Give Me Liberty! Chapter 21 Reading Guide
Academic Vocab
“a new deal”
John Maynard
Keynes
Sec of Labor
Frances Perkins
Chapter 21 Introduction
Columbia River work projects:
THE FIRST NEW DEAL (861-871)
 FDR & the Election of 1932
 The Coming of the New Deal
How did FDR view his “new deal”?
Harry Hopkins
 The Banking Crisis >
Sec of Interior
Harold Ickes
Emergency Banking Act
Glass-Stegall Act
FDIC
Louis Brandeis
 The NRA
National Recovery Act >
“brain trust”
Hugh S Johnson:
Effects of the NRA>
Bank holiday
 Government Jobs
The Economy Act:
The Hundred Days
Federal Emergency Relief Administration>
Civilian Conservation Corps>
“open shop”
 Public Works Projects
Public Works Administration >
Civil Works Administration >
Blue eagle
(symbol)
Tennessee Valley Authority >
 The New Deal & Agriculture
Agricultural Adjustment Act>
Steinbeck’s The
Grapes of Wrath
HOLC
Dust Bowl & Drought >
 The New Deal & Housing
“security of the home”/”the security of livelihood and the security of social insurance”
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21st Amendment to the Constitution
FHA
Federal Communications Commission
 The Court & the New Deal >
Schechter v. U S >
U.S. v. Butler
Answer: What were the major policy initiatives of the New Deal in the Hundred Days?
NIRA
THE GRASSROOTS REVOLT (871-875)
 Labor’s Great Upheaval>
The Wagner Act
“industrial despotism” >
Harry Bridges
Steel Workers
Organizing
Committee
Hughey Long in
Louisiana
Strikes/Walk-outs >
 The Rise of the CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations)>
UAW Strike>
 Labor and Politics >
Changes in labor and politics’ relations:
 Voices of Protest >
End Poverty in California Movement & Upton Sinclair >
Hughey Long:
Father Charles Coughlin:
Answer: Who were the main proponents of economic justice in the 1930s, and what measures did
they advocate?
Rural Electrification Agency (REA)
THE SECOND NEW DEAL
Mid-term elections of 1834
Emphasis of 2nd New Deal >
 The WPA and the Wagner Act >
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WPA…Under harry Hopkins’s direction:
Construction projects >
Robert Wagner
Arts >
The Wagner Act = “Labor’s Magna Carta” >
Social Security Act,
1935
 The American Welfare State >
Similarities to European programs >
 The Social Security System >
Eligibility standards:
Aid to Dependent Children:
Impact of Social Security >
Answer: What were the major initiatives of the Second New Deal and how did they differ from the
First New Deal?
Archibald
MacLeisch’s poem:
RECKONING WITH LIBERTY
John A Ryan:
 FDR & the Idea of Freedom (re-defining) >
“fire-side” chats
Liberalism
Freedom:
American Liberty
League
Liberty:
US Chamber of Commerce >
Robert Taft
 The Election of 1936 >
“the ideal of freedom” >
Election results >
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George Soule
 The Court Fight >
FDR’s court-packing proposal & its outcomes >
Economic royalists
Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes:

The End of the Second New Deal >
United States Housing Act >
Fair Labor Standards bill >
Keynesian economics >
Answer: How did the New Deal recast the meaning of American freedom?
First Lady (Eleanor
Roosevelt)
The Economy Act
of 1932
Cong. Ernest
Llundeen
LIMITS OF CHANGE (884-890)
 The New Deal and American Women >
Eleanor Roosevelt >
 The Southern Veto >
 The Stigma of Welfare >
Pittsburgh Courier
National Resources Planning Board:
John Collier,
Commissioner of
Indian Affairs
 The Indian New Deal >
Indian Reorganization Act, 1934
 The New Deal and Mexican-Americans >
Carey Mc Williams, Factories in the Field:
 Last Hired; First Hired >
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Mary McLeod
Bethune
 A New Deal For Blacks >
 Federal Discrimination >
Theodore Bilbo:
Answer: How did New Deal benefits apply to women and minorities?
Unionism in
Americanism
The Mesabi Range
A NEW CONCEPTION OF AMERICA (890-898)
Fiorello La Guardia:
 The Heyday of American Communism >
Popular Front

Redefining the People >
Earl Browder
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, 1936:
Martha Graham’s
American
Document
“Ballad for
Americans”
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, 1939
 Promoting Diversity >
Cultural pluralism >
Ed McRea
 Challenging the Color Line >
American Civil
Liberties Union
“Report on
Economic
Conditions in the
South”
 Labor and Civil Liberties >
Attny. Gen. Frank Murphy:
 The End of the New Deal >
“Dr. Win the War” v. “Dr. New Deal”
 The New Deal in American History >
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Answer: How did the Popular Front influence American culture in the 1930s?
Chapter Review Questions
Discuss how regional planning such as the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Columbia River project reflected
broader changes in American life during the New Deal.
What actions did President Roosevelt and Congress take to prevent the collapse of the banking system and
reform its operations?
How did the Actions of the AAA benefit many farmers, injure others, and provoke attacks by conservatives?
Explain what labor did in the 1930s to rese from being “slaves of the depression” to “economic freedom and
industrial democracy” for American workers.
How did the emphasis of the Second New Deal differ from the First New Deal?
How did the entrenched power of southern conservatives limit women and blacks from enjoying the full benefits
of the New Deal?
Analyze the effects of the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 on Native Americans.
Explain how New Deal programs contributed to the stigma of blacks as welfare dependent.
Illustrate how labor militancy helped produce a shift in the legal understanding of civil liberties.
What were the major characteristics of liberalism by 1939?
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Key Terms and People
“public works revolution”
bank holiday
Harold Ickes
John Lewis
the Hundred Days
Agricultural Adjustment Act
Dust Bowl
Huey Long
House Un-American Activities Committee
Scottsboro case
Franklin Roosevelt
sit-down strike
Works Progress Administration
Social Security Act
court-packing plan
minimum wage laws
Indian New Deal
Martha Graham
John Steinbeck
bank holiday
National Recovery Administration
Alfred Landon
the Popular Front
Tennessee Valley Authority
liberalism
“Scottsboro boys”
Smith Act
House Un-American Activities Committee
Frances Perkins
Dust Bowl
Wagner Act
Social Security
Popular Front
National Recovery Administration
Public Works Administration
Civilian Conservation Corps
fireside chat
Upton Sinclair
Share Our Wealth movement
Mary McLeod Bethune
Eleanor Roosevelt
John Collier
Townsend plan
Rural Electrification Agency
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