Title: The New Deal | Boundless US History
Headings: The New Deal
The New Deal
Launching the New Deal
Key Points
Key Terms
FDR and the Great Depression
First New Deal (1933–1934/35)
Second New Deal (1935–38)
The New Dealers
Key Points
Key Terms
The Great Depression and Politics
The New Deal Coalition
New Dealers
Strengthening the Monetary System
Key Points
Key Terms
Financial Crisis
The Banking Reform
Monetary Reform
Agricultural Initiatives and Recovery
Key Points
Key Terms
The Great Depression and Rural Areas
Agricultural Adjustment Acts (1933 and 1938)
Relief and Recovery Programs that Benefited Rural Areas
Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Planting Crew, author unknown, 1939.
Industrial Recovery
Key Points
Key Terms
National Industrial Recovery Act
National Recovery Administration
Criticism

Content: The Social Security Act (1935) established the welfare system by providing financial support for dependent minors, the disabled, and the elderly. It also introduced unemployment insurance. The Housing Act (1937) provided funds for low-cost public housing for the poorest families. The Fair Labor Standards Act (1938) was the first federal law that included a national minimum wage and instituted the 40-hour week as the standard work week. A poster publicizing Social Security benefits, author unknown, late 1930s/early 1940s
The New Dealers
The New Deal Coalition consisted of interest groups and voting blocs that supported Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal policies. Learning Objectives
Identify the interest groups that made up the New Deal Coalition
Key Takeaways
Key Points
Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s response to the Great Depression realigned the American political landscape by attracting a more diverse and much wider base of voters to the Democratic Party. The New Deal Coalition emerged during the 1932 presidential election and solidified in the mid 1930s. It remained a hugely important political force well into the late 1960s. Roosevelt drew support from the urban working class (including what historians label as “ethnics”), city machines, labor unions, white rural voters, white Southerners, the white poor, and progressive intellectuals. African Americans also eventually joined the New Deal Coalition but did not support Roosevelt in the 1932 election.