The New DealChapter 24.1

FDR’s Background

What do you know about FDR?

20th Amendment• March inauguration• 20th Amendment –

changes inauguration• Why change?• Reduces lame duck

period• Get the Brain Trust

to work!

Frances Perkins

Mary McLeod Bethune

21st Amendment

• Prohibition OVER!• Ratified in 1933• Last to ratify =

Utah, Ohio…•… and

Pennsylvania?

Restore Hope

Fireside chats

First Fireside Chat

First Action

•Campaign promise = balance the budget•Economy Act

Two Theories• Keynsian

Economics• “Prime the Pump”• Borrow and spend

money…• To create jobs• Run up large

deficits• Pay debt later

• Supply Side Economics• Tax cuts and

breaks• Businesses

reinvest• Jobs created• Benefits “trickle

down”

The Hundred Days

• “FDR Push” = • New Programs:• Relief = people in

need• Recovery = for the

economy• Reform = never

happen again

Collaboration• Read Chapter

24.1 (p.624 – 631)• Research your

programs• Record your

findings (poster!)• Share with

others

Critics and Response

Chapter 24.2

Political Attacks

• From the left:• Huey Long• Father Coughlin• Dr. Francis Townsend• Union Party

• From the right:• American Liberty

League• Supreme Court

FDR Response• Second New Deal = • Works Progress

Administration• National Youth

Administration• Revenue Act of 1935• Social Security Act• National Labor Relations

Act• Soil Conservation and

Adjustment Act

Presidential Election - 1936

Collaboration

• Pick a partner (or two…)• Pick a program• Record your

findings (poster!)• Share with the

class

End of the New Deal

Chapter 24.3

Final Legislation

• Second AAA (AAA2):– “ever normal granary”–Crop insurance

• Fair Labor Standards Act –Maximum hours–Minimum wage–Overtime pay–No child labor

Recovery and Recession

• Economy = slow, steady, shaky• 1937 = deficit fears

• Roosevelt actions:• 1. Less spending• 2. Lays off workers• 3. Social Security tax

• Effect:• Recession!• Back to Keynes!• Public fears!

Packing the Court (9 15)• Legislation =

reorganize fed courts• Add 6 to SC• Stated rationale• True rationale• Senate• Backlash• Effect – New Deal

support suffers

15?

Democratic Purge

• Conflict• Primary = anti-

speeches, letters by FDR• 1938 elections • Effect – No

Congressional support• NEW DEAL IS OVER!

New Deal Impact

1. Great Depression

2. Modern Government