-programs to continue kelp for working class Americans and their families

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2nd New Deal
-programs to continue kelp for working class
Americans and their families -WPA Works
Progress Administration -Social Security
Act old age pensions, unemployment, aid to
families with children -Rural Electrification
Administration
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More Programs
-programs to continue kelp for working class
Americans and their families -WPA Works
Progress Administration -Social Security
Act old age pensions, unemployment, aid to
families with children -Rural Electrification
Administration
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More Programs
-programs to continue kelp for working class
Americans and their families -WPA Works
Progress Administration -Social Security
Act old age pensions, unemployment, aid to
families with children -Rural Electrification
Administration
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More Programs
-programs to continue kelp for working class
Americans and their families -WPA Works
Progress Administration -Social Security
Act old age pensions, unemployment, aid to
families with children -Rural Electrification
Administration
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More Programs
-programs to continue kelp for working class
Americans and their families -WPA Works
Progress Administration -Social Security
Act old age pensions, unemployment, aid to
families with children -Rural Electrification
Administration
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More Programs
-programs to continue kelp for working class
Americans and their families -WPA Works
Progress Administration -Social Security
Act old age pensions, unemployment, aid to
families with children -Rural Electrification
Administration
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Labor Relations
-National Labor Relations Act---(Wagner
Act) NLRB right to unionize anti-union
practices banned -Fair Labor Standards minimum
wage, 40 hour week -Growth of AFL, CIO
NLRB
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Court Packing
-Several New Deal programs ruled
unconstitutional AAA, NRA -Roosevelt proposed
adding new justices -seen as a threat to
checks and balances
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Court Packing
-Several New Deal programs ruled
unconstitutional AAA, NRA -Roosevelt proposed
adding new justices -seen as a threat to
checks and balances
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Women in the Depression
-Eleanor Roosevelt -several women named to high
govt positions Francis Perkins Sec. Of
Labor -working women faced resentment -womens
wages still lower than men -govt programs gave
preferences to men
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Women in the Depression
-Eleanor Roosevelt -several women named to high
govt positions Francis Perkins Sec. Of
Labor -working women faced resentment -womens
wages still lower than men -govt programs gave
preferences to men
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African Americans
-Mary McLeod Bethune friend of Eleanor
Roosevelt established Black Cabinet -Concert
of Marian Anderson at the Lincoln
Memorial -Roosevelt never fully committed to
civil rights -African Americans came to support
the Democratic Party
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Art and Literature
-many artists displayed the reality of the
Depression -Federal Arts Project (WPA) -Grant
Wood American Gothic -Richard Wright Native
Son -John Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath
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Art and Literature
-many artists displayed the reality of the
Depression -Federal Arts Project (WPA) -Grant
Wood American Gothic -Richard Wright Native
Son -John Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath
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Radio Entertains the Masses
-family entertainment -soap operas -Childrens
Programs Green Hornet, Lone Ranger -Variety
shows and plays Bob Hope, George Burns Orson
Welles War of the Worlds
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Entertainment
-Marx Brothers -Gangster films - Frank Capra,
Jimmy Stewart Mr. Smith goes to
Washington Its a wonderful Life
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Motion Pictures
-Gone with the Wind, 1939 -Wizard of Oz,
1939 -Snow White and Seven Dwarfs, 1937
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Motion Pictures
-Gone with the Wind, 1939 -Wizard of Oz,
1939 -Snow White and Seven Dwarfs, 1937
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End of the New Deal
-I see 1/3 of a nation ill -housed, ill-clad,
ill-nourished -by 1937, some recovery -govt
pulls back programs and depression
returns -opposition grows to continued govt
control -international affairs begin to take
precedence
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End of the New Deal
-I see 1/3 of a nation ill -housed, ill-clad,
ill-nourished -by 1937, some recovery -govt
pulls back programs and depression
returns -opposition grows to continued govt
control -international affairs begin to take
precedence