FDR & The New Deal

FDR & The New Deal

• Basic Information• Terms to Know – I-Brain Trust –II-Alphabet Soup• Phase I – The 1st 100 Days: a) revision of banking system & stock market I-Emergency Banking Act 1933 II- FDIC III- Securities & Exchange Act (commission)

New Deal Programs/Alphabet Soup

• Reform & Recovery Programs

I- AAA II –NRA/NIRA

• Relief Programs I – FERA II – CWA III – CCC IV – PWA V – TVA VI – HOLC

Problems with New Deal Programs & FDR’S

Administration• New Deal Under Fire I- Opponents Views II – American Liberty

League

• Important Facts on FDR’S 1st term

I – Francis Perkins II – Indian Policy a) Indian Reorganization

Act

Election of 1934 & New Deal Phase II

• Results of mid term elections• Two other relief programs: I – WPA II - SSA

Labor Unions

• Wagner-Connery Act• National Labor Relation (Board) Act• CIO - John L. Lewis -General Motors Strike 1937

Election 1936

FDR v. Supreme Court

• Supreme Court declaring New Deal Programs unconstitutional.

• Makeup of the Supreme Court 6 of 9 over 70 – 7-9 appointed by Republicans.

• FDR fights back – proposes Court Packing Bill

• Failed but results gained!• Led to the Judiciary Reorganization Bill.

FDR & Power

Recession of 1938-39

a) Main reason for recession.b) Action by FDR – called a special

session – what is as special session? I- Fair Labor Standard Act – 3 main

provisions. II- New AAA – also 3 main

provisions

Results of the New Deal

• Failures : I) unemployment

still high II) Farmers didn’t

benefit as much as labor

III) Didn’t pull us out of depression

• Accomplishments I) improved conservation

II) Helped Modernize the South

III) established 2 good relief agencies –SSA & FLSA

IV) Preserved faith in the democratic process

AdvancementsI- Education enrollment up

50%II- More cities adopted City

Manager plan of government

III- Air Travel increasedIV- DuPont created –

cellophane & nylonV- Walt Disney becomes big

in the U.S.A –first patent on Technicolor (2 years)

VI - Added the 20th and 21st

Amendments

VII Literature John Steinbeck

Grapes of Wraths – Life during the depression.

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Foreign affairs

• United States not heavily involved, why?• Programs used: a) “Good Neighbor Policy” b) Creation of the Pan American

Conference – Cordell Hull c) Cultural Exchange Program Nelson

Rockefeller