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The Second New Deal Takes Hold – a couple years into FDR’s Presidency

The Second New Deal Takes Hold – a couple years into FDR’s Presidency. Ch 23 Section 2. Group 1. farmers, migrant workers, and others living in rural areas. Problems: soil depletion Inability to buy land Squalid housing Dust storms Debt, bank foreclosures Lack of electricity

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The Second New Deal Takes Hold – a couple years into FDR’s Presidency

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  1. The Second New Deal Takes Hold – a couple years into FDR’s Presidency Ch 23 Section 2

  2. Group 1. farmers, migrant workers, and others living in rural areas • Problems: • soil depletion • Inability to buy land • Squalid housing • Dust storms • Debt, bank foreclosures • Lack of electricity • Laws/Agencies: • Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act • Resettlement Administration • Farm Security Administration • Farm Mortgage Moratorium • Rural Electrification Administration • Public Utilities Holding Company Act

  3. Group 2. students and other young people • Problems: • Unemployment • Poverty • Hopelessness • Loss of dignity • Lack of spending money • Laws/Agencies: • Works Progress Administration • National Youth Administration

  4. Group 3. teachers, writers, artists, and other professionals • Problems: • Unemployment • Poverty • Hopelessness • Loss of dignity • Laws/Agencies: • Works Progress Administration

  5. Group 4. all workers, including the unemployed • Problems: • Unemployment • Poverty • Hopelessness • Loss of dignity • Laws/Agencies: • Works Progress Administration • National Youth Administration • Wagner Act (National Labor Relations Act) • National Labor Relations Board • Fair Labor Standards Act • Social Security Act The Fair Labor Standards Act : one important part of this act regulates child labor.

  6. Group 5. retired workers • Problems: • Poverty • Hopelessness • Loss of dignity • Laws/Agencies: • Social Security Act

  7. Group 6. The Disabled, the needy elderly, and dependent mothers and children • Problems: • Poverty • Hopelessness • Loss of dignity • Laws/Agencies: • Social Security Act

  8. Social Security Act : Video Clip

  9. SO……… • Open-ended question for discussion: • Which two New Deal reforms were the most important ones? Why did you choose those? Think about both immediate and lasting impacts. • Talk with a group of people in your general vicinity and prepare to report back to the class as a whole

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