Unit XVIII – The Great Depression and the New Deal (Chapters 32-33)
Objectives:
 Analyze the domestic political conservatism and economic prosperity of the 1920s
 Describe the international economic tangle of loans, war debts, and reparations, and indicate how the U.S. tried to address it
 Describe the stock market crash of 1929, and explain the deeper causes of the Great Depression
 Indicate how Hoover’s response to the depression reflected a combination of old-time rugged individualism and the new view
that the federal government had some responsibility for the economy
 Describe each of the early New Deal three R goals – relief, recovery, and reform – and indicate what major efforts were made to
achieve each goal
 Describe the New Deal’s effect on labor and labor organizations
 Explain why FDR became so frustrated with the conservative Supreme Court, and how his Court-packing plan backfired and
weakened the political momentum of the New Deal
 Explain how Roosevelt mobilized a New Deal political coalition that included the South, Catholics, Jews, African Americans, and
women
 Describe and analyze the arguments presented by both critics and defenders of the New Deal
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2.
3.
4.
Herbert Hoover
Charles Dawes
Douglas MacArthur
Adkins v. Children’s
Hospital
5. American Legion
6. Washington
Disarmament
Conference
7. Kellogg-Briand Pact
8. Teapot Dome
9. McNary-Haugen Bill
10. Progressive party
11. Dawes Plan
12. Hawley-Smoot Tariff
13. Black Tuesday
14. Reconstruction
Finance
Corporation
15. Bonus Army
16. Stimson doctrine
17. Franklin D. Roosevelt
18. Eleanor Roosevelt
19. Charles Coughlin
20. Huey Long
21. John Steinbeck
22. John Maynard
Keynes
23. New Deal
24. Brain Trust
25. Hundred Days
26. “Three Rs”
27. Glass-Steagall Act
28. Civilian Conservation
Corps
29. Works Progress
Administration
30. National Recovery
Act
31. Public Works
Administration
32. Agricultural
Adjustment Act
33. “Every Man a King”
34. Dust Bowl
35. Securities Exchange
Commission
36. Tennessee Valley
Authority
37. Federal Housing
Authority
38. Social Security Act
39. Wagner Act
40. National Labor
Relations Board
41. Congress of Industrial
Organizations
42. Sitdown strike
43. Indian Reorganization
Act
44. Liberty League
45. Roosevelt coalition
46. Court-packing plan
47. Keynesianism