1. Was the New Deal an effective response to the Great Depression?

4. Franklin Roosevelt (FDR)
President from
March 4, 1933, FDR took office
In his speech, he gave people hope
One of the most successful and well-liked presidents of all time

5. “You have nothing to fear, but fear itself” -FDR

6. “You have nothing to fear, but fear itself.”
Not afraid to try anything
Fear can hurt one from moving forward, from succeeding.
We need not fear tomorrow or the next day.
The only thing we should be afraid of is that fear which keeps us caught up in self-pity and loss.
If we can overcome that, we can move forward.

7. New Deal
Massive change in the American way of life was needed to tackle the problems
Created programs to help manage the American economy and help Americans

8. New Deal: The 3 R’s Relief: Help get rid of problems like unemployment
Recovery: to fix it and make it better the economy – fix banks, control money, deal with debt, fix the budget, help farmers,
Reform: to rebuild, to change the economy and America and government

9. Pump-Priming Government should work from the bottom up
Take actions to get money directly into the hands of consumers
Use government funds to restart the circulation on money
If people felt more secure
Start spending money
Encourage business to start growing and hiring again

10. FDR’s 3R’s for the Depression
Relief- immediate help to the people
Recovery- help the economy get back on its feet
Reform- change our system so it would not fall apart again

11. “If one plan fails, admit it and try another”
The first 100 days of FDR’s term saw the Congress creating many new laws.
His first 100 days have always been judged.

12. FDR felt that is was the government’s responsibility to help people in hard times.

13. Relief Programs

14. Emergency Banking Act (1933)
Closed the nations banks by declaring a “bank holiday”
Financially stable banks reopened
With a stamp of approval by the Federal government
Federal loans to banks!

15. Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC)
Young men worked
Plant trees, built roads, flood control
Provided room an board
Pays $30 a month
$25 went home to family

16. PWA, TVA, & WPA Public Works Administration Tennessee Valley Authority
Works Progress Administration
All helped build different needed places
Bridges, tunnels, damns, roads, and hospitals

17. Recovery Programs

18. NRA- Nation Recovery Administration
Encouraged business to reopen
Establish minimum wage Fair Labor Standards Act
End child labor

19. Federal Housing Administration (FHA)

20. Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)
Paid farmers not to grow crops
Paid farmers to destroy crops

21. Reform Programs

22. Glass- Steagall banking Act (1933)
Created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
insured money people put into the bank for up to $250,000
protects our money!

23. Securities Exchange Act (SEC)
Pursue legal action against fraud within the stock market
Regulate the stock market!

24. Social Security Act (1935) Started in 1935 Government responsible for
Elderly: pensions for later years
Disabled: money to blind and disabled Americans
Unemployed: workmen’s compensation until new work formed

25. Create your own NEW DEAL MURAL
On one card: Make a MURAL of images that represent your favorite NEW DEAL policy.
On the other card, write and fill in this template:
The New Deal Program known as ________ (___), benefitted America because it _____________________. This helped solve the problem of _________. This mural represents this program because ______________ (describe how the mural relates to the New Deal Program you chose).

30. Was the New Deal constitutional and helpful to all American groups?

31. United States v. Butler Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States
In 1935
Supreme Court ruled that FDR’s New Deal Programs, the National Industrial Recovery Act and Agricultural Adjustment Act, were illegal
Program was to help business leaders create and put into effect codes that controlled prices, wages, and other matters
The Court believed that it gave too much power to the president and business groups because it was controlling what farmers can and cannot do.

34. What do these charts imply about the New Deal Program?
Unemployment Rates from
1929
3.2%
1930
8.7%
1931
15.9%
1932
23.6%
1933
24.9%
1934
21.7%
1935
20.1%
1936
16.9%
1937
14.3%
1938
19.0%
1939
17.2%
1940
14.6%
1941
9.9%
Federal Government and Spending – Billion of Dollars
Year
Total National Debts
1929
16.9
1930
16.1
1931
16.8
1932
19.4
1933
22.5
1934
27.0
1935
28.7
1936
33.7
1937
36.4
1938
37.1
1939
40.4
1940
42.9
1941
48.9

35. African Americans
people who worked on farms or as domestic servants were excluded from Social Security
law automatically cut half the black workers in the country and around 60 percent of all workers in the in the South, out of the social Security system
Segregation
Jim Crow Laws

36. Women
Married women were the first to lose their jobs because it was thought that a keeping a man working was more important
Roosevelt’s New Deal were construction projects largely jobs for men.
Paid less

37. Packing the Supreme Court
make the federal courts bigger
raising the number of Justices (judges) on the Supreme Court from 9 to 15
supporters and critics of the New Deal accused him of trying to “pack” the Court with Justices who supported his views
threat to the principle of separation of powers.

38. Packing the Supreme Court

39. Success or Failure? Still 6 million out of work in 1941.
The numbers fell due to enlistment and rearmament in WW2.
Black people were segregated from white.
Women were excluded from the New Deal.
Tennessee benefited but many areas were still suffering.
Reduced unemployment by 7 million
Soil conservation schemes.
The Stock Market and banks recovered.
Transformed the Tennessee valley.
Roosevelt was re-elected.

40. Summary
FDR tried his hardest to improve America’s condition. Unfortunately, these same problems were being felt in other parts of the world

41. Even though the depression was a bad time, there was some good that came out of it:
Families got close
People helped each other
Change of past times
Back to simple pleasures, such as cards and dominos

42. FDR was a good/bad (choose one) president
FDR was a good/bad (choose one) president. This is because of certain actions he took. For example, FDR was a good/bad (choose one) president because he _________________________________ ________________________________________________________. He also did _____________________________________________ ______________________________________________________. Even though some of his actions were good/bad (circle the opposite from the ones you circle above), for example, FDR did______________________________________________________ and ____________________________________________ ____other actions taken as president outweighed this, such as ______________ _____________________________________ and _______________ _________________________________________________.