Finally Friday, Jan. 23, 2015
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Turn your homework into the basket
Take your seat
Take out your notebook
Open to notes “FRD Offers Relief and Recovery”
Precious Time / Warm -Up
Highlight and add in Cornell questions
Read over your notes and answer the following questions
separately, in 3-5 sentences each.
1. What did FDR do to begin addressing the economic
crisis?
2. What did you find interesting about these notes and
what do you need more information on?
Today Agenda
• Precious Time / Warm-Up
• Healthy Note
• FN Discussion: “FDR Offers Relief and
Recovery”
• Homework:
• Read Ch. 9 Sec. 1 – quick reading quiz
Monday
FDR Offers Relief and Recovery
11.6.4: Analyze the effects of and the controversies arising from the New Deal
econ policies and the expanded role of the federal go’vt in soc and the econ since
the 1930’s
EQ: How did the New Deal attempt to
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address the problems of the depression?
1932
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Franklin Roosevelt
Herbert C. Hoover
Norman Thomas
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15,758,901
881,951
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• Ex-govenor of NY, cousin
of Theodore Roosevelt
• Married his 5th cousin,
Eleanor, who was also a
Roosevelt
• FDR only president
elected to 4 terms
• Not scared to failed
• “Take a method and try it. If it
fails, admit it frankly, and try
another. But by all means, try
something.”
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Eleanor Roosevelt
• Eleanor was the most
influential 1st lady ever
• she is the yardstick by which
all first ladies are measured
• She met with people and
was the ears/eyes of the
president
• she didn’t just sit in the White
House and decorate
• she battled racism and
injustice
• served as a delegate to the UN
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FDR’s Brain Trust
and Cabinet
• FDR picked educated
professionals from
both parties to give
him advice
• “I'm not the smartest fellow
in the world, but I can sure
pick smart colleagues.”
• Frances Perkins was
the 1st female cabinet
member
• Secretary of labor
• Mary Bethune was in
the “Black Cabinet” to
advise FDR on issues
involving race
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First Inaugural Address, 1933
• FDR spoke directly
to the people
• he was very honest
about the state of
the economy and
the nation
• Words on next slide
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First Inaugural Address, 1933
• I am certain that my fellow Americans expect that
on my induction into the Presidency I will address
them with a candor and a decision which the
present situation of our people impel. This is
preeminently the time to speak the truth, the whole
truth, frankly and boldly. Nor need we shrink from
honestly facing conditions in our country today. This
great Nation will endure as it has endured, will
revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert
my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is
fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror
which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat
into advance.
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FDR’s The First Hundred
Days
• FDR closed all US banks 8
hours after taking office
• it was called the Federal
Emergency Banking Relief Act
• FDR explained it in his first
fireside chat
• the gov’t inspected US
banks and only let safe ones
reopen a week later
• Fireside Chats -informal
radio speeches made people
feel like FDR cared about
them
• presidents still do this
• Fireside Chat
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The New Deal
• Provides 3
Things:
• Relief – to help
individual
people
• Recovery – to
help businesses
• Reform – to
make sure it
never happens
again
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Criticisms of the New Deal
• Father Coughlin
• outspoken Catholic radiocritic of New Deal from
1933 to 1942
• supported FDR at first but
said he went too far
towards socialism
• spoke against Jews and was
taken off the air
• Francis Townsend
• pushed for $200/month
pension for anyone 60 and
older
• said Social Security didn’t
go far enough
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Criticisms of the New Deal
• Sen. Huey “Kingfish” Long
• his “Share Our Wealth”
would redistribute money
in the US
• everyone would have an
income of $2000 - $5000
• progressive income tax,
pension, free college
education
• there were 7.5 million
people in 27,000 “Share the
Wealth” clubs in 1935
• Long gained a large
following until his
assassination in 1935
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Essential Question – 1 paragraph,
SUTW
• How did the New Deal attempt to
address the problems of the
Depression?
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