| A. | Background to the great stock market crash | ||
| 1. | Inflated stock market | ||
| a. | Margin buying | ||
| b. | Debacle of October 1929 | ||
| 2. | Limited credit | ||
| a. | Cash-flow shortage | ||
| b. | Consumer marketplace | ||
| B. | Problems in national economy | ||
| 1. | Overproduction | ||
| a. | Automobiles | ||
| b. | Construction | ||
| 2. | Underconsumption | ||
| C. | Poor federal strategies for recovery | ||
| 1. | Problems with Federal Reserve | ||
| a. | Limited money supply | ||
| b. | Decreased credit | ||
| 2. | Federal Reserve alternatives | ||
| a. | Could have increased money in circulation | ||
| b. | Increased credit | ||
| D. | Collapse of European banks | ||
| A. | Policies of Hoover | ||
| 1. | Beliefs on economic problems | ||
| a. | Advocated hands-off approach | ||
| b. | Supported aid to banks/businesses | ||
| c. | Little assistance to workers and unemployed | ||
| 2. | Hoover programs | ||
| a. | Associations | ||
| b. | Voluntarism | ||
| 3. | Informal organizations of business/ farmers | ||
| a. | Reconstruction Finance Corporation | ||
| b. | Agriculture | ||
| B. | Policies of Roosevelt | ||
| 1. | Beliefs on economic problems | ||
| a. | Advocated government intervention | ||
| b. | Supported aid to banks/businesses | ||
| c. | Implemented programs to help neediest | ||
| 2. | Roosevelt programs | ||
| a. | Agricultural Adjustment Act | ||
| b. | Civilian Conservation Corps | ||
| c. | National Industrial Recovery Act | ||
| A. | Background to First New Deal (1933-1935) | |||
| 1. | Idea of recovery | |||
| a. | Early policies to bring relief | |||
| b. | One-third of population unemployed | |||
| 2. | New Deal programs | |||
| a. | Civilian Conservation Corps | |||
| i) | Employs two million | |||
| ii) | Extent of programs | |||
| b. | Agricultural Adjustment Act | |||
| i) | Money to farmers | |||
| ii) | Extent of programs | |||
| c. | National Industrial Recovery Act | |||
| i) | Assistance for labor | |||
| ii) | Extent of programs | |||
| B. | Background to Second New Deal (1935-1937) | |||
| 1. | Idea of reform | |||
| a. | New policies to reform economic structure | |||
| b. | Origins | |||
| 2. | Second New Deal programs | |||
| a. | Social Security Act | |||
| i) | First comprehensive social welfare plan | |||
| ii) | Origins | |||
| iii) | Coverage | |||
| b. | Works Progress Administration | |||
| i) | Millions of dollars for internal improvements | |||
| ii) | Extent | |||
| c. | National Labor Relations Act | |||
| i) | Support for labor unions | |||
| ii) | Importance/implications | |||
| A. | New Deal women and women's rights | ||
| 1. | Eleanor Roosevelt, Frances Perkins | ||
| 2. | Characteristics of female administrators | ||
| 3. | Protective legislation | ||
| 4. | Male hostility toward working women | ||
| B. | Eastern and southern European ethnics | ||
| 1. | Political clout | ||
| 2. | New Deal benefits | ||
| 3. | Labor influence | ||
| C. | African Americans | ||
| 1. | Discrimination in the South and in New Deal agencies | ||
| 2. | Lack of presidential support for antilynching law | ||
| 3. | Role of the "Black Cabinet" | ||
| D. | Mexican-Americans | ||
| 1. | Repatriation and "voluntary" migration | ||
| 2. | Relief policies | ||
| 3. | Immigrants and Chicanos | ||
| E. | Native Americans | ||
| 1. | Effect of Dawes Act of 1887 | ||
| 2. | Bureau of Indian Affairs restrictions of 1920s | ||
| 3. | John Collier's policies | ||
| a. | Pueblo Relief Act of 1933 | ||
| b. | Johnson-O'Malley Act of 1934 | ||
| c. | Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 | ||
| d. | Cultural pluralism | ||