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Affects of The New Deal

The document discusses the impacts of FDR and the New Deal programs in the United States during the 1930s. Key points include: 1) New Deal programs helped stabilize farm prices and allowed farmers to pay their bills by keeping land unused and providing subsidies. 2) The Supreme Court challenged some New Deal programs as unconstitutional. 3) The New Deal affected many groups in the US including women, African Americans, Mexican Americans, and Native Americans, though it failed to fully support civil rights. 4) FDR was re-elected in 1936 with support from labor unions and built a diverse New Deal Coalition, but the Great Depression ultimately ended due to World War II bringing full employment rather than the New Deal programs

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Affects of The New Deal

The document discusses the impacts of FDR and the New Deal programs in the United States during the 1930s. Key points include: 1) New Deal programs helped stabilize farm prices and allowed farmers to pay their bills by keeping land unused and providing subsidies. 2) The Supreme Court challenged some New Deal programs as unconstitutional. 3) The New Deal affected many groups in the US including women, African Americans, Mexican Americans, and Native Americans, though it failed to fully support civil rights. 4) FDR was re-elected in 1936 with support from labor unions and built a diverse New Deal Coalition, but the Great Depression ultimately ended due to World War II bringing full employment rather than the New Deal programs

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The New Deal Affects the United

States in Many Ways


Chapter 23
FDR Helps Farmers
• New Deal Programs
created fixed prices;
stabilized prices
allowing farmers to
pay their bills.
• Farmers were paid for
keeping their land
unused.
Supreme Court Challenges New Deal

• Supreme Court declared the NIRA


unconstitutional. (leg. Powers to the Exec)
• AAA was declared unconstitutional – gov’t
can’t regulate business within a state, only
interstate commerce.
• Roosevelt proposed what became known as
the “Court-Packing Bill” – the addition of 6
more justices.
Differing Views on the New Deal
Liberals Conservatives
•Thought the New Deal didn’t go far •Roosevelt spent too much money on
enough to help the poor and to reform direct relief and used New Deal policies to
the nations economic system. control business and socialize the
economy.
•Conservatives didn’t like the AAA and
NIRA, which they thought gave the
Federal Gov’t too much power over
agriculture and industry.
•Too far in its attempt to regulate the
production and supply of goods and
prices.
•Interferes with the Free Market
principles of America!
“Share the Wealth” Critics
• Huey Long – Senator,
greatest political threat
FDR ever faced.
• Father Charles Coughlin
– guaranteed income,
nationalization of the
banking industry.
• Dr. Francis Townshend –
Monthly pensions for
senior citizens.
FDR Re-Elected in 1936
• Second “Hundred Days”
– “Are you better off today than you were four years
ago?”
Significance of FDR’s Re-Election
• Vote of confidence in his
New Deal policies
• Labor unions rallied
around a single candidate
• African-Americans vote in
large numbers for a
Democrat for the first
time.
Improves Labor Conditions
• Wagner Act – established a legal provision for
collective bargaining.
– The Federal Gov’t supported the right of workers
to join unions.
Regulating Utilities
• The Second New Deal
included laws to
promote rural
electrification and to
regulate public
utilities.
• REA (Rural
Electrification
Commission)
New Deal Affects Many Groups
• Women
• African Americans
• Mexican-Americans
• Native Americans
Women
• Women were brought into
positions of influence within
the government.
• They did not achieve equality!
• Francis Perkins – 1st female
cabinet member, appointed
Secretary of Labor
– Social Security
– Labor Laws
African-Americans
Mary McLeod Bethune – appointed
the head of the Office of Minority
Affairs within the NYA.

NYA/Office of Minority Affairs –


guaranteed jobs and training was
given to African-Americans

Bethune organized the “Black


Cabinet” – a group of influential
African Americans that advised
the President on racial issues.
FDR Fails to support Civil Rights
• FDR was never committed to Civil Rights
– Political reasons
• Refused to support:
– Federal Anti-Lynching Law
– Poll Tax abolition
• Some New Deal programs were blatantly racist
and discriminatory.
• African-Americans viewed FDR as the best hope
for their future despite his failures.
Mexican Americans
• Received less benefits
than African-Americans.
• Worked as day laborers
on farms
• 500,000 Deported
during the 1930s – even
though many were US
citizens
Native Americans
• John Collier – Commissioner
of Indian Affairs
– Was a strong supporter of NA
– Helped create the Indian
Reorganization Act of 1934
• Strengthened land claims
• Prevented the US government
from taking over reservation
lands and selling to non-NA.
New Deal Coalition
• New Deal Coalition –
diverse groups dedicated to
supporting the Democratic
Party.
• Roosevelt was a “Friend of
Labor”
• Union Membership
increased from 3 – 8 mil.
Legacy of the New Deal
• Did it end the Great Depression?
– NO! World War II ended the Depression; the war
brought 100% employment.

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