1. Discovering the Legacy of the New Deal

2. Pair-Share
“If you were FDR what would you do to get the country out of the depression and help those who need it?

3. 11.6 Students analyze the different explanations for the Great Depression and how the New Deal fundamentally changed the role of the federal government.
2. Understand the explanations of the principal causes of the Great Depression and the steps taken by the Federal Reserve, Congress, and Presidents Herbert Hoover and Franklin Delano Roosevelt to combat the economic crisis.
4. Analyze the effects of and the controversies arising from New Deal economic policies and the expanded role of the federal government in society and the economy since the 1930s (e.g., Works Progress Administration, Social Security, National Labor Relations Board, farm programs, regional development policies, and energy development projects such as the Tennessee Valley Authority, California Central Valley Project, and Bonneville Dam).

4. Objective:
Students will be able to analyze the New Deal programs by completing a gallery walk.

5. Film Clip: The First 100 Days

6. What were FDR’s 3 R’s?
Relief: The government will give direct help or relief to those who are suffering
Recovery The government will provide jobs to help Americans recover from the Depression
Reform The government will regulate (make rules) for business

7. Directions
You and your partner will complete a gallery walk of New Deal programs.
As you read about the different New Deal programs you will complete the corresponding worksheet.
It is essential that you understand not only what the program did but how the program affected society.
Also, be sure to think about whether the program was considered to be RELIEF, OR RECOVERY REFORM
Let’s do the first one together.

8. Aid to the Elderly (Social Security)
The New Deal provided care for the elderly under the Social Security Act, referred to by one scholar as the “most important single piece of social welfare legislation [law] in American history”. The act required the federal government to provide financial support for most retired workers, ages 65 and over. The government created a pool of money from which to pay the old-age benefits by imposing a one percent social security tax on U.S. employees’ wages, half of which was paid by the worker’s employer. Before 1942-the year social security payments went into effect-the federal government provided up to $15 a month in aid to elderly poor. After 1942 social security ranged from $10 to $85 per month, depending on the wages the employee had earned before he or she retired. The very first social security payment issued by the government was only 12 cents. The Social Security Act also provided aid to the disabled, mothers and their dependent children and the unemployed.
Most forms of social security established by the New Deal continued to exist in the United States in the 1990s, including aid to the elderly. In the late 1990s, American workers and their employees paid a social security tax of approximately 12 percent. In 1995 the maximum monthly payment for a retiree was about $1,200.

9. A: Aid to the Elderly Social Security
RELIEF

10. B: Aid to Farmers Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
RECOVERY

11. C: Direct Relief Federal Emergency Act

12. D: Regulation of Banks Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
REFORM

13. E: Investment in Youth National Youth Administration
RELIEF

14. F: Jobs Programs Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Civil Works Administration (CWA) Works Progress Administration (WPA)
RECOVERY

15. Bonneville Dam
-The dam is located 40 miles east of Portland, Oregon, in the Columbia River Gorge.
-The primary functions of Bonneville Lock and Dam are electrical power generation
and river navigation.
-Bonneville Lock and Dam is named for Army Capt. Benjamin Bonneville,
an early explorer credited with charting much of the Oregon Trail.

16. California Central Valley Project
It was devised in 1933 in order to provide irrigation and municipal water to much of California's Central Valley—by regulating and storing water in reservoirs in the water-rich northern half of the state, and transporting it to the water-poor San Joaquin Valley and its surrounds by means of a series of canals, aqueducts and pump plants, some shared with the California State Water Project.

17. G: Promotion of Worker’s Rights The Wagner Act
REFORM

18. H: Public Housing Public Works Administration (PWA)
RELIEF

19. I: Public Works Public Works Administration (PWA)
RECOVERY

20. J: Regulation of Stock Market Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)
REFORM
J: Regulation of Stock Market Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC)

21. K: Rural Electrification Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
REFORM

22. L: Support for the Arts Federal Art Project
RELIEF

23. Wrap- Up Complete graphic organizer
Graphically organize the New Deal programs into either:
RELIEF
REFORM Or
RECOVERY

24. Relief Recovery Reform Social Security The Agricultural Adjustment Act
Federal Emergency Act
National Youth Administration
Federal Art Project
The Agricultural Adjustment Act
Works Progress Administration
Civilian Conservation Corps
Civil Works Administration
Public Works Administration
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
National Labors Relations Act
Securities & Exchange Commission
Tennessee Valley Authority
Wagner Act

25. Impact of the New Deal

27. Assessing the New Deal: Did it Work?
Positive
Drop of unemployment
Drop of business failures
Increase in confidence in banks
Help for farmers
Aided millions
Negative
Federal debt increased
Unemployment was high
GDP grew at a sluggish rate
WWII took U.S. out of depression

28. The positive effects of the New Deal are ________________
Pair-Share
The positive effects of the New Deal are ________________
Some criticisms of the New Deal would be ____________________

29. Pair-Share Person A The Great Depression ___________________________
To help combat the effects of the Great Depression FDR created a program of Relief, _______________and ________________.
Person B
This program was called the ______ _________.
Relief is ____________
On the other hand Reform is _________
Recovery is different than relief and reform because _____________