Opposition to the New Deal Flashcards
Criticisms
- Too much power for the president
- Government is spending too much
- Too much tax
- Didn’t halp everyone
Businesses
Did not like the NRA codes, unions and taxes.
Sick Chicken Case
Poultry Corp challenged the NRA that they had too much power on trade and won. This made the NRA shut down.
Supreme Court
In 1937, he asked the Congress to remove every judge above the age of 70. He didn’t succeed but the judges got his message and truned more to his side.
Republican Party
Republicans in the Congress cut spending of relief programmes, weakened the Alphabet Agencies and bloked new measures.
Liberty League
Spend $1 million and challenged mostly every part of the new deal.
Only 150,000 people, Republicans told it to stay out in the 1936 election, judges were on Rooseveelts side.
Huey Long
- Governor in Louisiana
- Did not like that the NRA was controlled by big businesses, the AAA left poor farmers homeless and the Social Security Act did not reduce the gap between the rich and poor.
- Set up the Share our Wealth programme in 1934 which heavily taxed the rich and gave it to ordinary Americans.
Father Coughlin
- ‘Radio Priest’ with 30 million listeners
- Thought that the New Deal didn’t do enought to reform society.
- Set up the National Union for Social Justice in November 1934 which called for currency and banking reforms, nationalisation of parts of the US economy and fairer taxes.
Francis Townsend
- Retired public health officer
- He wanted to provide over-60s with $200 a month to voost consumer spending.
Upton Sinclair
- Novelist
- He wanted to let people farm empty land and run abandoned factories
National Union Party
Coughlin allied with Share Our Wealth and Francis Townsend and formed this party, promoting William Lemke as president in 1936. They got only 828,000 votes.
