Chapter 21The New Deal, 1932–1940

Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd EditionCopyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & CompanyMap 21.1 Columbia River Basin project, 1949

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• Please answer the following question in your binder:

• How effective was the New Deal?• Please support your answer with evidence

Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd EditionCopyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & CompanyFigure 21.2 Unemployment, 1925–1945

The Limits of Change

• The New Deal and American Women• Affected Americans differently• Many opportunities for Women

• Politics• Eleanor Roosevelt

• However, no organized Feminism in 30s• Calls for women to leave the workforce!• Social Security excluded nearly 3 million female

domestic workers

The Limits of Change

• The Southern Veto• Solid south still had power• FDR could not challenge southern Dems if he wanted

New Deal programs passed• Southern Dems excluded from SS:

• Agricultural workers• Domestic workers

• The Stigma of Welfare• Disproportionally affected black workers

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• On a scale of 1-10, how important was the New Deal to America? To what extent has it influenced American government and politics today

The Limits of Change

• The Indian New Deal• Ended the policy of coerced assimilation• Reversed the Dawes Act• Radical shift in Indian policy

• The New Deal and Mexican-Americans• 400, 000 returned to Mexico• Social Security did not apply to agricultural

workers

The Limits of Change

• Last Hired, Last Fired• African Americans suffered the most• Unemployment rate was 2x whites• W.E.B Dubois urged blacks to think of

themselves as:• “Nation within a nation”

• A New Deal for Blacks• Shift in the Democratic Party’s coalition

• New Deal Coalition

A New Conception of America

• The Heyday of American Communism• CIO and Comunist Party

• Influenced politics and culture• 100, 000 people in Communist Party• Popular Front

• Ally with New Deal• Ironically helped the liberalism of the New Deal