Instructor ESources PowerPoint Presentation Chapter 11 Texas and the Great Depression

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Instructor E-SourcesPowerPoint Presentation
Chapter 11Texas and the Great Depression

• The History of Texas
• Harlan Davidson, Inc.

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Learning Outcomes (11)

• Comprehend the causes of the Great Depression and
  their impact on the state,
• understand the ideological sacred cows that
  impeded federal government aid,
• discuss the impact of the New Deal on modern
  Texas--its architecture, economy and culture.

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Chapter 11 Texas the Great Depression

• U.S. economic weakness
• An illusion of prosperity
• Market collapse October 23, 1929
• Texans confront the depression
• Attitudes resources
• Local state inadequacy
• Uneven distribution denial of relief

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Texas the Great Depression

• The return of Fergusonism
• Gov. Ross Sterling damaged by controversy
• A second Ma Ferguson Administration
• Political despair Fergusonism
• Texas Rehabilitation Relief Commission
• Charges of corruption renewed
• The New Deal Texas
• New Deal Texans
• John Nance Garner, Jesse H. Jones, Sam Rayburn,
  Wright Patman, Lyndon Johnson

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The New Deal Texas
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson, Gov.
James V. Allred, Adrian Levy (Mayor of
Galveston), May 1937
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The New Deal Texas

• Recovery
• The Banking Industry
• Restoration of public confidence
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
• Relief Measures
• Price Codes
• Wagner Act (right of unions to organize)
• Hiring for the unemployed (PWA)
• Federal Theater Writers projects (WPA)
• Youth programs (NYA)
• Social Security Act, 1935

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The New Deal Texas
Jesse Jones, A.J. McKenzie, Col. W. B. Tuttle
at Chamber of Commerce Dinner
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The New Deal Texas

• New Deal Farm Programs
• Reducing production cutting surpluses (AAA)
• Preventing foreclosures making loans (FCA)
• Rural electrification projects (REA)
• Minorities the New Deal
• Charges of discrimination
• Rural blacks relief
• Segregated housing FHA mortgages
• Mexican Americans citizenship issues
• Pecan shellers strike
• Garment workers strike (ILGWU)
• The new Mexican American Generation LULAC

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The New Deal Texas
Emma Tenayuca, organizer for Workers Alliance of
America
A quiet moment out of the hard life in the
barrio.
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The New Deal Texas

• New Deal State Politics
• Gov. Allred financial woes
• Repealing prohibition
• Social Security the elderly
• National politics
• Anti-New Deal Democrats
• A return to values
• Martin dies the House Un-American Activities
  Committee

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Texas the Great Depression

• The end of the New Deal
• Pappy ODaniel
• Legislative warfare
• Mounting state deficit
• Hostility to labor unions
• Antiestablishment Senate campaigns
• More urban voting public reject ODaniel
• Texans abandon the New Deal

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Key Words Terms (11)

• Ross S. Sterling
• "Dad" Joiner
• "Hot Oil"/Connally Act
• "drop a crop" plan
• Texas Relief Commission
• John Nance Garner
• Wright Patman
• Lyndon Johnson
• Sam Rayburn
• Martin Dies
• Jesse Jones/RFC (Reconstruction Finance Corp.)
• Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO)

• FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.)
• WPA (Works Progress Admn.)
• CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps.)
• NYA (Nat'l Youth Admn.)
• REA (Rural Electrification Admn.)
• AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Act)
• Emma Tenayuca/Pecan Shellers Strike
• Independent School District v. Salvatierra
• "Pappy" Lee O'Daniel
• Richard M. Kleberg/LBJ
• Smith v. Allwright (1944)