1. Be ready to take NOTES!

2. Did FDR save the United States?
Effects of the New Deal
Did FDR save the United States?
In pods, you will be researching the effects of the New Deal on different minority groups: Women, African Americans, and Native Americans
You can divide the work among your group as you wish! Have a list of effects for all three minority groups.

3. Effects of New Deal for Women

4. Eleanor Roosevelt We have talked about her!
Forever changed the First Lady position
Helped with FDR’s campaign
Empowered women
All female press corps
Advocate for African Americans

5. Frances Perkins 1st female cabinet member: Secretary of Labor
Helped design the Fair Labor Standards Act
Ended child labor and established a minimum wage

7. Effects of New Deal for Women Summary
Established a voice and some freedoms and influence for women
Did not create complete gender equality
Many policies of the New Deal were specifically designed to help men first or primarily

8. Effect of New Deal for African-Americans

9. Struggle was REAL African-Americans- first to be laid off
The unemployment rate almost 50%
double the national unemployment rate

10. Black Cabinet
Group of influential African-Americans that advised FDR on social issues and injustices.
Robert Weaver: Harvard grad; Department of Interior; later a Federal Judge;1st African-American Cabinet member (Secretary of Interior) in 1960s
William Hastle: Harvard grad;
Mary McLeod Bethune: Founder of Bethune Cookman College; Advised on racial equality

11. Impact of New Deal for African-Americans
FDR supported civil rights, but did not support civil rights policy recommendations from the NAACP
feared that southern Democrats would block every piece of legislation in the New Deal in retaliation
Eleanor Roosevelt is seen around the US advocating for African Americans rights
Racial inequity continued and injustices remained.

12. Effect of New Deal for Native Americans

13. Native American Struggle
Much of the land given by Dawes Act became worthless (Dust Bowl)
The Dawes Act reduced tribal lands to smaller individual plots that were sold off over time
Indian Reorganization Act (1934): gave tribal control over remaining Native lands

14. New Deal for Native Americans
New Deal policies helped Native Americans in land, economics, and creating modern tribal governments.
Indian CCC
Some New Deal policies were not welcomed such as:
Navajo Livestock Reduction Act
forced Navajo to reduce or kill sheep
Gov’t suspected the sheep were contributing to the Dust Bowl (Grazing the land)

16. New Deal Coalition
Southern Whites, Northern Blue-Collar with immigrant roots, poor Midwestern farmers, and African-Americans
Changed voting patterns
African-Americans from Republican (Lincoln) to Democrat (FDR)
Helped with social and ethnic differences
CCC made jobs more diverse forcing people to work together
WPA employed unskilled workers on public works projects

17. Welfare State
New Deal had many programs to aid civilians in many areas
Government aid to civilians had never been provided for
Changed political and social relationship of Government and the People
Changed Government responsibility to the People

18. Are there still New Deal programs around today?
Using your phone or chromebook in your pods, research New Deal programs that we have today
Find at least 4 and be ready to share what that program does today

19. New Deal programs that are still around!
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC): established by Glass-Stegall Act; insures money in banks
Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae): Helps finance mortgages for poor
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB): Enforces/Protects employee rights
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC): 1st chair was Joseph Kennedy (father of JFK); ensures investors/investments are protected
Social Security Administration: provides retirement for labor force
Soil Conservation Services (SCS): Now is Natural Resource Conservation Service; establish nurseries, flood control, soil erosion prevention etc.
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA): Services 7 states; flood control, hydroelectric power, developed fertilizers, restored forests and wildlife, provides power to region today.

20. What is the legacy of the New Deal?
What is FDR’s legacy?
Are these legacy’s positive or negative?

21. Exit Ticket
Do you think the New Deal was an equal deal for all American citizens? Give examples from todays notes to defend why or why not.
Be ready to share!