1. March 20, 2019
U.S. History Agenda:
DO NOW: Multiple Choice Review
NOTES #49: How did President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal create controversy?
CLASS ACTIVITY: President Franklin D. Roosevelt DBQs

2. How did President Franklin D
How did President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal create controversy? Notes #49

3. U.S. Senator Huey Long of Louisiana
Many critics of President Franklin D. Roosevelt believed that the New Deal did too little to help the poor and discriminated against African Americans and women.
U.S. Senator Huey Long of Louisiana

4. Most conservatives criticized the New Deal because they believed it made Americans dependent on the U.S. government.
Father Charles Coughlin

5. Al Smith; co-founder of the American Liberty League
These critics also believed that the New Deal went too far in limiting economic freedoms and endangered capitalism.
Social Security Act (1935)
Al Smith; co-founder of the
American Liberty League

6. During the 1930s, the Supreme Court ruled that a number of New Deal programs were unconstitutional.
National Recovery Act (NRA);
ruled unconstitutional in 1935
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA);
ruled unconstitutional in 1937

7. Judiciary Reorganization Bill of 1937
In response, Roosevelt proposed increasing the number of justices on the Supreme Court (from 9 to 15), . . .
Judiciary Reorganization Bill of 1937

8. . . . which would allow him to nominate more justices that would rule in favor of future New Deal programs. 8

9. However, Congress rejected Roosevelt’s court-packing plan because it threatened to upset the system of checks and balances.

10. Roosevelt further created controversy for himself when he ran for and won the presidency for a third and fourth term (in 1940 and 1944).

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