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“Only Thing To Fear”

-1932 Inauguration Speech

“The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself”

FDR takes office at the worst part of the depression

Can do attitude

-Public Relations: make citizens connected to gov’t

-Fireside Chats: weekly radio talks to public simple language

A Call to Action

-Progressive programs

Experiment with solutions

-Group Effort

Eleanor Roosevelt: wife, works behind the scenes, popular public speaker

Brain Trust: carefully picked advisors

-1st 100 Days: intense time of activity for federal gov’t in which 15 pieces of legislation pass

First New Deal-Bank Holiday: closed

banks to prevent further withdrawals

-FDIC: make banking safer

-SEC: make stock market safer

-designed for recovery and relief

-deficit spending spending more than the made

-pump priming: Government action taken to stimulate the economy, as spending money in the commercial sector, cutting taxes, or reducing interest rates

Alphabet Soup

-FDIC :Federal Depositors Insurance Corporation

Insured individual bank accounts, exists today

-SEC: Securities and Exchange Commission

Regulates stock market, exists today

-PWA

Public Works Administration

Made jobs on gov’t projects

-CWA

Civil Works Administration

Created more over 4million jobs, paid teachers and built schools

Alphabet Soup-TVA

Tennessee Valley Authority

Repaired and build damns in TN, still exists today

-CCC

Civilian Conservation Corp

Conservation projects, men 18-25

-AAA

Agricultural Adjustment Act

sought to raise crop prices by decreasing production, ruled unconstitutional

-NRA

National Recovery Administration

set standards for fair business practices, set prices, ruled unconstitutional

Not Enough Help

-By 1935 the economy has still not recovered

-there is enough relief to keep people from starving

-some people start to demand more action

-Roosevelt seeks a 2nd term, easily wins re-election

New Deal Critics

-Father Coughlin

heavy taxes on the rich to provide income for all

-Huey Long

“Every man a King”

level income, home and college for all

-Francis Townsend

proposed income for elderly

-programs to continue help for working class Americans and their families during Roosevelt’s 2nd term—called the 2nd New Deal

-WPA

Works Progress Administration--Created millions of jobs—historians, art, music…etc.

-Social Security Act

old pension for elderly and aid for disabled, still exists today

-Rural Electrification Administration (REA): provided cheap electricity to the rural areas

2nd New Deal

More Programs

Labor Relations

-National Labor Relations Act---(Wagner Act)

NLRB (created the National Labor Relations Board)

right to unionize

anti-union practices banned

-Fair Labor Standards

minimum wage, 40 hour week, employment laws for those under 18

-Growth of AFL, CIO

National Youth Administration (NYA)

-job training for youth and part-time jobs for need students

Court Packing

-Several New Deal programs ruled unconstitutional

AAA, NRA

Roosevelt fears the Supreme Court is hurting New Deal

-Roosevelt proposed adding new justices that support his programs—called Packing the Court

-seen as a threat to checks and balances so it fails

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Alphabet Soup: New

Deal

New Deal Agency Purpose and Significant Facts

FDIC Federal Depositors urance Corp.

-insures individual bank accounts

-still exists today

SEC Securities and Exchange Commission

-regulates the stock market

-prevents insider trading

-still exists today

PWA Public Works Administration

-created jobs on gov’t projects

CWA Civil Works Administration

-created over 4 million federal jobs immediately-paid teacher salaries and built schools

TVA Tennessee Valley Authority

-repaired and built damns

-still exists today

CCC Civilian Conservation Corps.

-planted trees, soil erosion, and other conservation projects

AAA Agricultural Adjustment Act

-sought to raise crop prices by decreasing production

-ruled unconstitutional

NRA National Recovery Administration

-established to promote fair practices in industry, set prices for many products

-ruled unconstitutional

SSA Social Security Administration

-provides pensions for elderly and aid for disabled

WPA Works Progress Administration

-created as many jobs as quickly as possible

-created public works of lasting importance

NLRA established National Labor Relations Board

-Wagner Act

-right to unionize

NYA National Youth Administration

-provided job training for young unemployed-created part-time jobs for needy students-led by African-American Mary McLeod Bethune

Fair Labor Standards Act

Fair Labor Standards Act -minimum wage

-maximum hours

-legalized unions

REA Rural Electrification Administration

-cheap electricity to rural areas

Alphabet Soup Game

With a partner you play a matching game in order to learn the programs

created by the New Deal.