1. Standards and Objectives
SSHS-S1C8-01-d
Strand 1: American History
Concept 8: Great Depression and World War I
P.O. 1: Describe causes and consequences of the Great Depression
d. changes in expectations of government
Students will comprehend the effects the New Deal had on social perceptions and the economy by identify the major acts created during Franklin D. Roosevelt’s presidency.

2. The New Deal
Franklin D. Roosevelt

3. Franklin D. Roosevelt Distant cousin of Teddy Roosevelt
Loved the outdoors
Married Teddy Roosevelt’s niece, Eleanor
Had a good political career
Got polio but worked hard to overcome its effects
Eleanor transformed the role of First Lady

4. Franklin D Roosevelt becomes president
Won the presidency in 1932
“First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself… This nation asks for action, and action is now!” -First inaugural address
Begins the New Deal

5. The New Deal
Based on the ideology, “The country needs bold, persistent experimentation… Above all, try something.”
The Hundred Days: from March to June congress passed 15 major acts
Gold Standard
“Fireside Chats”

6. Alphabet Soup Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation -FDIC
Securities and Exchange Commision -SEC
Agricultural Adjustment Administration -AAA
Farm Credit Administration -FCA
Civilian Conservation Corps -CCC
Federal Relief Administration -FERA
Public Works Administration -PWA
Civil Works Administration -CWA
National Industrial Recovery Act -NIRA

7. The CCC Young men 18-25 Work for the forestry service
Planted nearly 3 billion trees,
Built over 800 parks
Dug canals and ditches
Put 3 million young men to work including 80,000 Native Americans and 200,000 African Americans

9. FDR’s three Rs
Relief -action taken by the government to help the economic crisis
Recovery -restarting the economy often by pumping money into it
Reform -permanent changes made to prevent future Depressions

10. The Second New Deal and opposition
Works Progress Administration -WPA
Largest public works program
Between employed 8.5 Mil.
Federal Number one -financed the arts
Social Security
The right wing thought the New Deals gave the federal government too much power
The left wing thought the New Deals didn’t do enough

11. Court Packing
The Courts were ruling many of FDR’s acts unconstitutional
After his landslide re-election in 1936, the president proposed a controversial "court-packing scheme." The plan proposed to reorganize the Supreme Court. Roosevelt sought to make his opponents on the Supreme Court resign so that he could replace them with justices more sympathetic to his policies. To accomplish this, he announced a plan to add one new member to the Supreme Court for every judge who had reached the age of 70 without retiring (six justices were over 70). To offer a carrot with the stick, Roosevelt also outlined a generous new pension program for retiring federal judges.

12. Long term effects
Why is it hard to gauge how much the New Deals helped the economy?
Changes in American perception of the Federal Government
To Be Continued…