hist.g8.s.eco.great_depression_new_deal
Analyze Great Depression 1929-39 + New Deal: causes + FDR programs + Dust Bowl + multiple perspectives on government's role
Trace Black Tuesday Oct 29 1929 + bank failures 9,000+ + 25% unemployment peak 1933 + Dust Bowl 1930-36 + Hoovervilles + Bonus Army July 28 1932 + FDR election 1932; New Deal alphabet (CCC + WPA + TVA + SSA Social Security Act Aug 14 1935 + Wagner Act 1935 + FDIC + SEC + AAA + NRA struck down Schechter 1935); Fireside Chats (30 broadcasts 1933-44); MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES: pro-New Deal (Perkins + Hopkins + Eleanor Roosevelt) v. critics from the left (Huey Long Share Our Wealth + Father Coughlin) + critics from the right (American Liberty League); Indigenous Reorganization Act June 18 1934 Collier reversing Dawes 1887; Black New Deal exclusion debates (domestic servants + farmworkers excluded from SSA; AAA payments to landowners not tenant farmers).
No declared successors.
- Treating the New Deal as ending the Great Depression — recovery was uneven; full employment did not return until WWII mobilization 1942
- Treating the New Deal as racially equitable — exclusion of domestic + agricultural workers (largely Black + Latine + women) from SSA + AAA was an explicit accommodation to Southern Democrats per Katznelson 2005
- Treating critics as all conservative — Huey Long + Father Coughlin + Townsend critiqued from the left and right