1. Handout – “FDR Met Social Needs and Saved the Profit System” … questions to discuss
(1) What evidence is provided that the New Deal saved capitalism and private businesses?
(2) From the article, how effective has the Social Security System been in the United States?

3. Reform Programs - Social Security Act
- (1) Monthly retirement benefit to those 65 and older (today you can receive it at 62, 65, or 68)
- (2) Unemployment insurance to the temporary unemployed
- (3) Modest welfare payments to the needy, disabled, and poor mothers w/ dependent children

5. - Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Largest public works program of the New Deal!!
* Constructed highways, roads, streets
* 125,000 public buildings
* Over 800 airports and 8,000 parks
* Employed actors, writers, & musicians

6. Federal Arts Project

7. Federal Writers Project

8. - Wagner Act - Protect rights of workers to unionize
- Established National Labor Relations Board to investigate possible unfair labor practices

9. New Deal Comes Under Attack
- Supreme Court Reacts (1936) …
- Court-Packing Plan (March, 1937) …
Midterm Election & end of the New Deal …
Roosevelt “Trying to
Change the Umpiring”