1. New Deal
SSUSH18

2. Standards
SSUSH18 The student will describe Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal as a response to the depression and compare the ways governmental programs aided those in need.
a. Describe the creation of the Tennessee Valley Authority as a works program and as an effort to control the environment.
b. Explain the Wagner Act and the rise of industrial unionism.
c. Explain the passage of the Social Security Act as a part of the second New Deal.
d. Identify Eleanor Roosevelt as a symbol of social progress and women’s activism.
e. Identify the political challenges to Roosevelt’s domestic and international leadership; include the role of Huey Long, the “court packing bill,” and the Neutrality Act.

3. EQ
How was the New Deal a response to the Great Depression and a change in the role of government?

4. Bell Ringer
A poor farmer trying to survive in the mountains of north Georgia during 1934 would have benefited most from which of the following?
Tin Pan Alley c. Wagner Act
Tennessee Valley Authority d. Neutrality Act
A worker wanting to organize a union would have been most excited about which of the following?
a. TVA c. Neutrality Act
b. Wagner Act d. court-packing scheme

5. FDR FDR elected 1932 Known for “fireside” chats
Provided direct relief – federal help to those hurting from the financial crisis
Used programs collectively known as the New Deal.
Turn to your partner and tell them what you know already about the New Deal.

6. First 100 Days (SSUSH18a) FDIC – insures $ in bank
TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority)
Provides jobs and electricity in TN and GA
Creates jobs for workers
Provides insurance against foreclosed homes and gives $ for food.
Pg 684

7. Opposition – Huey Long SSUSH18e
Huey Long (who wants to be president) comes up with a plan to “Share the Wealth” to help end the Great Depression.
Proposed high taxes on the wealthy and large corporations and the redistribution of their income to the poor Americans.
Assassinated before election of 1936
Would you vote for Roosevelt or Long? Why?

8. The Court-Packing Bill SSHSUH18e
Supreme Court was resistant to FDR’s programs and struck down many of his ideas.
FDR came up with an idea (called Court-Packing Bill):
He would increase the number of Supreme Court justices from 9 to 15. Then pack the court full of people who agree with his ideas so they would pass.
Opposition called FDR a dictator and socialists so he withdrew his request.

9. Page 697
Read the section “The Court-Packing Plan”
Write 3-4 sentences telling whether you would have supported or opposed FDR’s plan to change the Supreme Court to help support the New Deal.

10. Second New Deal SSUSH18b,c
New programs started to continue progress.
Ex: Wagner Act, Social Security Act
Read about these 2 acts in your book.
Social Security pg 694
Wagner Act 692
Which of these acts do you feel was the most beneficial to Americans?

11. Social Security Act: Program that provides pension (money) for retired workers and spouses, aides people with disabilities, poor mothers w/ dependent children, needy elderly.
Wagner Act: passed to protect organized labor. Allows people the rights to unionize.

12. Eleanor Roosevelt SSUSH18d
What is the job of the first lady?
Pg 696 read the first paragraph:
How did Eleanor Roosevelt transform the position of First Lady?

13. Neutrality Act SSUSH18e
1935 this act prohibited the sale of weapons to warring nations and was meant to keep the US from forming alliances that might drag the nation into war.
What does this sound like?
Do you think this will be effective to America and that America will be able to stay out of the war?

14. Summarizer
How was the New Deal a response to the Great Depression and a change in the role of government?

15. Roosevelt and the Great Depression
Successes
Challenges
First 100 Days
Huey Long
Second New Deal
Court Packing Bill

16. Eleanor Roosevelt Neutrality Act
How did Eleanor Roosevelt transform the position of First Lady?
Neutrality Act
Eleanor Roosevelt