fdr’s new deal

FDR’sNew Deal

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Particulars on Roosevelt

• Political Skills• Personality

• Press• People’s Help (The “Brian Trust”)

• Pace• Pump priming

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First Hundred Days

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Alphabet Soup Agencies

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FDICFederal Deposit Insurance

Corporation

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SECSecurities Exchange Commission

- stock regulation

FERAFederal Emergency Relief

Administration-dole

PWAPublic Works Administration- jobs instead of hand outs

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CWA

Civil Works Administration

- jobs for the jobless

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TVATennessee Valley Authority

- electricity for the rural South

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WPAWorks Progress Administrations

- jobs for artists, etc…

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CCCCivilian Conservation Corps

- work for single men

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AAAAgricultural

Adjustment Act- paying

farmers to reduce

production

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NIRANational Industrial Recovery Act

- reform of business

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NRANational Recovery

Administration- enforced NIRA

codes

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New Deal Positives

• higher wages• reduced unemployment

• Social Security established• TVA

• WPA built schools, hospitals, parks, murals, etc…

• new energy in American politics

• recreation of the Presidency• new groups involved in politics

• economic & social dimensions added to the Bill of Rights

• gave hope to the world• “he found a way for poor folks when

there wasn’t no way”

Negatives of the New Deal

• Supreme Court fights - were the programs Constitutional?

• Unemployment was lower, but still a problem (9 million in the late

1930s)

• Social Security payments were inadequate

• favoritism shown to organized labor

• New, huge, inefficient BUREAUCRACY!

Groups that were ignored by theNew Deal:

• African Americans

• Women

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