10.2 Responsibilities
• Table 1
• I. A-D & II. A
• Table 2
• II. B-C & III. A-C
• Table 3
• IV. A-B & Timeline
Side #1-3
• Table 4
• Timeline Side #4-7
• Table 5
• Chart – 1st 5 entries
• Table 6
• Chart – last 5
entries
You will have approximately 20 minutes to complete your
answers. Split the work up amongst everyone in the group.
All group members must have answers written down.
Anyone from the group may be called upon to answer the
questions.
I. Challenges to the New Deal
A.
The right wing felt that the New Deal
1. had imposed too many regulations
on business
2. expanded the federal government’s
power at the expense of states’
rights
3. Roosevelt’s deficit spending was
dangerous
I. Challenges to the New Deal
B. The left wing that
1. Roosevelt had not gone far enough
2. Government should intervene even
more dramatically in the economy to
shift the wealth from the rich to
middle-income and poor Americans
I. Challenges to the New Deal
C. Father Coughlin called for heavy taxes
on the wealthy and a nationalized
banking system in order to make life
better for many Americans
I. Challenges to the New Deal
D. In order to free up jobs for the unemployed,
Francis Townshend proposed
1. Government pay citizens over age 60 a
pension of $200/month
2. Recipients would have to retire and
spend their entire pension check each
month
3. He believed the plan would increase
spending and remove people form the
labor force, freeing up jobs
II. Launching the
Second New Deal
A. The results of the Works Progress
Administration (WPA):
1. Over eight years the WPA spent $11
billion and employed 8.5 million
workers who constructed 650,000
miles of highways & roads, 125,000
public buildings and more than
8,000 parks…etc.
II. Launching the
Second New Deal
B. Federal Number One program offered work
to artists, musicians, theatre people and
writers.
1. Artists- murals, musicians – city
symphonies,
2. Federal Theatre Project financed
playwrights, actors & directors
3. Historians who interviewed former slaves
to document American History
II. Launching the
Second New Deal
• C- In the “sick Chicken case” (Schechter
v. the US) the Schechter brothers had
been convicted in of violating the NIRA’s
(National Industrial Recovery Act) Live
Poultry code. They had sold diseased
chickens and violated the code’s wageand-hour provisions.
II. Launching the
Second New Deal
• C- The Court ruled that employees of a
slaughterhouse were only involved in
the slaughtering and sale of chickens in
a LOCAL area. Because employees
were not involved in interstate
commerce, their wages and hours could
not be regulated by the NIRA’s code
(federal gov’t) for wage-and-hour
provisions.
II. Launching the
Second New Deal
The Supreme Court ruled in the “sick
chicken case” that the Const. did not
allow Congress to delegate its powers
to the executive branch, thereby
considering the NIRA codes
unconstitutional
III. The Rise of Industrial Unions
A. The National Labor Regulations Act
(Wagner Act):
1. Guaranteed workers the right to
unionize
2. Set up National Labor Relations
Board (NLRB) which was involved in
helping workers set up unions and
regulate fair practices
III. The Rise of Industrial Unions
B. The main goal of the Committee for
Industrial Organization (CIO):
1. Organize industrial unions – unions
that included all workers in a
particular industry
III. The Rise of Industrial Unions
C. After considerable violence, the sitdown strikes at General Motors were
finally resolved when the company
gave in and recognized the CIO’s
United Auto Workers (UAW) as its
employees’ sole bargaining agent.
IV. The Social Security Act
A. The Social Security Act (1935) is one
of the most important pieces of
legislation in American history.
1. Its major goal was to provide some
security for the elderly and
unemployed workers
IV. The Social Security Act
B. Initially the Social Security Act left out
many of the neediest members of
society – farm and domestic workers
1. 65% of all African American workers
in the 1930’s fell into these two
categories
Timeline Activity
Agencies of the New Deal
Agencies of the New Deal
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
Social Security Board
Home Owner’s Loan Corporation
Securities and Exchange Commission
National Labor Relations Board
Federal Loan Agency
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Federal Housing Administration
New Deal Programs
(Alphabet Soup)
• Agriculture Adjustment Administration
• AAA
• Purpose: Regulate farm prices by
paying farmers not to grow certain
crops
• Target Group: Farmers
New Deal Programs
• Civilian Conservation Corps
• CCC
• Purpose: provide jobs and fund
conservation projects
• Target Group: unemployed men ages
18-25
New Deal Programs
• Farm Credit Administration
• FCA
• Purpose: help farmers refinance
mortgages
• Target Group: farmers
New Deal Programs
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
• FDIC
• Purpose: provide gov’t insurance to
bank depositors
• Target Group: depositors
New Deal Programs
• Federal Emergency Relief Fund
• FERA
• Purpose: fund state and local agency
relief projects
• Target Group: unemployed workers
New Deal Programs
• Home Owners’ Loan Corporation
• HOLC
• Purpose: help homeowners pay
mortgages
• Target Group: homeowners
New Deal Programs
• National Industrial Recovery Act
• NIRA
• Purpose: guaranteed fairness in
competition by allowing business,
labor and gov’t to set voluntary rules
• Target Group: workers & business
New Deal Programs
• Public Works Administration
• PWA
• Purpose: put construction workers to
work in construction projects
• Target Group: unemployed
construction workers
New Deal Programs
• Securities and Exchange Commission
• SEC
• Purpose: Regulate the stock market
• Target Group: investors and bankers
New Deal Programs
• Works Progress Administration
• WPA
• Purpose: Promote recovery and
employment by funding public works
projects
• Target Group: unemployed workers
Notebook Check Info
Notes
• 9.1 Section Assessment**
• 9.1 SG/Timeline
• 9.2 Lecture Guide
• 9.3 SG
• 10.1 SG/Chart
• 10.2 SG
• 10.3 Lecture Guide (Fri)
Activities
• 10.2 Timeline/Chart
Video Guides
• Unfinished Nation: Hard
Times**
• CAT: Stormy Weather
• New Deal “Chaos of
Experimentation”
** on your own paper
** on your own paper