Republicans must stay with Hoover or take blame for Depression

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Election of 1932. Republicans must stay with Hoover or take blame for Depression Democrats choose Franklin D. Roosevelt Hoover says F.D.R. will destroy the American economy. F.D.R. traveled 25,000 miles, promised to help “the forgotten man” - “New Deal” - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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• Republicans must stay with Hoover or take blame for Depression

• Democrats choose Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Hoover says F.D.R. will destroy the American economy

• F.D.R. traveled 25,000 miles, promised to help “the forgotten man” - “New Deal”

• F.D.R. wins - Inaugural Address - “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Reality was that he was the first to give the nation hope

• Group of intellectuals who advised the President

• Raymond Moley - Law professor

• Rexford Tugwell - Agriculture professor

• Adolph Berle - Corporate finance lawyer and speech writer

• The first “New Deal”

• March 9 - June 16, 1933

• Honeymoon period when the President told the Brain Trust “If all fails admit it frankly and try another, but above all try”

• Declared a “Bank Holiday” - fastest bill in history

• Sec. of Treasury called in all gold in the country ($10,000 fine if you didn’t)

• Examined all banks - sound ones were allowed to reopen

• First “Fireside Chat” he says “I assure you it is safer to keep your money in a reopened bank than under a mattress”

• By end of next week 3/4 of nations banks reopened

• Emergency currency issued to halt bank runs

• Prohibited commercial banks from selling stock or financing corporations

• Created Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) which insured investors up to $2,500

• F.D.R. had the U.S. taken off the gold standard in April, 1933

• By 1934, the dollar is worth 59 cents

• Goal was to see major businesses shortened hours and raised wages

• “Codes of Fair Competition” - minimum wage, no child labor, and collective bargaining

• Established N.I.R.A.

• Effort to join the federal gov’t with business and labor to fight the depression

• Set codes of fair competition

• Headed by Hugh Johnson

• Blue Eagle “We do our part”

• People encouraged to only go to NIRA businesses

• Small and large businesses didn’t like it (too pro-labor)

• NIRA and NRA declared unconstitutional - can not establish codes of fair competition

• National Labor Relations Act - 1933

• Saved part of the NIRA• No coercion of employees• No firing due to union membership• Guarantee collective bargaining

• CCC - March 31, 1933

• Provide employment for men age 18-25

• Built parks and battlefields

• Paid $30.00/month, $25.00 had to be sent home

• To advise and assist farmers

• May 12, 1933

• Government paid farmers not to produce

• Paid subsidies for unplanted land

• By 1934 - size of Illinois

• May 12, 1933, FERA• To provide direct relief to

needy Americans. • System set up $5 million to

state and local governments to directly help the needy

• TVA, May 28, 1933

• To help develop the resources of the Tennessee Valley

• 25,000 miles long, 25 dams, 7 states benefit from electricity provided

• Encouraged industry in area

• HOLC, June 13, 1933

• To help townspeople refinance their mortgages

• Low interest rates and 15 years to pay mortgage

• Helped middle and upper middle class homes

• PWA, June, 13, 1933

• Provide employment on public works

• Help business help people

• Usually were construction jobs

• Enterprise and Yorktowne

• June 13, 1933, NRA

• To revive American business

•FCA, June 16, 1933

•Set up credit system for farmers

• CWA, November 8, 1933

• Provided employment at federal expense

• Rake leaves, pave roads,

• Real goal was to get people through the Winter of 33-34

• Airports, schools $15.00/week

•SEC, June 6, 1934

•Protected public and private investors in stocks

•FHA, June 28, 1933

•Inside loans for home construction

• Wanted to pay every American over 60 $200/month

• To be paid by 2% sales tax

• Person could not hold a job

• Had to spend money every month

• Popular idea with the people

• Cost $24 billion/year

• “Radio Priest”

• Received more mail in 1934 than FDR - very popular

• Wanted government ownership of banks, natural resources and public utilities

• “Kingfish”

• Proposed gov’t take money from the rich and give to the poor

• Give every family a car, home, & a radio

• College education if wanted

• Tax the rich at 70% - he was assassinated

• WPA, April 8, 1935

• Provide jobs and training for 16-25 year olds

• Accounted for over 1/2 of schools built in the 1930’s, 800 airports, 13,000 playgrounds, 2,500 hospitals

• Kept artists and actors employed

•NLRB, July 5, 1935

•Purpose was to guarantee rights to workers

• SSB, August 14, 1935

• To provide a sound social security system

• Helped children, handicapped, and the aged

• Every worker had to take part

• Provided for unemployment compensation

• Employers and employees made mandatory contributions out of wages

• Idea came from Francis Perkins, first women to hold a cabinet position