Reading Questions Chapter 33 Part 2
Visuals
1 779 Brown Box
- Who?
- does he support or oppose FDR?
2 779 Photo
- Who?
- What does FDR call this person “one of two ______ __________ ________ in this country?
3 780 Photo – 781 Photo
- (780) – Who?
- Director of ?
- What did she organize ---and why?
- (781) – who?
- First (what) in US History?
- Secretary of (what)?
4 782 Photo
- Of what?
- Where?
- Which New Deal Program built this?
- What two (2) things does the dam do that transforms the region?
5 783 Brown Box
- Who?
- What Book?
- How much per hour were growers willing to pay per hour for work?
6 784 Map – 785 Painting – 787 (top) Photo
(Map)- of what?
- How far away, according to the caption, was the Sun obscured by the dust?
(Painting) – What two (2) reasons in the caption are given for the dust bowl?
(top photo)- “Who” became migrant farm workers in the 1930’s due to the dust bowl?
7 788 Brown Box – 788 Map
- (bb) – What does the Mayor believe created the economic structure for the later Civil Rights
Movement?
- What three (3) things laid the foundation for the “New South?”
-(map) – title?
- What river and its tributaries are dammed?
- How many dams are built on the river and its tributaries?
- What 4 things, according to the caption, does the TVA provide?
Reading Questions- A Day for Every Demagogue
8 What is the definition of Demagogue?
9 Was the New Deal a miracle that helped the Great Depression vanish?
10 The poem form Langston Hughes is called what?
11 What was Father Coughlin’s slogan?
12 Senator Huey Long, Louisiana, created a program and a slogan –name them?
13 Long wanted to give every Family in America How much?
14 Where would the $$$ come from for the above to happen?
15 What happens to Huey?
16 Based on the quote from the bbq speech ---and the radio address---What was the limit of $$$ that any
person should have? What does he propose to do with the rest?
17 How much would every Senior Citizen over 60 get in Dr. Townsend’s plan?
18 What would they have to do by the end of each month?
19 Is this an example of “Trickle Down Economics” or “Bubble Up Economics?”
20 What Act is passed by Congress in 1935 due to the influence of Dr. Townsend’s plan?
21 What book did Upton Sinclair publish which made him famous?
22 What was Upton running for in 1934 AND WHAT was his campaign plan called (4 letters) ?
23 What two (2) New Deal Programs are said to be influenced by Upton Sinclair’s ideas?
25 WPA – What was its objective?
26 The WPA spent 11 Billion$ doing what many projects---what was unique about the type of projects
(besides building massive concrete projects)?
27 How many people found employment in the WPA?
28 What local building has a WPA mural?
A Helping Hand for Industry and Labor
29 What Act of Congress creates both the NRA and the PWA?
30 What was the NRA designed to assist? (3)
31 The NRA creates a “ceiling” of _____________ and a “floor” for __________________?
32 What was the symbol for the NRA and what professional football team is named for this program?
33 What supreme court case rules much of he NRA unconstitutional? (Future programs will re-do some
of this )
34 What was the purpose of the PWA?
35 Who led the PWA?
36 What are the four (4) famous structures built by the PWA that are mentioned in the notes and still
around today?
37 How does the “multiplier effect” (economic theory) apply to the PWA—how many more people are
employed than just those specifically on these 34,000 projects?
38 What does the 21st amendment allow Americans to do again?
39 What is the “juxtaposition” created by the New Deal in the “Plague of Plenty (Great Depression)?”
40 By 1935 what happens to farm income?
The AAA
41 In which economic sector does the Great Depression begin 1st around 1919?
42 What do farmers do in an attempt to raise prices?
43 By paying farmers to farm less and by killing off excess livestock the AAA was creating “Artificial
____________________?”
44 Establishing prices for farm products that were equivalent to the 1909 – 1914 period was called
“Parity ___________________?”
45 What are the 4 problems with the AAA mentioned in my notes?
46 Which Supreme Court case rules the tax on processors and much of the 1st AAA unconstitutional?
47 Is there a 2nd AAA? Who pays the farmers this time?
Dust Bowls and Black Blizzards
48 Where did a massive drought occur in the United States in 1933 that lasted for years?
49 What bug came in massive swarms eating everything? (Massive herds of rabbits came, too (really)
50 How many people over a 5 year period left Arkansas and Oklahoma alone?
51 What were these two migrant groups who left those states nicknamed?
52 What book—later movie is published/produced that illustrated this disaster?
Makers of America: The Dust Bowl Migrants
53 Where do most of these people move to looking for work and a place to live?
54 Before the dust bowl began how many people from this area had already moved to that place?
55 During the Great Depression and Dust Bowl—What did the sign posted at the State Border say to
people wanting to enter that state?
56 What three things were scarce even in that supposed land of milk and honey?
57 What New Deal Administrative Agency eventually comes in to set up camps?
58 What event beginning saves many with jobs due to this event coming to this state in big #’s which
transforms the West dramatically from this point forward and even still today?
59 New Dealers were sympathetic to the plight of these farmers and eventually many programs help
them in many ways---What do the youthful workers of the CCC plant, 300 million of them, to prevent the
further erosion of the top soil off farms---You can still see them today?
60 What Act passed by Congress is called the “Indian New Deal?”
61 The effects of which Act passed by Congress in 1887 is attempted to be reversed by the above Act?
62 What did the Act mentioned in q# 60 “promote and encourage” the tribes to do? (3)
63 How many tribes take advantage of this act? Do all tribes?
Battling Bankers and Big Business
64 What act is passed in the 100 days Congress that attacks the “money changers,” that caused this whole
mess?
65 What “Commission,” which we still have today is created in Congress in 1934 to be a “watchdog” to
protect the public from fraud-deception-insider trading—on the Stock Market?
The TVA Harnesses the Tennessee River and its Tributaries
66 What industry needed reforming and is the main purpose behind the creating of the above mentioned
Act?
67 Why did Hoover veto the TVA originally?
68 What does our own government (the city of Mooresville) own that would have been considered to be
Government competing with private business---and similar to the TVA?
69 What dam is built and what lake is made in Western North Carolina in the TVA project?
70 What experiments are done at the site of the dam at Oak Ridge, Tennessee during WWII due to the
massive amount of Electricity produced that they could use cheaply for their experiments?
71 What was by far the “Most Revolutionary” of ALL New Deal Projects?
72 What specific eight (8) ways does the TVA transform the Appalachian region?
73 It is said that due to the massive success of the TVA project that dam building spread WEST—What
three (3) ways was the West impacted specifically?
74 Some environmentalists claim that all of the effects were not positive—What two specific reasons are
used as evidence to support this conclusion today?