1. Promised to give each American family 5,000, taxing the rich Dust Bowl Radio programs FDR used to explain his plan to Americans Hoovervilles Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Overproduction, speculation, shaky banking, restricted international trade New Deal measures simplified Gave young men jobs planting trees and cleaning forests Herbert Hoover Sent Mexican- Americans back to Mexico Causes of the Great Depression Eleanor Roosevelt President at start of Great Depression; didn’t do enough to end it Court Packing Scheme FDR’s eyes and ears; supported poor; political activist Stock market crash of 1929 Attempt to add new appointments of Justices over the age of 70

2. Securities and Exchange Commission Agricultural Adjustment Acts Helped workers collectively bargain with employers Hired artists, writers, musicians, to create works of art Paid farmers to produce less to increase prices Hired millions on “make work” projects Wagner Act Effects of the Great Depression Result of tapped water supplies, heavy winds, and drought Wrote about Oakies; wrote The Grapes of Wrath Federal Emergency Relief Act Insures bank deposits if banks fail John Steinbeck Fireside chats Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Event that signaled the beginning of the Great depression

3. Pouring money into the economy to get it working again Oakies Said that Congress couldn’t give the President more power than Constitution grants Tennessee Valley Authority Schechter vs US October 29,1929; date of stock market crash Built dams; controlled floods; produced electricity National Recovery Administration Black Tuesday Relief, Recovery, Reform Public Works Administration Set production limits, standard prices, and minimum wage Person buys 10% of stock; rest paid by stock broker Shanty towns of homeless or unemployed Created jobs building schools, roads, courts, post offices, and bridges Mexican Repatriation Act

4. Government more involved in business and personal life Dorothea Lange Lasting impact of the New Deal Took photographs showing misery of Great Depression Priming the pump Brain Trust Provided unemployment insurance and old age pensions Works Progress Administration First Hundred Days (of FDR’s presidency) Group of talented advisors to FDR Social Security Act Farmers who left Oklahoma for California Watched over stock market to prevent another collapse Period when most of FDR’s New Deal Policies got passed Business failures, unemployment, bank failures, foreclosures Margin Huey Long