Bellringer
Please write the question and the answer.
What was a Hooverville and how did the term
represent the country’s feelings towards
President Hoover?
Please take a few minutes to reflect on your
answer.
Key Terms/People To Know
Section 1: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, public
works, fireside chat, Eleanor Roosevelt,
Hundred Days, New Deal, subsidy, Huey P.
Long, Father Charles Coughlin, Dr. Francis
Townsend
Section 2: Second New Deal, Social Security,
John L. Lewis, CIO, sit-down strike, deficit,
John Maynard Keynes
The Election of 1932
1. Who was Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
2. What was his political experience?
3. What were two things that made him more
likable than Hoover?
4. What was a “fireside chat,” and how did the
chats help President Roosevelt?
Stabilizing the Banks:
Match the Term to the Correct Answer
1. Emergency Banking
Act
2. Glass-Steagall Act
3. FDIC
4. SEC
a) Insures the deposits of
individuals
b) Banks can be
inspected by
government
c) Created the FDIC
d) Enforces laws dealing
with stocks and other
securities
The New Deal
1. What is the New Deal?
2. What are the three Rs used to describe the
New Deal?
3. What was significant about the Hundred
Days?
The Second New Deal
Marks a shift from direct payments as work
relief to work for pay.
Also see the creation of the Social Security
Administration.
Alphabet Soup: The New Deal
With a partner, identify and describe the following
acronyms and which “R” the program corresponded to.
This will be turned in.
• Civilian Conservation Corps
(CCC)
• Federal Emergency Relief
Administration (FERA)
• Public Works Administration
(PWA)
• Civil Works Administration
(CWA)
• Works Progress Administration
(WPA)
• Farm Security Administration
(FSA)
• Rural Electrification
Administration (REA)
• Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation (FDIC)
• Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC)
• National Labor Relations Board
(NLRB)
• Agricultural Adjustment
Administration (AAA)
• Tennessee Valley Authority
(TVA)
• National Industrial Recovery
Act (NIRA)
• National Recovery
Administration (NRA)
Opponents of the New Deal
For each of the following names, describe
1. Their background (what they do)?
2. Were they always against Roosevelt?
3. What particular issues did they have with
Roosevelt’s policy?
A. Huey P. Long
B. Father Charles Coughlin
C. Dr. Francis Townsend
Bellringer
Please write and answer the question.
What New Deal programs did the following:
1. Enforce the NIRA
2. Pay farmers to grow fewer crops
3. Build dams for power and navigation in the Southeast
4. Paid Americans to work on conservation projects
Please take a few minutes to reflect on your answers.
Courts and the New Deal
Many New Deal Programs were challenged in
the courts.
Go through Sections 1 and 2 and find any
mention of court cases against New Deal
Programs. What did these cases do to the
programs?
Life in the Depression
Skim through sections 3 and 4 and match the person or term.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
swing
Dorothea Lange
Frances Perkins
Mary McLeod-Bethune
The Marx Brothers
Father Charles Coughlin
Snow White and the
Seven Dwarfs
Joe Louis
Marian Anderson
Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig
minimum wage
Jesse Owens
Orson Welles
a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
f)
g)
h)
i)
j)
k)
l)
m)
first full-length animated film.
African-American boxer who fought against German in 1938
members of New York Yankees in 1930s
the lowest wage an employer can pay a worker
African-American singer who gave a private concert at the
White House after having been denied billing at
Constitution Hall.
African-American track star, defeated Germans in 1936
Olympics in Berlin in front of Adolf Hitler
popular form of dancing in the 1930s, usually done to fast
jazz
photographer famous for images of families in the
Depression
Famous actor, known for his version of War of the Worlds,
which caused panic among the public on Halloween, 1938
Catholic priest who railed against the New Deal and FDR
over the radio and gained a large following
African-American woman who emphasized the need for
education among the African-American communiity
Secretary of Labor under FDR
comedy troupe known for their witty humor in films and on
stage