1. Question: How did people address the problems of the Great Depression?

2. Hoover and Congress Hoover: Congress: Gilded Age/ inactive president
Voluntary Aid/ Americans Helping Americans
Congress:
9 bills to stimulate the economy/ help business
NOT laissez-faire, more than any president yet
Hawley-Smoot Tariff-
RFC-
21st Amendment-
Young Plan

3. Were Hoover’s inaction a mistake?
Were Hoover’s actions more mistakes?

4. Hoover and Veterans 1932: Bonus Army
17,000 vets march on DC to lobby for early pensions
Chased out of DC
BIG public relations mistake!

5. Election of 1932 Focus: role of government
How help and still have a balanced budget?
Where should the money go to help most?
FDR’s ideas– try SOMETHING
Campaign- spread work relief programs begun in NY
The federal gov’t should spend money to help
Preserve and reform the system
Outcome: since little action by Hoover WASN’T helping, FDR won by a landslide

6. FDR and Congress First New Deal: 1933- 1935
The Hundred Days and Alphabet Soup
Purpose: to help business and industry, conservative!
First Step:
Progressive!
NOT laissez-faire
Expanded federal power
Three R’s:

7. Was the Bank Holiday a mistake?
Is expanding federal power a mistake?
Were fireside chats a mistake?

8. FDR and Congress Fireside chats: 27 radio broadcasts
Purpose:
Critics: attacked by conservatives and liberals
Help? Unemployment-
1934 midterms-
Radical Reform-

9. FDR and Congress Second New Deal: 1936- 1939 Election of 1936-
Progressive Programs expanded relief aid to farmers and workers- to help regular people
Recession of 1937: unemployment down to 14%, then up to 19%
Result- Congress cut back on new programs

10. Was the New Deal a mistake?
Was the New Deal successful?
Was FDR’s court packing plan a mistake?