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Do Now:Complete the

Do Now and

set up your

notes

2/22/2016The Second New Deal (1935 - 1939)

Vocabulary:

court-packing plan: FDRs plan to add justices to the

Supreme Court to protect New Deal laws

dole a charitable gift of food, clothes, or money

Social Security government insurance program forretired, unemployed, or disabled people

Notes

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Announcements

5 SW Tracker

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Did the New Deal work?

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New Deal

Expanded federal programs to

provide relief, recovery, and

reform

Examples: Agricultural Adjustment

Administration (AAA) paid farmers

NOT to plant in order to drive up

prices National Recovery Administration

(NRA) executive branch

coordinated agreements between

industry & workers to set fair prices& wa es

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Challenging the Court

Lochner v. New York (1905) had struck down a

ten-hour workday law because businesses &

workers have liberty of contract

Supreme Court struck down similar laws fordecades, including minimum wage laws, the

AAA & the NRA

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Challenging the Court

FDR announced plan to add

6 more New Deal-friendly

justices to Supreme Court

(for a total of 15) = court-packing

Unpopular plan; opponents

called FDR a dictator

Unnecessary because

Supreme Court changed its

mind the switch in time

that saved nine

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Opposition to the New Deal

American Liberty League conservative pro-

business group that felt New Deal was socialistic

(Communists & Socialists felt New Deal didnt do

enough)

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Opposition to the New Deal

Other popular liberal opponents:

Dr. Francis Townsend said government

should pay all people over 60 not to work

Huey Long Senator who established the

Share Our Wealth Society, arguing for

complete redistribution of wealth

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Second New Deal

Second New Deal responds to

challenges, 1935-36

Frances Perkins, first woman

appointed to cabinet, becomesSecretary of Labor & proposes Social

Security

Social Security Act sets up a federal

tax on employees & employers to

fund a retirement system &

unemployment insurance

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Legacies of the New Deal

Social Security

Banking reforms

FDIC: protects bank deposits

Glass-Steagall Act: divided commercial banks

& investment banks

Minimum wage

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Legacies of the New Deal

But it didnt end the Great Depression

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Or did it?