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When did Roosevelt’s presidency begin?

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11th March 1933

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Who were FDR’s advisors?

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Eleanor Roosevelt and the Brains Trust

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What were the three main aims of the new deal?

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  • Relief - relieve extreme poverty, feed the starving and stop people losing their homes or farms
  • Recovery - revive the economy by getting industry going and people working again
  • Reform - make the USA a better place for ordinary people by bringing in measures such as unemployment insurance and old-age pensions, and help for the sick, disabled and ready
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How long did Congress meet for at the beginning of FDR’s presidency?

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100 days

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Why was Roosevelt being a democrat helpful?

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Because democrats had a majority of the seat, making it easier to pass new laws

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What was the Emergency Banking Act?

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Gave the government power to only reopen banks that were secure

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What was the Securities Act?

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Improved the regulation of share trading

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When was the first fireside chat?

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12th March 1933

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Why did FDR end prohibition?

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To raise spirits and bring taxable income

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How was government spending paid for?

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Taxation - the top rate of income tax was increased from 64 to 79% in 1935; Borrowing - people were encouraged to buy bonds in return for a fixed interest rate

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Agricultural Adjustment Administration

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  • Payed farmers to produce less food
  • Aided modernisation - technologically and by method changes
  • The technological advancement put many out of jobs
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Civilian Conservation Core

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  • Gave jobs to U25 single unemployed men
  • Lived in a government park working clearing land/cutting trees/manual labour
  • Given food, clothing, shelter, purpose and wages
  • Able to send money back to family
  • 3 million men signed up from 1933-1942
  • Learned useful employment skills
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Civilian Works Administration

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  • Set up in Nov 1933
  • Specific, short-term manual job supply ranging from building roads to sweeping roads
  • Shut down in March 1934
  • Gave jobs to 4 million
  • Spent $2 million a month
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Public Works Administration

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  • Set up by National Industrial Recovery Act in June 1933
  • To build last and valuable projects
  • Created jobs and employed skilled workers
  • 1933-1939 it built 70% of schools and 35% of hospitals
  • Spent $7 billion on employment
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National Recovery Administration

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  • Set up by NIRA in June 1933
  • To increase workers’ wages and factory goods’ prices
  • To improve working conditions within industry
  • Created a voluntary code of practice which improved working conditions, forbade child labour, fixed prices of goods and limited working hours and set minimum wages
  • Signs up for “Blue Eagle” approval along with presidential recognition, similar to “red tractor” today
  • > 2 million employers signed up
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Farm Credit Administration

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  • Set up in March 1933
  • Gave loans to 1/5 of farmers to pay their mortgages
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Federal Emergency Relief Administration

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  • Set up in May 1933
  • Used $500 million to help those most in need
  • Funded soup kitchens, clothes and bedding, schools and nurseries and limited work schemes
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Home Owners Loan Corporation

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  • Set up in June 1933
  • Gave loans to 1 million to stop them from losing their homes
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Tennessee Valley Authority

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  • Covers Tennessee, Missouri, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky and Alabama
  • Set up in May 1933
  • Area poverty stricken due to soil erosion and flooding
  • Built 33 dams to control the Tennessee river
  • Created power, attracting industry and creating jobs
  • Built 650 mile canal
  • Not popular with the republicans
  • Successful
  • Still exists today
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When did FDR begin to face criticism and what did he do?

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May 1935 so plans for the second new deal began Tuesday 14th May 1935

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When was the second new deal presented to Congress?

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June 1935

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What did second new deal aim to do?

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  • Affect ordinary people
  • Strengthen unions to fight for members’ rights
  • Increase financial security in old age
  • Tackle unemployment
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Wagner Act

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  • Forced employers to allow trade unions and to negotiate pay and conditions
  • Made it illegal to sack workers for being in a union
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Social Securities Act

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  • Provided pensions for elderly and widowed
  • Allowed state help to provide for the sick and disabled
  • Unemployment insurance
  • Done by workers paying payed towards a fund for if they became unemployed
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Works Progress Administration

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  • Later renamed the Works Project Administration
  • Brought together all the organisations which aimed to create jobs
  • Extended this work beyond building to create jobs for office workers, actors, artists and photographers
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Resettlement Administration

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Helped smallholders and tenant farmers who weren’t helped by the AAA

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Farm Security Administration

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  • Replaced the RA in 1937
  • Gave special loans to small farmers to help them buy land
  • Built camps to provide decent living conditions and work for migrant workers
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Pressure from advisors’ response - encouragement to radical action to farther benefit the USA; pressure from critics - Roosevelt should be doing more; a shift in emphasis towards reform - aimed to increase welfare, quality of life and wellbeing; the next step - progression from previously applied laws

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Why was there need for a second new deal?

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Successes of the new deal for the unemployed

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Helped unemployment fall; WPA employed 8 million; work relief projects created new parks, roads and schools; the social security act provided unemployment insurance; 35% of the population received government relief

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Shortcomings of the new deal for the unemployed

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In 1939 unemployment was still at 17.2% compared to 3.2% in 1929; projects relied on government spending; the work relief projects only provided to around 40% of those in need; the government didn’t spend enough on relief; relief varied state to state; the poor needed social housing however the government built very little

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Successes of the new deal for Black Americans

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A “Black Cabinet” gave them more political power; 30% of black families received relief; early songs of the end of segregation as some CCC camps were integrated

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Shortcomings of the new deal for Black Americans

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  • The AAA forced black tenants off farmland and the NRA caused many black people to lose their jobs
  • Relief payments were often less than those given to white people
  • Most black workers had no access to social security
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Successes of the new deal for Rural Electrification

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Electrified 35% of farms by 1941; supported 417 cooperating local groups; boosted demand for electricity- 10,000 new contracts arranged by 1938

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Shortcomings of the new deal for Rural Electrification

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Utility companies lost profit and slowed down; spite lines were constructed often leaving poorer farms without electricity

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Successes of the new deal for Native Americans

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The Indian Recognition Act of 1934 restored 7.4 million acres of land to tribes; given the chance to vote and govern themselves; recognition of the right of Native American Women to vote

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Shortcomings of the new deal for Native Americans

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Some New Deal policies were very unpopular e.g. a plan to kill many of the Narajo Tribe’s sheep; most were still very poor; WPA left Native Americans without help when it closed down

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Successes of the new deal for Women

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More influence in politics for to the work of Eleanor Roosevelt; given specific help by the Women’s and Progress divisions in the WPA; grants provided for women and dependent children due to social securities act

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Shortcomings of the new deal for Women

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Paid around half as much as men; women in professional jobs fell from 14.2% to 12.3%; alphabet agencies provided more help for men e.g. CCC gave 2.5 million men jobs whereas camps for women offered only 5000 places a year

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Successes of the National Labour Relations Act

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Union membership rose to around 9 million by 1940; factory workers began to join unions; National Labour Relations Board grew to defend workers from 14 lawyers in 1935 to 226 in 1939

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Shortcomings of the National Labour Relations Act

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Many unions had to strike for official recognition; strikes could be violent as employers attempted to stop them

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Successes of the Social Securities Act

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Provided pensions and unemployment insurance; $50 million set aside for the elderly and $25 million for dependent children; by 1939 grants had helped 7000 children

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Shortcomings of the Social Securities Act

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Self-funded meaning that it couldn’t pay out pensions immediately and the US economy took longer to recover; pay-outs varied from state to state because it was funded by matching grants; domestic servants and agricultural labourers were not included

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Successes of the Banking Act

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Strengthened the Central Banking Systems; no national banks closed; modernised the US banking system; little pay outs in deposit insurance; reduced the likelihood of a crisis repeat

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Shortcomings of the Banking Act

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N/A

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Compared the new deal to Stalin’s 5 year plan and said that Roosevelt was a communist; argued that higher taxation was un-American and opposed liberty; said that FDR had set up a federal dictatorship and had taken too much power to the presidency; had some successes, cutting funding for a relief program in 1938 and blocking a housing plan in 1939

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Republican congressmen

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Disliked the 1935 law that recognised unions in the workplace; felt that governments had become rivals to business by offering good wages and driving up the costs; felt taxpayers money was being wasted on bureaucracy and would be better spent elsewhere

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Businesses

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Founded in 1934; a national organisation that felt the New Deal was anti-business and was threatening the power of the states; distributed leaflets, broadcast speeches and sponsored dinners to get their message out; despite spending over $1 million, they were broadly unsuccessful and only 150,000 joined and republicans told them to stay out of politics, fearing that they were unpopular

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American Liberty League

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Huey Long

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  • Radical “populist” governor of Louisiana
  • Heavily taxed the rich and big businesses to provide social services
  • Elected senator in 1930
  • Urged that the wealth of the rich be distributed among the poor
  • His “Share Our Wealth” campaign was set up in 1934 and stated that all income over $1.8 million was to be divided among the poor
  • Also demanded a minimum wage, state pension and free education
  • Assassinated in 1935
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Thought that everyone over 60 should get a pension of $2000 a month; in return they would spend it all and give up their jobs; this would provide more jobs for young people, create a demand for consumer goods and help the elderly; many older people supported him and 7000 “Townsend clubs” were set up across the USA; though the numbers did not add up in this plan

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Francis Townsend

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Father Coughlin

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  • Catholic priest with a popular radio programme called The Golden Hour of the Little Flower
  • It had 30 million listeners in 1930
  • He started off supporting FDR then turned against him as he felt the New Deal was influenced by bankers, who he thought caused the WSC
  • He accused FDR of not doing enough, setting up the National Union for Social Justice in 1934
  • Successes of the Second New Deal and his increasing anti-semitism and support of Hitler made him a lot less influential
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National Union Party

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  • Coughlin, Townsend, and Long’s successor, Gerald Smith, formed it and put a candidate forward for president in 1936
  • William Lemke (their candidate) got 828,000 votes while FDR got 27.8 million
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Upton Sinclair

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  • A novelist who wrote The Jungle to expose the poor conditions of those working in the meat packing industry
  • Ran for governor of California in 1934 using the slogan “End Poverty in California”
  • He wanted to allow empty land and shutdown factories to be used by the unemployed
  • He was not elected

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