Chapter 24
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Chapter 24
The Great Depression and the New Deal (1929 - 1939)
Chapter 24.1
The Stock Market Crash
Chapter 24.2
The New Deal
Chapter 24.3
An Era of Extremes
Chapter 24.4
Daily Depression Life
Wall Street Crash
Overspeculation
Black Thursday and Black Tuesday
Massive Selling
Causes of the Crash
Many Overlapping Causes
Uneven Distribution of Income
5% Recieve 33% of Income
Stock Market Speculation
Buying On Margin
Excessive Use of Credit
Massive Debt
Overproduction of Consumer Goods
Overabundance
Weak Farm Economy
Farmers As Weak Backbone
Government Policies
Bank Failures
Global Economic Problems
Global Depression
Effects
Way of Life Changes - 25% Unemployment - Changing Politics
Hoover's Policies
Laissez Faire - Hoovervilles
Responding to a Worldwide Depression
Isolationism - Hawley Smoot - Debt Moratorium
Domestic Programs: Too Little, Too Late
Federal Farm Board - Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Despair and Protest
Unrest on Farms - Bonus March
Election of 1932
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hoover as "Lame-Duck" President
Time Between Election and Office Changed
Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal
Federal Government Expands
FDR: The Man
Disability - Eleanor Roosevelt
New Deal Philosophy
Three R's - Brain Trust
The First Hundred Days
Most Productive Congress - WPA, AAA, CCC, NRA
Bank Holiday
Announced in Fireside Chat
Financial Recovery and Reform Programs
Banks - Mortgages - Loans - FDIC
Relief for the Unemployed
Welfare - PWA - CCC - TVA
Farm Production Control Program
AAA - Reduce Production
Other Programs of the First New Deal
SEC - Remove Gold Standard
The Second New Deal
Relief & Reform
Relief Programs
Works Progress Administration - Resettlement Administration
Reforms
Wagner Act - Federal Taxes
The Social Security Act
Retirement - Disability
The Election of 1936
Landslide Victory
Opponents of the New Deal
Liberal Critics - Conservative Critics
Demagogues
Charles Coughlin - Francis Townsend - Huey Long - UBI
The Supreme Court
NRA & AAA Ruled Unconstitutional
Court Reorganization Plan
Pack Courts - Outrage - Unnecessary
Rise of Unions
Wagner Act
Formation of the C.I.0.
More Open - More Diverse - Unskilled Labor
Strikes
Automobiles - Steel
Fair Labor Standards Act
Minimum Wage - 40 Hours - Child Labor
Recession, 1937-1938
Economic Slump - "Balance the Budget"
Keynesian Economics
Deficit Spending
Weakened New Deal
Conservative Democrats - Court Packing - Nazis Attract Foreign Attention
Life During the Depression
Depression Mentality
Women
Women in Workforce - Lower Wage
Dust Bowl Farmers
Grapes of Wrath
African Americans
Last Hired - First Fired - New Deal Doesn't Help
Improvements
Low Paying Jobs - Federal Positions
Fair Employment Practices Committee
A. Philip Randolph - March on Washington
American Indians
Returned Land Paternalistically
Mexican Americans
Discrimination
Last Phase of the New Deal
Lost Steam By Second Term
