The New Deal (1933-1938)
FORGING A NEW DEAL
THE
GIDEA
As President, Roosevelt
began a series of
programs designed to
help Americans
through the
Depression.
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New Deal Agencies
AGENCY
PURPOSE
• Civilian Conservation Corps
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• Works Progress Administration
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• Public Works Administration
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• National Recovery Administration
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Sponsored huge public works projects such as dams.
Worked with industries to ensure fair business and labor
practices.
• National Labor Relations Board
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Enforced rights of workers and unions.
• Federal Deposit and Insurance Corporation
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Insured people’s bank deposits up to $5000.
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Providedjobs to young men to work on environmental
conservation projects.
Gave the unemployed work in building construction and
arts projects.
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Forging a New Deal
A. ASYOUREAD
As you read Section 1, answer the following questions on the lines provided.
1. What steps did President Roosevelt take during his first few months in office
to reverse the trend of the Depression?
2. How successful was the National Recovery Administration?
3. Who were FDR’s advisers, and what did they do?
4. What caused the New Deal to falter?
5. What were some important characteristics of the Second New Deal programs?
6. What did FDR’s landslide victory in the 1936 presidential election reveal about
Americans’ response to the New Deal?
B.
REVIEWING KEY TERMS
Define or identify the following terms.
7. New Deal
8. hundred days
9. public works programs
10. Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
11. Wagner Act
12. Social Security system
13. Second New Deal
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GIDEA
Some New Deal critics
argued that the
government wasn’t
doing enough to help
people, while others
claimed that the
government was
becoming too powerful.
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Women and
African Americans
Progressives and
Socialists
Republicans and other
political opponents
New Deal programs offer more
opportunities to white men than
to women and minorities. Women
and African Americans are paid
less for the same work.
New Deal programs are not doing
enough to solve the nations
problems. More should be done to
distribute the nations wealth
among all Americans.
Government is taking on too
much responsibility and becoming
too powerful. FDR is like a
dictator, New Deal taxes on the
wealthy are unfair. New Deal
programs are too much like
socialism.
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The New Deal’s Critics
A. ASYOUREAD
As you read Section 2, fill in three details that support each of the following main
ideas.
Main Idea: Although the New Deal helped many people during the Depression,
some groups of Americans benefited little, if at all.
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Main Idea: Americans criticized Roosevelt’s New Deal both for doing too much
and for not doing enough.
4.
5.
6.
Main Idea: Roosevelt’s scheme to “pack” the Supreme Court with justices who
favored the New Deal was unsuccessful.
7.
8.
9.
B. REVIEWING KEY TERMS
Explain how each of the following terms is related to criticism of the New Deal.
10. American Liberty League
11. demagogue
12. nationalization
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The New Deal lessened
suffering during the
Depression, and helped
change the way
Americans thought
about government.
ISCSLJVIVY Cultural Life During the Depression
Literature
John Steinbecks
The Grapes of Wrath tells the
story of
victims of the Dust Bowl.
Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God
Radio
describes the life of an African American woman in Florida.
Radio becomes a major source of entertainment for American
families.
Comedy shows and soap operas are especially popular.
Movies
At 25
cents for a double feature, movies offer affordable
entertainment.
Films such as
The Wizard of Oz,
Marx Brothers movies, and
Disney cartoons help Americans escape hard times.
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Last Days of the New Deal
A. As You READ
As you read Section 3, fill in the graphic organizer. Provide examples and other
details related to each item listed.
Labor
Cultural Life
1. Labor organizations:
3. Literature:
4. Radio shows:
2. Innovative strike strategies:
5. Movies:
6. WPA projects:
Permanent Monuments to the New Deal
7. Public works:
8. Federal agencies:
9. Social Security system:
B.
REVIEWING KEY TERMS
Define or identify each of the following terms.
10. national debt
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11. revenue
12. coalition
13. sit-down strike
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