The New Deal

Conflicting Interpretations

Election of 1932

*   Franklin Roosevelt v. Herbert Hoover

*   Banking Crisis

First New Deal, 1933-34

*   The Bank Holiday

                   Emergency Banking Relief Bill

*   Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)

*   Civilian Conservation Corp (CCC)

*   National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)                 

                   Public Works Administration (PWA)

                   National Recovery Administration (NRA)

                   Section 7(a)

*   Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

*   Banking Act of 1933

          Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

Reactions to the New Deal

*   Conservative

*   Father Charles Coughlin (National Union for Social Justice)

*   Dr. Frances Townsend (Old Age Revolving Pensions)

*   Huey Long (Share Our Wealth Society)

*   Socialist – Norman Thomas, Upton Sinclair (EPIC)

Supreme Court

*   Panama Refining Co. v. Ryan – NIRA

*   Schechter v. U.S. and U.S. v. Butler – AAA

Second New Deal

*   Emergency Relief Appropriation Act

                   Works Progress Administration (WPA)

                             Federal Theater Project

                             Federal Writers’ Project

                             Rural Electrification Administration (REA)

                             National Youth Administration (NYA)

*   National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act)

*   Social Security Act

*   Revenue Act – Wealth Tax

The New Deal Coalition

Roosevelt’s Second Term

*   Court Packing

*   National Housing Act, 1937

*   Agricultural Adjustment Act, 1938

*   Fair Labor Standards Act, 1938

*   Recession of 1937-39

Evaluation of the New Deal