Ch 18- The New Deal

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1. Define the NEW DEAL using your glossary.Popular title given to various recovery programs developed during President Franklin Roosevelt’s administration to end to Great Depression.

2. Explain what these 3 programs of the NEW DEAL were:

Roosevelt’s New Deal Programs were aimed at Relief, Recovery, and Reform

Relief Programs Recovery Programs

Reform Programs

Relief Programs

• Aimed at providing help for the unemployed• Provided some direct handouts- food,

clothing, cash• Most programs involved providing work

Recovery Programs

• Programs aimed at helping the economy get back on its feet

• Especially farm prices due to overproduction

Reform Programs

• Aimed at making changes in the way Americans worked and did business

• Purpose – to prevent another Great Depression

PROGRAMS OF THE NEW DEAL

What did this program do?

HOW DID THIS PROGRAM AFFECT GEORGIANS; FARMERS & RURAL CITIZENS

Civilian Conservation Corps 299

Put young men to work in rural and forest areas

Provided jobs to the unemployed

Agricultural Adjustment Act299

Aimed to bring income back up to WWI levelsFor the farmerPaid the farmer to produce less

To raise prices and enable farms to buy manufactured goods

Rural Electrification 301http://www.gpb.org/georgiastories/stories/rural_electrification_administration

Gave power to rural Georgia

Georgians were happy to have electrical power

Social Security301 Helped people in retirement and unemployment

Provided some relief to the unemployed and retired

Eugene Talmadge

and the New Deal

3. Define socialist-someone who believes in government ownership of major services and the means of production

4. At first, Governor Eugene Talmadge supported President Roosevelt’s efforts and the NEW DEAL.

5. Then, he began to fear the NEW DEAL as threatening Georgia’s way of life.

6. Talmadge had 3 oppositions to the NEW DEAL:

1. He opposed Minimum Wage requirements

2. He said it would hurt private enterprise by paying too high a wage

3. It would threaten white supremacy by giving blacks equal pay with whites.

7. When the General Assembly passed laws for GA to be able to participate in the NEW DEAL programs, Talmadge vetoed them!

8. Georgians had mixed feelings. They believed in the values that Talmadge preached, but they also appreciated the help that President Roosevelt’s NEW DEAL would give them. Plus, President Roosevelt had come to Warm Springs, Georgia and built a “Little White House” which made him special in the eyes of many

Georgians.

Georgia’s “Little New Deal” 304-305

9. In 1936, Georgians voted their approval of the NEW DEAL and President Roosevelt. Talmadge was defeated in the governor’s race by a man who favored the NEW DEAL. (Rivers) E. D. Rivers

10. How did Georgia benefit from the NEW DEAL? 304-305 Name 6 ways.

• Roads• Bridges• Courthouses• Schools• Social Security• Soil conservation

Reaction and Reform Talmadge is Reelected

11. Talmadge is reelected to the governor of Georgia in 1940. He won by attacking many of the New Deal Programs. He said they were unnecessary, costly, and a threat to American federalism.He warned white voters that the NEW DEAL’S real AIM was to end segregation in the South!

1.Talmadge objected to “ultra liberals” in Georgia’s colleges and universities.

2. He said that “foreign” professors from other states were trying to destroy the South.

3. He actually proposed dismissing any university professors or administrators who were NOT native Georgians.

4. He promised to rid Georgia’s colleges of any professor who favored communism or racial equality.

5. Talmadge found out that certain professors supported school integration- educating black and white students in the same schools.

6. Talmadge found out that 2 administrators were for integration.

7. Talmadge was on the Board of Regents and was able to get these 2 administrators FIRED.

8. As a result of this firing and Talmadges interferences, the University of Georgia and other universities in Georgia lost their accreditation.

9. Losing their accreditation meant that degrees earned at these colleges, would not be recognized outside Georgia!

8. Students began to protest Talmadge’s interference and the loss of accreditation at their schools.

9. As a result, the protesting students took the side Ellis Arnall who was running against Talmadge for governor.

10. Hundreds of college students campaigned for Arnall and he won the governor’s race against Talmadge in 1942.

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