1. The Great Depression and the New Deal 1929 - 1941

2. Great Depression Economic Effects: GNP Drops From $104 Billion to
Income declines by 50%
20% of all banks close
Wipes out 10 million bank accounts
% of workforce unemployed
                                                                       

3. ELECTION OF 1932 vs. Roosevelt (D) Hoover as “Lame Duck” President
Hoover (R)
vs.
Roosevelt (D)
Hoover as “Lame Duck” President
20th amendment (January 20th inauguration)

4. ELECTION OF 1932

5. The New Deal Experiment

6. FDR: THE MAN From wealth, prestige. Disabled from…something.
New Deal Philosophy:
The Three R’s:
Relief
Recovery
Reform
Advisers: “The Brain Trust” + Eleanor Roosevelt

7. THE FIRST HUNDRED DAYS Bank Holiday: first step taken.
Repeal of Prohibition
Fireside Chats
Financial Recovery Programs:
Emergency Banking Relief Act
Federal Deposit Insurance Company
Home Owners Loan Corporation
Farm Credit Administration

8. Programs for RECOVERY:
Programs For RELIEF:
Federal Emergency Relief Administration
Public Works Administration
Civilian Conservation Corps
Tennessee Valley Authority
Agricultural Adjustment Act (struck down)
Programs for RECOVERY:
National Recovery Administration (struck down)
Schecter v. U.S.
Programs for REFORM:
Securities and Exchange Commission
Social Security Act (1936)

9. FEDERAL INCOME & SPENDING 1928 - 1940

10. THE SECOND NEW DEAL RELIEF PROGRAMS WORKS PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION
Provide jobs
Bridges, roads, airports, public buildings, murals, histories, acting, etc.
Resettlement Administration
Loans to sharecroppers & small farmers.

11. THE SECOND NEW DEAL (continued)
REFORMS
National Labor Relations (Wagner) Act:
Worker’s right to join union
Collective Bargaining
Rural Electrification Act:
Loans for electric power in rural areas
Federal Taxes
Increased taxes on wealthy
Social Security Act:
Old age pensions

12. THE ELECTION OF 1936
FDR (D)
vs.
Alf Landon (R)

13. ROOSEVELT’S CRITICS
Fr. Charles Coughlin
Mary McLeod Bethune
Huey Long

14. FDR and THE SUPREME COURT
Court Reorganization Plan:
“Courtpacking Scheme”
Reaction:
Saw FDR as dictator
Bill defeated in Congress

16. LIFE DURING THE DEPRESSION
WOMEN:
Eleanor Roosevelt
Francis Perkins
Dust Bowl Farmers:
“The Grapes of Wrath”
“Of Mice and Men”
African-Americans:
Last hired, first fired
Excluded from some relief programs
Marian Anderson
Mary Mcleod Bethune

17. Lasting Impacts Creation of a Welfare State
Increased Federal/Executive Power
Lasting Programs/Reforms:
Social Security
FDIC
Securities & Exchange Commission