal Program did you like the most from yesterday’s chart and why?  HW: Chapter 35 multiple choice  Great Depression & WWII Test=April 20

 FDR selected experts for his “inner circle” versus typical politicians or businessmen  Frances Perkins: 1 st woman cabinet member as Sec. of Labor  First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt became more “active” and set the example for future First Ladies  Child labor, women’s rights, etc.

 FDR declared a national “banking holiday” b/t March 6-10, 1933 to allow for banks to tend to the crisis  Took nation off the gold standard  Examples of New Deal Legislation:  FDIC—protect ind. deposits up to $5K  SEC—regulate the stock market

 Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)—most popular N.D. program; employed almost 3 million young men in outdoor gov camps  Works Progress Administration (WPA): employed almost 9 million people on public projects; Federal Arts Project  Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother  Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA): gov paid farmers not to plant crops, subsidies

 Great Plains region  Created by overplowing of land  Drought and high winds in the region  Families began to move and lost farms

 First New Deal Legislation was struck down in the courts  FDR will try to pack the courts:  Retirement age to SC justices  Increase # from 9 to 15  Second New Deal: focused on more reform; legislation better written

 Father Charles Coughlin: believed New Deal favored industry and wealthy farmers  Sen. Huey P. “Kingfish” Long  “Share Our Wealth”  Popular Governor in LA; later assassinated  Dr. Francis Townshend: looked out for the elderly and felt the New Deal forgot them

 Though FDR faced some opposition in the 1936 Election, he won by a HUGE landslide (523 to 2)

 Failed to cure the Great Depression (WWII)  Bureaucracy mushroomed  States lost power  National debt grew  US became a “handout” state  New Deal was too socialistic  FDR’s leadership restored US’s pride

 Analyze the ways in which the Great Depression altered the American social fabric in the 1930s.  How has the Great Depression CHANGED the United States? (ESP)  To what extent was the New Deal successful in achieving relief, recovery and reform?  To what extent was Franklin Roosevelt conservative? To what extent was he liberal?  Compare and contrast the New Deal’s goals and actions with those of the Progressive Era.