Chapter 34 Kennedy/Cohen/Bailey

1. Advanced Placement United States History Chapter 34 Kennedy/Cohen/Bailey American PageantLecture Outline

2. Franklin D. Roosevelt’sNew Deal Administration 1932……1933-37 1936……1937-41 1940……1941-45 1944……1945-Died

3. Inaugural Address “Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself.” Not Your Fault “The Evil Money Changers…” Nothing Wrong with Democracy Only Reforms Needed “This Nation will Endure…”

4. The Disabled President FDR was Paralyzed From the Waist, & Confined to a Wheelchair – Facts the Public did not Know

5. The President’s Lady Eleanor Roosevelt • Independent Minded • Politically Active • FDR’S Right Arm • Served as Eyes , Ears & Legs for FDR

6. A Political First LadyBecame Advocate for: • Minorities • Women • Children • Working Class & Labor Unions • Disabled

7. Eleanor Roosevelt: Women’s Advocate Eleanor Roosevelt announced First Lady Press Conferences open to Women Reporters Only Women’s Press Corps

8. Eleanor Roosevelt: Editorial Writer ER Wrote a Daily Column called “My Day” Published by Major Newspapers Across the Nation

9. Eleanor Roosevelt: Civil Libertarian Eleanor Roosevelt intervened with the Dept. of the Interior to get Marian Anderson a stage at the Lincoln Memorial for her concert in 1939

10. Marian Anderson,World Class Opera Singer, had been barred from singing at Constitution Hall simply because she was African-American and Jim Crow Laws forbid Blacks mixing with Whites April 9, 1939

11. 100 Days Congress Enacted New Deal Legislation 1933

12. Bank Holiday – March 6, 1933

13. Fireside Chats - Radio Direct Communication With American People By Radio

14. Americans Listen at Their Firesides

15. Emergency Banking Relief ActMarch 9, 1933 Authorized FDR to Regulate Banking Industry and Reopen Solvent Banks

16. Beer and Wine Revenue Act March 9, 1933 Heralds End of Prohibition

17. Unemployment Relief Act, March March 31, 1933 Creates CCC

18. Civilian Conservation Corps3 Million Men – 1933-1942 Unemployed Youth Age 18-25 could serve 3 years for $30 a month with $25 sent to family

19. Civilian Conservation Corps CCC Provided: Food/Clothing Education Job Training Family Assistance Outdoor Living

20. Agricultural Adjustment ActAAA May 12, 1933 Creates Artificial Scarcity in order to Raise Price of Farm Products Creating Profits for Farmer

21. Tennessee Valley Authority ActTVA May 18, 1933 Created Jobs, Flood Control, & Cheap Electricity in the Poorest Region of the Nation

22. National Industrial Recovery ActJune 16, 1933 Creates National Recovery Administration And Public Works Administration

23. National Recovery Administration NRA Industrial Codes Established Governing Wages, Product Standards, Prices, Unions are Okayed

24. Public Works AdministrationPWA Federally Financed Work Programs for Unemployed: Public Buildings, Highways, Dams, Air Ports & Parks

25. Glass-Steagall Banking Reform Act June 16, 1933 Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

26. Civil Works AdministrationNovember 9, 1933 Created by FDR during winter of 1933 to create federally sponsored makework or “boondoggling” such as raking leaves, sweeping streets, picking up trash 25% National Unemployment

27. Works Progress AdministrationWPA May 6, 1935 Federal work programs that built schools, highways, post offices, but also hired artists, students, musicians, writers and other white collar workers such as John Steinbeck 9 Million Employed

28. Social Security Act August 14, 1935 Unemployment Insurance and Old Age Pensions

29. Social Security Act August 14, 1935 Provided payments for unemployed, aged, dependent children, & handicapped financed by payroll tax

30. Enemies of the New Deal • Father Charles Coughlin • Dr. Francis Townsend • Senator Huey Long • U.S. Supreme Court • American Liberty League

31. Rev. Charles Coughlin The Radio Priest Union For Social Justice

32. Dr. Francis Townsend Old Age Pension Plan Townsend Clubs Aid to the Elderly Poor

33. Senator Huey Long of Louisiana “The Kingfish” Share Our Wealth Plan

34. U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes Court Opposed New Deal Programs

35. U.S. Supreme Court declares unconstitutional: NRA - 1936 AAA - 1936 Threatens Social Security Act

36. U.S. Supreme Court FDR Proposes Court-Packing Plan & Fails

37. Roosevelt’s New Deal The End

38. Credits: • CCC - http://www.cccalumni.org/ • FDR Presidential Library – http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/ • Library of Congress – http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/ • National Archives – http://www.nara.gov/ • NRA – http://www/spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USSARnar.htm • New Deal Network – http://newdeal.feri.org/library/index.htm#4 • Roaring 20s – http://cvip.fresno.com’~jsh33/roar.html • Smithsonian Institute – http://americanhistory.si.edu/sweatshops/ history/2t51.htm

39. Credits (cont’d) • Social Security photos: - http://www.historyteacher.net/ APUSH-Course/Weblinks/Weblinks23.htm • Coughlin photo -http://www.ssa.gov/history/cough.html • Long photo - http://www.ssa.gov/history/longsen.html • Elderly photo - http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/images/ photodb/27-0622a.gif • Court cartoon - http://newdeal.feri.org/court/010.htm • Court cartoon - http://newdeal.feri.org/court/126.htm

40. Credits (cont’d) • Photo of Eleanor & Women Reporters – Steven M. Gillon & Cathy D. Matson, The American Experiment, Houghton Mifflin (2002), p. 1000. • Marian Anderson - http://www.library.upenn.edu/ special/photos/anderson/493.html • Marian Anderson - Washington, D.C., April 9, 1939