1. FDR’s New Deal Relief, Recovery, and Resistance

2. Election of 1932  “The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and to try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.” – Franklin Delano Roosevelt  “This campaign is more than a contest between two men... It is a contest between two philosophies of government.” – Herbert Hoover

3. A Diverse Team  Republicans: Henry Wallace as Secretary of Agriculture, Harold Ickes as Secretary of the Interior  A Woman: social worker Frances Perkins as secretary of Labor  A Wife: Eleanor Roosevelt as a sympathetic public face for the administration  “Black Cabinet”  Informal circle of advisors  Mary McCleod Bethune  FDR reluctant to support measures aimed directly at assisting black Americans  NAACP & the push for an anti-lynching law  “” -

4. The First Hundred Days  15 bills in the first Hundred Days  Rebuilding confidence  Fireside chats  Financial Reform  FDIC  Helping Farmers  AAA  Helping Rural Southerners  TVA  Industrial Relief and Recovery  CCC  NRA  PWA

5. Second New Deal  Works Progress Administration  Social Security Act  Pension System for Retirees  Unemployment Insurance  Disability Insurance  Flaws  Widows vs. Widowers, “Holes just large enough for  Rural Electrification Administration  In 1935

6. Legacy of FDR and the New Deal  Programs such as Social Security, the FDIC, and the SEC still exist to this day  Creation of US welfare State  Expanded role of Federal Government in economic matters  “Promote the general welfare”  Evolving role of the president  Expanded size of executive branch  Closer relationship between president and citizens through mass media  Increased role in social and economic policy  22 nd amendment (2-term limit)

7. Opposition to the New Deal From the Right, from the Left, and from Below

8. Opposition from the Right  Hoover and other Conservatives claimed that the New Deal destroyed free enterprise and brought the country closer to fascism  “the most stupendous invasion of the whole spirit of liberty.”  Leading politicians and captains of industry formed the American Liberty League in 1934 to oppose FDR

9. Opposition from the Left  Socialists claimed that the administration was too concern with saving the banking system  American Communist Party: New Deal is a “capitalist ruse.”

10. Oppositions from Populists  Public figures with Populist roots clamored for more aggresive help for the poor  Francis Townsend  Government wealth redistribution  Father Charles Coughlin  Wealth redistribution plus anti-Communism and anti-Semitism  Huey Long  “Share Our Wealth” program  Assassinated in 1935