APUSH Chapter Questions
Chapter 23
Questions should be answered on notebook paper or typed. Number your answers and do not rewrite the questions. Use complete sentences and answer each question fully. Leave a space between answers.
Your answers will always be checked for completeness, and generally spot-checked for accuracy.
Frequently, the assignments will not be returned to you, so keep a copy for yourself if you’d like.
1. Explain how Hoover’s philosophy of government shaped his response to the problems of the depression.
Why did his approach fail?
Why, do you suppose, Hoover still received nearly 16 million votes in the 1932 election?
2. Explain the changing role of government as demonstrated by the following acts: a) Glass-Steagall Act; b) AAA & NRA; c) PWA & CCC; d) the SEC. Be sure to use your own words, rather than trying to copy language from the text.
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Describe the two different views of the New Deal presented in the letters on pgs. 742-743.
How might you explain the different perspectives?
Why, do you suppose, so many letters were addressed to Eleanor Roosevelt, as opposed to the president?
Describe the overall positions of New Deal critics from both the right and the left.
Which of the two do you believe had a more sound basis for criticism? Explain.
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In what ways was the Second New Deal different from the First?
Give specific examples to explain how the Second New Deal challenged the idea of laissez-faire capitalism.
Why did Roosevelt have concerns with the Supreme Court in 1936-37? How did he attempt to deal with the court? Do FDR’s actions support Landon’s charges of FDR as a potential dictator? Explain.
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Explain what is meant by “Keynesian Economics.”
How might the factors that led to the recession in 1937-38, show support for the Keynesian idea?
Describe, in your own words, what is meant by “the ideology of social-welfare liberalism.”
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How did the New Deal fundamentally alter the relationship between citizens and the government?
For what reasons were women largely ignored by New Deal policies? What were some exceptions?
10. How did the New Deal work to change political allegiance for many African-Americans?
Why didn’t FDR push for more programs to help African-Americans?
11. What was the change brought about by the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934?
Why was it called the “Indian New Deal”?
12. Explain how the New Deal years were both positive and negative for Mexican-Americans.
Why were there no real positives for Asian-Americans?
13. Why was there so much New Deal attention to the environment?
What was the largest scale project, and how did it help both the economy and social life, in addition to
the environment?