Roosevelt’s New Deal Relief Recovery Reform
Roosevelt’s New Deal
Relief Recovery Reform
The Election of Franklin Roosevelt“Nothing to fear but fear itself”
• Unemployment at 25%
Inaugurated March 4, 1933
Thousands of state and
federal banks had failed
US Unemployment Rate 2007 - 2010
Bank Failures
• 1930 - 1933: 7, 646 Banks failed
• 2008 – 2010: 294 Banks failed
The Three R’s of the New Deal
RELIEFStop the Pain
RECOVERYGet Well
REFORM
Immunize
(Prevent Relapse)
ReliefRelief
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• March 5, 1933 - Announced the immediate closure of all banks (a ‘bank holiday’) and began work to develop a plan to address the banking crisis
• March 9, 1933 - called Congress into EMERGENCY SESSION
Congress passed the Emergency Banking Act – which was designed to instill confidence in consumers
The Civilian Conservation Corps
Farm Credit Act of 1933
Federal Emergency Relief Act
(1933)
Agricultural Adjustment Act
(1933)Tennessee Valley Authority
(1933)
National Industrial Recovery Act(1933)
Home Owners’ Refinancing Act(1933)
Home Owners’ Loan Corporation
The Civil Works Administration
(1933-1934)
RECOVERY
The Work Progress Administration/Work Projects Administration
(1935)
The Federal Art Project
The Federal Music Project
The Federal Theatre Project
The Federal Writers Project
The Historical Records Survey
REFORM
Federal Securities Act
(1933, 1934)
Glass-Steagall Act of 1933
The Social Security Administration
(1935)"We can never insure one hundred percent of the population against one hundred percent of the hazards and vicissitudes of life, but we have tried to frame a law which will give some measure of protection to the average citizen and to his family against the loss of a job and against poverty-ridden old age."--
President Roosevelt upon signing Social Security Act
LABOR
The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire March 25, 1911
National Labor Relations Act1935
National Fair Labor Standards Act(1938)