The Great Depression: FDR/New Deal = Hope! Franklin D. Roosevelt/New Deal Programs! Professor G.A. Hawkins U.S. History The Great Depression: FDR/New Deal = Hope!

A New President is Elected: 1932 • President Franklin D. Roosevelt = won election in 1932 on a promise to help the national economy and the people in need.

The New Deal 1933-1939 • His New Deal legislation ushered in an unprecedented era of government “relief, recovery, and reform” legislation.

The New Deal 1933-1939 What did it exactly do? The New Deal Measures: Provided some immediate relief for people through the creation of jobs such as: A. the Civilian Conservation Corporation (CCC) = it hired over 250,000 men who had to leave their families to help reforest and plant trees across the country. B. Works Progress Administration (WPA)= it the WPA provided almost 8 million jobs. The program built many public buildings, projects and roads. Almost every community in America has a park, bridge or school constructed by the agency.

The New Deal 1933-1939 What did it exactly do? C. Public Works Administration (PWA) = It allowed $3.3 billion to be spent on the construction of public works, (roads, bridges, buildings) to provide employment, stabilize , improve, and contribute to a revival of American industry. D. National Youth Administration (NYA) = it had from $6 to $40 a month for "work study" projects at their schools. Another 155,000 boys and girls from relief families were paid $10 to $25 a month for part-time work that included job training.

The New Deal 1933-1939 What did it exactly do? Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation = Restored trust in the banking system with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and bank holiday. It insures all bank deposits up to $200,000 for all its member banks. You see this sign on the doors at every bank and savings and loan.

The New Deal 1933-1939 What did it exactly do? • Social Security = programs still provide handicapped and survivors’ benefits and retirement funds.

The New Deal 1933-1939 What did it exactly do? • Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) = is a public corporation still providing assistance and electricity as well as jobs to the Appalachian Region. to provide navigation, flood control, electricity, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly impacted by the Great Depression. Tennessee Valley Authority Project

Other things that FDR’s did that he considered necessary to get the country’s economy going again. • President Roosevelt proposed a plan to add one Supreme Court member to the court for every Justice over the age of 70, feeling that this “court packing” would give him a majority in the Supreme Court favorable to the New Deal plans.

Other things that FDR’s did that he considered necessary to get the country’s economy going again. • The Securities and Exchange Commission = regulates the buying and selling of stocks and bonds in an effort to protect the public from bogus stock and inside trading.

Impact of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal on the American People Roosevelt’s leadership restored trust and hope in the economic system. His policies eased the problems of depression, but the depression lingered until World War II began in Europe.