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Section II (National Study): USA 1919-1941
Quick questions on The Second New Deal: HSC Modern History USA 1935-1938
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What is the Second New Deal?Show answer
The Second Hundred Days (June to August 1935) produced four major Acts.
What is the court-packing plan?Show answer
The Supreme Court had struck down the National Industrial Recovery Act in Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States (27 May 1935), the Agricultural Adjustment Act in United States v. Butler (6 January 1936), and the Bituminous Coal Conservation Act in Carter v.
What is the Wagner Act / National Labor Relations Act?Show answer
Replaced Section 7(a) of the unconstitutional NIRA. It established the National Labor Relations Board, banned a list of unfair labour practices, and required employers to bargain in good faith with unions chosen by majority vote of workers. Union membership rose from around 3.5 million (1935) to around 8.4 million (1939); the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) was founded in November 1935 and organised the mass-production industries.
What is the Works Progress Administration?Show answer
Under Harry Hopkins, the WPA was a direct federal employer rather than a grant-maker to states. By its end in 1943 it had employed around 8.5 million Americans on around 1.4 million projects: schools, libraries, airports, post offices, the Lincoln Tunnel, La Guardia Airport, and the WPA Federal Theater, Federal Writers', and Federal Art Projects.
What is the Revenue Act of 1935?Show answer
Raised top marginal income tax to 75 per cent on incomes over 5 million dollars and lifted estate, gift, and excess profits taxes. Critics called it the "Soak the Rich" Act.
What is the "switch in time that saved nine"?Show answer
Justice Owen Roberts switched sides. On 29 March 1937 the Court upheld a Washington state minimum wage in West Coast Hotel Co. v.
What is the Van Devanter retirement?Show answer
Conservative Justice Willis Van Devanter retired on 2 June 1937. Roosevelt appointed Senator Hugo Black of Alabama. Five further retirements in the next four years gave Roosevelt the most extensive remake of the Court in American history.
What is arthur M. Schlesinger Jr?Show answer
(The Age of Roosevelt, 1957 to 1960) is the founding liberal interpretation.
What is q1?Show answer
Source A is an extract from the Wagner Act (1935). Using Source A and your own knowledge, explain the Second New Deal. [5 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
Evaluate the extent to which the Second New Deal was more transformative than the First. [25 marks]
What is q3?Show answer
Compare the views of Ira Katznelson and Eric Rauchway on the Second New Deal. [10 marks]