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FDR and the New Deal Coalition: Impact and Legacy

Learn about how FDR's New Deal policies shaped the coalition of Southerners, Unions, African Americans, and intellectuals that kept Democrats in power for years. Explore the impact of key legislation like the Wagner Act and Fair Labor Standards Act.

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FDR and the New Deal Coalition: Impact and Legacy

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  1. New Deal Decline

  2. Alf Landon was the 1935 Republican candidate who attracted business leaders who thought

  3. the New Deal threatened the free-enterprise system.

  4. A “coalition” is an alliance of many groups

  5. for a single purpose.

  6. The “solid south” distanced themselves from the Republicans,

  7. because the Republicans had enforced Radical Reconstruction.

  8. African Americans strongly supported FDR, because

  9. Eleanor Roosevelt fought for African American rights.

  10. The Wagner Act guarantees workers

  11. the right to organize and bargain collectively with employers.

  12. The Wagner Act led organized labor to

  13. vote for and make large contributions to the Democrats.

  14. FDR also attracted intellectualswho helped

  15. mold public opinion with the articles they wrote.

  16. The coalition of Southerners, Unions, African Americans, and intellectuals

  17. kept the Democrats in power for years.

  18. By the end of his presidency, FDR had appointed

  19. eight associate justices and one chief justice of the Supreme Court.

  20. “Deficit spending” is the practice of

  21. spending more money than is taken in by taxes.

  22. Industrial Unions represented

  23. skilled and unskilled workers.

  24. A “sitdown strike” means to

  25. stop work and sit down next to the machine you were operating.

  26. The Fair Labor Standard Act of 1938

  27. set a minimum wage of 40 cents an hour and a maximum work week of 44 hours for industries whose products crossed state lines.

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