The New Deal Affects
Many Groups
Chapter 15; Section 3
Women
• Slight increases in jobs and wages
• Frances Perkins
– First female cabinet member
1936 poll revealed that 82% of Americans said that
a wide should not work if her husband had a job.
Is this true today? How have times changed?
Frances Perkins
African-Americans
• Many African Americans were to
government positions
• Eleanor Roosevelt was very
influential in expanding African
American rights
• FDR…not so much
– Failed to pass federal anti-lynching laws
and poll tax laws
Marian Anderson, 1939
Eleanor Roosevelt & Marian
Anderson
Mary McCleod Bethune
Mexican-Americans
• Received fewer benefits than African
Americans, but did find jobs
Native Americans
• Indian Reorganization Act of 1934
– Strengthened Native American rights
– Departure from assimilation
FDR & the New Deal
Coalition
• An alignment of diverse groups
dedicated to supporting the
Democratic party
• Led to political dominance throughout
the 1930s and 1940s
Election of 1936
Lasting Effects of the New Deal
• National Labor Relations Board
• Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation
• Securities and Exchange
Commission
• Social Security
Chapters 14 & 15 Test
• #1-32:
– multiple choice
• #33-50:
– matching
• #51-65:
– fill-in (Alphabet Agencies/Acts)