The New Deal Section 1:
1932 Election
- Herbert Hoover, and FDR
- FDR won by a landslide
Relief, Reform, and Recovery:
- Relief to the needy
- Economic recovery
- Financial reform
- Switch the cycle into a good cycle not bad
FDR's Brain Trust:
- Harry Hopkins- Social Worker and the architect of much of the New Deal and came up with the New Deal
- Henry Morgenthau-
- Louis Lowe
- Cordell Hull
- Frances Perkins- Sec. of Labor and first female in the cabinet
Fireside Chats:
- Listen to sports and music
- First time the president did that
- The president talked to you
- Radio addresses
Deficit Spending:
- Spending more money than we took in
- spent money on new deal programs
- A lot of wasted money
Court Packing Bill:
- Add new people to the Supreme Court
- All democrats
- lost a lot of support for this idea
- declare things unconstitutional
What were some of the reasons the New Deal was challenged?
- Created a very powerful president that led Congress, this was a violation of checks and balances.
- It was a radical departure from laissez faire ideals. created a "big government"
- Some acts appeared interfering and at worst unconstitutional. People thought they were doing things that he shouldn't do
- Heavy debt burden- The US was engaged in deficit spending and this was unhealthy for the economy in the long run
People who didn't like FDR:
- Father Charles Caughlin- not doing enough
- Francis Townshend- not doing enough for the elderly
- Senator Huey Long- not doing enough take land from the rich and give to the poor
New Deal vs 2nd New Deal:
- Restore nation's hope
- help banks and stock market
- Provide jobs and relief for poor
- Plan and regulate the economy
- Pass new labor laws
- create and expand New Deal agencies
- Establish Social Security order
Eleanor Roosevelt
- Eyes and ears of FDR presidency
- did a lot of speaking for him
- Very active First Lady
1936 Election:
- FDR won again against Al Landon
Reconstruction Finance Corporation:
- Gave loans to banks, state and local governments and business' to create projects/jobs for people
- Gave states loans for emergency relief needs
- Started under Hoover
- Not as successful as Hoover had hoped
- Dissolved in 1946 after WW2
CCC:
- Passed in 1933 during the "one Hundred Days"
- CCC members worked 40 hours a week and were paid $30 a month, with the requirement that $25 of that be sent home to family
- Members lived in camps, wore uniforms, and lived under Military discipline
- The US army operated the camps
- 18-25 year olds
- Planted trees, fought forest fires, and stopped soil erosion
- Helped construct military bases during WW2
- funding stopped in 1942
- the slogan of the CCC was "we can take it!"
FERA:
- Enacted in 1933
- Main function was to create the FERA
- FERA distributed more than 20 millions dollars in direct aid to the unemployed
- This in turn would help the unemployed to find new jobs
PWA:
- In 1933
- created as many jobs as possible in many different varieties
- built new schools, airports, dams, aircraft carriers, hospitals, bridges
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