1. A New Deal Fights the Depression
Chapter 15, Section 1 Notes

2. Objectives:
Summarize the initial steps Roosevelt took to reform banking and finance
Identify critics of FDR’s New Deal
Describe New Deal work programs

3. Main Idea and Why It Matters Now
After becoming president, FDR used government programs to combat the Depression.
Americans still benefit from programs that were begun in the New Deal, such as bank and stock market regulations and the Tennessee Valley Authority.

4. Presidential Election of 1932
People were suffering
Lack of jobs, food, and hope
Republicans re-nominated Hoover
Little chance of winning
Democrats nominated FDR
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
2 terms as governor of NY
Reform minded leader

5. Election of 1932 FDR wins overwhelmingly
Democrats win a 2/3 majority in the Senate
Democrats win ¾ majority in the House
FDR has to wait four months to take the office of President
Plans for his term

6. A Cartoon Depicting FDR’s entrance into the Presidency

7. The New Deal Brain Trust
FDR’s highly skilled advisors
Formulate a set of policies for his administration
The New Deal
Program designed to alleviate the problems of the Great Depression
3 Goals
Relief for the needy
Economic Recovery
Financial Reform

8. The First New Deal Help the American people The First 100 Days
Period of intense legislative activity
15 pieces of legislation
Focus of tomorrow’s lesson
Expanded the federal government’s role in the nation’s economy
Reforms banking and finance – bank holiday
Revive public confidence
Help the American people
Relief to farmers, jobs to the unemployed

9. FDR Born into a wealthy family
Stricken with polio – partially paralyzed
Confident leader
First President to use live radio to address the American public
Fireside Chat
Talked about issues of public concern
Explained the New Deal in clear terms

10. The New Deal Under Attack
FDR used Deficit Spending
Spending more money than the government receives in revenue
Keynesian economics – government spends money to stimulate economic recovery
More money in the hands of consumers to fuel economic growth
A necessary evil?
The New Deal did not end the depression

11. The New Deal Under Attack
Liberal critics
Did not go far enough to reform the system
Conservative critics
Too much direct relief
Socialist!
Interfered with free market ideology

12. Supreme Court
The Supreme Court struck down New Deal programs as unconstitutional
Too much power in executive branch
Interfered with state-federal roles (federalism)
FDR proposes a court-packing bill
Reorganize judiciary and allow FDR to appoint new justices
Storm of protest
FDR gets to appoint new judges anyway due to retirements/resignations

13. 3 Critics
Father Charles Coughlin – Roman Catholic priest with a radio show
Wanted government controlled banks and a guaranteed annual income
Dr. Francis Townsend
FDR not doing enough for poor and elderly
Pension plan to help the aged
Senator Huey Long of Louisiana
“Share-Our-Wealth” program
assassinated