2. What was the difference between FDR and Hoover?

4. Immediate money given to states for relief 1/2 directly to needy
Federal Emergency Relief Administration
(FERA)
 1933
Immediate money given to states for relief
 1/2 directly to needy
½ for state work programs
 $500,000,000 given out in direct relief immediately
3 ½ billion doled out by 1936
20,000,000 jobs created

5. INSTRUCTIONS: FOR YOUR ASSIGNED PROGRAM:
Using text book &/or “device”, look up program
Neatly on a separate piece of paper, answer the three questions on the graphic organizer
CREATE a Propaganda poster to “sell” the program to the public
Name of the program should be apparent
It’s purpose/ goal should be apparent
It should be persuasive!! (It’s propaganda)

6. NEW DEAL PROPAGANDA POSTERS

7. 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

8. The Great Depression begins:
CAUSES OF GREAT DEPRESSION
IMPACT OF GD ON AMERICANS

9. Please write down the information for your topic clearly on a piece of paper

10. NEW DEAL: KEY TERMS 100 DAYS- 1st 100 days of FDR’s term FIRESIDE CHAT
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

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

12. 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

16. INSTRUCTIONS: FOR YOUR ASSIGNED PROGRAM:
look up program in text and/or chromebook
What is the program’s description/ purpose/ goal?
What is its impact/ results/ effectiveness?
Find your program IN CLASSROOM:
2-3 “bullets for descriptions/ goal (“textbook definition”)
2-3 bullets for impact/effectiveness/ results
3. CREATE a Propaganda poster to “sell” the program to the public
Name of the program should be apparent (5)
Program’s purpose/ goal should be apparent (5)
It should be persuasive!! (It’s propaganda) (5)

17. 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

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

19. 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

20. 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

21. 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

22. (WPA) Works Progress Administration

23. FHA- Federal Housing Administration

24. 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

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

26. 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

27. 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

28. 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

29. 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

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

31. 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

32. Wagner Act: NLRB

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

34. The Great Depression begins:
CAUSES OF GREAT DEPRESSION
IMPACT OF GD ON AMERICANS

35. Review: How did the New Deal programs attempt to address the causes and hardships of the Great Depression? Using the letters of New Deal, write down ways the gov’t tried. At least 2 should be “RELIEF”, 2 “RECOVERY”, AND 2 “REFORM”
N E W D A L
High unemployment
Home foreclosures
Corruption in the Stock Market
Bank failures
Overproduction of industry
Overproduction of crops

36. The Great Depression begins:
CAUSES OF GREAT DEPRESSION
IMPACT OF GD ON AMERICANS

37. 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…

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

39. 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

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. 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

43. 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?

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. Schechter Poultry v. United States
“Sick Chicken” case
Unconsitutional power given to Executive Branch under the National Industrial Recovery Act

46. 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?

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

48. 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?

49. 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?

50. 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?

51. Regents questions:
Key result of ND: federal government is responsible 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”

52. 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