FDR Takes Office (March 3, 1933)
Inaugural Address
 1st Hundred Days
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› Banking and Investment
 Major problem (Jan 30-March 33)
 Emergency Banking Act – Bank Holiday
 Fireside Chats
 Glass-Steagall Banking Act
 FDIC
 Securities and Exchange Act – SEC
 THE BUDGET
 Economy Act
 21st Amendment – Volstead Act
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Issues for Farmers, business, and
Consumers (1933-34)
› Gold Standard Issue
› Silver Purchase Act
› Gold Reserve Act
› Outcomes?
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NEW DEAL PROGRAMS: Phase I (1933-1934)
› SEE CHART – The 3 R’s – Recovery, Relief,
and Reform
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What is Jazz Swing?
› Origins -- Palomar Ballroom 1935 – Benny
Goodman; Cab Calloway
› Re-emergence of Nightclub scene
› Reorganization of orchestras and style
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Issues with the New Deal: positives and
negatives
› Governor Huey Long -- Communism
› Father Charles Coughlin -- Fascism
› Dr. Francis E. Townsend
› The Business Plot of 1933
› ELECTION OF 1936
2ND NEW DEAL (1935-1936) – SEE CHART AND
ADDITIONAL NOTES ADDED
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Conservative Supreme Court
› Makeup of the court and views
› NIRA and AAA struck down
 U.S. vs. Butler (1935)
 Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act
 Unconstitutional
 Additional challenges: SSA and Wagner Act
 FDR Reacts (1937) – His plan and reaction by Congress
and Americans;
Changes in Supreme Court views and make-up –
“Switch in Time Saves NINE.”
 NLRB vs. Jaones@Laughlin Steel Corp (1937)
 West Coast Hotel vs. Parrish (1937)
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Additional Acts:
› Farm Tenancy Act 1937
› National Housing Act 1937
› Issues with Southern Democrats and the “Black Cabinet”
› RECESSION OF 1938
 Why? FDR and Federal Reserve reactions/actions – How
do we solve??
 Fair Standards Act 1938
 New AAA
 Temporary National Economic Comm.
 ELECTION OF 1938 AND IMPACT
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Struggles in the 1930s and early 40s
› Racial stereotypes vs. reality and talent
 Post Harlem Renaissance
 A Philip Randolph and Beginnings of Civil
Rights Movement – Brotherhood of Sleeping
Car Porters and March on Washington
 Abel Meeropol – Strange Fruit
Billie Holliday
 Struggles in the Film Industry -- VIDEO
EXAMPLES – NOTES -- DISCUSSION)
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New Deal Impacts
› Women
› African-Americans and other minorities
 Black Cabinet; Scottsboro Case and Trial
› Labor Unions – formation CIO (1932); John L.
Lewis
FIRST LADY, Eleanor Roosevelt “Champion of
the minority”
› Conflicts with the President and Congress
 Marian Anderson and DAR Incident
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Government and Industry
› OUT of Recession!! – Expansion of
Government
 Financing
 Income Tax Exemptions (Victory Tax)
 Victory Bonds 000 Hollywood Helps Out
 FDR and Rally the People
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Office of Production Management
War Powers Act
Office of Emergency Management
War Production Board – Big Business Friend 
Quota systems – Liberty Ships and Plans
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Government and Business Cooperation
› Wages and conditions
› National War Labor Board (NWLB)
› John L. Lewis and Smith-Connally Labor Disputes Act
› Decrease in strikes and union membership
› MINORITIES IN WORKFORCE
 Women
 War Manpower Comm.
 African Americans
 Fair Employment Practices Comm.
Mexican-American Laborers
assistance and issues – Zoot Suit Riots – Summer 1943
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Armed Forces – immigrants and African Americans
› USO and Bob Hope; Stage-Door Canteens
Total War Mode (1942-1945)
› Inflation and FDR response
› Shared sacrifice
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Patriotic music and films/cartoons
The Family Impacts – Baby Boom
African Americans
Japanese Americans -- Fifth Column
 Issues 1941
 Executive Order 9066 and Internment Camps
 Korematsu v. U.S (1944)