Chapter 25: The New Deal
1933-1939

     I. Rock Bottom-Winter of 1932-1933
          A. 25% unemployment
          B. more than 5000 bank failures
          C. more than 30 million Americans with no income at all

     II. Roosevelt Takes Charge
          A. Banking
               1. national bank holiday
               2. fireside chats
          B. Hundred Days Congress
               1. Earliest legislation
                    a. CCC
                    b. FERA
                    c. CWA
                    d. SEC
                    e. FDIC
                    f. TVA
               2. Prohibition ends (21st Amendment)

     III. Economic Recovery
          A. Agricultural Problems
               1. AAA
               2. Dust Bowl
          B. Industrial Recovery (NIRA)
               1. PWA
               2. NRA

     IV. Second New Deal
          A. WPA
          B. Social Security Act of 1935
          C. Wagner Act

     V. Roosevelt's Second Term
          A. Election of 1936
               1. New majority coalition emerges (grateful workers, ethnic minorities, labor unions, African-Americans)
          B. Second Term Problems
               1. Supreme Court fiasco
               2. New Deal loses momentum

Key Terms

     New Deal
     Three R's (not in book)
     brain trust
     bank holiday
     fireside chats
     Hundred Days Congress (first hundred days)
     CCC
     FERA
     SEC
     CWA
     boondoggles
     SEC
     FDIC
     TVA
     AAA
     Dust Bowl
     Okies
     PWA
     NRA
     Second New Deal
     WPA
     Social Security Act of 1935
     Wagner Act
     Fair Labor and Standards Act

Essay Question

     How did the Roosevelt Administration deal with the U.S. economic crisis known as the Great Depression until World War II officially ended it?