1. The New Deal
FDR to the rescue!

2. New Deal Legislation
Relief
Recovery
Reform

3. Relief Policies
Unprecedented federal involvement in welfare
Helped the “forgotten men” and their families
Did not help all
Some were unemployable and states were unwilling or unable to help them
relief policies often were only a “partial success”

4. Federal Depository Insurance Corporation
The FDIC was created in 1933 in response
to the thousands of bank failures that occurred
in the 1920s and early 1930s.  As the FDIC
celebrates its 75th anniversary, we present a
historical perspective on the rich history of
protecting consumers.
(FDIC Website)
insure individual accounts up to $5,000
relief / reform

5. National Youth Administration
provided work training based on U.S. citizenship and financial need for youth between ages sixteen and
twenty-five
offering courses in writing, reading,
and arithmetic
train unemployed, out-of-school youth
provide work-study training for high school, college,
and graduate students

6. Expansion of training
for
African - American
youth

7. Heights Community Center

8. Vocational Training

9. Men 18 - 25 Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Employed 2.5 million young men
Men
Facilitate gang reconciliations
Spearhead river cleanups
Read to Head Starters in underserved communities
Fix potholes
Weed gardens for the elderly
Assist settlement house patrons
Provide at-home help for busy working moms

10. White River National Wildlife Refuge

11. Silver Falls State Park

12. Needles Lookout

13. Civil Works Administration
“Boy Scout" work
accounted for about 3% of the total population
Formerly unemployed men and
women would shovel snow, rake leaves,
and clean up National parks through that winter

16. Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Most important relief agency
$11 billion
Short-term, make-work projects to help the unemployed
Built 2500 hospitals, 5900 schools, 13,000 playgrounds
Funds for theater, arts and writers projects
Financial aid to 2 million HS and college students
Aid to 2.6 million young people not in school

17. Timberline Lodge

18. Snake House at San Diego Zoo
built by WPA

19. WPA

20. Outer Drive Bridge
Chicago

21. Western Illinois University

22. New Trier High School

23. Recovery Programs
“Partial success”
Pump priming

24. Public Work Adminitration
- to administer the construction of various
public works such as public buildings,
bridges, dams, and housing developments
to make loans to states and municipalities for
similar projects
budgeted several billion dollars to be spent
on the construction of public works
- designed to spend "big bucks on big projects."

27. North and Clybourn El
Chicago

28. Chicago sewer

29. Triboroughs Bridge

30. National Industrial Recovery Act
2 year emergency program
adopt a fair code of practices
- Wagner Act .... labor can organize collective bargaining
strikes
Schector v. U.S. (1935)
- NlRA declared unconstitutional in (WHY?)
National Labor Relations Board
power to conduct elections implants
choose which unions could engage in collective bargaining
Board of Arbitration
Critics (i.e. business) "NLRB favors labor

31. Homeowners Loan Act
- govt. lends $ to homeowners at low interest rates
to pay off mortgages
- refinanced mortgages of middle-income home owners

32. Federal Housing Administration
improve housing conditions
insure residential loans and financing
help first – time buyers
assist in “shoring-up” the mortgage market
( aide the financial market)

33. Farm Credit Administration loans are made available to farmers
so they can pay
off their loans
(extend length
of mortgages)

34. Agricultural Adjustment Act
limit farm production
subsidies - derived from taxing other industries
(farm processors)
- DID IT WORK? (Hint: Then – 1937)
Butler v. U.S.
- no constitutional right to regulate farm production
- any such right belongs to the states

35. Reform Legislation Significant, long-term FDIC SEC Banking Act of 1935
TVA
Fair Labor Standards Act
Social Security Act

36. Securities Exchange Commission
regulate the stock exchange
stock offerings cleared by the SEC

37. Social Security Act - unemployment insurance old age pensions
- disabled, aged, dependent children

38. Rural Electrification Administration
- responsible for developing a program for generating
and distributing electricity in isolated rural areas

39. Tennessee Valley Authority
improve economic and social conditions
for people living in this region
21 dams produce electricity
- dams used for hydroelectric power
created reservoirs for recreation,
flood control, prevent soil erosion, creation of jobs

40. TVA

41. Legacy of the New Deal
Changed federal government’s attitude and responsibility
Democratic Party became the majority party
“Big government”

42. Chicago subway