HIST 2057 Chapter : Chapter 27
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Fdr promised "a new deal for the american people" Strengthening america"s finances banking crisis industrial recovery raise commodity prices. Agricultural recovery through controlled production construction jobs artists and writers. Supreme court, in united states v. butler, ended aaa. From across the southwest from colorado to oklahoma. One third of okies return to home states. Struck down nira (schechter poultry corporation v. united states) "soaking" the rich makes fdr "traitor to his class" The court"s decisions seemed to endanger the new deal. Fdr decided to enlarge the court, to enable him to appoint pro-new. Craft unions in afl opposed to industrial unions. Cio had soon unionized much of industrial america: the slump of 1937. Southern democrats drifted toward a coalition with conservative. Republicans racism a key component in the shift. In the election of 1938, the democratic majorities in congress began to slip. Through the 1930s the power of the national government was vastly enlarged.
