FDR and the New Deal

I. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

A. Brief Background

B. Philosophy

C. Personality

II. Eleanor Roosevelt

III. The New Deal

A. The First New Deal

1. Saving the Financial Industry

2. Planning the Economy: AAA, NRA, & TVA

a. Agricultural Adjustment Administration

b. National Recovery Administration

c. Tennessee Valley Authority

3. Relief Programs: Direct Relief vs. Work Relief

4. Evaluation of First New Deal

B. Critics of the New Deal, 1934-1936

1. On the Right: Liberty League

2. On the Left: Francis Townsend, Upton Sinclair, and Huey Long

C. The Second New Deal (1935-38)

1. Reasons for a Change

2. Social Security (1935)

a. 2 parts

b. Significance

c. Problems

3. The Wagner Act (National Labor Relations Act)

4. Rise of the CIO (industrial unionism) & increasing labor militancy

5. WPA (Works Projects Administration) & Culture

6. Programs for Rural Americans

a. Farm Security Administration

b. Resettlement Administration

c. Rural Electrification Administration

7. Revenue Act (increase taxes on rich)

D. Election of 1936 and the New Deal Coalition

E. End of the New Deal

1. Court Packing

2. “Roosevelt Recession”

3. Conservative Coalition

F. Legacy of the New Deal

1. The ND did not end the Gr Dep

2. Prevented revolution

3. Prevented another major depression

4. Raised Americans’ expectations

5. Impact on Disadvantaged Groups (mixed)

6. Growth of national government