1. Hannah Alderson Alyssa Eaves 2nd period
FDR’s New Deal
Hannah Alderson
Alyssa Eaves
2nd period

2. Herbert Hoover
Hoover believed the Great Depression was just a temporary decline in the economic cycle.
Did not governmentally interfere with the economy but did campaign
Encouraged businesses to keep wages up workers being laid off less consumption more workers being laid off

3. New Deal Goals: The Three R’s
elief: Immediate action taken to halt the economies deteriorations.
Bank Holiday, Emergency Banking Act, Federal Emergency Relief Act, and Civilian Works Administration R
ecovery: Temporary programs to restart the flow of consumer demand.
Agricultural Adjustment Act, National Industrial Recovery Act, Home Owners Loan Corp., Works Progress Administration, and Tennessee Valley Authority R
eform: Permanent programs to avoid another depression and insure
citizens against economic disasters.
Securities & Exchange Commision, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Social Securities Administration, National Labor Relations Act, and Soil Conservation Act

4. Hundred Days Session
March 31 - Congress passes the Reforestation Relief Act, leading to the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
May 18 - Congress creates the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
June 16 - Hundred Days Session ends, Congress passes the National Industrial Recovery Act, creating the Public Works Administration (PWA) and the National Recovery Administration (NRA), Congress passes the Farm Credit Act and Banking Act of 1933, leading to the FDIC
June 6 - Congress passes the National Employment System Act
May 12 - Congress passes the Federal Emergency Relief Act, FDR signs the Agricultural Adjustment Act
March 9 - Hundred Days Session starts, Congress passes the Emergency Banking Act
May 27 - Congress passes the Federal Security Act
June 13 - Congress passes the Home Owners Refinancing Act

5. The Second New Deal
“...was a retreat from the aggressive liberal agenda of the first New Deal.”
FDR wanted more conservative legislation
First New Deal passed 15 legislations, the Second passed less than half of that
Passed the Social Security Act, National Labor Unions Act (Wagner Act), Indian Reorganization Act (IRA), Works Progress Administration (WPA), United States Housing Authority, Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, Second Agricultural Adjustment Act, Fair Labor Standards Act

6. Theda Skocpol sociologist and political scientist at Harvard
“has emphasized the issue of ‘state capacity’ as an important New Deal constraint; ambitious reform ideas often foundered, she argues, because of the absence of a government bureaucracy with sufficient strength and expertise to shape or administer them.”

7. James T. Patterson American historian
“Patterson provides both general insight and specific examples of how the New Deal affected federalism in the U.S. Good general survey.”

8. Bibliography
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