The New Deal
Published on Nov 24, 2015
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FDR was elected in Nov. 1932 (took office March 1933) on the promise that he would bring a New Deal to the people
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New Deal was implemented in FDR’s “First Hundred Days”
Designed to give: Relief, Recovery, and Reform&
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“The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself”
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Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
1. put unemployed young men to work in national parks
2. lived in army camps & sent pay home to their families (inc. spending)
3. 50,000 South Carolinians were employed in reforestation & soil conservation projects
4. built parks, including: Hunting Island, Paris Mountain, Poinsett, and Myrtle Beach State Parks
Public Works Administration
PWA
building projects to put people to work and improve the community
built schools, libraries, courthouses, and Navy aircraft carriers
building projects to put people to work and improve the community
built schools, libraries, courthouses, and Navy aircraft carriers
Works Progress Administration
WPA
building projects to put people to work and improve the community
built highways, airports, bridges, playgrounds, hospitals, and schools
also employed artists & writers to produce murals, plays, and record interviews with former slaves that preserved slave narratives
Social Security Act
reform system to prevent future depressions and provide protection for the elderly, orphaned, disabled, and unemployed
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benefitted SC a lot because the state didn’t have old age pension system
cost was shared by workers & employers
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welfare legislation (set the tone for future aid to people in need)
criticized but did decline the rate of poverty among the elderly
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largest New Deal project in SC
built dams on the Santee & Cooper Rivers
created Lake Marion & Lake Moultrie
hydroelectric dams produced power to region & provided jobs
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Rural Electrification Act
brought power to farms & rural regions of SC
created power cooperatives so citizens could work together to get government loans & provide electricity to less populated areas where private companies didn’t want to string power lines
by 1940, 25% of farms had electricity
tried to address overproduction & declining crop prices
National Recovery Act set up codes for industries that would regulate prices for consumers and hours/wages of workers
textile mills were unaffected (still long hours and stretched out work)
Strike!
In 1934, mill workers went on strike (violence broke out between workers and strike breakers--scabs).
In SC, deputies fired on a crowd in Honea Path killing seven workers and injuring others.
FDR called for a settlement---workers agreed, but mill owners did not. The strike led to the collapse of any union in SC.
The New Deal later passed minimum wage, maximum hours, and right to unionize (which is still unpopular in SC).
Did not receive their fair share & were discriminated against even in New Deal programs
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South Carolinians
In the New Deal
FDR asked for advice from James F. Byrnes & Mary McLeod Bethune
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Byrnes was U.S. senator who helped pass the New Deal in Congress & advised FDR on domestic (at home) policy
-He was Senator until 1941 when he was appointed to the Supreme Court
-Later on he would be head of the Office of War Mobilization, Secretary of State, and Gov. of SC
-supported Santee Cooper Electricity Project
Mary McLeod Bethune was an African-American educator and civil rights leader
-founded a college
-organized National Council of Negro Women
-served as Director of Negro Affairs
-advised FDR on the unofficial “Black Cabinet” (group of A-A leaders who advised FDR)
had a lasting impact on U.S. & S.C. (grew government programs & spending)
put people to work and alleviated economic hardship
DID NOT END THE DEPRESSION
Depression ends when U.S. became involved in WWII
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