Transcript The “New Deal”

The “New Deal”
Chapter 23 Sections 1-3
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR)
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Wins election of 1932
by a landslide. FDR
472 electoral votes to
Hoovers 59.
FDR promises
America a “New Deal”
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FDR
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Hundred Days – pushes through program
after program to create jobs, provide relief.
Closes the banks – inspects banks, insures
savings of up to $5,000.
Creates Public Works Programs –
government funded projects to build public
facilities.
Programs
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CWA
Civil
Works
Administration
Gave jobs to
unemployed, they
built or improved
roads, parks, airports,
and other facilities
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CCC
Civilian
Conservation
Corps
2.5 million men work
on forests, beaches,
and parks. They earn
$1 a day but are
boarded in camps and
fed.
Programs
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NIRA
National
Industrial
Recovery
Act
Wants to increase prices
and help businesses.
Regulates wages, working
conditions, production
and prices, sets minimum
wage.
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PWA
Public
Works
Administration
Provides jobs to build
projects such as
Grand Coulee Dam,
road connecting Key
West to Florida, and
Triborough Bridge in
New York.
More Programs
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SEC
Securities and
Exchange
Commission
Regulates the stock
market, regulates
buying stock on
margin.
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HOLC
Home
Owner’s
Loan
Corporation
Refinances home
mortgages for middle
class, so people can
keep their homes.
Still More Programs
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AAA
Agricultural
Adjustment
Administration
Tries to raise farm
prices, pays farmers
not to produce.
Some farmers plow
under fields and
destroy livestock.
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TVA
Tennessee
Valley
Authority
Tennessee Valley one
of the country’s least
modernized regions.
Provides jobs building
a dam and provides
cheap hydroelectric
power to region.
End of the Honeymoon
What happens to
FDR’s “New
Deal” legislation?
 What is FDR’s
response? Give
specific
examples.
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Homework
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FDR in his first hundred days passed
many programs to provide relief,
create jobs, or stimulate the
economy. Your job is to create a
public works agency for this school,
or community. You need to identify
the goal of the program, the people
who would qualify to work in the
program, the people who would
benefit from the program, and the
way it would impact your school or
community.
Writing Assignment
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What kind of advice do you think a
survivor of the Great Depression might
give younger adults today?
Writing Assignment
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The text quotes Harry Hopkins as saying: “Give a
man a dole [handout] and you save his body and
destroy his spirit. Give him a job and pay him an
assured wage and you save both the body and the
spirit.”
Explain the relevance of this way of thinking to the
New Deal.
Do you think this saying is true? Why or why not?
Do you think this is what we do in our country today?
Do we give out a “dole” or do we give someone a
“job and pay him an assured wage” when they lose
their job or need help? Support your answer.
Group Assignment
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Get into your group and go over your
answers to the writing assignment.
Decide as a group what you believe for
question number 3.
As a group decide what would you do to
change, fix, or improve America in this
area of providing relief for people in need
or without a job.