THE GREAT DEPRESSION Stock market crash (1929)
BLUE CHIP STOCKS
THE GREAT DEPRESSION Structurally flawed economy – profit inflation Extent of the depression Business failures Unemployment Bank failures The Depression in human terms
Migrant Family
Pretty Boy Floyd
THE GREAT DEPRESSION Hoover’s Response to the Great Depression Agricultural Marketing Act (1929) Reconstruction Finance Corporation (1932) Opposition to direct relief The Bonus Army
FDR and the New Deal
FDR and the New Deal
FDR and the New Deal
FDR and the New Deal The Hundred Days Reform of the banking system and the stock market Glass-Steagall Act The Federal Securities Act
FDR and the New Deal The Hundred Days Reform of agriculture and industry Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) US v. Butler (1936) National Recovery Act (NRA) Schechter Poultry Corp. v. US (1935)
FDR and the New Deal The Hundred Days Relief Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) Harry Hopkins Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
FDR and the New Deal Attacks on the New Deal from the Right and the Left Dr. Francis Townsend Father Charles Coughlin Huey Long
FDR and the New Deal The Second New Deal Social Security (1935) Works Progress Administration (1935) Wagner Act (1935) Sit-down strike against GM, 1937 WPA – Flood control, AR, 1939
FDR and the New Deal The End of the New Deal Problems by 1937 Economic Recession Court-Packing Scheme Emergence of Conservative Opposition in Congress Shift from Regulation to Fiscal Management (Keynesian economics)