The New Deal

 complex package of economic programs
 between 1933 and 1935
 Relief to the unemployed and badly hurt farmers
 Reform of business and financial practices, and promoting
 Recory of the economy during the Great Depression

Situation

Rooselt took office on March 1933, the nation was deeply troubled
Ery bank in the nation had closed its doors
unemployment rate was 25% and higher
Farm prices had fallen by 50%.




- "First New Deal" March 4, 1933
- from banking and railroads to industry and farming.
- banking reform laws,
- work relief programs,
- agricultural programs
- industrial reform




- "Second New Deal" 1934-35 Wagner Act to promote labor unions
- the Works Progress Administration (WPA) relief program
- the Social Security Actand new programs to aid tenant farmers and migrant workers
- The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 set maximum hours and minimum wages for most categories of workers



Franklin Delano Rooselt

 January 30, 1882 - April 12, 1945
 only U.S. President elected to four terms
 died in office of a cerebral hemorrhage, shortly before the war ended
 Rooselt's approach the New Deal
 executi orders and legislation pushed through Congress
 creating new jobs for the unemployed
 Social Security Act