Chapter 12 Section 2 – The Second New Deal
(p. 434-439)
MAIN IDEAS
Launching the Second
New Deal
(p. 434)
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NOTES
New Deal had been in effect for two years but the economy had only improved slightly
Had created more than 2 million new jobs
1.) _____________________________________________ workers were still ____________________________
2.) Nation’s total income was about ______________________________________________________________
Criticism of
the New Deal
(p. 434-436)
1.) _____________________________________________________________________________ over business
2.) Made ___________________________________________________________________________________
3.) ________________________________________________________________________________________
 Deficit spending = giving up a balanced budget and borrowing money
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Aug. 1934 = the American Liberty League was organized to oppose the New Deal
Other groups felt the government should do more, such as take more money from the wealthy and give it to
middle and lower classes
4.) ________________________________________________________________________________________
a.) wanted to ___________________________________________________________________ from wealthy to
lower classes
 1934 = Share Our Wealth Society
5.) ________________________________________________________________________________________
a.) Wanted to ____________________________________________ and ________________________________
 1935 = National Union for Social Justice
6.) ________________________________________________________________________________________
 proposed by Francis Townsend
a.) Proposed that the government should pay citizens over ____________________________________________
b.) Recipients would have to ___________________ and __________________________________ each month
c.) ___________________________________________ for unemployed and ____________________________
 Supported by older Americans
 Also supported by the West, Midwest and South (Long) and the Northeast (Coughlin)
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Works Progress
Administration
WPA
1935-1941
(p. 436)
Largest public works program of the New Deal
1.) ________________________________________________________________________________________
2.)
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Hired ___________________________________________________________________________________
650,000 miles of highways and roads
125,000 public buildings
8,000 parks
124,000 bridges
853 airports
3.) ________________________________________________________________________________________
a.)
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program for ______________________________________________________________________________
Created murals and sculptures for public buildings
30 symphony orchestras
Federal Theater Project = financed playwrights, actors and directors
Writers were paid to write about the stories of former slaves and other groups
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Chapter 12 Section 2 – The Second New Deal
(p. 434-439)
Schechter Poultry Co. v. US
May 1935
(p. 436)
The Wagner Act
(National Labor
Relations Act)
July 1935
(p. 437-438)
1.) ________________________________________________________________________________________
 Said Congress did not have the right to delegate its powers to the executive branch
 Said NRA’s codes were unconstitutional
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FDR worried that the Supreme Court would overturn other New Deal programs
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After the NRA was overturned so was the right of the workers to organize into unions
Proposed by Senator Robert Wagner of NY
1.) Gave workers the right to ___________________________________________________________________
2.) Set up the ________________________________________________________________________________
 organized factory election by secret ballot to see if workers wanted a union
a.) ________________________________________________________________________________________
 Binding arbitration = union could take their complaints to a neutral party to listen to both sides and make a
decision
 NRLB could investigate employers’ actions and stop unfair practices
Congress for Industrial
Organization (CIO)
1935
(p. 438-439)
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After the Wagner Act was passed, unions began to organize into the CIO
John L. Lewis organized the United Mine Workers union and several other unions
1.) Organized all _____________________________________________________________________________
 Focused on Automobiles and steel industries
2.) ________________________________________________________________________________________
a.) Employees _______________________________________________________________________________
b.)
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___________________________________________________________________________ from coming in
Dec. 1936 = sit down strikes at General Motors by United Auto Workers
Police violence broke out but union didn’t back down
Feb. 1937 = GM recognized the UAW
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March 1937 = US Steel recognized the CIO’s steelworkers union without violence
1933 to 1939 = union membership increased from 3 million to 9 million
3.) 1938 = CIO became _______________________________________________________________________
Social Security
(p. 439)
1.) ________________________________________________________________________________________
2.) ________________________________________________________________________________________
3.) ________________________________________________________________________________________
4.) Workers _________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________ to support Social Security
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Initially, left out farm and domestic workers, which were 65% of all African Americans
Started the principle that the federal government should be responsible for those who, through no fault of their
own, were unable to work
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In the future, Congress will borrow money from the Social Security fund to pay for other programs without
raising payroll deductions to pay for the benefits
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