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    America: A Concise History

    Fourth Edition

    CHAPTER 24

    Redefining Liberalism: The New Deal19331939

    Copyright 2010 by Bedford/St. Martins

    James A. Henretta David Brody

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    Introduction: New Deal

    March 1933 President Roosevelt gave aninaugural address attempting to dispel the

    gloom and despondency of the nation. The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

    The President asked congress for broadExecutive power to wage war against theeconomic emergency.

    Roosevelt launched a program of federalactivismthe New Deal.

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    Introduction: New Deal

    The New Deal represented a new form ofliberalism, the ideology of individual rights

    that long shaped American society andpolitics.

    Classical 19th Century liberalism keptgovernments small and relatively powerless.

    The regulatory liberals of the Progressive

    era had safeguarded freedom bystrengthening the authority of the state.

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    Introduction: New Deal

    New Deal activists went furthertheir socialwelfare liberalism expanded the individuals

    right to governmental assistance. From the 1930s-1970s, social welfare liberals

    increased the scope of national legislation:

    created a centralized administrative system;

    and initiated new programs such as

    Social Security and Medicare.

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    The New Deal Takes Over, 19331935

    The Roosevelts Leadership

    The Hundred Days

    The New Deal Under Attack

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    The New Deal Takes Over,

    19331935 The Great Depression destroyed the political

    reputation of Herbert Hoover and boosted

    that of FDR. Ironically, there were not greatideological differences between Hoover andFDR.

    Both believed in a balanced government

    budget. Roosevelts charm and willingness to

    experiment made him popular.

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    Roosevelts Leadership

    Roosevelt established a close rapport with theAmerican people. 450,000 letters 5000 a weekthroughout the 1930s.

    The President used the medium of radio in hisfireside chats.

    Fireside Chat #4 1933/10/23

    He strengthened Presidential powers that hadbeen expanded under Teddy R. and Wilson.

    He sat up a brain trust of professors from

    Columbia and Harvard.(p.703)

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    Expanding FederalBureaucracy

    Talented intellectuals and administersattracted hundreds of highly qualified recruitsto Washington.

    Young professors and newly trained lawyersstreamed out of Ivy League universities intothe expanding federal bureaucracy.

    Inspired by the idealism of the New Deal,many of them devoted their lives to publicservice and the principles of social welfareliberalism.

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    The Hundred Days

    Roosevelt promised action now and he kept

    his promise.

    In a legendary legislative session, known as theHundred Days Congress enacted 15 majorbills that focused on major problems such as

    Banking failures.

    Agricultural overproduction The Business slump

    Soaring unemployment.

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    The Hundred Days

    The first effort was to address the bankingcrisis. Roosevelt declared a banking holidayon March 5.

    4 days later Congress passed the

    Emergency Banking Act which allowedbanks to reopen under Treasury Departmentoversight.

    The Glass-Steagall Act created the FDIC(Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)

    4000 banks collapsed prior to Roosevelts

    inauguration; only 61 closed in 1934.

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    Other initiatives

    Congress created the Home Owners LoanCorporation

    The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)mobilized 250,000 young men to doreforestation and conservation work.

    The Tennessee Valley Authority was set upto produce cheap hydroelectric power. TheTVA was criticized as creeping socialism.

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    Farming

    The Agricultural Adjustment Act began directgovernmental regulation of the Farm economy tosolve the problem of overproduction and low

    prices. The AAA led to reduction of farm output, providing of cash subsidies to some farmers,

    strengthening of large landholders.

    By dumping cash in the farmers hand (a specialinterest policy that continues to this day) theAAA stabilized the farm economy.

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    Agricultural Adjustment Act

    The AAA set up an allotment system for wheat, cotton,

    corn, hogs,

    rice, tobacco

    and dairy products. The AAA led to

    providing of cash subsidies to some

    farmers. reduction of farm output.

    strengthening of large landholders.

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    Unintended consequences

    Subsidies went primarily to the largelandowners who often cut production by

    reducing the amount of land they rented totenants sharecroppers.

    In the South, where many sharecropperswere black and landowners and government

    administers were white, such practicesforced 200,000 black families off the land.

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    Manufacturing

    The New Deals response to depression in

    manufacturing was the National Industrial

    Recovery Act. It introduced European corporatist theories

    of government planning that had beenimplemented in Italy by Benito Mussolini.

    The National Recovery Administration(NRA) set up self governing associations insix hundred industries.

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    Unemployment The administration quickly addressed the

    problems of massive unemployment andimpoverished working families.

    In May Congress established the FederalEmergency Relief Administration (FERA),directed by Harry Hopkins.

    In his first hours in office, Hopkins distributed $5million for relief programs.

    The New Deal put people to work with thePublic Works Administration (PWA)

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    Public Works Projects

    Legislation in the first hundred days of theNew Deal began large-scale public worksprojects.

    Early 1933, Congress appropriated 3.3 billion for thePublic Works Administration.

    Nov. 1933, Roosevelt established the Civil WorksAdministration with Harry Hopkins and gave it 400

    million. Within 30 days 2.6 million men and women were put

    to work.

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    Selling the NRA inChinatown

    To mobilize support for itsprogram, the NationalRecovery Administration(NRA) distributed millionsof posters to businessesand families, urging them

    to display the "Blue Eagle"in shops, factories, andhomes.

    Here, Constance King andMae Chinn of the ChineseYMCA affix a poster (and aChinese translation) to ashop in San Francisco thatis complying with the NRAcodes. Bettmann/Corbis.

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    The New Deal Under Attack

    Roosevelt attempted to reform Wall Street.

    Insider trading, fraud, and reckless speculationhad helped trigger the financial panic of 1929.

    Congress established the Securities andExchange Commission (SEC) to regulate thestock market.

    The Banking Act of 1935 authorized thePresident to appoint a new board of governorsfor the Federal Reserve System.

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    The New Deal Under Attack

    The New Deal came under attack fromeconomic conservatives and the politicalright

    1934, Republican business leaders joined withconservative Democrats to form the LibertyLeague that lobbied against reforms.

    The businessmen and politicians of theLiberty League attacked Roosevelt foradvocating socialist policies.

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    The Supreme Court The Supreme Court repudiated many New Deal

    measures.

    May 1935, the Court ruled the National

    Industrial Recovery Act unconstitutional Schechter v. United States: a firm in Brooklyn,

    New York sold diseased chickens to local

    storekeepers in violation of NRA codes. Herbert Hoover condemed the NRA as state-

    directed economic system.

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    Father Charles Coughlin

    Father Charles Coughlin challenged Roosevelt'sleadership in the Midwest.

    He was a Catholic priest from Detroit who usedthe radio in the mid-1920s to enlarge his parish.

    1933, 40 million Americans listened to Coughlinsbroadcasts. He initially supported the New Dealbut turned against when Roosevelt refused to

    nationalize the banking system and expand themoney supply.

    Coughlin organized the National Union forSocial Justice.

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    Southern Populism The most direct political threat to Roosevelt

    came from Senator Huey Long of Louisiana.

    Long was the democratic governor in LA from1928 to 1932 and was stunningly popular.

    He increased taxes on business corporations,lowered utility bills and built new highways.

    In order to achieve this, he seized dictatorialcontrol of the state government.

    As a Senator in 1934, he broke with the NewDeal and established Share Our WealthSociety, with 4 million members.

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    Growing authoritarianism

    Although many of Coughlin and Longs

    proposals were similar to the New Deal, they didnot have much respect for representative

    government. Coughlin advocated dictatorial rule to preserve

    democracy.

    Long declared Im the constitution around here.

    Voters seemed untroubled by their authoritarianviews.

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    The Second New Deal, 19351938

    Legislative Accomplishments

    The 1936 Election

    Stalemate

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    The Second New Deal,

    19351938 Under attack from the conservative right and the

    populist left, Roosevelt fashioned a liberalprogram.

    Historians have labeled this shift in policy as TheSecond New Deal.

    Roosevelt now openly criticized the money

    classes. He borrowed parts of Coughlin andLongs proposals with a tax increase on

    corporate profits and wealthy citizens.

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    Legislative Accomplishments

    The first New Deal focused on economicrecovery the second New Deal emphasized

    social justice. The Second New Deal used national

    legislation to enhance:

    the power of working people

    the economic security of the old, disabledand unemployed.

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    Legislative Accomplishments

    The first beneficiary of Roosevelts move

    to the left was the labor movement.

    There was a rising number of strikes in 1934. The Wagner Act (1935) upheld the right of

    industrial workers to join unions.

    The Act forbade employers to fire workersfor union activities.

    The Wagner Act did not apply to farmworkers.

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    Legislative Accomplishments

    The Social Security Act included old agepensions for most privately employed

    workers. It also established a federal-state system of

    workers compensation for unemployedworkers.

    At the insistence of southern Democrats, farmworkers and domestic servants wereexcluded.

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    The Welfare State

    The Social Security Act was a milestone inthe creation of an American Welfare State

    The Act mandated aid to various categoriesof Americans such as the blind, deaf, anddisabled as well as disabled children.

    Aid to Families with Dependent Children

    (AFDC) enrolled 14.1 million Americans by1994, 60% of whom were black or hispanic.

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    The 1936 Election As the 1936 election approached, new voters

    joined the Democratic Party. Many hadbenefited from New Deal programs.

    Republicans did not challenge the New Dealdirectly. They choose Afred Landon, gov. ofKansas as their candidate.

    Republicans criticized Roosevelt as potentiallyauthoritarian, along the lines of Europeanfacism.

    Roosevelt won by 60% of the vote.

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    The 1936 Election

    The

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    Stalemate

    FDR was inaugurated in January of 1937.

    His hopes of expanding the liberal welfare

    state were quickly dashed by the SupremeCourt.

    Staunch opposition also arose withinCongress and in the South.

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    Stalemate

    1935, the Supreme Court struck down aseries of New Deal measures by a narrowmargin of 5 to 4.

    Roosevelt stunned Congress by asking forchanges in the Court. Congress rejected hisproposal after a bitter months-long debate.

    Roosevelts attempt to alter the SupremeCourt suggested to many critics that hewas sidestepping the Constitution.

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    Stalemate

    Although Roosevelt lost the battle, he won thewar.

    The Court upheld a California minimum wagelaw and the Wagner and Security Acts.

    Several Supremes resigned, allowingRoosevelt to reshape the Court with new

    appointees.

    William O. Douglas, Hugo Black and FelixFrankfurter were appointed.

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    Stalemate The Roosevelt recession of 1937-1938 was

    caused by slashing the federal budgetinadvertently costing jobs.

    The stock market dropped and unemploymentsoared from 14 to 19 percent.

    Keynesian economics

    Deficit spending The New Deal ran out of steam.

    Roosevelt was a reformer not a revolutionary.

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    The New Deals Impact on Society

    The Rise of Labor

    Women and Blacks in the New Deal

    Migrants and Minorities in the West

    A New Deal for the Environment

    The New Deal and the Arts

    The Legacies of the New Deal

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    The New Deals Impact on

    Society The New Deal had a tremendous impact on

    the nation and altered Americans relationship

    to their government. To serve a diverse constituency, New Dealers

    created a sizable federal bureaucracy; thenumber of civilian employees increased by

    80% between 1929 and 1940 and reached atotal of 1 million.

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    The Rise of Labor

    Labor unions increased in clout and numbersduring the New Deal.

    The Wagner Act made it easier for unions toorganize workers to win recognition frommanagers, secure higher wagers, sonoritysystems and grievance procedures.

    By the end of the decade there were almost 9million unionized workers in the nonfarmworkforce.

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    The CIO

    The Congress of Industrial Organizations(CIO) was more inclusive of minorities.

    John L. Lewis was the leader of the UnitedMine Workers (UMW) and was the foremostexponent of industrial unionism.

    The CIO scored its first major victories

    against General Motors and the U.S. SteelCorporation.

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    The Rise of Labor The 1930s constituted the most successful

    period of labor organizing in American history.

    1937: Labor unions called nearly 5000 strikes

    and won favorable settlements in 80% of thecases.

    CIO allied itself with the Democratic Party.\

    Roosevelt never gave unions a high priorityalthough the New Deal did recognize industriallabor as legitimate.

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    Women in the New Deal

    The New Deal did not directly challenge genderinequality; no legislation was passed guaranteeinggender equality in the workforce until the 1970s.

    However, the doors were opened under Roosevelt forwomen granted appointments to cabinet-levelpositions.

    Women were much more visible in the workplace.

    The New Deal provided the context for thedevelopment of a a womens network for feminist and

    reform causes.

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    Blacks in the New Deal

    The needs of black Americans received low priority. 1931, Scottsboro, Alabama, nine young black men

    were accused of rape by two white women ridingon a freight train.

    Despite the inconsistencies of the womens stories,

    all 8 received death sentences within weeks. TheU.S. Supreme Court overturned the sentences.

    White mobs lynched 20 blacks in 1930 and 24 in1934.

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    Scottsboro Defendants

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    Scottsboro Defendants

    The 1931 trial in Scottsboro, Alabama,

    of nine black youths accused of rapingtwo white women became a symbol ofthe injustices African Americans facedin the Souths legal system.

    Denied access to an attorney, thedefendants were found guilty, andeight were sentenced to death.

    When the U.S. Supreme Courtoverturned their convictions in 1932,the International Labor Defenseorganization hired the noted criminalattorney Samuel Leibowitz, whoeventually won the acquittal of fourdefendants and jail sentences for the

    rest. This photograph, taken in a Decatur

    jail, shows Leibowitz conferring withHaywood Patterson, in front of theother eight defendants

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    The Great Migration Many blacks left the South and moved north To Harlem.

    Since the emancipation, most blacks had supported theparty of Lincoln (Republican).

    Unemployment in Harlem rose to 50% in 1933.

    During the New Deal, blacks largely deserted theRepublican Party for the Democratic Party.

    1936, northern blacks gave Roosevelt 71% of their vote.

    In Harlem, black support for the President reached anextraordinary 81%

    African American have remained Democratic since then.

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    The Indian

    Reorganization Act The Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, reversed

    the Dawes Act of 1887 and promoted self-

    government for reservation Indians. A majority of Indian peoples (174 tribes) accepted

    the reorganization policy.

    78 tribes refused, desiring to continue their policyof consensus rather than majority vote.

    The government adopted an attitude of culturalpluralism.

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    Migrants and Minorities in the

    West After 1870 the American West grew

    dramatically in population and wealth.

    1920s, agriculture in California had becomebig business. Lettuce, tomatoes, peaches,grapes and cotton.

    Thousands of workers migrated from Mexico

    to help with the long harvest season. 1930, the census reported 617,000 Mexican

    Americans.

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    Migrants in the West

    The New Deal benefited the situation ofMexican Americans.

    New Deal initiatives supporting unions was

    helpful for the acculturation of Mexicans. Many Mexicans joined the Democratic Party.

    Farm worker Cesar Chavez experienced

    discrimination as a child. 1962, Chavez organized the United Farm

    Workers a union of Mex-American laborers.

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    Asian Migrants

    Migrants from China, Japan and thePhilippines were a significant presence insome western cities.

    Chinese Americans were less prosperous thanJapanese.

    San Francisco most Chinese worked in smallethnic businesses; restaurants, laundries and

    textile firms.

    In 1931, approx one-sixth of San FransChinese pop was receiving public aid.

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    Filipino immigrants Filipinos were unaffected by restrictions on

    Asian immigrations in 1924 because theywere from a U.S. territory.

    As the depression cut wages, Filipinoimmigration decreased.

    The Tydings-McDuffie Act of 1934 grantedindependence to the Philippines andreclassified all Filipinos in the U.S. as aliensand restricted Filipino immigration.

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    Dust Bowl California became a destination of hope among

    farmers fleeing the dust bowl of the Great

    Plains.

    Between 1930 and 1941, a severe drought

    afflicted the semiarid states of Oklahoma, Texas,New Mexico, Colorado, Arkansas and Kansas.

    The Dust Bowl was of human creation. Farmerspushed the agriculture of the Great Plains beyondits natural limits.

    The ecological disaster led to a mass exodus.

    The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck.

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    A New Deal for the Environment Concern for the land was a dominant theme

    of the New Deal.

    The most visible undertaking was the

    Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) which wasintended to limit flooding and erosion in a 7state area.

    1933, Roosevelt encouraged Congress to

    fund the TN project.

    The dams and the hydroelectric plantsprovided cheap electric power.

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    Rural Electrification

    1935, The Rural Electrification Project (REA)was another attempt to improve the quality ofrural life.

    Less than one tenth of the nations 6.8 million

    farms had electricity.

    Private utilities balked at the expense of runningelectric lines to individual farms.

    The REA created nonprofit farm cooperatives. By 1940, 40% of nations farms had electricity,

    by 1950, the number rose to 90%.

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    Electricity

    Electricity brought many changes to rural life.

    Electric machines and water pumps saved hoursof labor.

    Electric irons, vacuum cleaners and washingmachines made house work easier.

    Radios integrated rural areas into national culture.

    Electric lights lengthened the time children could

    read and families eat meals.

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    Land management

    Following the Dust Bowl disaster, thegovernment focused on proper landmanagement.

    220 million trees were planted from Texas toCanada.

    CCC and WPA workers built the famous BlueRidge Parkway which connects Shenandoah

    National Park in VA with the Great SmokeyMountains National Park in North Carolina.

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    Art for the millions

    As a response to the Great Depression, manyAmerican writers and artists redefined theirrelationship to society.

    The New Deal funded many arts projects.

    A WPA project known as Federal One put

    unemployed artists, actors and writers to work.

    Art for the millions was a slogan thatencouraged painting of murals on public bldgs.

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    The Federal Art Project

    FAP gave work to many young artists who wouldbecome the 20thcenturys leading artists.

    Jackson Pollock, Alice Neel, William de Kooning,and Louise Nevelson all received support.

    The Federal Music Project employed 15,000musicians and government-sponsored orchestras.

    Composer Aaron Copeland wrote Billy the Kid

    (1938) and Rodeo (1942) for the WPA. Musicologists Charles and Ruth Crawford Seeger

    cataloged hundreds of American folk songs.

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    The Federal Theatre Project

    The most ambitious program was the FTPUnder the direction of Hallie Flanagan, the FTPreached an audience of 25 to 30 million people infour years of existance.

    Talented directors and playwrights included OrsonWells, John Huston and Arthur Miller.

    Many FTP productions took a critical look at

    American social problems which brought it underattack in Congress as sympathetic to communismand its funding was cut off in 1939.

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    The documentary impulse

    Documentary artists focused on actual eventsthat were relevant to peoples lives.

    John Steinbecks The Grapes of WrathandJohn Dos Passos USA Trilogyused actualnewspaper clippings and headlines in its story.

    The Depression itself left a deep psychic wound,an invisible scar in peoples minds that lasted

    for half a century.It was a legacy of fear but also a desire foracquisition.

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    The Legacies of the New Deal

    That was the Great Depression that stark

    terror of losing control over life.

    The New Deal attempted to restore hope andsecurity.

    FDRs New Deal redefined the regulatory

    liberalism of the Progressive era

    And created a powerful national bureaucracyof a social welfare state.

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    The Legacies of the New Deal

    During the 1930s, millions of people began topay taxes directly to Social SecurityAdministration and to the Internal Revenue

    Service. More than one-third of the population also

    received government assistance from federalprograms.

    Like all major transformations, the New Dealwas criticized for either doing too much or toolittle.

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    Varieties of liberalism

    Classical liberals criticized the New Dealfor intruding deeply into the personal andfinancial lives of citizens.

    Advocates of Social Welfare liberalismcomplained that the New Deals safety net

    had too many gaping holes, especially whencompared to Europe.

    They pointed out that there was no health-care system, that benefits were minimal andexcluded domestic and farm workers.

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    Political realignment

    By the 1960s there would be significantexpansion of social-welfare programs duringthe Great Societyinitiative of President

    Lyndon Johnson. The New Deal transformed the American

    political landscape. Since the Civil Warfrom1860 to 1932the Republican Party hadcommanded the votes of a majority ofAmericans.

    That changes with the New Deal.

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    Political realignment

    Millions of voters were brought into theDemocratic Party.

    Immigrants from Italy, Poland, African Americans

    and Jews all realigned with the Democrats. Organized labor aligned itself with Democrats.

    The New Deal wrestled with the racial issue.

    Roosevelt and the Democrats depended on theSouthern Whites but Democrats in the Northand West opposed racial discrimination.

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    Southern Opposition

    Beginning in the late 1930s, southern Democratsrejected further expansion of the federal powerfearing that it would be used to undermine white

    rule. This southern Democratic opposition, along with

    WWII, caused the New Deal to come to an end in1938.

    As Europe moved toward war and Japan flexedits muscles, Roosevelt pushed reform into thebackground and focused on foreign affairs.

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    Summary

    F.D. Roosevelts first New Deal focused on

    stimulating recovery, relief to the unemployedand regulating banks.

    The Second New Deal promoted social-welfare legislation to provide economicsecurity.

    The New Deal benefited women and blacks,union workers, migrant workers from Mexico,Asians and okies.

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    Summary

    African Americans shifted in massivenumbers from their traditional loyalty to theRepublican Party, to the New DealDemocrats.

    The Partys coalition of white southerners,

    ethnic workers, farmers, and the middle class

    gave FDR and other Democrats a landslidevictory in 1936.

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    Summary

    In 1933, the New Deal resolved the bankingcrisis, while preserving capitalist institutions.

    It expanded the federal government thru The Social Security system,

    Farm subsidy programs,

    Public works projects.

    The TVA and the WPA built great dams andelectricity projects and improved the quality ofnational life.

    (p.728)

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    Huey P Long Segment from Documentary on the1930s, "Just Around the Corner"

    2 of 10 Kingfish A Story of Huey P. Long HBO 1995

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YX0ea9bak8&pla

    ynext=1&list=PL47AC7DCE2414D580

    3 of 10 Kingfish A Story of Huey P. Long HBO 1995

    http://youtu.be/0Y3UjM-vhAshttp://youtu.be/0Y3UjM-vhAshttp://youtu.be/0Y3UjM-vhAshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YX0ea9bak8&playnext=1&list=PL47AC7DCE2414D580http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YX0ea9bak8&playnext=1&list=PL47AC7DCE2414D580http://youtu.be/3mOHs8fuCbIhttp://youtu.be/3mOHs8fuCbIhttp://youtu.be/3mOHs8fuCbIhttp://youtu.be/3mOHs8fuCbIhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YX0ea9bak8&playnext=1&list=PL47AC7DCE2414D580http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YX0ea9bak8&playnext=1&list=PL47AC7DCE2414D580http://youtu.be/0Y3UjM-vhAshttp://youtu.be/0Y3UjM-vhAs
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    The New Deal 5 mins and 25 secs.

    Roosevelt And U.S. History: 1930-1945 (clip) 2 mins

    The Great Depression 1929 - Documentary -10 mins.

    History Channel - The Great Depression 3.38 mins.

    ONLINE

    http://youtu.be/TRw-OQYDe2Mhttp://youtu.be/2eQRGosyd1Mhttp://youtu.be/nyAZGqFtVjwhttp://youtu.be/f8k0jJdqKP0http://youtu.be/f8k0jJdqKP0http://youtu.be/f8k0jJdqKP0http://youtu.be/f8k0jJdqKP0http://youtu.be/f8k0jJdqKP0http://youtu.be/nyAZGqFtVjwhttp://youtu.be/2eQRGosyd1Mhttp://youtu.be/2eQRGosyd1Mhttp://youtu.be/2eQRGosyd1Mhttp://youtu.be/TRw-OQYDe2M
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    The Great Depression, World War II, and AmericanProsperity - Part 1 [Lecture 5] by Thomas Woods

    The Economics of the New Deal and World War II

    [Lecture 12 of 15] by Thomas Woods

    ONLINE

    LECTURES

    Chapter 24

    http://youtu.be/vW5yvuyhVyIhttp://youtu.be/vW5yvuyhVyIhttp://youtu.be/3SNW0os5HpUhttp://youtu.be/3SNW0os5HpUhttp://youtu.be/3SNW0os5HpUhttp://youtu.be/3SNW0os5HpUhttp://youtu.be/vW5yvuyhVyIhttp://youtu.be/vW5yvuyhVyIhttp://youtu.be/vW5yvuyhVyIhttp://youtu.be/vW5yvuyhVyIhttp://youtu.be/vW5yvuyhVyI
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    Chapter 24Redefining Liberalism: The New Deal

    19331939

    Map 24.1 Public Works in the New Deal: The PWA in Action, 19331939(p. 712)

    Map 24.2 The Tennessee Valley Authority, 19331952 (p. 723)

    FDR (p. 702)