HIST 121 Chapter 26
Transcript of HIST 121 Chapter 26
Chapter Twenty-Six:
The New Deal
Brinkley, The Unfinished Nation, 4/e
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Launching the New Deal Restoring Confidence
“Bank Holiday”
Declared
The Radio President
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself!
- Franklin Roosevelt
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Launching the New Deal Restoring Confidence
“Bank Holiday” Declared Emergency Banking Act Securities and Exchange Commission
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Launching the New Deal Agricultural Adjustment
Large Farmers
Favored
Farmer with his allotment of cotton seed which he has just bought cooperatively atRoanoke Farms, NC (Library of Congress)
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Launching the New Deal Agricultural Adjustment
Large Farmers Favored Farm Security Administration
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Launching the New Deal Industrial Recovery
National Recovery Administration Established Section 7(a) Failure of the NRA
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Launching the New Deal Regional Planning
Tennessee Valley Authority Benefits of the TVA
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The Tennessee Valley Authority
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Launching the New Deal The Growth of Federal Relief
FERA Civilian Conservation Corps
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CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) workers, Prince Georges County, Maryland (Library of Congress)
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The New Deal in Transition Critics of the New Deal
American Liberty League Established Dr. Francis Townsend
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Townsend Plan supporter. Columbus, Kansas (Library of Congress)
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The New Deal in Transition Critics of the New Deal
American Liberty League Established Dr. Francis Townsend Father Charles Coughlin Long’s Share-Our-Wealth Plan
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The New Deal in Transition The “Second New Deal”
Holding Company Act National Labor Relations Board
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The New Deal in Transition Labor Militancy
CIO Founded
Striking zinc miner. Columbus, Kansas (Library of Congress)
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The New Deal in Transition Organizing Battles
Sit-Down Strike
Coca-Cola strike, Sikeston, Missouri
(Library of Congress)
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The New Deal in Transition Organizing Battles
Sit-Down Strike “Memorial Day Massacre” Rapid Union Growth
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The New Deal in Transition Social Security
Need-Based Direct Assistance
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Social Security Poster, 1935
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The New Deal in Transition New Directions in Relief
Harry Hopkins
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Visions of the WPA
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The New Deal in Transition The 1936 “Referendum”
Alf Landon
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Unemployment, 1920-1945
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The New Deal in Transition The 1936 “Referendum”
Alf Landon Electoral Realignment
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The New Deal in Disarray The Court Fight
“Court-Packing Plan” Defeated
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The New Deal in Disarray Retrenchment and Recession
Sources of “Roosevelt Recession” End of the New Deal
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Limits and Legacies of the New Deal African Americans and the New Deal
The “Black Cabinet” Discrimination Reinforced
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Harlem Grocery Store, 1940
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Limits and Legacies of the New Deal The New Deal and the “Indian Problem”
Indian Reorganization Act
Indian house, Mescalero Indian Reservation, New Mexico (Library of Congress)
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Limits and Legacies of the New Deal Women and the New Deal
Frances Perkins
Mrs. Roosevelt addressing group at Cumberland Homesteads. Crossville, TN (Library of Congress)
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Limits and Legacies of the New Deal Women and the New Deal
Frances Perkins Prevailing Gender Norms Accepted
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Limits and Legacies of the New Deal The New Deal in the West
Grand Coulee Dam
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Limits and Legacies of the
New Deal The New Deal, the
Economy, and Politics The New Deal’s Economic
Legacy
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Federal Budget Surplus/Deficit and GNP, 1920-1940
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Limits and Legacies of the New Deal The New Deal, the Economy, and Politics
The New Deal’s Economic Legacy American Welfare State Established
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President Roosevelt speaking at Bismarck, North Dakota (Library of Congress)
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Debating the Past:
The New Deal
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