1. Roosevelt’s First New Deal
Lynn Hong and Il-jee Kam

2. Objective number one. Compare and contrast the first and second New Deals and evaluate the success and failure of the relief, recover, and reform measures associated with each.

3. New Deal Program
The Rhetoric of the American Presidency. February 17, Penn State. December 9, 2008.[
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s series of programs to save American economy from depression.
These series of initiatives imparted much greater degree of security, safety, stability to american life in all kinds of sectors including; banking sector investing home building, and owning, and employment

4. First New Deal (1933-1934) Text book Page. 751: List of Programs
Emergency Banking Act (1933)
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (1933)
Agricultural Adjustment Administration (1933)
Tennessee Valley Authority (1933)
Civil Works Administration (1933)

5. People outside the bank to withdrawal money
Emergency Banking Act
Gave administration the right to regulate banks
“Bank Holiday”- closing every bank in nation for few days to prevent massive withdrawals.
FDR- To protect the civilians’ money
acbarr7333, Bank Panic by Amanda Barrett. April 12,
People outside the bank to withdrawal money

6. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
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Insured individual bank deposits up to $5,000

7. Propaganda
“Protecting and ensuring Bank deposits... Since the start of the FDIC insurance program, not a single depositor has lost a single penny of insured deposit from a bank failure. Our mission to insure and protect is as vital and relevant today as ever....”
rromanchuk. FDIC Propaganda. July 2, <

8. Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)
Paid farmers to reduce crops: funded by a tax on food processors; later declared unconstitutional
increase purchasing power
AAA pays farmers to reduce crops (wheat, corn etc) and livestock (hogs)
raise farm commodities and wages
induce shortage

9. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Constructed damns and power plants to improve social and economic welfare in the region
Video on Tennessee Valley Authority! Take notes as you watch!

10. Civil Works Administration (CWA)
Employed jobless people to work on federal, state, and local projects
examples*; -road construction and improvements -bridge construction and maintenance -waterway improvements -play-field and park improvements -water and sewage pipeline repairs -school maintenance projects -hospital and nursing activities -airport improvements
temporary jobs.
Bridge construction over the Cedar river in Barneston (March 19, 1934)
*Civil Works Administration Photographs.No date.University of Washington. December 9, [

11. Roosevelt’s Second New Deal
Sarah Lee and Michelle Lim

12. Objective number two. How effective was the New Deal policies and assess their arguments.

13. Outcomes of the First New Deal

14. Successful Relief
Emergency Banking Act & Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC): Reestablished American Faith in banks.
The CWA: 4 million workers employed in and 1934.

15. Successful but temporary.

16. Failed Recovery
AAA: Farmers killed off crops and livestock to adjust prices in the market.
Ignored Starvation: Unconstitutional
Only benefitted large farms
Ignored starvation: Unconstitutional.

17. Quote from: http://newdeal.feri.org/nation/na34185.htm
Failed Recovery: AAA
“The contract should have been drawn so that the benefit payments would have been made directly to landlords and tenants in proportion to their respective interests in the crop.... Under the 1934 and 1935 contract the landlord has everything to gain and the cropper everything to lose.” Dr. Paul W. Bruton (former AAA staff)
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18. Failed Recovery How did only large-land holding farmers benefit?
Production
Cut
Sharecroppers “Fired”
Large farmers
keep all government
payments
Poor farmers even poorer

19. Limited Reform Success of TVA Dams, power stations
Malaria, illiteracy, soil erosion, living standards improved

20. Published 1938, Mansfield, Ohio News Journal
Published 1936, Kansas City Star
Published 1938, Mansfield, Ohio News Journal

21. Limited Reform Civil Rights: Success and Failures
African Americans: Discrimination in TVA towns.
American Indians: Indian Reorganization Act (1934).
Protect religious freedom and tribal property

22. Quick Review Program What did it do? Outcomes Effective?
Emergency Banking Act
“Bank Holiday”
American faith in banks restored
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Insured bank deposits
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
Cut down crops and livestock to adjust prices
Only benefits large farms.
Tennessee Valley Authority
Build dams, improve living conditions
Improved living conditions, but private utility companies suffer
Civil Works Administration
Provide jobs through federal projects
Unemployment decreases, but only temporarily.