1. Warm-up – Finish analyzing (HAPPy) Coughlin and Flynn Critiques of New Deal Agenda 1.Discuss with partner the justifications of the variety of criticisms of the New Deal. Do you agree and what evidence supports the critiques? 2.Some notes on the so-called 2 nd New Deal New Deal Legacy Readings New Deal Legacy Reading Questions 3.And read New Deal Legacy Readings and answer the New Deal Legacy Reading Questions 4.Answer RS 14-23 5.Organize New Deal on timeline 1.Identify causation 2.Describe comparison (contrasts) to earlier eras 3.Describe changes in politics and power An increasingly pluralistic United States faced profound domestic and global challenges, debated the proper degree of government activism, and sought to define its international role. Key Concept - An increasingly pluralistic United States faced profound domestic and global challenges, debated the proper degree of government activism, and sought to define its international role. I.National, state, and local reformers responded to economic upheavals, laissez-faire capitalism, and the Great Depression by transforming the U.S. into a limited welfare state. II.New technologies led to social transformations that improved the standard of living for many, while contributing to increased political and cultural conflicts.

5. A Conservative Supreme Court had struck parts of NIRA, AAA and parts of 6 other acts After the ‘36 landslide election, FDR proposed adding 6 more justices When Owen Roberts switched sides upholding NLRA and SSA, the scheme was allowed to be voted down in the Senate

6. Critics of the New Deal on the right and the left. Read Father Coughlin and John T Flynn criticisms of the New Deal 1937-38 Roosevelt Recession

9. 1.Emergency Banking Relief Act of March 1933 – special session of Congress 2.“Fireside Chats” – thirty all together (listen http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=14540# http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=14540# 3.Reforestation Act - Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), March 1933 which provided employment in fresh-air government camps for about 3 million uniformed young men- reforested areas, fire fighters, drained swamps, flood control 4.Federal Emergency Relief Act May 1933 5.Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) May 1933 made available many millions of dollars to help farmers meet their mortgages and Tennessee Valley Authority 6.Federal Securities Act – May 1933(“Truth in Securities Act”) required promoters to transmit to the investor sworn information regarding the soundness of their stocks and bonds. 7.Home Owners’ Refinancing Act and Loan Corporation (HOLC) June 1933 refinanced mortgages on non-farm homes and bolted down the loyalties of middle class, Democratic homeowners. 8.Civil Works Administration (CWA) was established late in 1933, and it was designed to provide purely temporary jobs during the winter emergency. 9.National Industrial Recovery Act: NRA and Public Works Administration (PWA) in June 1933, which put $11 million on thousands of public buildings, bridges, and hard-surfaced roads and gave 9 million people jobs in its eight year existence. 1.part time work for high school and college students and for actors, musicians, and writers 2.John Steinbeck counted dogs in his California county. 10.Glass-Steagall Banking Act and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation – June 1933 which insured individual deposits up to $5000, thereby eliminating the epidemic of bank failure and restoring faith to banks.

10. Unit 7 pt 2 page read: 1.FDR First Inaugural Address a.How is this speech a departure from the Hoover Administration in both tone and policy prescription? 2.FDR Banking Address while you listen to the speechthe speech a.Identify the speaker, his audience and his purpose b.Does this “Fireside Chat” achieve its purpose? c.What does this “Chat” tell you about FDR’s view of the role of government in the economy? d.How does this speech illustrate leadership?

11. NRA – followed a bit on Hoover’s voluntary program – the NRA linked Capital, labor and consumers: but it was dominated by big business who made NRA rules that benefitted them WPA – jobs building, researching, recording, beautifying PWA – more jobs building

12. Farm Relief 1. Agricultural Adjustment Administration, which paid farmers to reduce their crop acreage and would eliminate price-depressing surpluses. a. got off to a rocky start when it killed lots of pigs for no good reason, and paying farmers not to farm actually increased unemployment. b. killed by the Supreme Court in 1936. 2. Second Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 was a more comprehensive substitute that continued conservation payments but was accepted by the Supreme Court. 3. Dust Bowls and Black Blizzards a. serious droughts in 1933, furious winds whipped up dust into the air, turning parts of Missouri, Texas, Kansas, Arkansas, and Oklahoma into the Dust Bowl and forcing many farmers to migrate west to California (ala The Grapes of Wrath). 4. 1935, FDR set up the Resettlement Administration, charged with the task of removing near-farmless farmers to better land. 5. Commissioner of Indian Affairs John Collier sought to reverse the forced- assimilation policies in place since the Dawes Act of 1887. a. Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 (the Indian “New Deal”), which encouraged tribes to preserve their culture and traditions. b. Not all Indians liked it; 77 tribes refused to organize under its provisions (200 did).

14. 1.Federal Securities Act - (“Truth in Securities Act”) required promoters to transmit to the investor sworn information regarding the soundness of their stocks and bonds. 2.Securities and Exchange Commission was designed as a watchdog administrative agency, and stock markets henceforth were to operate more as trading marts than as casinos. 3.Glass-Steagall Banking Act and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation – which insured individual deposits up to $5000, thereby eliminating the epidemic of bank failure and restoring faith to banks. 4.FDR then took the nation off of the gold standard and achieved controlled inflation by ordering Congress to buy gold at increasingly higher prices

15. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Series of dams on the Tennessee River to provide rural electrification at reasonable rates Also to manage natural resources 2.5 Million residents got power Mostly hydroelectric, now many sources Federal government-owned corporation that ran as a private corporation (now trades on the NYSE) Reforestation Flood control Malaria prevention

16. 1. Federal Housing Administration (FHA) in 1934 to stimulate the building industry through small loans to homeowners. 2. Social Security Act of 1935 was the greatest victory for New Dealers a. created pension and insurance for the old- aged, the blind, the physically handicapped, delinquent children, and other dependents by taxing employees and employers.

17. Wagner Act (1935) – NLRA leads to NLRB CIO as part of AFL, then left More strikes like the Flint sitdown and Memorial Day Massacre (1937) FLSA – 1938 – minimum wage and other worker rules