Opposition to New deal Flashcards
What are the 4 main oppositions to the New Deal?
1) Supreme Court
2) The states
3) Business leaders
4) Politicians
How did the supreme court oppose the New Deal?
Because they ruled several New deal measure were illegal. They said the rights of individual states were being lost
How many people had voted against Roosevelt?
16 million people
How had Politicians opposed hime?
Because, for example, Huey Long believed that the new deal had not gone far enough and farther Coughlin used to do radio broadcasts to 40 million people
How had Business men opposed the new deal ?
Because of the regulations of working conditions, growth of trade unions and huge costs of wealth fare programmes
How had different states opposed the New Deal?
Measures like the TVA had cut rights across individual states and feared federal government was becoming too powerful
