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Good morning! Please get out your notes and your Major Themes Sheet.
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Unit Question: How do we react to change?
GQ#1 - How great was the impact of the Great Crash and the Great Depression on the USA? GQ#2 - How effective were the strategies used by Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt to deal with the domestic problems facing the USA in the 1930s? GQ#3 - How effective was the opposition to the New Deal?
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Unit Review Part 1 4 minutes – on your own – no notes
4 minutes – group – no notes 4 minutes – notes as needed
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GQ#3 - How effective was the opposition to the New Deal?
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GQ#3 - How effective was the opposition to the New Deal?
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GQ#3 - How effective was the opposition to the New Deal?
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GQ#3 - How effective was the opposition to the New Deal?
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What is the message? What related vocabulary could you use?
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GQ#3 - How effective was the opposition to the New Deal
GQ#3 - How effective was the opposition to the New Deal? Political Attitudes – What are they? Political Left Political Right
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Critics of the New Deal GQ#3 - How effective was the opposition to the ND?
For your assigned person (Francis Townsend, Alf Landon, Huey Long, American Liberty League, Charles Coughlin, The Supreme Court) work with the people at your table to… Create a Biography/Story Poster Brief background – who were they? Major criticisms of the New Deal and/or FDR Is this a left wing or right wing critic? What impacts, if any, did they have on FDR/ the New Deal? How effective were they in their opposition? Why or why not effective? Be prepared to share your findings.
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Critics of the New Deal Conservatives Liberals
Deficit spending, Socialism Alf Landon American Liberty League Supreme Court NRA, AAA Liberals Father Charles Coughlin Francis Townsend Huey Long
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New Deal Changes Course: The 2nd New Deal 1935-’36
Unity fading - Increasing criticism A move to the Left FDR targets business-class and wealthy Focus on helping the most disadvantaged Keynesian Economics Deficit Spending “Priming the Pump”
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The Second New Deal ‘35 Works Progress Admin. Harry Hopkins
$11 B for Pub. Works Federal Writer’s Project Federal Music Project Federal Theater Project
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Helping the Disadvantaged
FDR feared effect of liberal critics Resettlement Administration REA Wagner Act - NLRB Wealth Tax Social Security Act*
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Critics of New Deal & FDR Alf Landon
XIV Election Critics of New Deal & FDR Alf Landon
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New Deal Coalition – cities, farmers, unions, women, Northern Blacks, Southerners, immigrants
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Minorities & The New Deal
A mixed record Programs often discriminated FDR & NAACP Anti- Lynching Campaign FDR’s Appointments Symbolic gestures
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Environment, the West, Indians
Efforts to stop soil erosion Taylor Grazing Act ‘34 National Parks Olympic N.P., Shenandoah N.P. Dams TVA, Hoover Dam, Grand Coulee American Indians Indian Reorganization Act ‘34
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FDR & Supreme Court 1936 FDR’s Problem His Plan
“The Court Packing Scheme” Reaction Result The Nine Old Men
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End of the New Deal Roosevelt Recession ’37 Last ND legislation
Why? FDR’s Response Last ND legislation Farm Security Admin Housing Act ’37 Fair Labor Standards Act ’38 AAA ‘38 Growing conservative opposition Over by 1939 World events would take center stage
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