TASK 1: Turn to page 155, read the section on ‘The Reaction of President Hoover’. Answer the following questions
in full sentences:
(i)
Using the first paragraph, explain, in your own words why Hoover was voted out of office.
(ii)
How bad was the Depression? Use the second paragraph.
(iii)
What did Hoover realise? The government might have to play...
(iv)
What did Hoover then do? Pleaded with employers and...
(v)
What was the Reconstruction Finance Commission and what did it aim to do? Loans to businesses...
(vi)
What did the Federal Farm Board do? Surplus crops...
(vii)
Turning to page 156, why didn’t Hoover’s ideas work? Did Hoover really believe in them?
(viii) What was the Hawley-Smoot tariff and why did this backfire for the US? Higher taxes on...
(ix)
What was a ‘Hooverville’?
(x)
What reputation did Hoover earn – was this fair?
TASK 2
Write a short paragraph answering the following
question. Why was Hoover ineffective in dealing
with the effects of the Wall Street Crash?’
To help you could use the following sentences:
Hoover was ineffective in dealing with the effects of
the Wall Street Crash because...
Hoover introduced two new programmes but he
didn’t really...
The Hawley-Smoot Tariff made it even harder for...
TASK 4
Collect your own version of the cartoon with
the title ‘The New Chauffeur’. Stick this in your
book with plenty of room around the outside.
Now, complete a mind map around the source
pointing out everything you can see. In a
different colour pen, add to the mind map
everything you can explain with your own
knowledge.
TASK 3
Turn to page 160 of the text book.
Define the term ‘New Deal’. Use the
first paragraph and the glossary at the
back of the book to help you.
TASK 5
Using the picture ‘The New Chauffeur’ and
answer the following exam question:
What is the message of the cartoon? Explain
your answer, referring to details of the
cartoon.
(Identify a reason and explain it in more detail. Make sure
you include the word ‘because’. For the top marks you
need to consider two or more factors and explain them).
Show the answer to me for marking.
TASK 6
TASK 7
Draw a single cartoon, taking up about half a page,
that helps to explain what the New Deal was as
introduced in 1933 (page 160). You need to try and
include:
Collect a red copy of the table ‘What did the
New Deal Actually Do?’ Re-draw this table
across an A3 page in your book and fill it in.
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
The fact that the banks failed.
Lots of people who had money in the
banks were panicking.
Roosevelt’s reassuring speech that gives
the American public confidence.
WHAT DID THE NEW DEAL ACTUALLY DO?
AREA
TARGETTED
Helping the
Banks
Helping the
Farmers
Helping the
unemployed
Helping
Industry
Helping homeowners
Help to
depressed
areas
The ‘alphabet
agencies’
WHAT WAS THE PROBLEM THE NEW DEAL HAD TO TACKLE?
WHAT DID THE NEW DEAL DO?
If the banks stayed closed then... Very quickly, nobody would...
Roosevelt passed the Emergency Banking Act which...
Other problems included the harmful practices that had gotten the US into...
Agriculture’s most serious problem was...
Roosevelt also passed the Securities Act which...
The Agricultural Adjustment Act gave the government...
There were a huge amount of unemployed Americans as American industry
struggled it had to lay off more workers.
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was created which...
Industry was struggling. No one had any money to spend and as a result
industry needed to be kick started again.
The National Recovery Administration was set up...
Many home owners faced the threat...
What were the Alphabet Agencies?
The end of
prohibition
Summarise the end of Prohibition
The ‘fireside
chats’
What were the fireside chats?
The act also created an agency called the Public Works
Administration (PWA)
To prevent this happening the government set up the
Home...
TASK 8
TASK 9
Your task is to imagine that you are President
Roosevelt and you are writing tonight’s fireside chat.
Write a script and be ready to perform it in front of
the class. Remember to include:
Answer the following questions in full sentences:
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
A reassuring message about something
you are doing to help the people.
Lots of soothing words
Think also about your tone.
(i)
(ii)
(iii)
What were the Hundred Days?
What steps did Roosevelt take to deal
with the problems of the Depression?
Why did he take these measures?