“Learning to Lead our Lives”
Title The NEW DEAL
Skill: Organisation and Communication
NGfL:USA 1929 -1990
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What has caused this and what are
they doing?
Look at this source below.
Who is this?
Why is he
presented
this way?
Why babies?
What do they
represent?
Who is this?
Why is he
presented
this way?
What does the author
think of Hoover’s
presidency?
Public Domain Library of Congress.
You are President Roosevelt, what are your
problems and how are you going to solve them?
Problems
Possible
Solutions
Which of the following activities were employed by the
American Government to solve the problem of
unemployment
YES
Employed
photographers
cataloguing historical
documents
Built Hospitals
Pigeon chasing
Road building
Colouring old film
Sweep up leaves
Built Schools
Built airports
NO
Which of the following activities were employed by the
American Government to solve the problem of
unemployment
YES
Employed
photographers
NO
cataloguing historical
documents
Pigeon chasing
Built Hospitals
Sweep up leaves
Road building
Colouring old film
Built Schools
Built airports
Yes, that is right!
The government
tried EVERYTHING
to get people back
into work!
Which of these activities genuinely benefited society
and which may have been ‘seen’ as money wasting?
Benefit society
Money wasting
What do you think this means?
A Boondoggle is a North
American term referring to the
performance of useless or trivial
tasks whilst appearing to be doing
something important .
Can you think of a reason why they
might be necessary?
Slide Colourists
at Work NRA
Public Domain - Library of Congress.
WPA Fed Theatre Project in
NY 1935-36 Dance Theatre
"Young Tramps"
“The only thing we have to fear
is fear itself”
Franklin D.
Roosevelt
“Our greatest primary task is to put people to work”
Public Domain – picture and recording Library of Congress.
Key Quotes: FDR’s Inauguration
Speech
Relief
- Give
to the
This Nation
askshelp
for action,
unemployed
and action
now. Our
greatest primary
task
RecoveryRebuild
theis to
put people to
work. I shall
economy
ask congress
Reform
– Createfora broad
fairer
executive power to wage
and more just
war against the emergency.
society
Public Domain - Library of Congress.
The New Deal: Alphabet
Agencies
 The three Rs Relief, Recovery and Reform
would restore American society.
 The Alphabet Agencies were brought in to
reverse the ‘Spiral of Depression.’
 The main aim was pump priming – to inject
money into the economy by giving work to the
unemployed
 However, some felt that the government had
gone too far with BOONDOGGLING.
Task:
In groups you will be given one piece of New Deal legislation.
You will present your analysis to the remaining groups based
on the following questions. You should think about the
following:
•Is it Relief, Reform or
Recovery?
•Who will benefit and who will
not?
•Would any groups in US society
not support this?
•What impact did this have on
society.
Remember:•Talk to the class DO NOT READ!
•Work together, delegate tasks
•Speak slowly and clearly
remember people need to take in
the information you give them!
•Get the balance right, Text and
images
Alphabet Agencies
Alphabet
agency
Purpose
Action
Benefit to
society
Support
Emergency Banking Act
• All banks were closed
for 10 days and only
those approved by
the Federal
Government were
allowed to reopen
• The president
encouraged
people to invest
their money in
these banks and
not under the
mattress, in a
series of
‘Fireside chats’.
Federal Emergency Relief
Administration (FERA)
• Led by Harry Hopkins, a
former social worker, this
agency sent funds to
depleting local relief
agencies. Within two
hours, $5 million were
given out .
• Gave Federal money to
individual states to help
the homeless and
unemployed.
• The government
gave each state
$1 back for
every $3 spent
on the relief of
poverty. Spent
$500 million in
total
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
To help farmers to
increase their profits.
• Schemes were
introduced to reduce
their production and
so to drive up the
price of their produce.
• Government
money was used to
pay farmers to
slaughter their
animals and to
destroy their crops.
• This was very
controversial at a
time when people
were starving.
National Industrial Recovery
Administration (NIRA)
To encourage
employers to
improve industrial
workers’ pay and
conditions and to
charge fair prices
for goods
• Codes of practice were
drawn up minimum
wage, hour and
conditions companies
that signed up to the
scheme were allowed
to display the Blue
Eagle Flag
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Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
• Set up to help farmers
and others in the
Tennessee valley half its
population 2.5 million
people were living below
the poverty line.
• Farming had become
poor in the Tennessee
valley due to over
cultivating, flooding and
soil erosion.
• Provided cheap
Hydroelectric Power to
the farms.
• 20 Dams were
constructed to prevent
flooding and provide
cheap electricity.
• Millions of trees were
planted to prevent soil
erosion.
Works Progress Administration
(WPA)
• 11,000 schools were built.
• 70,000 km of roads were
constructed.
• La Guardia airport in New
York was put up.
• FDR paid photographers
to record the Depression.
• 12,000 Actors were paid
to put on plays and
concerts to relieve the
depression.
• Paid artists to make
paintings for schools and
public buildings.
• Employed 2 million
people a year.
Alphabet Agencies
Alphabet
agency
Purpose
Action
Benefit to Who would
society
have
Supported
this
measure?
Would everyone have supported the “New Deal”?
Look at this source below.
What does it suggest about the New deal?
How is the
tax payer
presented?
why?
What
does this
suggest?
What does
the Pump
and water
represent?
Why is it
leaking?
Who would
agree with this?
Library of congress archives from the Columbus Dispatch (1935)
From the sources below identify the attitude
to the New Deal
What
comparison
is being
made?
Who is
this?
What
does this
suggest?
Who would
agree with this?
http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/index.html
Time to Weigh up the Changes!
Draw a giant set of scales and make a brief note of positive
changes on one side and negative on the other. How effective do
think the New Deal was for the American People?
Remember more changes are not always better think quality as well as quantity!
Historical ‘just a minute…’
Talk for one minute without hesitation, deviation or
repetition about the following topics:
Hoover
Roosevelt
Boondoggling
Banking Act
Works Progress
Administration