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FDR’s New Deal

FDR’s New Deal. Particulars on Roosevelt • Political Skills • Personality • Press • People’s Help (The “Brian Trust”) • Pace • Pump priming. First Hundred Days. Alphabet Soup Agencies. FDIC Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. SEC Securities Exchange Commission - stock regulation

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FDR’s New Deal

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  1. FDR’s New Deal

  2. Particulars on Roosevelt • Political Skills • Personality • Press • People’s Help (The “Brian Trust”) • Pace • Pump priming

  3. First Hundred Days

  4. Alphabet Soup Agencies

  5. FDIC Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

  6. SEC Securities Exchange Commission - stock regulation FERA Federal Emergency Relief Administration -dole

  7. PWA Public Works Administration - jobs instead of hand outs

  8. CWA Civil Works Administration - jobs for the jobless

  9. TVA Tennessee Valley Authority - electricity for the rural South

  10. WPA Works Progress Administrations - jobs for artists, etc…

  11. CCC Civilian Conservation Corps - work for single men

  12. AAA Agricultural Adjustment Act - paying farmers to reduce production

  13. NIRA National Industrial Recovery Act - reform of business

  14. NRA National Recovery Administration - enforced NIRA codes

  15. New Deal Positives • higher wages • reduced unemployment • Social Security established • TVA • WPA built schools, hospitals, parks, murals, etc… • new energy in American politics

  16. • 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”

  17. 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

  18. • favoritism shown to organized labor • New, huge, inefficient BUREAUCRACY!

  19. Groups that were ignored by the New Deal: • African Americans • Women

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