1. #55 Ch 15 S 2 Details: Read & Notes Ch 15 S 2 ________________
Analyze the effects of and the controversies arising from New Deal economic policies and the expanded role of the federal government in society and the economy since the 1930s

2. Chapter 15: The New Deal Section 2: The Second New Deal Takes Hold

3. Standards
11.6.4
Analyze the effects of and the controversies arising from New Deal economic policies and the expanded role of the federal government in society and the economy since the 1930s
Works Progress Administration
Social Security
National Labor Relations Board
farm programs
regional development policies
energy development projects such as the Tennessee Valley Authority, California Central Valley Project

4. Objectives:
Following lecture and reading of this section, students will be able to:
Describe the purposes of the Second New Deal
Summarize the New Deal programs for farmers
Describe Second New Deal programs that helped youths and professionals
Summarize labor and economic reforms under the Second New Deal

5. The 2nd New Deal (2nd Hundred Days)
Two years after 1st New Deal
FDR wanted to provide more relief for farmers and workers than brought by 1st New Deal
FDR led in this direction by Eleanor, his wife
Social reformer she traveled the country and advised her husband, FDR on matters
Social conditions
Suffering
Woman’s gains
1936, FDR re-elected and the democrats won the majority in both houses of Congress.

6. Helping Farmers Soil Conservation & Domestic Allotment Act
Paid farmers for cutting production of soil-depleting crops
Rewarded farmers for practicing good soil conservation techniques
(Second) Agricultural Adjustment Act
Brought back most of 1st AAA
It cut out a processing tax that paid for farm subsidies
What Supreme Court said was unconstitutional
Farm Security Administration
Help sharecroppers and migrants to buy land
Hired photographers, like Dorothea Lange, to document the difficulties faced in rural areas…

7. Helping youths & Professionals
The WPA offers direct assistance by spending $11 billion & creating 8 million new jobs (women & minorities)
WPA built:
850 airports
650,000 miles of roads
125,000 public buildings
300 million clothing items (women)
Professional provisions:
Wrote guides to cities
Collected Slave Narratives
Painted murals at schools
The NYA (National Youth Authority)
Created specifically to provide aid, education, counseling, recreation, and employment to youths.

8. Improving Labor Wagner Act (NLRB) Fair Labor Standards Act
Re-established much of unconstitutional NIRA
Right of workers to join unions and Collectively bargain
Prohibited unfair labor practices (firing union workers)
Fair Labor Standards Act
Set maximum work hours at 44/week
Minimum wage $.25/hr.
Rules for employment under 16 yrs. old

9. Other Reforms Social Security Act Regulating Utilities
Old Age insurance for retirees 65 & older w/spouse
Unemployment compensation
Aid to families w/dependent children & disabled
Not a complete retirement or welfare system
Regulating Utilities
Rural Electrification Administration (REA)
1949, brought electricity to 90% of farms; %
Public Utility Holding Company Act (1935)
Outlawed ownership of utilities by multiple holding companies, they jacked up prices.

10. #55 Ch 15 S 2 Details: Read & Notes Ch 15 S 2 Study Guide ?s 1-10
Analyze the effects of and the controversies arising from New Deal economic policies and the expanded role of the federal government in society and the economy since the 1930s