The New Deal

A Look into the America’s Escape from the Great Depression under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Objectives

By the end of the lesson, SWBAT explain the ideas of the New Deal.

By the end of the lesson, SWBAT describe and identify they purpose of the TVA, CCC, and WPA.

REVIEW

What was life like for many Americans during the Great Depression?

Who was President of the United States at the start of the Great Depression?

VocabularyNew Deal - programs set up by President Roosevelt to help Americans during the Great Depression

Progress - The act of moving forward and making things better.

Conservation - The act of saving something from destruction.

President Hoover

Because of the Great Depression do you think Hoover was popular, or unpopular as a President?

1932 Presidential Election

Hoover was very unpopular, so when he tried to run for re-election in 1932, he lost against Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

During the campaign for President, Roosevelt brought up all the bad things that were happening around America.

He gave people hope that with him as President, America would get out of this down time in the economy.

1932 Election

Why do you think a lot of the states were blue?

Blue = states

Roosevelt Won

Red = states Hoover Won

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

The New DealImmediately after Roosevelt was elected, he started a new program to jump-start the economy called the New Deal

The New Deal lasted from 1933 - 1936.

The New Deal was a bunch of programs that gave people jobs and helped create a better future for Americans.

New Deal - Programs

The New Deal was made up of three big programs that gave people jobs: The Works Progress Administration, Civilian Conservation Corps, and the Tennessee Valley Authority.

Why were these programs so important to a lot of people in America?

Works Progress Administration

(WPA)The Works Progress Administration was the largest New Deal program.

The WPA helped build roads, highways, and remodel old buildings. It also gave seamstress jobs to women.

WPAThe WPA employed 2-3 million Americans

The WPA spent over $11.4 billion improving infrastructure around America

How did the WPA help Americans?

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

During the Great Depression, the Tennessee Valley was in bad shape. People were suffering from Malaria, people were very poor, and many didn’t have electricity.

Tennessee Valley

Tennessee Valley Authority

The TVA was created to create huge dams that would stop floods and give people electricity all over the South Eastern part of the U.S.A.

Why was the TVA good for the South Eastern part of the U.S.A.?

The Civilian Conservation

CorpsThe CCC was designed to give young unemployed men jobs.

The goal of the CCC was to conserve (save) natural resources such as large forests and parklands.

Young men in the CCC planted trees, helped make the soil better in the Dust Bowl so people could once again plant crops. The CCC also protected the parklands.

CCC

How did the CCC help those people who were suffering in the Dust Bowl?

CCC

QuestionsWhat was the purpose of the New Deal and the programs: WPA, TVA, CCC?

How did the WPA, TVA, and CCC help Americans during the Great Depression?

Do you think Roosevelt was popular or unpopular as President?

* What program is this poster trying to advertise?

* Is it obvious what tasks the workers for that particular New Deal program complete?

* Do you think this poster recruited a lot of people? Why or why not?

* Based on the poster, would you want to join this particular New Deal program? Why or why not?

* What program is this poster trying to advertise?

* Is it obvious what tasks the workers for that particular New Deal program complete?

* Do you think this poster recruited a lot of people? Why or why not?

* Based on the poster, would you want to join this particular New Deal program? Why or why not?

* What program is this poster trying to advertise?

* Is it obvious what tasks the workers for that particular New Deal program complete?

* Do you think this poster recruited a lot of people? Why or why not?

* Based on the poster, would you want to join this particular New Deal program? Why or why not?