1. The Great Depression, Franklin
D. Roosevelt, and His New
Deal
Created by: Emily Thorpe

2. Those Who Play Must Pay – The
1920s Come to an Abrupt Halt
 Stock market crash of 1929 did
NOT cause the Great Depression
 Other Factors Involved
 Industrial and agricultural
overproduction
 Unequal distribution of wealth
in America
 Over-extension of credit &
high individual debt
 Poor international economy
due to World War I
 Weak American banks

3. Herbert Hoover’s Response
 Voluntary Measures
 National Credit
Association
 Organization for
Unemployment Relief
 Limited Government
Intervention
 Thought businesses
should be self-
regulating
 Called the “Do Nothing”
President

4. 1932 Presidential Election
 Candidates
 Herbert Hoover - (R)
 Franklin D. Roosevelt
(FDR) - (D)
 Roosevelt’s Platform
 More active
government
 New ideas to get out of
Depression

5. 1932 Election Results

6. Restoration of Confidence
Begins

7. National Banking Crisis
 Between 1930 & 1932 there was
widespread bank failure
 FDR called Congress back into session on
March 6th, 1933 & enacted an
emergency bank proposal
 By the end of March, citizens put their
trust back into the bank system

8. It’s Time For a New Deal –
Purposes of This Plan
Relief: Recovery:
 Create jobs for the  Provide the economy with
unemployed the tools to succeed again
 Protect farmers from
foreclosure
Reform: Overall Goal:
 Government regulation of
banks Save Capitalism
 Abolish child labor
 Conserve farm lands

9. First New Deal (1933-1934)
 “The first hundred days” –
March 9th to June 16th,
1933
 All efforts went towards
aiding big business,
agriculture, &
unemployed
 “Alphabet Soup”

10. Civilian Conservation Corps
(CCC)
 Provided jobs to “city
boys”
 Would be paid $30
monthly to do work in
environment
 Successful tool at this
time

11. Civil Works Administration (CWA)
 Provided jobs for the
unemployed to
encourage moral
 Developed from the
Federal Emergency Relief
Administration (FERA)
 Provided a budget to
aid states in helping the
unemployed

12. Reform for Financial Matters
 Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
 Oversee stock and bond markets
 Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
 Insure bank deposits that reach up to $5,000

13. Tennessee Valley Authority
(TVA)
 Aided one of the most
devastated areas of country
 Dams & hydroelectric plants
built
 Provided jobs & electricity

14. Agricultural Adjustment Act
(AAA)
 Confronted the problem
of overproduction
 Created the Agricultural
Adjustment
Administration (AAA)
 Goal to raise farm prices
by encouraging farmers
to produce less

15. National Industrial Recovery Act
(NIRA)
 Created the Public Works
Administration (PWA) &
the National Recovery
Administration (NRA)
 NRA
 Created a partnership
between businesses,
labor, & the
government
 Labor Reforms

16. Second New Deal (1935-1936)
 Although First New Deal
was successful, many
were still unemployed
 FDR Presented list of
reforms to Congress in
Spring 1935
 Requested & received
$4.8 billion in relief

17. Works Progress Administration
(WPA)
 Able to employ 25% of
country’s workforce
 Low paying &
temporary jobs to
avoid competition with
private enterprises
 Types of Jobs
 Repaired infrastructure
 Ex: roads, bridges
 Built schools

18. Social Security Act of 1935
 Created a national pension fund, unemployment
insurance program, & public assistance programs
 Pension would be financed by a payroll tax
starting in 1937
 Flaws to this law

19. Wagner Act of 1935
 Prohibited employers
from engaging in a
variety of unfair labor
practices
 Created the National
Labor Relations Board
(NLRB)

20. FDR’s Second Term (1937-1940)
 “Court packing”
 Rise of Nazis in Germany
 Loss of New Deal
momentum
 Fair Labor Standards Act
 Abolished child labor
 Gave minimum hourly
wage (40 cents)
 Gave maximum work
week (40 hours)

21. Why It All Matters
 Physical rehabilitation to the nation
 Provided help to suffering citizens
 Revitalization of Politics
 Extension of the definition of democracy
 Strengthened the executive branch’s power
 Did not end the Great Depression

22. Works Cited
 Information: online-history.org/us2-docs/FDR-New-Deal.ppt
 Information: users.ipfw.edu/gatesb/H106h.PPT
 Information: American Passages – A History of the United States by Edward
Ayers, David Oshinsky, Lewis Gould, & Jean Soderlund
 FDR Picture - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt
 Soup Kitchen Picture -
http://blsciblogs.baruch.cuny.edu/his1005spring2011/tag/great-depression/
 FDR Inaugural Address Audio - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lm3Bntsp2ck
 Political Cartoon - http://willrabbe.com/microblog/2011/2/10/fdr-hoover-
inauguration-1933.html
 Electoral Map - http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fil:1932_Electoral_Map.png

23. Works Cited Continued
 FDR Inaugural Picture - http://voiceseducation.org/content/first-inaugural-address-
franklin-d-roosevelt
 Alphabet Soup Cartoon -
http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/money_13.html
 CCC Badge - http://www.colorado.gov/dpa/doit/archives/ccc/cccscope.html
 CCC Picture - http://siliconcowboy.wordpress.com/2010/04/10/fdrs-civilian-
conservation-corps-was-created-on-april-10-1933/
 Civil Works Picture - http://content.lib.washington.edu/civilworksweb/index.html
 TVA Graphic - http://newdeal.feri.org/tva/index.htm
 TVA Map - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Valley_Authority

24. Works Cited Continued
 Famers Picture - http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6696
 NRA Picture - http://shopfloor.org/tag/wwii
 FDR New Deal Pin - http://thehayride.com/2012/01/people-like-jesse-jackson-will-
never-understand-the-damage-fdrs-new-deal-inflicted-on-our-nation/
 WPA Picture - http://www.americana-music-and-memories.com/works-progress-
administration.html
 FDR Wheelchair Picture -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_picture_candidates/FDR_in_whe
el_chair
 FDR and Press Picture - http://history.howstuffworks.com/world-war-ii/start-world-
war-27.htm

25. Works Cited Continued
 Social Security Picture - http://biggovernment.com/tag/social-security/
 NLRB Picture - http://www.sjsapush.com/ch25.php
 “Why Can’t You Give My Dad A Job?” - http://www.profi-
forex.us/news/entry4000000221.html