Chapter 15 A New Deal Fights the Depression

Chapter 15 A New Deal Fights the Depression

Americans Get a New Deal • Electing Franklin Delano Roosevelt --Franklin Delano Roosevelt • Waiting For Roosevelt to Take Over --New Deal

Americans Get a New Deal (Cont’d) • The Hundred Days • An Important Fireside Chat • Regulating Banking and Finance --Glass-Steagall Act --Federal Securities Act

Helping the American People • Rural Assistance --The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) • Providing Work Projects --Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) --National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) • Promoting Fair Practices • Food, Clothing, and Shelter

The New Deal Comes Under Attack --Deficit Spending • The Supreme Court Reacts • Three Firey Critics --Huey Long

Chapter 15 Section 2 The Second New Deal Takes Hold

The Second Hundred Days -Eleanor Roosevelt • Reelecting FDR

Helping Farmers • Focusing on Farms – Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act – Second AAA – Resettlement Administration – Farm Security Administration

Roosevelt Extends Relief -Works Progress Administration (WPA) Airports, Roads, Buildings $11 Billion -National Youth Administration Student aid - work

Improving Labor and Other Reforms • Improving Labor Conditions -Wagner Act - NLRB -Fair Labor Standards Act • The Social Security Act -Social Security Act • Expanding and Regulating Utilities – REA

Chapter 15 Section 3 The New Deal Affects Many Groups

The New Deal Brings New Opportunities • Women Make Their Mark -Frances Perkins • Discrimination – Workplace – NRA wage codes – Married women in the workplace

African American Activism • A. Philip Randolph • African Americans Take Leadership Roles – – Mary Mc. Leod Bethune NYA “Black Cabinet” Marian Anderson and Eleanor Roosevelt

• The President Fails to Support Civil Rights -anti-lynching laws and the -poll tax -Discrimination in New Deal Agencies -Southern Tenant Farmers Union Mexican American Fortunes -Discrimination

Native Americans Gain Support -John Collier: Commissioner of Indian Affairs Indian Reorganization Act • Economic – • Cultural – • Political -

FDR Creates the New Deal Coalition -New Deal Coalition: • Labor Unions Flourish – “Friend of Labor” – Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) – formerly the Committee for Industrial Organization • Labor Disputes – Sit down strike – Republic Steel- • FDR Wins in 1936

Chapter 15 Section 4 Culture in the 1930’s

The Lure of Motion Pictures and Radio • Movies Are a Hit! -Gone with the Wind • Radio Entertains -Orson Welles

The Arts in Depression America • Artists Decorate America -Grant Wood • Woody Guthrie Sings of America • Diverse Writers Depict American Life -Richard Wright -The Grapes of Wrath

Chapter 15 Section 5 The Impact of the New Deal

New Deal Reforms Endure • Supporters and Critics of the New Deal • Expanding Government’s Role in the Economy -Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) -Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) • Protecting Workers’ Rights -National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) • Banking and Finance

Social and Environmental Effects • Social Security – Old age insurance – Unemployment – Disabled families • The Rural Scene - Commodity Credit Corporation - Parity • The Environment – – Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Soil Conservation Service Taylor Grazing Act (1934) Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)