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Impact of the New Deal - Coggle Diagram
Impact of the New Deal
Federal Government
The Federal Government was expected to fix the economy. After the stock market crash, the New Deal stabilized banks, arm prices, aided state, and local governments, and cleaned up the financial mess. Federal spending was introduced and household incomes and business revenues were boosted.
Black Tuesday was known as the "worst economic collapse in the history of the modern industrial world." On October 29, 1929 the stock market crashed. It started in the United States and spread to national economies globally. Banks were closed, businesses were failing, and over 15 million Americans were unemployed. Herbert Hoover, the president at the time, did not acknowledge this crisis and believed it would simply go away without the federal government stepping in. This was not the case. FDR ran for the presidency in the next election with the New Deal campaign and won.
FDR did not see the New Deal as a step forward in socialism. FDR saw it as "set of programs designed to save capitalism from itself in the depths of the Great Depression."
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Native Americans
The Indian Reorganization Act was supposed to decrease federal control of Native American affairs and let them govern themselves.
This gave Native Americans the chance to represent themselves in the national government in the federal Office of Indian Affairs.
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One goal of the Indian Reorganization Act was to give reservation lands to people and encourage Native Americans to form corporations.
Labor Unions
The Government would rather deal with labor unions, than have violent strikes, so they started to work with them.
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The Wagner Act of 1935 established the National Labor Relations Board and addressed relations between unions and employers in the private sector.
The Congress of Industrial Organizations split from the American Federation of Labor and became much more aggressive in organizing unskilled workers who had not been represented before.
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Women
Molly Dewson worked for the Women's Educational and Industrial Union. She helped women vote for Roosevelt in the 1932 presidential election. It was very important for women to exercise their right to vote, especially in this election because FDR supported women, to a certain extent. FDR appointed the first female cabinet member. On the other hand, FDR prioritized getting men back to work before women.
Women were paid less and they were only allowed to do work that was labeled as a "women's job". The WPA (Works Progress Administration) brought work-relief opportunities for women employing over 300,000 workers.
FDR appointed the first female cabinet member- Frances Perkins as Sec. of Labor and this created new opportunities for women to run and be elected to official positions.
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Mexican American
Many Mexican Americans were getting deported at this time because they were blamed for worsening the overall economic downturn of the Great Depression. The government believed that this would free up labor jobs for Americans.
In 1929 and 1939 repatriation was very high. About 355,000 to 2,000,000 people were repatriated. 40-60 percent of children repatriated were documented.
The government gave Mexican Americans some help. The Farm Security Administration established camps for migrant farm workers in California, and the CCC and WPA hired unemployed Mexican Americans for relief jobs.
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New Deal Coalition
The New Deal Coalition encompassed members from all over the US such as unions, blue-collar workers, industry, minorities, intellectuals, Southerners, and Democratic party organizations in the states.
The New Deal Coalition was referred to as the realignment of US Politics, allowing the Democrats to become the majority party in US Politics throughout the time period of the New Deal.
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The New Deal coalition was made up of President Roosevelt's supporters in Congress, as well as the Supreme Court justices who upheld New Deal programs and agencies.
The New Deal coalition was an American political term that referred to the alignment of interest groups and voting blocs that supported the New Deal and voted for Democratic presidential candidates from 1932 until the late 1960s.
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African Americans
Although he did create programs that included African Americans, he shied away from aggressively promoting civil rights or an anti-lynching laws, for fear of alienating Southern whites.
The New Deal assisted black southerners by allocating money to African American schools, funding public health programs, and improving black housing.
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Black writers participated in the New Deal's writing projects, while other black Americans interviewed former slaves for the Works Project Administration (WPA).
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