1. James L. Roark Michael P. Johnson Patricia Cline Cohen Sarah Stage Susan M. Hartmann CHAPTER 24 The New Deal Experiment, 1932-1939 The American Promise A History of the United States Fifth Edition Copyright © 2012 by Bedford/St. Martin's

2. I. Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Patrician in Government A. The Making of a Politician 1. Background in politics 2. Polio 3. Governor of New York 4. Roosevelt’s appeal B. The Election of 1932 1. Democratic Party divisions 2. A New Deal for the American people 3. The New Deal Coalition

7. II. Launching the New Deal A. The New Dealers 1. The Brains Trust 2. The First Lady 3. Meeting the emergency: four guiding ideas B. Banking and Finance Reform 1. The banking crisis 2. Fireside Chats 3. Reforming Wall Street

9. II. Launching the New Deal C. Relief and Conservation Programs 1. Unprecedented government intervention 2. The Civilian Conservation Corps 3. Providing electricity to rural America D. Agricultural Initiatives 1. Cutting production 2. Credit for farmers 3. Problems in the South

11. II. Launching the New Deal E. Industrial Recovery 1. Production and unemployment 2. The National Recovery Administration 3. Collective bargaining 4. Failure of the codes

12. III. Challenges to the New Deal A. Resistance to Business Reform 1. Business leaders 2. Criticisms from the Left 3. NRA loses ground B. Casualties in the Countryside 1. Resentment of processors and distributors 2. Protests from farmers 3. Migrant workers

15. III. Challenges to the New Deal C. Politics on the Fringes 1. The Republican Party 2. Socialists and Communists 3. Charles Coughlin 4. Dr. Francis Townsend’s Old Age Revolving Pension 5. Huey Long, “the Kingfish” 6. Solidifying the Coalition

16. IV. Toward a Welfare State A. Relief for the Unemployed 1. Works Progress Administration 2. The WPA and the public welfare B. Empowering Labor 1. The Wagner Act 2. Growing union membership 3. Organizing unskilled workers 4. The sit-down strike 5. Opposition from the steel mills

18. IV. Toward a Welfare State C. Social Security and Tax Reform 1. The politics of Social Security 2. Eligibility for Social Security benefits 3. A graduated tax

20. IV. Toward a Welfare State D. Neglected Americans and the New Deal 1. Excluded workers 2. African Americans’ status 3. Formation of the “Black Cabinet” 4. Hispanic Americans face discrimination 5. Exclusion of Asian Americans 6. Indian Reorganization Act

21. V. The New Deal from Victory to Deadlock A. The Election of 1936 1. New Deal critics look for change 2. Roosevelt’s strategy 3. Democratic triumph B. Court Packing 1. Eliminating obstacles to reform 2. The court-packing plan 3. Backlash 4. Ultimate triumph

22. V. The New Deal from Victory to Deadlock C. Reaction and Recession 1. Slowing the pace of New Deal reforms 2. Economic reversal 3. Political damage 4. Keynesian economics

24. V. The New Deal from Victory to Deadlock D. The Last of the New Deal Reforms 1. Administrative Reorganization Act 2. Resistance on the rise 3. Farm reform 4. Helping the urban poor 5. Setting fair labor standards 6. Resistance to confronting racial injustice 7. The end of the New Deal