How the New Deal Affected America

NEW ROLES FOR WOMEN AND AFRICAN AMERICANS

-FDR promotes and recognizes many women and Afr. Americans

-the economic emergency helped replace the “old ways” with “new ways”

Group #1-Women (p.718, 701) Group #4-Movies & Sports -Frances Perkins, Eleanor R., (p.720, 722)

discrimination

Group #2- African Americans (p.718) Group #5- Radio (p.721) -Black Cabinet, Marian McLeod -Orson Welles, fireside chats, Bethune, William Hastie, jazz discrimination, & Marian Anderson

Group #3-the Arts (p. 719, 710, & 686) -John Steinback, Grapes of Wrath, Dorothea Lange

WOMEN

-Eleanor Roosevelt

-Frances Perkins

-discrimination

AFRICAN AMERICANS

-William Hastie

-Black Cabinet

-Discrimination

Marian Anderson

-Democrats get the black

vote

AMERICAN CULTURE

-artists, authors interested in social issues

-Dorothea Lange

-John Steinbeck

RADIO

-fireside chats

-short stories

-helped promote jazz

-Orson B. Welles, H. G. Welles

MOVIES

-after stock market crash of 1929, movie revenue up 59%

-80 million of America’s 127 million attended a movie each week

-an escape from problems

DID IT WORK?

-New Deal seems successful until downturn of 1937-38

-long-lasting federal programs like Social Security and the FDIC

-roads, bridges, dams, hospitals, schools, etc.

DID IT WORK?

-too much government involvement?

-discrimination

-not enough employment opportunities

-nearly 5 million remained

unemployed!

NEW DEAL DIES

-FDR loses supports because of “court-packing” accusations

-1937-38 economic downturn

-1938: Fair Labor Standards Act

-minimum wage

-1938 mid-term elections

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