1. Life in the New Deal Era
Chapter 22

2. FDR Democrat – Gov of NY Polio Brain Trust 1st Inaugural address
Frances Perkins – Labor
Harry Hopkins – FERA, CWA
1st Inaugural address
Fireside Chats – radio
Eleanor – AA, promotor
Keynesian Economics – Deficit Spending
- spend $ even if it creates debt

7.
1st inaugural
Fire side chats

10. 1st 100 days 1st New Deal – 15 programs Democratic Congress 3 R’s:
Relief – for immediate hardships (jobs)
Recovery – long-time economic progress
Reform – fix problems that caused depression

11. Banks Bank Holiday – closed banks for 4 days
Emergency Banking Relief Act
FDIC
Switched to Gold and Silver Currency - Inflation

12. Ordinary People - Relief
FERA - $ to states and cities
CWA – work projects
PWA – private firms / large projects
Pump priming
WPA – fed work projects
National Housing Act (FHA) – low rent public housing
HOLC – saved home from foreclosures

13.
Trailer for Cinderella Man

20. Farmers AAA – curb overproduction TVA – helped 7 state area in south
REA – bring electricity to south

24. Dust Bowl Mid 1930s in Great Plains severe drought
Decades of overusing the land
Clouds of dust
CCC- 217 mill trees to create a windbreak
Many headed to Cali- Route 66 - OKIES

28. Young People CCC – 18-25 men employed
NYA – – to help stay in school

31. Labor Wagner Act (National Labor Relations ) Fair Labor Standards Act
Collective bargaining
Fair Labor Standards Act
Minimum wage
40 hour work week

34. Industry Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Regulated the stock market

36. Social Security Old age pensions Disability Insurance
Dr. Francis Townsend
Disability Insurance
Unemployment Insurance

38. http://www. khanacademy. org/video/social-security-intro
How social security works

39. Amendments 20th – Lame Duck President – March to Jan
21st – repealed 18th – tax alcohol

40. Critics Father Coughlin – Radio Republicans/ Al Smith - conservative
Huey Long’s “Share our Wealth”
Taxing the wealthy
Minimum income; house
Father Coughlin – Radio
FDR not doing enough
Republicans/ Al Smith - conservative
Too much fed. power

42. Roosevelt Recession of ‘37

44. AA FDR weak on Civil Rights More AA put in gov’t – Black Cabinet
Southern Democrats
More AA put in gov’t – Black Cabinet
Mary McLeod Bethuane (NYA)
DAR and Marian Anderson
Eleanor – Lincoln Memorial

45.
Marian Anderson

46. US Supreme Court Ruled New Deal Programs unconstitutional
AAA
NIRA (NRA)
FDR – add a justice for any present judge over age of 70
Add 6 new judges
Packing the court

49. Federal Project Number One
WPA set $300 million aside
aided:
writers
musicians
Actors
artists
Slave narratives

50. Photographers captured life in the Great Depression Dorothea Lange
Migrant Mother

54. Gone With the Wind http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2RxWs60dRM

55. Films

56. Walt Disney
Mickey Mouse
Big Bad Wolf

57. Radio
Lone Ranger
Orson Welles – War of the Worlds

58.
War of the Worlds

59. Major Literature John Steinbeck – Grapes of Wrath
William Faulkner – Sound and Fury
Margaret Mitchell – Gone with the Wind

60. Folk Music Woody Guthrie This Land is Your Land

61. Art- Georgia O’Keefe – Cow Skull

62. American Gothic – Grant Wood