Ch 18- The New Deal

1. Ch 18- The New Deal Mote

2. 1. Define the NEW DEAL using your glossary.Popular title given to various recovery programs developed during President Franklin Roosevelt’s administration to end to Great Depression.

3. 2. Explain what these 3 programs of the NEW DEAL were:Roosevelt’s New Deal Programs were aimed at Relief, Recovery, and Reform

5. Relief Programs • Aimed at providing help for the unemployed • Provided some direct handouts- food, clothing, cash • Most programs involved providing work

6. Recovery Programs • Programs aimed at helping the economy get back on its feet • Especially farm prices due to overproduction

7. Reform Programs • Aimed at making changes in the way Americans worked and did business • Purpose – to prevent another Great Depression

9. Eugene Talmadgeand the New Deal

10. 3. Define socialist-someone who believes in government ownership of major services and the means of production

11. 4. At first, Governor Eugene TalmadgesupportedPresident Roosevelt’s efforts and the NEW DEAL.

12. 5. Then, he began to fear the NEW DEAL as threateningGeorgia’s way of life.

13. 6. Talmadge had 3 oppositions to the NEW DEAL:

14. 7. When the General Assembly passed laws for GA to be able to participate in the NEW DEAL programs, Talmadgevetoed them!

15. 8. Georgians had mixed feelings. They believed in the values that Talmadge preached, but they also appreciated the help that President Roosevelt’s NEW DEAL would give them. Plus, President Roosevelt had come to Warm Springs, Georgia and built a “LittleWhite House” which made him special in the eyes of many Georgians.

16. Georgia’s “Little New Deal” 304-305

17. 9. In 1936, Georgians voted their approval of the NEW DEAL and President Roosevelt. Talmadge was defeated in the governor’s race by a man who favored the NEW DEAL. (Rivers) E. D. Rivers

18. 10. How did Georgia benefit from the NEW DEAL? 304-305 Name 6 ways. • Roads • Bridges • Courthouses • Schools • Social Security • Soil conservation

19. Reaction and Reform Talmadgeis Reelected

20. 11. Talmadge is reelected to the governor of Georgia in 1940. He won by attacking many of the New Deal Programs. He said they were unnecessary, costly, and a threat to Americanfederalism.He warned white voters that the NEW DEAL’S real AIM was to end segregation in the South!

21. 1.Talmadge objected to “ultraliberals” in Georgia’s colleges and universities.

22. 2. He said that “foreign” professors from other states were trying to destroy the South.

23. 3. He actually proposed dismissing any university professors or administrators who were NOT native Georgians.

24. 4. He promised to rid Georgia’s colleges of any professor who favored communism or racialequality.

25. 5. Talmadge found out that certain professors supported school integration- educating black and white students in the same schools.

26. 6. Talmadge found out that 2 administrators were for integration.

27. 7. Talmadge was on the Board of Regents and was able to get these 2 administrators FIRED.

28. 8. As a result of this firing and Talmadges interferences, the University of Georgia and other universities in Georgia lost their accreditation.

29. 9. Losing their accreditation meant that degrees earned at these colleges, would not be recognized outside Georgia!

30. 8. Students began to protest Talmadge’s interference and the loss of accreditation at their schools.

31. 9. As a result, the protesting students took the side Ellis Arnall who was running against Talmadge for governor.

32. 10. Hundreds of college students campaigned for Arnall and he won the governor’s race against Talmadgein 1942.

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