NOTE-TAKING GUIDE: Of the People: A History of the United States CHAPTER 24 “A Great Depression and a New Deal: 1929
– 1940”
COMMON THREADS
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Contrast government’s response to the Depression with its actions in
earlier “panics” in 1893 and 1877.

How did Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Democratic Party differ from the one
that nominated William Jennings Bryan or Woodrow Wilson?
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How did the New Deal redefine what it meant to be “liberal” or
“conservative”?
OUTLINE
The Great Depression
Causes
Descending into Depression
Hoover Responds
The First New Deal
The Election of 1932
FDR Takes Command
Federal Relief
The Farm Crisis
The Blue Eagle
The Second New Deal
Critics Attack from All Sides
American Landscape: Angola, Louisiana
The Second Hundred Days
Social Security for Some
Labor and the New Deal
The New Deal Coalition
Crisis of the New Deal
Conservatives Counterattack
The Liberal Crisis of Confidence
America and the World: The Global Depression
Conclusion
WHO?
WHAT?
Herbert Hoover
The New Deal
FDR
Wagner Act
Eleanor Roosevelt
TVA
Huey Long
CCC
Social Security
Autarkies
REVIEW QUESTIONS
1. Did the stock market crash cause the Great Depression?
2. How did Roosevelt’s philosophy of government differ from Hoover’s?
3. What setbacks caused FDR to launch a second New Deal?
4. Compare the American response to the Depression to that of Britain,
Germany, and Japan. Why did other industrial countries choose
different paths?
5. What were Franklin Roosevelt’s attributes as a leader? What aspects
of his style inspired confidence or animosity?
6. Histories of the Depression focus on national statistics and large-scale
programs. How could you retell the story of the 1930s from a local,
personal perspective?
NOTES: TO FOLLOW UP / QUESTIONS TO ASK IN CLASS