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Record chronologically what you
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Unit 5: Chapter 10 pg. 255-258
The Second New Deal, 1935
1) New laws protected labor’s rights
to organize & bargain collectively
a, Wagner National Labor
Relations Act, dubbed “labor’s
Magna Carta”
b. NLRB: est. to enforce provisions
of the Act
2) Social Security Act: provided
unemployment compensation, oldage pensions, and aid for dependent
mothers , children, and the blind
a. Financed through a regressive
payroll tax on employers &
employees
Responses
Personal reactions, which occur at
the moment you
are reading the text: ask questions,
make comments, or record ideas
Roosevelt’s goal was to “weed
out” The over privileged & lift
up the underprivileged
What is Magna Carta?
Plan didn’t include a fourth of
all workers – farm laborers and
domestic servants
What is a regressive tax?
3) Banking Act of 1935: increased
authority of the federal Reserve
Board over the nation’s currency
a. provided a graduated income
tax and increased estate and
corporate taxes
4) “Dust Bowl” 1932 dust storms
blew away top soil destroying
agriculture in the mid west
a. Resettlement Administration
established for land reform
and to help poor farmers
5) Emergency Relief Appropriation
Act, 1935: 5$ billion spent to
create jobs
a. WPA: created 9 million jobs
Set precedent for progressive
taxes
Grapes of Wrath
Problem exceeded its resources
Most jobs involved construction
Also developed jobs for artist
NYA: part time jobs for students
6) Election of 1936
a. Roosevelt’s coalition: Southern Conservative critics made up a
Democrats, Middle-Class
minority of the voter
workers, Urban Ethnic Groups
Roosevelt won by the largest
margin in history: 523 to 8 electoral
votes