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1. 672-677 • Create graphic organizers about how • the New Deal effected American life. facts statistics vocabulary names

2. Directions: • You will have 5-10 minutes to create a branching diagram on poster paper on your topic from the reading. • Each group will then present their diagrams to the class while the class copies into their notes. Representative from North Dakoka facts statistics details TOPIC William Lemke vocabulary Critics of FDR Led Nonpartisan League of farmers examples names Felt New Deal had failed to help farmers, too limited of a response (AAA)

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4. Directions: • You will have 5-10 minutes to create a branching diagram on poster paper on your topic from the reading. • Each group will then present their diagrams to the class while the class copies into their notes. facts statistics details TOPIC vocabulary examples names

5. Used a new tactic called the sit-down strikeat GM’s Flint, MIassembly plant in 1937 1937 Memorial Day Massacre – Chicago’s Republic Steel Co. strike Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) split from the AFL in 1937 Labor on the March All of this was made possible by the Wagner Act, labor’s Magna Carta”. Union membership soared from 3 million = 1932 9 million = 1939

6. Paid half that of men in the NRA codes Mixed Impact – Positive and negative Social Security did not cover domestic service, waitresses, homemakers. Women accounted for ¼ work force but held less than 20% of New Deal jobs. Ex. WPA-19%, CWA-7%, CCC-excluded Women and the New Deal Molly Dewson Women’s Division of the Democratic Party Eleanor Roosevelt Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins

7. New Deal discriminated ex. CCC segregated blacks NRA set wages lower for blacks Black leaders such as W.E.B. DuBois praised the New Deal on its efforts. FDR never pushed civil rights, fearing disapproval of Southern white democrats New Deal and African-Americans • There were many benefits though of the New Deal: • NYA gave $ aid to black colleges • Black literacy rates increased • FDR took advice from his “black cabinet” – Mary Bethune • Eleanor Roosevelt pushed FDR to appoint black officials • FDR prohibited discrimination in WPA, NYA and appointed • the first black federal judge

8. Indian Reorganization Act (1934) CCC employed 80k Indians 1933 John Collier as Com. of Indian Affairs PWA, CWS built projects on reservations New Deal: Native-americans And hispanic-americans Hispanic Americans received less help from the New Deal Programs excluded those who were not citizens Both Social Security and the Wagner Act did not apply to agricultural workers

9. Agricultural programs helped end sharecropping Helped entire nation with a variety of programs from new financial regulations in New York to public housing projects. (Especially in northeast). WPA built infrastructure in south as north had already done so. FERA usually funded 90% of projects in the South The South 1933 Tennessee Valley Authority built hydroelectric dams to control flooding in 7 states. 1935 Rural Electrification Administration New Deal: North, South, East and West West received most aid per capita due to the “Dust Bowl” The West New Deal continued to support the Bureau of Reclamation

10. AAA set up committees of over 100k people to help implement agricultural policy. New Deal encouraged public activism on the local level on policy, later called “grass roots democracy”. Public Activism and Social Security (Back to page 677) This led to people wanting greater federal government authority. Ironic since this is what Herbert Hoover feared the most. Social Security – by the 1960s support for“privitization”grew. Overall, the New Deal increased citizen involvement in public affairs.

11. Rank the New Deal • Now rank the top 5 New Deal programs that we’ve studied so far and be prepared to defend your ranking.