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The New Deal

Roosevelt's Administration. The Brain TrustScholarly advisors who got to work right awayFolksy StyleLike talking to Uncle Frank (Fireside Chats)Long List of ProgramsThe New Deal (alphabet programs)Very Active First LadyEleanor (active in women's and minority rights). Goals of the New Deal. Re

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The New Deal

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    1. The New Deal The Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt

    2. Roosevelt’s Administration The Brain Trust Scholarly advisors who got to work right away Folksy Style Like talking to Uncle Frank (Fireside Chats) Long List of Programs The New Deal (alphabet programs) Very Active First Lady Eleanor (active in women’s and minority rights)

    3. Goals of the New Deal Relief Get the poor back on their feet Recovery Spark the economy to get rolling again Reform The financial systems already in place so that this doesn’t happen again

    4. FDR Ruffles Feathers

    5. Attacks From Both Sides Right American Liberty League States’ rights and free enterprise Left (Bigger Threat) Father Coughlin Dr. Francis Townsend Huey Long

    6. Father Charles Coughlin Had a hugely popular radio show Told the American people that the New Deal was too kind to banks and big business (which was coincidently run by Jews). Anti-Semitism leads to downfall

    7. Dr. Francis Townsend From Long Beach, California Introduced the “Townsend Old Age Revolving Pension Plan” Everyone over 60 gets $200/month but they must spend it during that month

    8. Huey Long Brash, tactless bullying Governor of Louisiana Pushed through a lot of good but forced out all opposition (used cops to help him do this) Proposed the “Share Our Wealth” Program Author of “My First Days in The White House” Assassinated by a ticked of relative of a ruined judge

    9. “Share Our Wealth” No one would have more than $1.8 million or less than $2000 Free education up through college Pensions for the elderly

    10. The Supreme Court Issue FDR tries to restructure the Supreme Court to eliminate that check and balance and this ticks a lot of people off

    11. SO WHAT? It wasn’t the conservatives that scared FDR but rather the extreme liberals America was close to a socialist revolution Communist Party membership 1930 = 7,500 ; 1938 = 75,000 If Long is not killed he could have taken America in a whole different direction towards communism FDR flirts with stepping on the Constitution and is still widely supported. What does that mean for the future?

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