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 Launching the New Deal

The Main Idea

In 1933 Franklin Delano

Roosevelt became
president of a
suffering nation. He
quickly sought to
address the country’s
needs, with mixed
results.
Forgotten Man
 The Election of 1932

• Americans blamed President Hoover for the country’s

economic woes.
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt won the Democratic Party’s
nomination.
– He was related to Theodore Roosevelt.
– He survived polio.
– He was governor of New York.
• Roosevelt promised relief for the poor and more public
works programs to provide jobs. He attacked Hoover and
the Republicans for their response to the Great
Depression.
• Roosevelt won a landslide victory—winning more than 57
percent of the popular vote.
 The Election of 1932

• FDR promised a federal works program

– government funded building projects that
would provide jobs
– Inaugural address: “The only thing we have to
fear is fear itself.”
 The Roosevelts

Franklin Delano Roosevelt had a winning personality and

believed that it was the government’s job to take direct action
to help its people.

Eleanor Roosevelt was a powerful political force in her own

right, and she helped to change to role of the First Lady.

Franklin and Eleanor’s marriage played a central role in Franklin

Roosevelt’s political success.
 A Political Partnership

Franklin Roosevelt Eleanor Roosevelt

• Appealing blend of • “Eyes and ears” of her
cheerfulness, optimism, husband
and confidence
• Directed efforts to solve
• An effective several major social
communicator (ex. issues (ex. lynching of
fireside chats) African Americans)
• A reform-minded • Wrote her own
Democrat newspaper column
• Believed the • Had the trust and
government could solve affection of many
economic and social Americans
problems
 Franklin Roosevelt as President

Banking Crisis Hundred Days Beyond the

• Temporarily • Critical period of Hundred Days
closed all the government • FDR and
nation’s banks to activity Congress passed
stop panic and • Roosevelt pushed important
large-scale Congress to put legislation after
withdrawals most of his New the Hundred Days
• Passed the Deal into • Created the Civil
Emergency practice. Works
Banking Act • The New Deal Administration
• Glass-Steagall promised relief, • Passed the Indian
Act created the recovery and Reorganization
FDIC reforms. Act
 Alphabet Soup Deal—The New Deal

• Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

– Helped unemployed young men 18 to 25 years old
• Agriculture Adjustment Act (AAA)
– Helped farmers by paying them not to grow crops
• National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)
– Helped business by requiring that businesses in the same industry
cooperate with each other to set prices and output
– Started Public Works Administration (PWA)
– Labor received federal protection for the right to organize.
• Federal Securities Act
– Helped investors, restored confidence in the markets
• Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
– Watch over the stock market
• Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
– Helped build dams and other projects along the Tennessee River and
its tributaries
 Trouble for the New Deal

Radical Reactions to the New Deal

• Believed the New Deal did not go far enough in reforming the
economy
• Wanted a complete overhaul of capitalism
• Huey P. Long, Father Charles Coughlin, Dr. Francis Townsend

Conservative Reactions to the New Deal

• Attacked the New Deal as a radical break with traditional
American ideals
• Thought the New Deal would drive the country to destruction.
• American Liberty League
 Leading Critics of the New Deal
• Huey P. Long (senator from Louisiana)
– Believed Roosevelt’s policies were too friendly to banks and businessmen
(started the Share Our Wealth Society)
• Father Charles Coughlin (the “radio priest”)
– Believed Roosevelt was not doing enough to curb the power of bankers and
financial leaders
• Dr. Francis Townsend
– Criticized the New Deal for not doing enough for older Americans (wanted
pensions for people over 60)
• The American Liberty League
– Believed that the New Deal went too far and was anti-business
• Opposition from the courts
– Critics of the New Deal feared that it gave the president too much power over
other branches of government.
– Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States
– United States v. Butler
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