1. How the New Deal Affected America

2. New Roles for Women and African americans
-FDR promotes and recognizes many women and Afr. Americans
-the economic emergency helped replace the “old ways” with “new ways”

3. Group #1-Women (p.718, 701) Group #4-Movies & Sports
-Frances Perkins, Eleanor R., (p.720, 722)
discrimination
Group #2- African Americans (p.718) Group #5- Radio (p.721)
-Black Cabinet, Marian McLeod -Orson Welles, fireside chats,
Bethune, William Hastie, jazz
discrimination, & Marian Anderson
Group #3-the Arts (p. 719, 710, & 686)
-John Steinback, Grapes of Wrath,
Dorothea Lange

4. Women
-Eleanor Roosevelt
-Frances Perkins
-discrimination

5. African Americans -William Hastie -Black Cabinet -Discrimination
Marian Anderson
-Democrats get the black
vote

6. American culture -artists, authors interested in social issues
-Dorothea Lange
-John Steinbeck

8. Radio -fireside chats -short stories -helped promote jazz
-Orson B. Welles, H. G. Welles

9. Movies -after stock market crash of 1929, movie revenue up 59%
-80 million of America’s 127 million attended a movie each week
-an escape from problems

13. Did it work? -New Deal seems successful until downturn of 1937-38
-long-lasting federal programs like Social Security and the FDIC
-roads, bridges, dams, hospitals, schools, etc.

14. Did it work? -too much government involvement? -discrimination
-not enough employment opportunities
-nearly 5 million remained
unemployed!

15. New Deal Dies
-FDR loses supports because of “court-packing” accusations
economic downturn
-1938: Fair Labor Standards Act
-minimum wage
-1938 mid-term elections

17. http://video. google. com/videosearch