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Page 1: ©2006 PEARSON EDUCATION, INC. Publishing as Longman Publishers The 1930s CREATED EQUAL JONES  WOOD  MAY  BORSTELMANN  RUIZ CHAPTER 22 Hardship and

©2006 PEARSON EDUCATION, INC. Publishing as Longman Publishers

The 1930s

CREATED EQUAL

JONES WOOD MAY BORSTELMANN RUIZ

CHAPTER 22 Hardship and Hope in the 1930s: The Great

Depression

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“…not the working classes that brought on the economic crisis, it was the big boys that thought the financial drunk was going to last forever, and overbought, overmerged, and overcapitalized.”

Will Rogers, 1934

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TIMELINE1930 6 million unemployed Americans

1931 Scottsboro Boys case taken up by International Labor Defense

1932 Franklin Roosevelt wins Presidency

Reconstruction Finance Corporation infuses economic institutions

1933 13 million unemployed Americans

Civil Works Administration established

Federal Emergency Relief Act

Civilian Conservation Corps

1934 Indian Reorganization Act

Old Age Revolving Pensions, Limited

1935 Social Security Act

Huey P. Long fatally shot

Works Progress Administration

Federal Art Project

Federal Theatre Project

The Wagner Act

Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO)

1936 Strikes against General Motors

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HARDSHIP AND HOPE Overview

The Great DepressionPresidential Responses to the

DepressionThe New DealA New Political Culture

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THE GREAT DEPRESSION

Causes of the Crisis“We Are Not Bums”Surviving Hard TimesThe Dust Bowl

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Causes of the Crisis

No safety net for the unemployedLimited competition among corporations and

small businesses failingNo savings, and great debtInternationally, exports fall, and foreign nations

unable to repay debtsExcessive profits and unequal distribution of

wealthFederal Reserve policies

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“We Are Not Bums”

1930: 6 million Americans were unemployed. By 1933, 13 million Americans were unemployed

Changing gender rolesFamilies provide safety net

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Surviving Hard Times

200,000 young men “riding the rails”: hobosScottsboro Boys trial1933: over 5% of farms were foreclosed onAfrican-American workers face fiercer

discrimination in small job marketMexican Americans depended on children’s

wagesWork in canneriesDeportation of 500,000 Mexicans from 1931 to 1934

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The Dust Bowl

Drought in Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico (the Dust Bowl)

April 14, 1935: blown dust turned the skies black and killed livestockMigration away from the Dust BowlDorothea Lange, Woody Guthrie, John Steinbeck

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PRESIDENTIAL RESPONSES TO THE DEPRESSION

Herbert Hoover: Tackling the CrisisFranklin Delano Roosevelt: The

Pragmatist“Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself”

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Herbert Hoover: Tackling the Crisis

Emergency Committee for EmploymentNational Credit CorporationReconstruction Finance CorporationPublic works program

Hoover DamMorris Muscle Shoals Bill (dam for Tennessee

River)

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt: The Pragmatist

Old family with wealth, attended Harvard, and Columbia University law school

Admirer of cousin Theodore RooseveltMarried to Theodore’s niece, EleanorNew York State Senator Assistant Secretary of the NavyVictim of polio: resulted in March of Dimes

founding

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“Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself”

March 4, 1932 inaugural address: “Nothing to fear but fear itself”

Fireside chatsStrengthening of federal governmentFriend to the immigrant communities

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THE NEW DEAL

The First Hundred DaysMonumental Projects Transforming the

LandscapeProtest and Pressure from the Left and the

RightEleanor Roosevelt: Activist and First LadyThe Second New DealFDR’s Second Term

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The First Hundred Days

Prohibition repealed Securities and Exchange Commission Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Civil Works Administration Federal Emergency Relief Act Civilian Conservation Corp National Recovery Administration National Labor Board Tennessee Valley Authority Indian Reorganization Act

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Areas Served by the Tennessee Valley Authority

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Monumental Projects Transforming the Landscape

1930s: skyscrapers, bridges, dams, and monuments built—symbolized human and technological triumph in the midst of hardship

Electricity and irrigation provided to the arid West —Hoover Dam, Grand Coulee Dam

The Golden Gate BridgeConstruction began on Empire State Building, and

Rockefeller CenterMount Rushmore

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Protest and Pressure from the Left and the Right

Francis Townsend and the Old Age Revolving Pensions, LimitedSocial Security Act of 1935

Charles E. CoughlinRadio show: The Golden House of the Little Flower,

denounces New Deal as Communism, admirer of Hitler and Mussolini

Huey P. LongU.S. Senator, Roosevelt critic, populist

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Eleanor Roosevelt: Activist and First Lady

Sad childhood, but education abroad helped her to develop strength and confidence

Married FDR, six childrenAntilynching billMarian Anderson and the DARUnited Nations’ Declaration of Human Rights in 19481962: President’s Commission on the Status of Women

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The Second New Deal

The Social Security program: unemployment insurance and relief for the needy

The Works Progress AdministrationFederal Art ProjectFederal Theatre Project

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FDR’s Second Term

FDR won overwhelmingly second term (Electoral vote: 523 to 8)

Supreme Court proposal defeatedFDR proposed appointing one new justice for

every one on the court who had at least 10 years of service and who did not retire within six months after turning 70

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A NEW POLITICAL CULTURE

The Labor MovementThe New Deal CoalitionA New Americanism

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The Labor Movement

Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO) as part of the American Federation of Labor John L. Lewis and Sidney Hillman

Sit-down strikes—began in Akron OhioGeneral Motors strikes

Several cities, violence broke out but governor of Michigan and President Roosevelt refused to send in National Guard..

Women participated in strikes as well as men

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The New Deal Coalition

Northern African Americans switch to the Democratic Party

Executive Order 7046 bans discrimination in WPA

Latinos and the El Congreso de Pueblos de Habla Español

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A New Americanism

A new diverse, inclusive countryArts reflect common manMovies challenged gender and class hierarchiesSports diversified: DiMaggio, Joe Louis,Women heroines: Earhart, Helen Wills, Babe

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