1. Aim: How did Roosevelt attempt to bring relief, recovery and reform to the American people during the Great Depression?
Do Now: Cartoon
Who does the nurse represent?
Who do you think the patient represents?
How is FDR being portrayed?
Exam – Friday
Review Sheet Due: Thursday

2. The New Deal RELIEF - (painkiller) End suffering – give people jobs
direct money
mortgage loans
RECOVERY – (cure – antibiotic/surgery)
End the depression
stimulate economic growth
create demand for goods and services
increase production
REFORM – (change habits – exercise/eat right) – prevent it from happening again

3. Hoover’s Response Initially – rely on “rugged individualism”
“pull oneself up by the bootstraps”
Economy would work itself out
Encouraged private charities and local solutions
Later – support to industry and agriculture
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (Trickle Down) – Government loans to banks & businesses so they could extend loans
Some public works projects
Protectionism (Hawley Smoot)