The Second New Deal &
The New Deal Coalition
Second New Deal
1935
• A response to criticism
– Right wing
• Deficit spending
– Left wing
• Not enough
• Huey Long & Father Coughlin
• Townsend Plan
• Works Progress Administration (WPA)
– “Federal Number One”
• Artists
– Congress did not pass at first
• “Second hundred days”
Industrial Unions
• Democrats/FDR
– Unions could help end the depression
• National Labor Relations (NLR)
– National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)
– Set up secret ballots to determine whether
workers wanted a union
– Binding arbitration
– Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO)
• Set up unions
• Steel & autos
• Sit-down strike
Social Security Act
• August 1935
– Workers earned the right to receive benefits because
they paid premiums
– After age 65
– Disabilities
– Poor families with young dependent children
– Unemployment payments
– Left out farmers and domestic worker
“no politician can ever scrap my social security program.”
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1936 Election
• African-Americans & women voted democrat
– The Black Cabinet
– FDR promoted several women
• First woman to a cabinet post
• Ran against Alfred Landon
“…violates the basic ideals of the American system.”
– Huey Long assassinated
– One of the largest landslides in history
Results & Legacy
• 1937-Reputation took a hit
– Court-Packing plan
• Increase in justices, and new retirement policies
– Unemployment rose
• WPA & PWA cut
• 1938- Congress wins more republican seats
• 1939- New Deal era comes to an end
– Limited success- high unemployment/not a full
recovery
– Americans felt a stronger sense of security and
stability
– Safety-net
– Made government to powerful??
– How much should government intervene to support
the economy or the disadvantaged??
• Movies
Entertainment
– Cheap
– Everybody could go
• Dance Craze
– Couples would dance for hours
– Last couple standing won
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iw1afR4mLvw
• Board games
– Monopoly
Campaign Poster
• Create a campaign poster for FDR
• Include 3 of his successful programs
• Include at least 2 pictures
• Must be colored
• 15 points- Due at the end of the hour
• If you finish, work on your study guide