1. The Great Depression and the New Deal 1929 – 1939 Chapter 24

2. 2 Readings You must read the chapter. Divisions: –Pp. 729-742 –742-754 –754-763 –Make sure you know the New Deal Legislation and how it affected Alabama and the US.

3. 3 Franklin Delano Roosevelt

4. 4 Crash and Depression, 1929-1932

5. 5 Figure 24.1A: Stock Market Prices in the 1920s

6. 6 Black Thursday and the Onset of the Depression

7. 7 Figure 24.1B: Consumer Borrowing in the 1920s

8. 8 Hoover’s Response Herbert Hoover Documentary Hoover's Response Speech Emergency Committee for Employment Reconstruction Finance Corporation

9. 9 Figure 24.2A: The Statistics of Hard Times

10. 10 Mounting Discontent and Protest Hoover Valley Farmers” Holiday Association –Douglas MacArthur 42 nd Parallel –John Dos Passos The Disinherited –Jack Conroy

11. 11 Figure 24.2A: The Statistics of Hard Times

12. 12 Figure 24.2B: The Statistics of Hard Times

13. 13 The Election of 1932

14. 14 Map 24.1: The Election of 1932

15. 15 The New Deal Takes Shape

16. 16 Roosevelt and his Circle Rexford G. Tuggle Adolphe Berle Eleanor Roosevelt James Farley Frances Perkins Harold Ickes Henry A. Wallace Henry Morgenthau

17. 17 Bankhead in Congress John Hollis William Brockman Speaker of the House John Hollis II Walter Will Tallulah

18. 18 FDR’s Alphabet Soup WPA men at work

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20. 20 The Hundred Days TVA –David Lilienthal

21. 21 Hundred Days Legislation CCCBoys

22. 22 Justice Hugo Black Senator from Alabama One of 9 Roosevelt appointed Textualism-what do words mean to the common man or a strict interpretation of the law KKK member in early life Democrat / Died 1971

23. 23 Problems and Controversies Plague the New Deal May 1935 court rules NRA unconstitutional Dust Bowl of 1930 and continuing “There goes Oklahoma!” Roosevelt’s Supreme Court *Note Hugo Black on back right. KKK

24. 24 Map 24.2: The Dust Bowl

25. 25 The Dust Bowl Dust Bowl Documentary Don’t forget to read your excerpts from The Dust Bowl Diary North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana and other states were effected. Southern states experienced erosion until the addition of Kudzu to the landscape.

26. Figure 24.3: Agriculture During the Great Depression

27. 27 1934-1935 Challenges from Right and Left 1933 Income rose but was still behind 1929. 1934 Midterm elections proved popularity. –“He’s been all but crowned by the people Charles Coughlin Father Charles Coughlin Radio Address Father Charles Coughlin Radio Address Francis Townsend –Influenced creation of –Social Security

28. 28 Huey Long http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIMi7fBA6e4&feature=related –Louisiana –Elected 1933 –“Share our wealth!” –“America First Party” 100% tax on income over $1 million and appropriation of fortunes over $5 –million. –Carl Weiss –Assassinated –Earl Long “Blaze” Ballad of Earl Long http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIMi7fBA6e4&feature=related

29. 29 The New Deal Changes Course, 1935-1936 WPA Works Progress Administration –Federal Writer’s Project –Federal Music Project –Federal Theatre Project –National Youth Administration –Rural Electrification Administration –National Labor Relations Act 1935 Eudora Welty Junior Publicity Agent

30. 30 Photos of Eudora Welty

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32. 32 National Labor Relations Act Wagner Act –Guaranteed collective bargaining rights, permitted closed shops, outlawed blacklisting

33. 33 Social Security Act of 1935 End of the 2 nd New Deal Social Security Act 1935 –Stands as the long term legislation of the New Deal –Frances Perkins committee Mixed benefit package Pension Unemployment package Survivor benefits Disabled and dependent mothers and children

34. 34 1936 Roosevelt Landslide and New Democratic Coalition South West (parts) White Ethnic voters 12 largest cities –Catholics –Jews Who filled New Deal jobs?

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36. 36 The New Deal’s End Stage 1937-1939

37. 37 FDR and the Supreme Court Archconservatives –9 old tired men! Bill –Appoint new justices for each one over 70 –“Ease heavy workload –Court packing

38. 38 Roosevelt Recession

39. 39 Final Measure: Growing Opposition Farm Security Administration (FSA) –1937 –Created by Congress Fair Labor Standards Act (1938)

40. 40 Social Change and Social Action in the 1930’s

41. 41 Depression’s Psychological and Social Impact

42. 42 Industrial Workers Unionize American Federation of Labor (AFL) Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO) United Automobile Workers

43. 43 Figure 24.4: The Growth of Labor Union Membership, 1933–1946

44. 44 Black and Hispanic Americans Resist Racism and Exploitation “Don’t Shop Where You Can’t Work!” Scottsboro Boys http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=rIkBFFZeNVM Indian Reorganization Act

45. 45 The American Culture Scene in the 1930’s

46. 46 Avenues of Escape: Radio and the Movies Gone with the Wind 1939 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79eIUM4w0PU&feature=related Mr. Smith Goes to Washington 1937 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=0pwjGWUrlHM The Little Colonel (1935) Shirley Temple http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_FOPPJcJ24 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-DueyLco8s&feature=endscreen&NR=1

47. 47 The Later 1930’s: Opposing Fascism Reaffirming Traditional Values Popular Front Joseph Stalin Adolf Hitler Spanish Civil War Benito Mussolini

48. 48 Steinbeck, Hemingway, Wilder For Whom the Bell Tolls The Grapes of Wrath Our Town

49. 49 Streamlining and the World’s Fair: Corporate America’s Utopian Vision “The World of Tomorrow” 1939 World’s Fair Orson Wells –“War of the Worlds” –http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs0K4ApWl4ghttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs0K4ApWl4g

50. 50 FDR http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUnihvqYBVw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amNpxQANk0M http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpEdYp1Nn-k&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nuElu-ipTQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUZGkNAUSvY&feature=related Eleanor Roosevelt Speech http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P15knTJ0pQ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yzakVOdh6k&feature=related

51. 51 Conclusion