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Chapter 25

Chapter 25. The New Deal. American people and the crash. Low incomes Psychological impact- suicide Family- malnutrition, baby shortage, falling apart or stronger, homemaking, Women working Childhood anxiety

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Chapter 25

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  1. Chapter 25 The New Deal

  2. American people and the crash • Low incomes • Psychological impact- suicide • Family- malnutrition, baby shortage, falling apart or stronger, homemaking, • Women working • Childhood anxiety • Escape from reality- movies, Gone with the Wind, War of the Worlds, Scarface, The Grapes of Wrath

  3. Dust Bowl • Drought, no crop rotation, overproduction • Exodusters and okies

  4. Minorities • Cesear Chavez- fight for migrant workers • Repatriations- deportations even children born in US • Scottsboro boys

  5. Hoover • “Rugged Individualism” • Rely on private charity • Begin city services • Smoot-Hawley Tariff- tariff on US good- hurts US more then helps • Too little too late

  6. exhausted private and municipal resources. • Hoover unable to mobilize recovery. • afraid that too much government activity would unbalance the budget, impede the return of business confidence and recovery, create an unwieldy and intrusive bureaucracy, and undermine individual freedom and initiative. • too little and too late. • Resentment grew. • Bonus Army on Washington in 1932. • Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt won • The Democratic victory laid the foundation of a powerful coalition that would dominate politics for decades to come.

  7. New Deal-First 100 days • flood of legislation. • Relief- Recovery and Reform • federal planning with associational techniques to try to revive the economy. • The National Recovery Administration promoted industrial cooperation and self-regulation • Agricultural Adjustment Administration similarly relied on private cooperation. But both were struck down by the Supreme Court.

  8. 2nd New Deal- second 100 days1935-1936 • Democrats take Congress. • protest New Deal Huey Long, Charles Coughlin, and Dr. Francis Townsend. -push Roosevelt farther to the left in 1935. • greater regulation, long-term relief, and more sweeping reform. • The Social Security Act institutionalized a welfare state with a social insurance program for the aged, infirm, and dependent children. • The National Labor Relations Act gave a powerful boost to organized labor. • Legislation also strengthened federal control over the private sector. • Roosevelt's 1936 reelection was built on a powerful coalition of the traditionally Democratic South, big city ethnics, and labor, and it reflected the wide impact of the New Deal on the American people. • Roosevelt coalition: support from south, industrial cities and labor= Democrats – class replaced region

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