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23.3: The New Deal Affects Many Groups OBJECTIVE: to learn how the New Deal affected various social and ethnic groups
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23.3: The New Deal Affects Many Groups OBJECTIVE: to learn how the New Deal affected various social and ethnic groups.

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Page 1: 23.3: The New Deal Affects Many Groups OBJECTIVE: to learn how the New Deal affected various social and ethnic groups.

23.3: The New Deal Affects Many Groups

OBJECTIVE: to learn how the New Deal affected various social and

ethnic groups

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NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMENFrances Perkins (p. 677-8)

"I came to Washington to work for God, FDR, and the millions of forgotten, plain common workingmen.”

• First woman to be a cabinet member, as Sec. of Labor

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NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR AFRICAN-AMERICANS

Mary McLeod Bethune (p. 677-8)

• First African-American member of a president’s administration, as head of Office of Minority Affairs

• Helped organize a “Black Cabinet”

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Mary McLeod BethuneIn 1935 Mary McLeod Bethune (front center), became the first African American woman to hold a high-ranking government position, serving as the head of the Office of Minority Affairs in the National Youth Administration. Here, she is shown with the council of Negro Women, which she helped organize in 1935 to focus on the problems faced by African Americans at the national level. (New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture)

Mary McLeod Bethune

Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

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DISAPPOINTMENTS ALSO…

FDR did NOT help pass… a federal anti-lynching law or end the poll tax. Many New Deal programs

discriminated against African Americans with lower wages, less relief, and segregation

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MEXICAN AMERICANS

Received even less aid than African-Americans.

Many Mexican-American migrant farm workers were intentionally excluded because of their lack of a permanent address, UNLIKE white migrant farm workers.

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NATIVE AMERICANS• FDR appoints John Collier , who helps create

the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934.

• Strengthened Native American land claims

• Restored tribal ownership of reservation lands

HELPED TO REVERSE ASSIMILATION

POLICES OF THE DAWES ACT.

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23.5: The Impact of the New Deal

OBJECTIVE:

To understand the short-term and long-term effects of the New Deal

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Third New Deal???• By 1939 the New Deal was effectively over.

• Americans did not want a “Third New Deal”

• Depression seemed to be easing

• Problems in Europe taking center stage

• FDR did not like deficit spending, which continued expansion of New Deal would require.

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ANALYSIS: NEW DEAL (p. 690)

PRO CON

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WHICH NEW DEAL REFORM OR ACT WAS THE MOST

SIGNIFICANT?• Social Security• TVA• FDIC• CCC• Wagner Act• SEC• National Labor Relations Board

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Which long-term benefit of the New Deal do you think has had the most impact?

Why?

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New Deal Reforms that Endure

• Expansion of role of federal government in the economy– FDIC, SEC, deficit spending to spur economy

• Government protection of workers’ rights– National Labor Relations Board

• Managing rural economy and production– Parity and price supports, electrification

• Social Security/Welfare System

• Conservation of the environment – no more Dust Bowls, TVA, new national parks

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• Compare and Contrast the presidencies of Herbert Hoover and Franklin Delano Roosevelt

• Identify and discuss the causes and the effects of the Great Depression on people living in rural and urban areas.

• Identify the key programs of the New Deal. Discuss which programs were most important, most successful, most controversial and why.