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-programs to continue help for working class Americans and their families - WPA

2 nd New Deal. -programs to continue help for working class Americans and their families - WPA Works Progress Administration - Social Security Act old age pensions, unemployment, aid to families with children -Rural Electrification Administration. More Programs.

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-programs to continue help for working class Americans and their families - WPA

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  1. 2nd New Deal -programs to continue help for working class Americans and their families -WPA Works Progress Administration -Social Security Act old age pensions, unemployment, aid to families with children -Rural Electrification Administration

  2. More Programs -programs to continue kelp for working class Americans and their families -WPA Works Progress Administration -Social Security Act old age pensions, unemployment, aid to families with children -Rural Electrification Administration

  3. Labor Relations -National Labor Relations Act---(Wagner Act) 612 NLRB right to unionize anti-union practices banned -Fair Labor Standards minimum wage, 40 hour week -Growth of AFL, CIO NLRB

  4. Court Packing -Several New Deal programs ruled unconstitutional AAA, NRA -Roosevelt proposed adding new justices -seen as a threat to checks and balances

  5. Court Packing -Several New Deal programs ruled unconstitutional AAA, NRA -Roosevelt proposed adding new justices -seen as a threat to checks and balances

  6. Women in the Depression -Eleanor Roosevelt -several women named to high gov’t positions Francis Perkins Sec. Of Labor -working women faced resentment -women’s wages still lower than men -gov’t programs gave preferences to men

  7. Women in the Depression -Eleanor Roosevelt -several women named to high gov’t positions Francis Perkins Sec. Of Labor -working women faced resentment -women’s wages still lower than men -gov’t programs gave preferences to men

  8. African Americans -Mary McLeod Bethune friend of Eleanor Roosevelt established “Black Cabinet” -Concert of Marian Anderson at the Lincoln Memorial -Roosevelt never fully committed to civil rights -African Americans came to support the Democratic Party

  9. Art and Literature -many artists displayed the reality of the Depression -Federal Arts Project (WPA) -Grant Wood American Gothic -Richard Wright Native Son -John Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath

  10. Art and Literature -many artists displayed the reality of the Depression -Federal Arts Project (WPA) -Grant Wood American Gothic -Richard Wright Native Son -John Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath

  11. Radio Entertains the Masses -family entertainment -soap operas -Children’s Programs Green Hornet, Lone Ranger -Variety shows and plays Bob Hope, George Burns Orson Welles “War of the Worlds”

  12. Entertainment -Marx Brothers -Gangster films - Frank Capra, Jimmy Stewart ”Mr. Smith goes to Washington” ”It’s a wonderful Life”

  13. Motion Pictures -Gone with the Wind, 1939 -Wizard of Oz, 1939 -Snow White and Seven Dwarfs, 1937

  14. Motion Pictures -Gone with the Wind, 1939 -Wizard of Oz, 1939 -Snow White and Seven Dwarfs, 1937

  15. End of the New Deal -”I see 1/3 of a nation ill -housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished” -by 1937, some recovery -gov’t pulls back programs and depression returns -opposition grows to continued gov’t control -international affairs begin to take precedence

  16. End of the New Deal -”I see 1/3 of a nation ill -housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished” -by 1937, some recovery -gov’t pulls back programs and depression returns -opposition grows to continued gov’t control -international affairs begin to take precedence

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