Grab usual supplies… Start warm up on New Deal agencies…I need help with page #s!! G9 test tomorrow…. Tuesday is a good day!

9.05: Responses to FDR & the New Deal

Supporters of the New Deal  Francis Perkins:  Sec. of Labor  1 st female cabinet member  Progress for women in the Fed. Gov’t.  Eleanor Roosevelt  Pushed FDR to hire more women in the Fed. Gov’t.  Pushed to get more help for African Americans  Mary McLeod Bethune  Organized the “Black Cabinet”  African American group that advised FDR on issues facing the black community  Ensured New Deal programs were hiring African Americans

Critics of the New Deal  Father Charles Coughlin  Wanted a guaranteed income & nationalization of the banks  Dr. Francis Townsend  Felt the New Deal did not do enough to help the poor & elderly

Critics (Cont’d)  Huey Long “Kingfish”  Radical opponent of FDR  Wanted to “Share the Wealth”  Equally distribute nations’ wealth  FDR called him the “most dangerous man in America”

Critics (Cont’d)  The US Supreme Court  Questioned the constitutionality of the New Deal  1937: Court Packing Deal  FDR attempted to pack the Supreme Court with supporters to get his New Deal legislation passed  FDR seen as a dictator

9.05 The New Deal & Labor Unions

The New Deal Supports Labor & Unions!! Fair Labor Standards Act (1938)The Wagner Act (1935)  Listed unfair labor & business practices  Supported right of workers’ to organize & use collective bargaining  National Labor Relations Board: Heard grievances of workers National minimum wage & work week 40 hour work week, down from 44 hrs $.25 to $.40 per hr. (1 st time) No one younger than 16 in factories No reforms in health insurance

1932 Election Easily defeated Hoover b/c of Great Depression 9.05: The 4 Elections of FDR 1936 Election 1 st time African Americans vote Democrat 1940 Election Won b/c he said he would keep the US out of war & most people were comfortable with him 1944 Election USA involved in WWII & doesn’t want to change Pres. during wartime

 By 1939 New Deal over & FDR faced with European problems  New Deal did not end depression, but helped by creating jobs  WWII causes end of depression  New Deal compared to socialism  Why?  Created $40 bil. deficit  1 st time Fed. Gov’t. took responsibility for economic wellbeing of citizens  Expanded power & debt of Fed. Gov’t. Impacts of the New Deal