History III, Unit 4, Fall 2013 Causes of the Great Depression and President
Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deals
Unit Main Themes
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Causes of the Great Depression
The Modern Welfare State - its role?
Redefining liberalism
Debate questions: Was the New Deal a success? Did Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal weaken or
save capitalism
This unit will include a debate to help you to prepare for the essay on the test.
Lesson 1. Henretta 696- 700, Stop at “The New Deal Arrives”
1. How does the text treat Hoover?
2. What problems in the economy and society of the U.S. were exposed by the Great Depression?
Teachers: Bonus Army footage in History Network
Lesson 2. Henretta 700-705 at “the New Deal under attack”
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How does the text identify FDR’s ideology or does it?
What does FDR do in this first New Deal to reassure the American public?
Why would Roosevelt’s advisor Raymon Moley assert “Capitalism was saved in eight days”?
What does the first New Deal do to try to bring recovery?
What does the first New Deal do to put people back to work?
Lesson 3. Henretta, 705-712 to “A People’s Democracy”
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During this lesson, find lines and evidence that will help you with the debate questions.
Identify the various groups who attacked the New Deal and categorize them.
The Welfare State Comes into Being
Why are the Wagner Act and Social Security representative of liberalism redefined and the new
welfare state?
New Deal Liberalism
Court’s response
Keynesian economic policies
New Deal’s Impact on Society
Lesson 4. RTAP, Patrick D. Reagan’s 3 page introduction, “Industrial Unionism: A Chapter in American
Democracy’ (italized pages), David Brody’s “The Significance of Industrial Unionsim,” and “An
Eyewitness Account of the Flint Sit-down Strike, 1937”
Lesson 5. Henretta, 712-720
1. The first three groups mentioned form the New Deal coalition. What are they?
2. Reshaping the Environment
3. TVA
4. Grand Coulee
5. New Deal and the Arts
Lesson 6. Henretta 720, the Legacies of the New Deal and Debate Prep.
Search your notes for evidence.
In the Becker Library Database Questia (accessed with your school email and spartans), find The
Achievement of American Liberalism: The New Deal and Its Legacies edited by William H. Chafe. Skim
some of the chapters in this for support for you side OR do the same with Brinkley, "The New Deal, Then
and Now." See link on Sallee Syllabus Page
Review for Test