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The Hundred Days and the First New Deal

  • 20th and 21st Amendments
  • Emergency Banking Act, Glass-Steagall, and FDIC
  • NRA, AAA, CCC, TVA, FHA, FCC

Rise of the CIO and the Communist Party

  • General Strikes in Minneapolis, San Francisco; “sit-down” strikes/ UAW
  • John Lewis leads walkout from AFL convention and establishes Congress for Industrial Organization
  • Push for government regulation of business; recognition of unions

The Second New Deal

  • REA, WPA
  • Wagner Act, Fair Labor Standards Bill, SSI
  • First New Deal stabilized economy, Second New Deal creates safety nets/ welfare state
  • Keynesian Economics

Limitations of the New Deal

  • African-Americans and the “Southern Veto”
  • Mexican-Americans- deportation; like blacks, SSI and Wagner Act ignore agricultural and domestic labor
  • Indian New Deal
  • Women- domestic work excluded; suffrage diminished momentum; but Eleanor Roosevelt and Francis Perkins