U.S. HISTORY MR. COONEN
CHAPTER 22 THE NEW DEAL
22.2 THE SECOND NEW DEAL
THE INSIDE STORY: How Do You Restore Hope To The Hopeless?
Besides food and an income, what to you think government work programs such as the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) provided young workers?
THE SECOND HUNDRED DAYS
What was a clear sign to President Roosevelt that he had the support of the majority of Americans?
Describe the Second Hundred Days:
Emergency Relief
How did the emergency relief programs of the Second Hundred Days differ from earlier relief programs of the Roosevelt administration?
What was the WPA?
What fraction of the nation’s unemployed did the WPA put to work?
Social Security
What were two of the main goals of Social Security?
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REVIVING ORGANIZED LABOR
What two things did the NIRA guarantee?
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Provide three elements of the NLRB (National Labor Relations Board):
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The CIO is Born
What was a fundamental difference between the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and the Committee for Industrial Organization?
The GM Sit-down Strike
Describe the sit-down strike of 1936:
THE ELETION OF 1936
Rural Electricity
Why do you think many for-profit power companies had been unwilling to bring electricity to sparsely populated regions of the country?
In ten years, describe the increase of rural homes with electricity.
Americans Re-elect Roosevelt
What three accomplishments could FDR boast in his 1936 re-election campaign?
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Besides a landslide presidential victory, what other evidence did Democrats have that the majority of Americans were backing the party?
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A TROUBLED YEAR
The Court-packing Plan
Why would FDR want to appoint many Supreme Court judges and expand the Supreme Court by up to six judges?
Why did public support of FDR decline after his “court packing” attempt?
Moving Forward
What did the Farm Tenancy Act do?
Even though FDR didn’t get his way with “court-packing”, describe a few ways that the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Roosevelt’s New Deal programs:
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Recovery in Doubt
Define deficit:
Describe John Maynard Keyes’ belief about deficit spending: