Transcript The New Deal - Peoria Public Schools

The New Deal
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FDR
Focus of New Deal
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Relief
Recovery
Reform
1st 100 days
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FDR proposed 15 new programs
Congress approved all 15 measures
Bank Holiday
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FDR closed every bank for a few days
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Stop massive withdrawals
Examine the situation in each bank
Fireside chat
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FDR’s radio addresses to the nation
Restore confidence and hope
FDR’s proposals
FDIC
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Insured each bank account up to $2,500
Today it’s $250,000
HOLC
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Home Owners Loan Corporation
Helped home owners avoid foreclosure
Saved homes of 1 million Americans
FCA
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Farm Credit Administration
Offered low interest loans to farmers
Relief for the needy
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FERA – Federal Emergency Relief
Administration
In 1933 $500 million was given to state
and local agencies
By 1935 3 billion had been distributed
8 million Americans were on public
assistance
CWA
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Civil Works Administration
“make work” projects like raking leaves
and picking up trash
Employed 4 million Americans
CCC
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Civilian Conservation Corps
Targeted men ages 18-25
Army trained men to plant trees and
create trails
Earned $1 a day
Employed 2.5 million men
PWA
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Public Works Administration
Built roads, bridges, and buildings
NIRA
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National Industrial Recovery Act
Stimulated industrial and business activity
AAA
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Agricultural Adjustment Act
Paid farmers to reduce their output of
crops so………..
The price of crops would increase
TVA
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Tennessee Valley Authority
Built dams and power stations to provide
electricity and flood control
Malaria, illiteracy, and soil erosion were
also targeted
CCC
PWA
PWA
CCC
CWA
Equality
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FDR named over 100 African Americans to
posts…..
But offered little support to help African
Americans from violence in the South
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Champion of civil rights
Encouraged FDR to appoint minorities
Frances Perkins
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1st woman cabinet member-Sec of Labor
Robert Weaver
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FDR advisor on race relations
1st black cabinet member -1966
Mary McLeod Bethune
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Appointed director of the Division of
Negro Affairs
Advised FDR on racial matters
2nd New Deal- 1936
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enlarged unemployment relief program
assistance to the rural poor
support for organized labor
social welfare benefits for the elderly and
disadvantaged
strict regulation of business and finance
heavier taxes on the wealthy.
Social Security Act
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1935
Provided pensions to workers aged 65 and
older
(retirement)
Huey Long
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Aka “the Kingfish”
Colorful & corrupt senator from Louisiana
who proposed the share-our-wealth
society….. “Every man a king”
Share Our Wealth program
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Take money from the wealthy and give it
to the poor
He was assassinated in 1935
John Steinbeck
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Famous book that characterized the Great
Depression…………………
The Grapes of Wrath
American Gothic by
Grant Wood
Dorthea Lange
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Famous photographer during the
Depression
Woody Guthrie
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Folk musician who rode the rails during
the Depression
Wrote hundreds of songs about life
Georgia O’Keefe
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Artist from New Mexico
Painted southwestern landscapes and
flowers
Grandma Moses
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Famous elderly folk painter
The Dust Bowl
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Mid 1930’s
Great Plains had a severe drought
Heavy winds turned the region into a
wasteland
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Famous photographer during the
Depression