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1 New Deal Roosevelt’s plan for getting out of the Depression.

2 The Three R’s Relief-implies short term attention Recovery-implies longer term “healing” Reform-implies reconstruction

3 Major Goal and Issues Recirculation of money in the economy Pump Priming Banks Farms Employment Stock Market

4 Cartoons

5 Banks Declared a Bank Holiday Emergency Banking Relief Act 1933 Glass-Stegall Banking Act

6 Cartoons

7 Farms Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) Farm Credit Administration (FCA)

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9 Employment Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) Home Owner’s Loan Corporation (HOLC)

10 Employment Continued… Civil Works Administration (CWA) Public Works Administration (PWA) Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) Works Progress Administration (WPA)

11 Employment Continued… Social Security Act 1935 National Industry Recovery Act 1933 (NIRA) National Recovery Administration (NRA) Wagner Act

12 Cartoons

13 Stock Market Federal Securities Act 1933 Securities and Exchange Commission

14 Other Reciprocal Trade Agreement Court Packing

15 Criticism Pampered Labor Stifled private enterprise Creeping socialism FDR was a one man “super-government” Bullied Congress and Courts Did NOT cure the Depression Add bureaucratic paperwork

16 Women Lower pay Males received preferences for jobs Long Hours

17 African Americans Not offered professional jobs or skilled jobs Lower pay Job Discrimination

18 New Deal Does TOO Much? TVA considered socialist Revenue Act Social Securty Act

19 New Deal Does NOT Do Enough? Believed entire economic system needed to be reformed Believed in Nationalization


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