Skeleton Notes: Chapter 12, Section 2 ‘The Second New Deal’
Launching the Second New Deal
 Big Ideas: As the depression continued to drag on, people began to question if the New Deal was
making things worse; others complained that the government needed to do even more to fix the
economy.
Criticisms of the New Deal
 Roosevelt’s New Deal was attacked from the political right and left.
 Some thought Roosevelt was expanding the role of government too far and _____________
too much.
 Those on the ______________ felt the New Deal did not go far enough.
 Republicans had never been fond of the New Deal and were alarmed that the government
was engaged in ______________ spending, that is the government was spending more
money than it made in taxes, so it had to borrow money.
 New Deal opponents formed the American Liberty League to organize opposition.
 On the ____________, people complained that the government was moving too slow. They
believed the New Deal was not big enough to fix the depression.
 After two years of the New Deal 10 million Americans were still unemployed and the nation
was only producing _____ of what it had been producing in 1929.
 Louisiana Governor ______________ ______________promoted his Share Our Wealth Society
which promoted taxing the rich to benefit the poor.
 California physician Dr. Francis Townsend argued that everyone one over ________ -years-old
should get a $200 check each month from the government.
 Father Charles Coughlin, a priest from Detroit, had 45 million followers on his weekly radio show,
and he used the radio to promote a government takeover of the entire ____________ system.
 He also published a weekly magazine which was heavily anti-_______________.
 The Supreme Court also had issues with the New Deal.
 In Schechter Poultry Company v. United States, the Supreme Court ruled that the ________
program was __________________ because congress could not simply hand legislative control
over to the president.
The WPA & the NRA
 Among the 2nd New Deal programs was the Works Progress Administration (_________).
 Between 1935 and 1941 the WPA spent $11 billion constructing 650k miles of roads, 125k
public buildings, 8k parks, 124k bridges, and 853 __________________.
Skeleton Notes: Chapter 12, Section 2 ‘The Second New Deal’
 The program employed 8.5 million people.
 However, the WPA was _________________ because it also employed artists such as
musicians, painters, sculptors, actors, and writers.
Reforms for Workers and Senior Citizens
 Big Ideas: Roosevelt and the Democrats wanted and needed to build support among workers and
seniors in order to win in the upcoming elections 1936.
The Wagner Act
 In 1935 Congress passed the ____________________ Act.
 It guaranteed the rights of workers to form unions.
 It also set up the _______________________________________________ to organize
factory elections
 The Wagoner Act led to increased unionizing.
 Some unions engaged in ________________ strikes. They wouldn’t work, but wouldn’t
leave the factory either.
 The Wagner Act led to the formation of many new unions.
 The Committee for Industrial Organization (______) was formed to help workers create unions.
 The CIO focused first on the automobile and steel industries.
 The Wagner Act also set up the process of ____________________________.
 Under binding arbitration, when workers and management could not come to an
agreement the government would send in a third-party to listen to both sides and
make a decision that both sides had to accept.
Social Security
 One of the most enduring programs of the New Deal is the Social Security Act.
 The goal of the Social Security Act was to provide some _______________ for working
Americans.
 The premium payments were made to the _________________.
 A person could quit working and start collecting on the insurance when they reached _____.
 While Social Security helped many people, it left out the neediest populations such as
___________ and ________________ workers.
 65% of all African Americans were either farmers or domestic workers.
Skeleton Notes: Chapter 12, Section 2 ‘The Second New Deal’
 However, it set the __________________ that it was the government’s responsibility to
help those who, through no fault of their own, could no longer work.