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Dust Bowl

Eleanor Roosevelt

  • over worked land
  • topsoil swept into dust clouds
  • farmers could not pay debts
  • Intelligent, principled, political figure
  • encouraged FDR to take on social justice issues
  • distant cousin of FDR

New Deal Critics

New Deal

  • outspoken and relentless activist
  • African American causes
  • Women's rights
  • labor unions
  • banks foreclosed
  • migration to the west - Okies
  • unwanted
  • Fireside Chats
  • Twice a week press conferences
  • Not everyone on board
  • business leaders
  • conservative political leaders
  • New Deal policies were not evenly distributed
  • New Deal not doing enough
  • Heuy Long
  • Francis Townsend
  • Father Charles Coughlin
  • Supreme Court
  • killed the NIRA
  • ruled against New Deal 7 out of 9 times

Second New Deal

  • Works Progress Admin (WPA)
  • Federal projects
  • National Youth Admin (NYA)
  • National Labor Relations Act or Wagner Act
  • right to organize unions
  • Social Security Act
  • Wealth-Tax Act

The Great Depression

Alphabet Soup

  • Federal Emergency Relief Admin (FERA)
  • sent grants to states
  • Civil Works Admin (CWA)
  • federal work relief - gov't payroll
  • too successful
  • Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
  • unmarried men 17 to 27
  • bill passes because of Oscar DePriest
  • Home Owners' Loan Corporation
  • Federal Housing Administration
  • National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)
  • Public Works Admin (PWA)
  • National Recovery Admin (NRA)
  • set prices, wages, and standards
  • Agricultural Assistance Act (AAA)
  • raise prices through cutting production
  • Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
  • electrical power, flood control, jobs to Appalachia

Roosevelt's Second Term

The Forgotten Man

  • overwhelming victory
  • court packing
  • slumping economy
  • Democrats split into two factions
  • New Deal
  • success or failure??

How were Americans feeling in the autumn of 1937?

What is the standard interpretation of the GD?

What is the usual rebuttal to the standard interpretation?

What are the similarities and differences between Hoover and FDR?

Document Analysis

New Deal and FDR

Social Security

Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt?

Was he a compassionate man of the people who salvaged and strengthened the American system, or a political opportunist who irresponsibly expanded the power of government to the detriment of society?

What were the strengths and what were the shortcomings of the New Deal?

Whose responsibility is it care for the elderly and those unable to work?

Watch video

  • What is Social Security
  • Where does money come from?
  • Where did Long think it should come from?
  • Where did Townsend think it should come from?

Find Historian Interpretations in Blackboard - read and share your understanding of argument with someone around you

Working in groups of 3 read Documents A, B, C. Use the questions below to guide your reading:

Doc A. Sourcing : Who gave the speech, when, who is the intended audience, how might these details influence the content and tone of the speech?

Close Reading: What 4 programs are included in the SS bill? How does SS represent FDR's "relief, recovery, and reform" (use evidence to support your answer)?

Doc B: Close Reading: What groups does Houston say are excluded from SS?

Corroborating: What would Houston say about FDR's speech (Doc A)?

Doc C: Sourcing: What does the author tell us about herself? What king of person do you think she is based on the information in this letter? Close Reading: What was M.A. counting on to support her in old age? And why has she lost faith that this will support her? Contextualizing: How does this author generally feel about the New Deal? How does her phrase "security at the price of freedom"capture those feelings?

Was the New Deal a Success or a Failure?

  • Both the NAACP representative and the woman in Doc C were unhappy with SS. How did their concerns differ?
  • How would FDR have responded to the complaints in Doc B and C?
  • Do these docs support Degler or Bernstein? Explain
  • Which historian do you agree with? Why?

Find your assigned readings and analysis questions in blackboard.

Half of you will be required to argue that it was a success and the other half will argue that it was a failure. You will need to use evidence from the documents to support your assigned argument.

Before I assign roles you will need to become experts in your set of documents then teach your group

What were some of the good and bad ideas of each president?

How did FDRs consistent experimentation impact the GD?

Why did the GD last so long?

Why did the FDR get reelected?

Who did the federal gov't neglect in their economic policies?

Who is the forgotten man according to Sumner?

Who is the forgotten man according to FDR?

What is Shales' argument?

Do you agree or does she convince you?

Why or why not?

Hoover vs Roosevelt

  • meet with experts
  • urged businesses
  • formed committees
  • upbeat messages
  • attempted to balance budget
  • fear of socialism
  • charitable organizations
  • Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
  • Bonus Army reaction
  • First 100 days
  • economy
  • banking - FDIC and SEC
  • relief for jobless
  • agreements between management and unions
  • raise depressed commodity prices

Discuss the Forgotten Man

introduction with the people around you...what is the author's argument? what is the "new history" she is presenting?

Causes of the Great Depression

  • Under regulated financial system
  • stock market crash
  • banking failures
  • overproduction and underconsumption
  • too much credit
  • business profits were not used for wage increases
  • Farm stagnation
  • Smoot-Hawley Tariff
  • Fed's reduction of the money supply
  • Global connection
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