Election of 1932 - Download as PowerPoint

							               Successes
The New Deal
                 And
                Failures
Franklin Delano Roosevelt vowed a
crusade against the Great Depression
declaring, "I pledge you, I pledge myself,
a new deal for the American people."
After winning a landslide victory against
Republican incumbent Herbert
Hoover, Roosevelt took office
on March 4, 1933 and in the next
hundred days would astound the
nation and regain its confidence
by enacting economic and social
programs aimed at lifting the
country out of the Great
Depression.
When President
Roosevelt took office in
1933, he feverishly
created program after
program to give relief,
create jobs, and
stimulate economic
recovery for the U.S.
These programs were
called “____________"
as well as the "New Deal."

                        The above photo shows a works program of
                        the NRA. What does NRA stand for?
Emergency Banking Act/Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
On March 6, 1993 he shut        These measures
down all of the banks in the    reestablished American faith
nation and forced Congress to   in banks. Americans were no
pass the Emergency Banking      longer scared that they
Act which gave the              would lose all of their
government the opportunity to   savings in a bank failure.
_________________________.      Government inspectors
The Federal Deposit Insurance   found that most banks were
Corporation (FDIC) was          healthy, and two-thirds were
formed by Congress to ______    allowed to open soon after.
____________ up to $5000.       After reopening, deposits
                                had exceeded withdrawals.
Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)
                                 Revitalized many
Led by Harry Hopkins, a          deteriorating relief
former social worker, this       programs, gave assistance
agency sent funds to _______     to states and local
_______________. Within two      government programs
hours, $5 million was given      that were not able to keep
out. Mr. Hopkins believed that   up with the need.
men should be put to work
and not be given charity. His
program also funded _______
_______________________.
    National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)
The decline in the industrial   The codes stopped the tailspin
prices in 1930s caused          of prices for a short time, but
business failures and           soon, when higher wages went
unemployment. The NIRA          into effect, prices rose too.
was formed in order to boost
the declining prices, helping   Thus, consumers stopped
businesses and workers. The     buying. The continuous cycle
NIRA also allowed trade         of overproduction and
associations in many            underconsumption put
industries to _____________     businesses back into a slump.
________________________        Some businesses felt that the
________________________        codes were too complicated
________________________        and the NRA was too rigid.
                                Declared ________________
                                later on.
Civil Works
Administration (CWA)
 This public work program
 gave the unemployed jobs
 __________________________
 __________________________
 __________________________.


    The CWA provided a
    psychological and physical
    boost to its 4 million
    workers.                     Building the Lincoln Tunnel
    Agriculture Adjustment Administration
                   (AAA)
The AAA tried to raise farm     Farmers killed off
prices. It used proceeds from   certain animals and
a new tax to pay farmers ___    crops as they were told to
________________________.       by the AAA. Many could
Lower production would, in      not believe that the
turn, increase prices.          federal government was
                                condoning such an action
                                when many Americans
                                were starving. Declared
                                unconstitutional later on.
      Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938
This banned _____________
                              This law was a long awaited
and set a ________________.   triumph for the progressive-
                              era social reformers.
               Social Security Act
This act established a
system that provided old-   Although the original SSA did
age pensions for workers,   not cover _________________
survivors benefits for      _________________________,
victims of industrial       it did help millions of
accidents, unemployment     Americans feel more secure.
insurance, and aid for
dependant mothers and
children, the blind and
physically disabled.
He was greeted with open arms
by a demoralized people and a
willing Congress in 1933.
However, many of his programs
eventually came under fire from
the public, the legislature and the
Supreme Court. After a failed
attempt to reorganize the Court
(in order to make it more
sympathetic to his programs)
and an economic downturn in
1937, the New Deal came to an
end in _____.