Homework 27 - Chapter 23: The New Deal
Read pages 692 to 729. Answer the questions.
Section 1: A New Deal Fights the Depression
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What happened to Hank Oettinger in 1931?
How did the New Deal help him in 1933?
How much of a landslide was Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1932 election victory?
What was FDR’s slogan for change during the depression?
What was fantastic about FDR’s first 100 days in office?
How did FDR help the banking crisis one day after taking office?
What is a fireside chat?
What made them so successful?
What was the Glass Steagall Act??
How would this bring raise the public’s confidence in banks?
How did the Federal Securities help the stock market and Wall Street recover?
Which government agency enforced the Federal Securities Act?
What was the Agricultural Adjustment Act?
Why were some Americans upset with the AAA?
Which government agency built dams, provided flood control, and cheap electricity?
What does the CCC stand for?
How did this help millions of young men?
Why was the National Industrial Recovery Act the most ambitious of all New Deal programs?
How did the National Industrial Recovery Act plan to promote growth through fair practices?
What agency would be in charge of this?
Why were factory workers happy with the NIRA laws and changes?
Which agency assisted home owners from foreclosure?
Which agency provided direct relief to the unemployed?
Look at the yellow box on page 698. Who was John Meynard Keynes?
What revolutionary idea did he have to rescue the nation’s economy?
Why did the Supreme Court declare some parts of the New Deal unconstitutional?
How did FDR try to fix the Supreme Court to rule in favor of New Deal programs?
Who was Charles Cougllin?
Why did he criticize the New Deal?
In what way did Huey Long believe that FDR could do more for Americans?
Section 2: The Second New Deal Takes Hold
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How did the New Deal help photographers like Dorothea Lange?
What role did Eleanor Roosevelt play in extending the New Deal for a 2nd time?
In what way was the election of 1936 a vote of confidence for FDR?
How did FDR respond to the Supreme Court decision to strike down the AAA?
What was the Works Progress Administration?
How can we still see evidence of the WPA today?
Which agency helped high school students?
How did the Wagner Act revolutionize labor unions?
What was Social Security Act?
10. How did it create jobs for the young and assist the old at the same time?
11. What agency assisted in connecting the rural west to the electric grid?
Section 3: The New Deal Affects Many Groups
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Why did Pedro Gonzalez end up in jail?
Who was Frances Perkins?
How did women face job discrimination?
Who was Mary McLeod Bethune?
What was the Black Cabinet that Bethune helped to organize?
Why did FDR fail to do more for the issue of civil rights?
Who was John Collier?
What historic reforms did he bring to American Indians?
What was the New Deal Coalition?
Why was it the key to the success of Democrats for the next 60 years?
What was the Memorial Day Massacre?
Section 4: Culture of the 1930s
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What did Don Congdon remember about radio and the movies during the 1930s?
How many movie theaters were there in the 1930s?
What percentage of Americans owned radios by the 1940?
What kind of movies did Americans flock to see?
Why is “Gone With The Wind” perhaps the greatest movie of all time?
Who was Orson Welles?
How did his broadcast create a national panic?
What did the art work of the depression reveal about American attitudes?
Who was Woody Guthrie and what is his most famous song?
What was the book the “Grapes of Wrath” about?
Section 5: The Impact of the New Deal
1. According to George Dobbin, why was FDR a well loved president by the people?
2. By 1937 how had FDR changed about the depression?
3. What did many critics of the New Deal claim?
4. In what ways did the New Deal change the following:
Banks
The Stock Market
Farming
Senior Citizens
Nature and the Environment
Labor Unions