Goal 9 Show 5

“Only Thing To Fear”

-1932 Inauguration Speech “The Only Thing We Have to Fear is fear itself.” by Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Public Relations—to inform the public about political events.

Fireside Chats—weekly radio talks about public concerns.

“Only Thing To Fear”

-1932 Inauguration Speech

“The only thing we have to fear, is fear itself”

-Public Relations

-Fireside Chats

A Call to Action

Progressive Programs: To make changes for improving the economy.

Experiment with solutions: New suggestions .

Group Effort:

1. Eleanor Roosevelt: concerned with child welfare, housing reform, equal rights for women and minorities.

2. Brain Trust-A selected group of layers, professors and journalists to help alleviate the Great Depression.

First 100 Days: (New Deal Programs)

1. Extended the powers of the federal government in the nation’s economy.

A Call to Action

-Progressive programs

Experiment with solutions

-Group Effort

Eleanor Roosevelt

Brain Trust

-1st 100 Days

First New Deal

Bank Holiday—closed all banks to prevent withdrawals.

Emergency Banking Act of 1933—to inspect banks and those found sound could reopen only.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.—to insure a person’s deposit within a bank up to $5,000.

Securities and Exchange Commission (Federal Securities Act)—to regulate the stock market and to prevent people from rigging the stock market for their own personal profit.

All were designed for recovery and relief.

21st Amendment—prohibition is over.

Deficit Spending—spending more money than the government receives in revenue.

Pump Primping—placing more money into the economy to create jobs. (caused inflation)

Alphabet Soup

-Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

Securities and Exchange Commission.

Public Works Administration—to create jobs in constructing schools and other community buildings.

Civil Works Administration—paid the salaries of teachers and built roads.

Alphabet Soup

-FDIC

Federal Depositors Insurance Corporation

-SEC

Securities and Exchange Commission

-PWA

Public Works Administration

-CWA

Civil Works Administration

Alphabet Soup

-FDIC

Federal Depositors Insurance Corporation

-SEC

Securities and Exchange Commission

-PWA

Public Works Administration

-CWA

Civil Works Administration

Alphabet Soup

Tennessee Valley Authority—to provide flood control, hydroelectric power to Tennessee, Alabama and North Carolina.

Civilian Conservation Corp—Young men between 18 to 25 to work building roads, developing parks and planting trees.

Agricultural Adjustment Act—to raise crop prices by lowering production; to leave certain amount of land unseeded.

National Recovery Administration—To ensure fair competition and established standards for working hours and to ban child labor.

Alphabet Soup

-TVA

Tennessee Valley Authority

-CCC

Civilian Conservation Corp

-AAA

Agricultural Adjustment Act

-NRA

National Recovery Administration

Alphabet Soup

-TVA

Tennessee Valley Authority

-CCC

Civilian Conservation Corp

-AAA

Agricultural Adjustment Act

-NRA

National Recovery Administration

Alphabet Soup

-TVA

Tennessee Valley Authority

-CCC

Civilian Conservation Corp

-AAA

Agricultural Adjustment Act

-NRA

National Recovery Administration

Alphabet Soup

-TVA

Tennessee Valley Authority

-CCC

Civilian Conservation Corp

-AAA

Agricultural Adjustment Act

-NRA

National Recovery Administration

Alphabet Soup

-TVA

Tennessee Valley Authority

-CCC

Civilian Conservation Corp

-AAA

Agricultural Adjustment Act

-NRA

National Recovery Administration

Dust Bowl

Dust Bowl—great drought had hit the Great Plains or Great American Desert.

1. Mid 1930s—wind storms started taking away topsoil.

2. Farms were destroyed.

3. Many people migrated to the West (California)

4. They became migrant farm workers known as “Okies”

“Grapes of Wrath” famous book on the Dust Bowl by John Steinbeck.

Dust Bowl

-great drought had hit the lower plains

-mid 1930’s wind storms started

-farms destroyed

-many people migrate to the west

migrant farm workers

“Okies”

-”Grapes of Wrath”

John Steinbeck

The Economy by 1935

-By 1935—The economy had not recovered.

There is enough relief to keep people from starving.

Some people started to demand more action.

People wanted help for farmers and workers.

New Deal Critics

Father Coughlin—advocated heavy taxes on the rich to provide income for all people, a guaranteed annual income and nationalization of banks.

Huey Long—famous quote “Every Man A King.” He was the governor of Louisiana. He believed in a level income, homes and a college education for all. His program was called “Share Our Wealth”. He was assassinated by a gunmen because of his political beliefs.

Francis Townsend—He proposed income for the elderly. He advocated a monthly pension plan to provide benefits for the elderly.

New Deal Critics

-Father Coughlin

heavy taxes on the rich to provide income for all

-Huey Long

“Every man a King”

level income, home and college for all

-Francis Townsend

proposed income for elderly