FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT - Early Political Life through the New Deal
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FRANKLIN D.
ROOSEVELT
Early Political Life through the New Deal
BIOGRAPHY
Born in Hyde Park, NY in 1882
Only Child, born into a wealthy New York Family
VERY close to his mother
Went to Groton Academy in Massachusetts, took to heart
the message of helping those less fortunate
Went to Harvard, but wasn’t a particularly good student
Got engaged to Eleanor in his Senior Year at Harvard
She was TR’s Niece
POLITICAL TIMELINE New York State Senator (Democrat) - 1910$ Assistant Secretary of the Navy$ Ran for US Senate and lost$ Vice-Presidential Nominee$ elected Governor of New York in 1928$ Elected President in 1932
HARDSHIP Write about something that you’ve overcome that changed how you approached your life or how you look at others. Imagine if that “something” took away your ability to live in a normal way. How do you think that would change you?
FIRST 100 DAYS
FDR brought this to the
Presidency$
Needed Help - “Brain Trust” -
Raymond Moley, Rexford Guy
Tugwell, and Adolph A. Berle, Jr.
Within a few months, Basil
("Doc") O'Connor, Samuel I.
Rosenman, and Hugh Johnson$
Cabinet - Took a much more
active roll$
Chart the first 100 Days…The New Deal - A Periodic Table Representation
NEW DEAL PROGRAMS CCC - Civilian Conservation Corps, CWA - Civil Works Administration, FSA - Federal Security Agency. HOLC - Home Owner's Loan Corporation, NRA - National Recovery Act, PWA - Public Works Administration, SSA - Social Security Act, TVA - Tennessee Valley Authority, WPA - Works Progress Administration, Banking Act of 1933 ! Questions Already Answered….. What was the goal of the program? Where, geographically, did it focus on (if applicable)? What was the role of the Federal government in its implementation and success? Were there any important individuals attributed to its success? Why, could you argue, the program was necessary? !
IN CLASS ACTIVITY Share your program - 2 - 4 minutes$ All students should take notes on the program parts, outcomes, etc. (put together your notes to turn in - 1 version per group)$ What are the similarities between the programs? $ How are they different?$ Who is the targeted population?
Group 1 Eric A. - CCC Anthony B. – CWA Caitlin D. – TVA Richard K. - WPA ! Group 2 Max B. - FSA Tony O. - NRA Tyler H. - Banking Act of 1933 Scotty W. - HOLC ! Group 3 Corey V. - FSA Sean N. - HOLC Ryan C. - NRA Kris S. - Banking Act of 1933 Owen R. - SSA ! Group 4 Jordan T. - CCC Andrew R. - TVA Monica V. – CWA Nicola C. - PWA ! Group 5 Will W. - NRA Arthur D. - SSA Stephanie M. - FSA Elijah - PWA ! Group 6 Omar G. - WPA Josie I. - CCC Emily M. - CWA Chris P. – PWA Heidi C. - HOLC !
NEW DEAL PROGRAMS
CIVIL WORKS ADMIN
Created under Federal Emergency Relief Admin - Along with the CCC$
To create jobs for the American people who could not find one on their own.$
Jobs were created all over the country building public structures like schools sewers and outhouses.
3000 jobs wee created in northfolk North Dakota and many other states received similar numbers.$
The federal government funded the construction projects which created the jobs for the people.$
Hary L. Hopkins was the head of the short term agency which focused on creating construction
jobs for Americans and franklin Roosevelt out it into action. The program was necessary because it
gave people money who otherwise would not have it thus circulating more money in the economy.$
The CWA's four million workers laid 12 million feet of sewer pipe and built or improved 255,000
miles of roads, 40,000 schools, 3,700 playgrounds, and nearly 1,000 airports (not to mention
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250,000 outhouses still badly needed in rural America).WPA…IN MARYLAND *1,900,000 garments & other articles created in sewing room projects *1,300,000 school lunches served *1,348 miles of new or improved roads (enough roadwork to make a round trip from Deep Creek Lake in western Maryland to Ocean City...twice) ! *237 new or improved bridges ! *5,000 new or improved culverts ! *400 schools built, improved, or repaired ! *2,000 public buildings built, improved, or repaired (excluding schools) ! *64 new or improved parks ! *165 new or improved playgrounds & athletic fields ! *9 swimming & wading pools ! *39 new or improved utility plants ! *124 miles of water lines installed (enough to extend from the Naval Academy in Annapolis to Assateague Island National Seashore on the Atlantic Ocean) ! *185 miles of sewer lines installed ! *7 airports/airfields built, improved, or repaired ! SOURCE : Federal Works Agency, Final Report on the WPA Program, 1935-1943, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946, pp. 134-36 (available for download at: http://lccn.loc.gov/47032199)
WPA/FSA
The Works Progress Administration ultimate goal was to give The Federal Security Agency was created by the President's
millions of jobs to unemployed/ unskilled of America as a way to Reorganization Plan of 1939. It was effective July 1, 1939, as an
fight the effects of the unemployment rate caused by the Great organization for the promotion of social and economic security,
Depression as well include constriction of buildings and roads.$ educational opportunity, and health.$
The WPA was a nation wide effort because the Great Depression The FSA geographically focused on the whole country, considering it
affected everyone across the nation and millions of people across was a federal agency.$
the U.S. were out of jobs so this plan was to help benefit all For a time, the agency oversaw food and drug safety as well as education
Americans to back on their feet and start working again.$ funding and the administration of public health programs and the Social
Security old-age pension plan. The FSA had oversight responsibility for
Works Progress Act involved the government into pretty much
the following constituent units transferred from other agencies: Office
every field of economy. Jobs were found for virtually every area of
of Education, Public Health Service, National Youth Administration,
employment (artists, writers, musicians, authors, etc). The WPA
Civilian Conservation Corps, Social Security Board, and U.S.
was mainly the front runner of the New Deal.$
Employment Service. In 1953 The Federal Security Agency was abolished
Franklin D. Roosevelt was an important/main contributor of the and most of its functions were transferred to the newly formed United
WPA success due to him being the President of the time as well States Department of Health, Education and Welfare$
it was part of his New Deal. The WPA, was a program to help the
Its first director was Paul V. McNutt. Other Important people of the
unemployed individuals in America to find work.$
FSA, were Franklin Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, and Harry S.
The program was necessary due to it being a relief measure in Truman. President Harry S. Truman attempted to make the FSA a
America and give the non- working US citizens a boost to get off department of the federal government, but this legislation was defeated.$
their butts and get back into working the field and help America
The FSA plan was designed to reduce the number of agencies reporting
as well their families benefit from their hard work and labor.
directly to the president, this could of been necessary because it
combined many programs together to reduce other programs coming toHOLC - Refinance home mortgages$ SSA - provide income for elderly people and those that cannot work$ TVA - Provided electrical power, flood control, and other economic development in the Tennessee Valley$ FDIC - Insured Americans’ bank deposits up to $100,000
OTHER NEW DEAL FACTS Montra from Historians - “relief, recovery, reform$ “Priming the Pump” - Funded the programs through borrowing - deficit- spending$ Federal Government’s debt in the 30s was about $3 Billion every year. The whole budget was only about $9 billion.$ Unemployment began to rise again in 1936 - Prompting “second new deal”$ Constitutional questions to the New Deal - FDR new it - planned to “pack the court”
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