Note Page 38“The New Deal”

US History

By Morgan J. Burris Lexington Middle School

Election of 1932-Franklin Roosevelt

Governor of NY

Attitude of “Can-Do”

instead of “Do-Nothing”

-Pledged a New Deal for the people

1. Relief for the needy

2. Economic recovery

3. Financial Reform

Hoover remain a lame duck or several months

Banking system was in a crisis, production fell, economy worsened

“Only Thing To Fear”

-1932 Inauguration Speech

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

-Public Relations - excellent in promising reform/relief

-Fireside Chats: these were given nightly/weekly by FDR, described his programs & gave progress reports on economy

A Call to Action

-Progressive programs

Experiment with solutions

-Group Effort

Eleanor Roosevelt - wife

Brain Trust = select group of advisors: professors, lawyers, and journalists

-1st 100 Days: period after inauguration from March 9- June 16 1933

- Congress passed 15 major pieces of New Deal Legislation

- All greatly expanded the federal government’s role in the economy!!!***********

First New Deal

- Designed for recovery and relief

- Deficit spending- putting the nation in debt in order to spend it on programs that helped the nation

-pump priming

-Bank Holiday- closed all banks to prevent future withdraws – all those that were safe were allowed to reopen- increased confidence in nation’s banks

-FDIC= insured deposits

-SEC= regulate stock market

Alphabet Soup

-FDIC

Federal Depositors Insurance Corporation - Insured individual bank accounts less than $5,000

-SEC

Securities and Exchange Commission

Oversee Stock Market’s Activity

-PWA

Public Works Administration

Created jobs on govt. projects

-CWA

Civil Works Administration

Provided work in federal jobs

Alphabet Soup

-TVA

Tennessee Valley Authority

Built dams providing jobs and electric power to region

-CCC

Civilian Conservation Corp

Young men to work building roads, parks, planted trees, STATE PARKS

-AAA

Agricultural Adjustment Act

Raise crop prices by lowering production

CCC built thousands of roads and trails in our nation parks, but esp.

helped NC – Blue Ridge Parkway!

National Recovery Administration= (NRA)

Set prices on many products to ensure fair competition

- Competing business leaders would meet to set standards on wages, prices, and no child labor

Dust Bowl

-great drought had hit the lower plains

-mid 1930’s wind storms started

-farms destroyed

-many people migrate to the west

migrant farm workers

“Okies”- nickname of migrants

-”Grapes of Wrath”

John Steinbeck- wrote book about migrants who took Route 66 to California

The Grapes of Wrath????A Little Comic Relief……

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

Photo’s here are from the book:Long Time Coming

Photographic Portrait Of America: 1935-1943Michael Lesy, Editor (Norton)

Note Page 38The New Deal

THE END

By Morgan J. Burris Lexington Middle School

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