1. THE GREAT DEPRESSION
Stock market crash (1929)

3. BLUE CHIP STOCKS

4. THE GREAT DEPRESSION Structurally flawed economy – profit inflation
Extent of the depression
Business failures
Unemployment
Bank failures
The Depression in human terms

7. Migrant Family

10. Pretty Boy
Floyd

11. THE GREAT DEPRESSION Hoover’s Response to the Great Depression
Agricultural Marketing Act (1929)
Reconstruction Finance Corporation (1932)
Opposition to direct relief
The Bonus Army

12. FDR and the New Deal

13. FDR and the New Deal

14. FDR and the New Deal

15. FDR and the New Deal The Hundred Days
Reform of the banking system and the stock market
Glass-Steagall Act
The Federal Securities Act

16. FDR and the New Deal The Hundred Days
Reform of agriculture and industry
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
US v. Butler (1936)
National Recovery Act (NRA)
Schechter Poultry Corp. v. US (1935)

17. FDR and the New Deal The Hundred Days
Relief
Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)
Harry Hopkins
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

18. FDR and the New Deal
Attacks on the New Deal from the Right and the Left
Dr. Francis Townsend
Father Charles
Coughlin
Huey Long

19. FDR and the New Deal The Second New Deal Social Security (1935)
Works Progress Administration
(1935)
Wagner Act (1935)
Sit-down strike against GM, 1937
WPA – Flood control, AR, 1939

20. FDR and the New Deal The End of the New Deal Problems by 1937
Economic Recession
Court-Packing Scheme
Emergence of Conservative Opposition in Congress
Shift from Regulation to Fiscal Management (Keynesian economics)