The New Deal

Question 1

What were the results of the 1932 election?

Answer 1

FDR won - 42/48 states

Question 2

What were FDR’s ideals for dealing with the Depression?

Answer 2

1. Relief - help the old, sick, unemployed and homeless
2. Recovery - government schemes to provide jobs
3. Reform - make America a better place and ensure another Depression won’t happen.

Question 3

What were FDR’s Alphabet Agencies? Name and describe the function of 3.

Answer 3

1. Federal government agencies created as part of the New Deal to create jobs and provide services to help recovery from the G.D.
2. Emergency Banking Act - ordered all banks to close for 4 days, only allowing those properly managed to reopen, which ended the banking crisis.
3. AAA (Agriculture Adjustment Administration) - paid farmers the same income to produce less food, which raised prices of which. Helped farmers conserve soil to prevent another Dust Bowl
4. CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) - helped 2.5 million unemployed men (18-25) by giving them 6 months of work on environmental projects.

Question 4

What three main groups opposed the New Deal?

Answer 4

1. Supreme Court
2. Republicans
3. Radicals
4. Rich ppl

Question 5

Why did the Supreme Court oppose the New Deal?

Answer 5

1. Declared 11/16 Alphabet Agencies unconstitutional, e.g. AAA b/c efforts to help farmers should come at state-level not federal.
2. Said that parts of the New Deal contradicted the powers of the states given by the Constitution.

Question 6

Why did Republicans oppose the New Deal?

Answer 6

1. Thought the NRA and TVA were like the communist economic planning of the USSR
2. Thought the Social Security Act would encourage laziness which directly opposes rugged individualism

Question 7

Why did radicals oppose the New Deal?

Answer 7

Louisiana senator said FDR didn’t do enough for the poor - proposed an alternative called “Share Our Wealth” and promised to confiscate personal stuff worth over $3 mil to give each American family $4-5000

Question 8

Why did the rich oppose the New Deal?

Answer 8

FDR’s social class hated the higher taxes for the rich which financed the New Deal - treated him as a “class-traitor” and was expelled from his class for letting down “his people”