G Dep and New Deal

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"Brother, can you spare a D.I.M.E.?"</b></I></div> <div> Distribution of income, uneven</div> <div>      Low taxes on businesses and on high incomes</div> <div> Imbalance in foreign trade</div> <div>      High tariffs</div> <div> Mechanization of American industry</div> <div>      Overproduction of consumer goods</div> <div>      Failure of farm sector</div> <div> Easy Credit</div> <div>  Stock market speculation, buying on margin, excessive use of credit, installment buying</div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Hoover's Response (Too Little, Too Late), 1929-1933; Voluntary action</b></I></div> <div>      Hawley-Smoot Tariff (1930)</div> <div>           To protect US markets from foreign competition</div> <div>           Europe retalited, set high tariffs</div> <div>           Result:  reduced trade for all nations, economies sank further in to dep.</div> <div> "Rugged Individualism"</div> <div>      "trickle down" economics</div> <div>      Reconstruction Finance Corporation, 1932</div> <div>      Voluntary agreements by businesses</div> <div>      End of war debts by European nations</div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Effects of G Dep</b></I></div> <div>      Unemployment, homelessness, migration</div> <div>      The Bonus Army, 1932</div> <div>      Growth and solidification of the labor movement</div> <div>      "Hoovervilles"</div> <div>      The Dust Bowl, "Okies"</div> <div> <I><B>New Deal:  Relief, Recovery and Reform</b></I></div> <div>      Franklin Delano Roosevelt</div> <div> First Hundred Days</div> <div>      First New Deal, 1933</div> <div>           FDIC, HOLC, FERA, PWA, CCC, TVA, NRA, AAA, SEC, FHA</div> <div>      Second New Deal, 1935</div> <div>           WPA, Wagner Act, NLRB, REA, SSA</div> <div> <B>Relief of human suffering</b></div> <div> Emergency Banking Act; Bank "holiday," March 6, 1933</div> <div>      Federal Emergency Relief Act, 1933</div> <div>      PWA, CCC, WPA, TVA</div> <div> <B>Recovery of U.S. economy</b></div> <div> NRA, HOLC, FHA, First AAA, Second AAA</div> <div> "codes of fair competition"</div> <div> agricultural price supports</div> <div> <B>Reform</b></div> <div> Banking:  Glass-Steagall Act; FDIC</div> <div> Stock market:  SEC</div> <div> Social Security Act, 1935</div> <div> National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act), 1935; NLRB</div> <div> Fair Labor Standards Act, 1938</div> <div> <I><B>Controversial aspects of the New Deal</b></I></div> <div> Constitutional Issues</div> <div>      <I>Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States</I>, 1935</div> <div> Supreme Court and the AAA</div> <div>      <I>United States v. Butler</I>, 1936</div> <div> Roosevelt's "court packing"</div> <div> 1940 Third term controversy (the unwritten Constitution)</div> <div> Passage of 22<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >nd</FONT> Amendment, 1951</div> <bR> <div> <I><B>G Dep and New Deal:  The human factor</b></I></div> <div>               FDR:  Restore public confidence, "Fireside Chats", Brain Trust</div> <div> New Deal and Women:  Eleanor Roosevelt, Frances Perkins</div> <div> Dust Bowl:  "Okies",  John Steinbeck;s <I>The Grapes of Wrath</I> (1939)</div> <div> The New Deal and Minorities</div> <div>      Shift in African-American vote, 1936 New Deal coalition</div> <div>      Latinos</div> <div>      Indian Reorganization Act, 1934;  John Collier, Bureau of Indian Affairs</div> <bR> <div> <B>Opposition to the New Deal</b></div> <div>      Huey Long</div> <div>      Father Coughlin</div> <div>      Dr. Townsend</div> <div>      Republicans</div> <bR> <div> <B>Questions, Great Depression and New Deal:</b></div> <div> 1.  To what extent was the New Deal revolutionary?</div> <div> 2.  Did the New Deal lead to socialism?</div> <div> 3.  Did the New Deal destroy the "checks and balances" system?</div> <div> 4.  Did the New Deal violate the two-term Presidential Tradition?</div> <div> 5.  Describe the major controversies over the New Deal.</div> <div> 6.  Compare and contrast the responses of Presidents Hoover and FDR to the Depression.</div> <div> 7.  Why did Eleanor Roosevelt play such a substantive role as First Lady?  How do her </div> <div> actions compare with more recent First Ladies?</div> <div> 8.  Why did African-American voters increasingly change political allegiance from the </div> <div> Republican Party to the Democratic Party after 1934?</div> <div> 9.  What geographic/environmental conditions contributed to the migration from the Dust </div> <div> Bowl to the West?</div> <div> 10.  How did the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 compare with the Dawes Act of </div> <div> 1887 in terms of (a) goals and (b) Native American Indian reactions?</div> <div> 11.  How did the New Deal support the arts?</div> <div> 12.  Why did "escapist" movies become popular during the Great Depression?</div> <div> 13.  What New Deal projects were complete in or around Irvington, Westchester and New York?</div> <bR> <div> A.  How does New Deal reform compare to reforms of the Progressive Era (1890s) and </div> <div> the Great Society (1960s?)</div> <div> B.  How successful was the New Deal in solving the problems of the Great Depression?</div> <div> C.  In <I>The Grapes of Wrath</I>, Ma Joad made stew for the children at the camp, but she wondered if she was "doin' right."  On the one hand, she was helping people by giving them much-needed food; on the other hand, she didn't want them to become dependent on her, and she knew she couldn't feed them all for a long time.  During the 1930s, FDR greatly increased the role of the government in the economy and people's lives.  Do you think FDR was "doin' right" when he put New Deal programs into place?</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>