Tuesday/Wednesday Jan 24th and 25th
Vocab:
1. Huey P. Long
2. Father Charles Coughlin
3. Eleanor Roosevelt
4. Frances Perkins
Guiding questions
1. What was FDR’s court packing plan?
2. What was the Black Cabinet?
Critics of FDR
› Some people thought FDR had too much power
› Huey P. Long
 Known as the “Kingfish” believed that FDR was
too friendly to businesses and banks.
 Set up the “Share Our Wealth” program and
encouraged wealth redistribution
 Set up heavy taxes on the wealthy
› Father Charles Coughlin
 Catholic priest, one-time supporter of FDR
 Very popular “radio priest”
Problems With the Courts
 Courts
 The courts were afraid that FDR
had too much power, and
declared some of his programs
unconstitutional
 Examples: AAA, NIRA
 Court Packing Plan
› FDR tried to get around the court
› Introduced a bill that would add
or “pack” the Supreme Court with
SIX more justices
› Of course they would be friends
of FDR
› Congress struck it down
FRIENDS/SUPPORTERS OF FDR
› Eleanor Roosevelt
 FDR’s wife was one of the most influential
women in all American history.
 Monumental in women’s rights
 Created a campaign to stop lynching.
 When the second Bonus Army came to D.C.
Eleanor went to see what she could do to help.
 “Hoover sent the army, Roosevelt sent his wife”
FRIENDS/SUPPORTERS OF FDR continued…
› John Maynard Keynes
 Believed that deficits could actually provide jobs
and stimulate the economy.
› Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins
 The first woman to head an executive department
 Key figure in the formation of many New Deal
programs such as Social Security.
FRIENDS/SUPPORTERS OF
FDR cont.

The Black Cabinet
 Unofficial advisers to the
president, led by Mary
McLeod Bethune
 William H. Hastie was the first
African American federal
judge
 Powerful symbol of rising
African American influence