Opposition to nd
- Created by: Jasmin
- Created on: 06-06-13 13:17
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- Opposition to the New Deal
- Not gone far enough
- Heuy Long -governor of Louisiana. supported nd but by 1934 though it ddnt do enough
- Share your Wealth scheme, wanted to tax rich and give money to poor
- Claimed it would give every family an income of $5000 a year
- Families spend money and this would create a bigger demand for goods and services and therefore more jobs
- Planed to stand against FDR in 1936 presidential election but assassinated in 1935
- Promised minimum wage and pensions for over 60
- Planed to stand against FDR in 1936 presidential election but assassinated in 1935
- Families spend money and this would create a bigger demand for goods and services and therefore more jobs
- Claimed it would give every family an income of $5000 a year
- Share your Wealth scheme, wanted to tax rich and give money to poor
- Dr Francis Townsend
- Recommend a plan by which every American over 60 given pension of $200 a month
- Condition had to spend within one moth and give up their jobs
- Provide jobs for young people and create demand for goods
- Condition had to spend within one moth and give up their jobs
- Recommend a plan by which every American over 60 given pension of $200 a month
- Father Coughlin
- Broadcast ideas on radio - accused Roosevelt of failing to tackle problems of the poor
- Set up National Union for Social Justice attracted millions of members however ideas were rather confused
- Audience faded by 1940
- Set up National Union for Social Justice attracted millions of members however ideas were rather confused
- Broadcast ideas on radio - accused Roosevelt of failing to tackle problems of the poor
- Heuy Long -governor of Louisiana. supported nd but by 1934 though it ddnt do enough
- Gone too far
- Republicans
- Roosevelt behaving like a dictator
- Made Americans too dependent on gov for help
- Wrong for gov to create work and give Americans pensions and sickness benefit
- Waste of money WPA paying to do unnecessary jobs
- Businessmen
- Angry allowed trade unions into workplace
- Unnecessary gov interference
- 1934 set up Liberty League to oppose ND
- Rich
- Wrong to tax rich to pay for ND
- Earned wealth through own efforts and enterprise
- By taxing discourage them from wishing to create more wealth
- Strong capitalist view
- Republicans
- Supreme Court
- Republicans who opposed
- NRA unconstitutional
- Sick Chickens Case - Schechter Poulty Corporation broke NRA regulations as sold diseased chickens to humans, filed false sales claims
- Illegal
- Roosevelt asked congress to give him power to appoint 6 new judges to court who he knew would be more sympathetic to nd
- Americans felt violation of constitution and Roosevelt forced to back down
- Not gone far enough
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