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1
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Who were the three groups that mainly criticised the New Deal?

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Left wing
Right wing
Supreme Court

2
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What was the criticism from the left wing?

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Believed the new deal still wasn’t doing enough to help people e.g black people still not helped

3
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What did (left wing) Huey long say?

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More should be done to help poor people

4
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What did (left wing) Father Coughlin do?

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He had a radio show with 30-40 million listeners and said more needs to be done to help

5
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What was the criticism from the right wing?

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They believed the new deal was doing too much

They thought the government was taking control and Roosevelt was behaving like a dictator

6
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Why were the (right wing) rich unhappy?

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They had to pay high taxes

7
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What did the Supreme Court say?

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Some parts of the new deal are illegal (unconstitutional) because they affected people’s rights and took away the states powers e.g the NRA

8
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What did Roosevelt have to do as a result of the Supreme Court?

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Change some parts of the New Deal

9
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Why did business men hate the new deal?

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It interfered with their business and supported workers rights so right people accused Roosevelt of betraying his class

Henry ford hired thugs to attack his trade union workers

10
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Why did republicans hate the expenditure?

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They felt it was wasteful

Thought poor people were responsible for their own problems and It wasn’t the governments job to look after them

11
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What happened in 1938?

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Republicans took over the senate and Roosevelt was unable to get anymore new deal legislations through