FDR

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FDR

• Another Roosevelt to the Rescue

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FDR and The New Deal

• Franklin Delano Roosevelt state legislature,
  Asst. Sec of Navy, Vice Pres. Nominee, Governor
  of New York, President in 1932.
• The Hundred Days Congress and the Bank Crisis
• New Deal- Three Rs Relief for Unemployment,
  Recovery of Economy, Reform to Prevent Disaster
• Relief- FERA, CCC, PWA
• Recovery- NIRA, NRA, AAA, TVA
• Reform- Truth in Securities Act
• Glass-Steagall Banking Act -gt created FDIC
• President People- Fireside Chats
• Eleanor- profound figure

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Roosevelt hard at work.
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New Deal Big Deal

• Some recovery- 25 income rise
• Tenant farmers and the AAA
• Labor- New Members- Strike
• a. Minneapolis truck drivers-1934
• b. Textiles- 1800 1.5 million-1934
• Radical Leaders and their solutions
• a. Dr. Townsend Social Security?
• b. Father Charles Coughlin- radical overtones
• c. Huey Long- puppet govt.
• New Deal No Deal! Roosevelt is attacked from
  business and conservatives

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The Attack and Rebuttal

• American Liberty League vs. Pres. Roosevelt
• Supreme Court attacks The New Deal NIRA and AAA.
• Second New Deal introduces
• WPA, Social Security , Wagner Act, Soil
  Conservation Act, REA, Public Utility Act,
  Revenue Act.
• Reelection in 1936 and the New Supreme Court
  Justices.
• What is their term?
• Why more?

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Impact of the New Deal

• Women politics- Recognition
• a. Eleanors press conference
• b. 1st women in Cabinet, 1st courts, 1st
  ambassadors
• c. Discrimination- NRA, married women
• African Americans- 50 in Roosevelt cabinet
• a. Harold Ikes- PWA Mary Bethume- National
  Youth Adm. WPA FERA
• b. Failure TVA- CCC Armed forces segregation
• Natives Gain
• a. Discrimination against Natives poorest in
  nation creation of the Indian Reorganization
  Act.
• b. John Collier- Commissioner of Indian Affairs
• Federal Regulations- New Deal expanded government
  control.

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Campaign buttons for 1936 and evicted
Sharecroppers.
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