New Deal SSUSH 18 Standards SSUSH 18 The

New Deal SSUSH 18

Standards • SSUSH 18 The student will describe Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal as a response to the depression and compare the ways governmental programs aided those in need. • a. Describe the creation of the Tennessee Valley Authority as a works program and as an effort to control the environment. • b. Explain the Wagner Act and the rise of industrial unionism. • c. Explain the passage of the Social Security Act as a part of the second New Deal. • d. Identify Eleanor Roosevelt as a symbol of social progress and women’s activism. • e. Identify the political challenges to Roosevelt’s domestic and international leadership; include the role of Huey Long, the “court packing bill, ” and the Neutrality Act.

EQ • How was the New Deal a response to the Great Depression and a change in the role of government?

Bell Ringer 1. A poor farmer trying to survive in the mountains of north Georgia during 1934 would have benefited most from which of the following? a. Tin Pan Alley b. Tennessee Valley Authority c. Wagner Act d. Neutrality Act 2. A worker wanting to organize a union would have been most excited about which of the following? a. TVA b. Wagner Act c. Neutrality Act d. court-packing scheme

FDR • • • FDR elected 1932 Known for “fireside” chats Provided direct relief – federal help to those hurting from the financial crisis – Used programs collectively known as the New Deal. – Turn to your partner and tell them what you know already about the New Deal.

First 100 Days (SSUSH 18 a) • FDIC – insures $ in bank • TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority) – Provides jobs and electricity in TN and GA • Creates jobs for workers • Provides insurance against foreclosed. homes and gives $ for food. – Pg 684

Opposition – Huey Long SSUSH 18 e – Huey Long (who wants to be president) comes up with a plan to “Share the Wealth” to help end the Great Depression. • Proposed high taxes on the wealthy and large corporations and the redistribution of their income to the poor Americans. – Assassinated before election of 1936 – Would you vote for Roosevelt or Long? Why?

The Court-Packing Bill SSHSUH 18 e • Supreme Court was resistant to FDR’s programs and struck down many of his ideas. • FDR came up with an idea (called Court-Packing Bill): – He would increase the number of Supreme Court justices from 9 to 15. Then pack the court full of people who agree with his ideas so they would pass. • Opposition called FDR a dictator and socialists so he withdrew his request.

• Page 697 • Read the section “The Court-Packing Plan” • Write 3 -4 sentences telling whether you would have supported or opposed FDR’s plan to change the Supreme Court to help support the New Deal.

Second New Deal SSUSH 18 b, c • New programs started to continue progress. – Ex: Wagner Act, Social Security Act • Read about these 2 acts in your book. – Social Security pg 694 – Wagner Act 692 • Which of these acts do you feel was the most beneficial to Americans?

• Social Security Act: Program that provides pension (money) for retired workers and spouses, aides people with disabilities, poor mothers w/ dependent children, needy elderly. • Wagner Act: passed to protect organized labor. Allows people the rights to unionize.

Eleanor Roosevelt SSUSH 18 d • What is the job of the first lady? • Pg 696 read the first paragraph: • How did Eleanor Roosevelt transform the position of First Lady?

Neutrality Act SSUSH 18 e • 1935 this act prohibited the sale of weapons to warring nations and was meant to keep the US from forming alliances that might drag the nation into war. • What does this sound like? • Do you think this will be effective to America and that America will be able to stay out of the war?

Summarizer • How was the New Deal a response to the Great Depression and a change in the role of government?

Roosevelt and the Great Depression Successes Challenges First 100 Days Huey Long Second New Deal Court Packing Bill

Eleanor Roosevelt • How did Eleanor Roosevelt transform the position of First Lady? Eleanor Roosevelt Neutrality Act