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In your opinion what makes a US president, or any political leader, “great”? What factors should we consider?
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3. New Deal Changes Course: The 2nd New Deal 1935-’36
Unity fading - Increasing criticism
FDR - business-class and wealthy
Focus on helping the most disadvantaged
Keynesian Economics
Relief & Reform

4. The Second New Deal ‘35 Works Progress Admin. $11 B for Pub. Works
Federal Writer’s Project
Federal Music Project
Federal Theater Project

5. 2nd New Deal: Helping the Disadvantaged
FDR feared effect of liberal critics
Resettlement Administration
REA
Wagner Act – NLRB*
Wealth Tax
Social Security Act*

6. Critics of New Deal & FDR Alf Landon
XIV Election
Critics of New Deal & FDR
Alf Landon

7. New Deal Coalition – cities, farmers, unions, women, Northern Blacks, Southerners, immigrants

8. Minorities & The New Deal
A mixed record
Programs often discriminated
FDR opposed NAACP Anti- Lynching Campaign
FDR’s Appointments
The “Black Cabinet”
Mary McLeod Bethune
Frances Perkins
Symbolic gestures

9. Environment, the West, Indians
National Parks
Olympic N.P., Shenandoah N.P.
Dams
TVA, Hoover Dam, Grand Coulee
American Indians
Indian Reorganization Act ‘34

10. FDR & Supreme Court 1936 FDR’s Problem His Plan
“The Court Packing Scheme”
Reaction
Result
The Nine Old Men

12. End of the New Deal Roosevelt Recession ’37 Last ND legislation
Why?
FDR slowed spending to balance budget
Right wing – too much regulation halted business growth
Last ND legislation
Housing Act ’37
Fair Labor Standards Act ’38 – Min wage, overtime, child labor
AAA ‘38
Growing conservative opposition
World events getting more attention
New Deal over by 1938-’39

13. Crash Course New Deal Finale
What are the most important legacies of the New Deal?
How does John Green’s analysis match with what you know?

14. XVII. Legacy of the New Deal
Did it work?
Redefinition of Liberty? Or Threat to Liberty?
Creation of “welfare state”
Size & Cost of Federal Govt.
Power & Scope of Govt.
Long-lasting programs
New Deal Coalition – Political realignment

15. GQ#4 - Based on his leadership of the USA in the 1930s, how far does Franklin Roosevelt deserve his reputation as one of the “great” US presidents?