1. Eleanor Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) History Happy Confident
Wealthy
With wealth comes obligation
Lawyer
NY State Senator
Asst. Sec. of the Navy
Dem. Vice-Pres.
Candidate 1920
Governor of NY
Distant cousin of Teddy
Eleanor

2. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) Personality
6 kids
FDR Jr. died in infancy
Polio at 39
Left paralyzed
He had been energetic and enthusiastic
He thought everything was over
He overcame that idea
He became a supremely
confident figure
Just what America needed
during the Great Depression

3. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) Actions
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself”
Fireside chats

4. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) The 100 Days
The bank crisis
Relief, Recovery, Reform
Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Public Works Administration (PWA)
National Recovery Administration (NRA) from the NIRA
Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Reform: banking acts, stock market acts, FDIC
CCC
TVA

5. New Deal Criticism Tenant Farmers and the AAA Unions and Unionizing
Father Coughlin
Huey Long
Republicans and Liberty
American Liberty League
Supreme Court overturns NIRA and AAA

6. Second New Deal 1935 WPA Wagner Act (NIRA in disguise)
Soil Conservation Act (AAA in disguise)
Rural Electrification Act
Federal Art Project
Public Utility Holding Company Act
Social Security
Court Packing 1937
Fair Labor Standards Act

7. Affected Groups Women Frances Perkins Eleanor Roosevelt
African-Americans
Mary Mcleod Bethune
Black Cabinet
No Civil Rights
Mexican-Americans
Asian-Americans
Native Americans
Indian Reorganization Act
Unions/Workers

8. Legacy of the New Deal Social Security Fertilizer Deficit Spending
Government and the People
SEC
FDIC

9. Does FDR deserve credit for ending the GD?
He is popular and hated
He massively changed the role of government in the lives of people
Unemployment and GDP never fully recovered before WWII
Replace his image on the dime
with Reagan’s?