1. The Impact of the New Deal
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2. How is the New Deal viewed today?
Do you think the view would be different if we weren’t facing similar circumstances?

3. New Deal Reforms Endure
By 1937 the economy had improved enough to convince Americans the Depression was ending.
New Deal Reforms Endure

4. Pressure from Congress
Scale back New Deal Programs
Results:
Industrial production dropped again
Unemployment rose again in 1937 to 1938
Pressure from Congress

5. New Problems By 1939 the New Deal was effectively over
New Pressures from Europe concerned Roosevelt
New Problems

6. Expanding Government Role
What was the role of the federal government under Roosevelt?
What did that allow for?
Expanding Government Role

7. Federal Agencies Federal Insurance Deposit Corporation (FDIC)
What did it used to insure accounts up to?
What do you think it insures accounts up to today?
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

8. Did the New Deal end the Depression?
If not, what did it provide? If so, how?

9. Protecting Workers Rights
National Labor Relations Board
Continues to act as a mediator in labor disputes between unions and employers
Protecting Workers Rights

10. Government began accepting responsibility for providing assistance to needy members of society
Old age insurance
Unemployment compensation
Aid to disabled and dependent children
Social Security

11. Tennessee Valley Authority
Harnessed water power to generate electricity and to help prevent disastrous floods in the Tennessee Valley
added to the national park system in the 1930s
Established new wildlife refuges
Set aside large wilderness areas
Tennessee Valley Authority
Government sponsored strip-mining and coal burning
Cause air, land, and water pollution
Problems

13. Point/Counter Point
Do Now

14. Let’s Post-It!

15. Point-Counter Point Compare and Contrast:
How did the New Deal SUCCEED?
How did the New Deal FAIL?
Point-Counter Point

16.
Obama and FDR (again!)

17. Federal Deficit and Unemployment

18. What Programs are Still Around
FDIC
SEC
NLRB
Social Security
TVA
Farmer Aid
What Programs are Still Around

19. Political Cartoons

20. Political Cartoons

21. Political Cartoons

22. Write a program proposal for a WPA-type program that would benefit this community
On your card…