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The New Deal

The New Deal. Read pg. 282-283 (The New Deal-New Deal Programs). Watch brainpop: New Deal. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. 32nd President of the United States In office March 4, 1933 –  April 12, 1945 Longest serving president in history, elected 4 terms. New Deal Plan.

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The New Deal

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  1. The New Deal

  2. Read pg. 282-283 (The New Deal-New Deal Programs) Watch brainpop: New Deal

  3. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt 32ndPresident of the United States In officeMarch 4, 1933 –  April 12, 1945 Longest serving president in history, elected 4 terms

  4. New Deal Plan • Created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. • Designed to help the US recover from the Great Depression. • Programs that gave people food, shelter, and jobs during the Depression.

  5. TVA (TN Valley Authority)

  6. The TVA built twenty dams to control flooding, generate hydroelectrical power, increase agricultural production, and strengthen the Tennessee Valley region.

  7. TVA used a turbine runner to power electricity

  8. USA Work Program Taken from American Life Histories, manuscripts from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936-1940. Manuscript Division Library of Congress http://rs6.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html

  9. WPA helping African American Musicians

  10. Notes in tri-fold Economic Boom Economic Bust The New Deal • Black Tues-Oct 29, 1929 • Stock Market Crash • Unemployment rose • Debt increased • Bank failures • Factories & Businesses Closed • Hoovervilles • Dust Bowl • “Great Depression” • Mass production • Assembly Line • Henry Ford-car • People buy things on credit using installment plans • Electricity more common • New entertainment- • Movies, radio • Aviation began • “Roaring Twenties” • President FDR • New gov’t programs • “Alphabet Soup” • TVA-hydroelectricity • Social Security • Set minimum wage • Improved economy

  11. Academic Vocab • 26. debt-money that one person owes another • 27. Great Depression- the period in U.S. history when many people couldn’t find work and many businesses closed • 28. aviation-to design and use of an aircraft

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