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The New Deal

The New Deal. How did the federal government’s role in the life of average Americans radically change under Roosevelt’s New Deal? . BROAD GOALS OF THE NEW DEAL:. RELIEF “band aids” to stop the bleeding Food, clothing, shelter, unemployment RECOVERY

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The New Deal

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  1. The New Deal • How did the federal government’s role in the life of average Americans radically change under Roosevelt’s New Deal?

  2. BROAD GOALS OF THE NEW DEAL: • RELIEF • “band aids” to stop the bleeding • Food, clothing, shelter, unemployment • RECOVERY • Antidote/ medicine to treat immediate “disease” • Short term laws passed • REFORM • “immunizations” to prevent disease from returning • Permanent changes to the role of the government

  3. New Deal Posters • Your poster should: • Identify the New Deal Program • Its purpose/ goal should be apparent • This is propaganda- it should persuade people to support the New Deal Program • Be prepared to briefly explain: • The purpose of the program • The problem it addresses • Whom it helps • Is it designed for Relief, Recovery, and/or reform

  4. Review: How did the New Deal programs attempt to address the causes and hardships of the Great Depression? Come up with programs or actions FDR took for the following…. N E W D E A L High unemployment Home foreclosures Corruption in the Stock Market Bank failures Overproduction of industry Overproduction of crops

  5. Why might the New Deal be controversial? What do you think critics would complain about?

  6. Increased power of gov’t EXPENSIVE!! Taxes! Threatens liberty and private property (TVA) Deficit spending- gov’t spends $ does not have- big national debt http://www.usdebtclock.org/ Did not end the Great Depression Got us throughGrtDp Bank crisis Farmers protected Work for millions Gov’t responsible for citizens’ welfare Social Security Democracy survived! Other nations turned to dictators Bad or Good

  7. Analyze your cartoon • Labels/ Symbols- why that symbol? • Exaggeration- why? • Analogy- is a complicated issue being compared to a more familiar one? • How are they similar? • Irony • Are things not as they should be? • What do you think the cartoonist was trying to say?

  8. Labels/ Symbols- why that symbol? Exaggeration- why? Analogy- is a complicated issue being compared to a more familiar one? How are they similar? Irony- Are things not as they should be? What is the cartoonist’s point?

  9. Labels/ Symbols- why that symbol? Exaggeration- why? Analogy- is a complicated issue being compared to a more familiar one? How are they similar? Irony- Are things not as they should be? What is the cartoonist’s point? According to this cartoon, what is the New Deal leading to? Why do you think the cartoonist feels this way? How does the Constitution protect citizens from “tyranny”?

  10. Labels/ Symbols- why that symbol? Exaggeration- why? Analogy- is a complicated issue being compared to a more familiar one? How are they similar? Irony- Are things not as they should be? What is the cartoonist’s point?

  11. What branch is not cooperating? What power is the Supreme Court using?

  12. Labels/ Symbols- why that symbol? Exaggeration- why? Analogy- is a complicated issue being compared to a more familiar one? How are they similar? Irony- Are things not as they should be? What is the cartoonist’s point? How would FDR’s “Court Packing Plan” Change the balance of power in the government? REORGANIZATION PROGRAM THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH OF THE GOVERNMENT

  13. Labels/ Symbols- why that symbol? Exaggeration- why? Analogy- is a complicated issue being compared to a more familiar one? How are they similar? Irony- Are things not as they should be? What is the cartoonist’s point?

  14. Labels/ Symbols- why that symbol? Exaggeration- why? Analogy- is a complicated issue being compared to a more familiar one? How are they similar? Irony- Are things not as they should be? What is the cartoonist’s point? Why do you think Congress did not pass FDR’s Court Packing plan?

  15. Checks and Balances in action • Power used by Supreme Court to “check” FDR: • Power FDR tried to use to “check” Supreme Court? • Power(s) Congress used to “check” FDR’s power grab?

  16. Why is Obama compared to FDR so much? • http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/28/politics/scotus-health-care/index.html • What is potentially standing in the way of Obama’s health care plan that was put into law?

  17. Regents questions: • Key result of ND: The federal government has responsibility for well being of Americans • Hoover v. Roosevelt- ideas on role of government in the economy • Wagner Act/ NLRB- power to labor unions to form/ collective bargaining • Sup Ct. vs. Roosevelt: increased power of pres/ programs unconstitutional/ “court packing plan”

  18. Essay question: Describe how New Deal programs addressed each of the 3 goals of the New Deal • different program/ law for each goal • paragraph each • Describe the problem and solution in detail for full credit • Relief- immediate help for those struggling • Recovery- changing the economic system to fix the problems and have long term recovery • Reform- permanent changes in the involvement of the government in the economy and lives of Americans

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