3. The New Deal
How did the federal government’s role in the life of average Americans radically change under Roosevelt’s New Deal?

4. 100 days- 1st 100 days of FDR’s term Fireside chat- Pump- priming
TONS!!!! Of laws passed
Fireside chat-
FDR radio talks with American people
Pump- priming
Gov’t needs to spend to get economic “engine” going
Deficit spending
Gov’t borrows $$$$- dealing with crisis is more important than….. DEBT

5. BROAD GOALS OF THE NEW DEAL:
RELIEF
“band aids” to stop the bleeding
Food, clothing, shelter, unemployment
RECOVERY
Antidote/ medicine to treat immediate “disease”
Short term laws passed
REFORM
“immunizations” to prevent disease from returning
Permanent changes to the role of the government

6. FERA (Federal Emergency Relief Association) line in New Orleans 1935

7. FERA (Federal Emergency Relief Association)
Problem it addresses/ who does it help?
Goal/ Purpose
Impact/ Effectiveness
½- direct aid to needy
½- to states for work programs
Direct relief to needy
Fund jobs for unemployed
$500,000,000 in direct relief

8. CCC: Civilian Conservation Corps

9. CCC: Civilian Conservation Corps
Problem it addresses/ Who does it help?
Goal/ Purpose
Impact/ Effectiveness
Unemployed young men
Work building roads, parks, trees, soil erosion projects
3,000,000 young men get jobs
Families sent money
Trees Prevent another Dust Bowl

10. PWA (Public Works Administration)

11. PWA (Public Works Administration)
Problem it addresses/ Who does it help?
Goal/ Purpose
Impact/ Effectiveness
Help states
Unemployed
Get men jobs building schools, other public buildings
Some jobs created

12. (WPA) Works Progress Administration

13. (WPA) Works Progress Administration

14. FHA- Federal Housing Administration

15. FHA (Federal Housing Administration)

16. AAA- Agricultural Adjustment Act

17. AAA- Agricultural Adjustment Act
farmers
Raise crop prices by lowering production
Pays farmers to NOT grow crops
Destroy lots of food
Helps farmers

18. National Recovery Administration (NRA)

19. National Recovery Administration (NRA)
Stop cycle of wage cuts, prices falling
Get businesses to voluntarily join
Gov’t sets prices, production numbers
Not very successful
Very controversial- against capitalism

20. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

21. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Poor region in south
Unemployment
Dam Tennessee River
Flood control- electricity for Southeast
1000s of jobs
Helps poor area of country

22. Glass-Steagal Act: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

23. Glass-Steagal Act: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Bank failures and bank runs
Protect peoples money in banks
Still around today- savings are insured by the Federal Gov’t to $100,000

24. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

25. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Corruption in the stock market
Eliminate dishonest practices in Stock Market (insider trading)
SEC still regulates Stock Market today

26. Social Security Act (SSA)

27. Social Security Act (SSA)
Assisting elderly, those unable to work
Retirees get a pension fund
People with disabilities get $$
Unemployment compensation
65+ eligible for SS today
Biggest part of federal budget

28. Wagner Act: NLRB

29. Wagner Act: National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
Protect unions right to collective bargaining
Defines unfair business practices
NLRB set up to be sure Wagner Act is enforced and settle disputes
***First time federal Government supports unions

30. Please take out your graphic organizers on “CAUSES OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION”
USING YOUR CHART, TRY TO FIND (AT LEAST) ONE NEW DEAL PROGRAM THAT ADDRESSES EACH PROBLEM…

34. New Deal Posters Your poster should: Be prepared to briefly explain:
Identify the New Deal Program
Its purpose/ goal should be apparent
This is propaganda- it should persuade people to support the New Deal Program
Be prepared to briefly explain:
The purpose of the program
The problem it addresses
Whom it helps
Is it designed for Relief, Recovery, and/or reform

35. Review: How did the New Deal programs attempt to address the causes and hardships of the Great Depression? Come up with programs or actions FDR took for the following….
N E W D A L
High unemployment
Home foreclosures
Corruption in the Stock Market
Bank failures
Overproduction of industry
Overproduction of crops

36. Why might the New Deal be controversial
Why might the New Deal be controversial? What do you think critics would complain about?

37. Bad or Good Increased power of gov’t EXPENSIVE!! Taxes!
Threatens liberty and private property (TVA)
Deficit spending- gov’t spends $ does not have- big national debt
Did not end the Great Depression
Got us through Grt Dp
Bank crisis
Farmers protected
Work for millions
Gov’t responsible for citizens’ welfare
Social Security
Democracy survived!
Other nations turned to dictators

38. Analyze your cartoon Labels/ Symbols- why that symbol?
Exaggeration- why?
Analogy- is a complicated issue being compared to a more familiar one?
How are they similar?
Irony
Are things not as they should be?
What do you think the cartoonist was trying to say?

39. Labels/ Symbols- why that symbol?
Exaggeration- why?
Analogy- is a complicated issue being compared to a more familiar one? How are they similar?
Irony- Are things not as they should be?
What is the cartoonist’s point?

40. Labels/ Symbols- why that symbol?
Exaggeration- why?
Analogy- is a complicated issue being compared to a more familiar one? How are they similar?
Irony- Are things not as they should be?
What is the cartoonist’s point?
According to this cartoon, what is the New Deal leading to?
Why do you think the cartoonist feels this way?
How does the Constitution protect citizens from “tyranny”?

41. Labels/ Symbols- why that symbol?
Exaggeration- why?
Analogy- is a complicated issue being compared to a more familiar one? How are they similar?
Irony- Are things not as they should be?
What is the cartoonist’s point?

42. What branch is not
cooperating?
What power is the
Supreme Court using?

43. How would FDR’s “Court Packing Plan”
Labels/ Symbols- why that symbol?
Exaggeration- why?
Analogy- is a complicated issue being compared to a more familiar one? How are they similar?
Irony- Are things not as they should be?
What is the cartoonist’s point?
How would FDR’s “Court Packing Plan”
Change the balance of power in the government?
REORGANIZATION PROGRAM
THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH OF THE
GOVERNMENT

44. Labels/ Symbols- why that symbol?
Exaggeration- why?
Analogy- is a complicated issue being compared to a more familiar one? How are they similar?
Irony- Are things not as they should be?
What is the cartoonist’s point?

45. FDR’s Court Packing plan?
Labels/ Symbols- why that symbol?
Exaggeration- why?
Analogy- is a complicated issue being compared to a more familiar one? How are they similar?
Irony- Are things not as they should be?
What is the cartoonist’s point?
Why do you think
Congress did not pass
FDR’s Court Packing plan?

46. Checks and Balances in action
Power used by Supreme Court to “check” FDR:
Power FDR tried to use to “check” Supreme Court?
Power(s) Congress used to “check” FDR’s power grab?

47. Why is Obama compared to FDR so much?
What is potentially standing in the way of Obama’s health care plan that was put into law?

48. Regents questions:
Key result of ND: The federal government has responsibility for well being of Americans
Hoover v. Roosevelt- ideas on role of government in the economy
Wagner Act/ NLRB- power to labor unions to form/ collective bargaining
Sup Ct. vs. Roosevelt: increased power of pres/ programs unconstitutional/ “court packing plan”

49. Essay question: Describe how New Deal programs addressed each of the 3 goals of the New Deal
different program/ law for each goal
paragraph each
Describe the problem and solution in detail for full credit
Relief- immediate help for those struggling
Recovery- changing the economic system to fix the problems and have long term recovery
Reform- permanent changes in the involvement of the government in the economy and lives of Americans