Chapter+23-+The+New+Deal


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|| [1933] || * Franklin Delano Roosevelt [FDR] ||  ||   ||
 * [[image:http://www.historyteacher.net/AmericanHistoryAndGovernment/Images/AmericanHistoryText-Sources.gif width="85" height="24" align="center"]] ||< * ** Textbook --> pp. 664 - 670. **
 * ** FILM --> clips from the series "The American Century." ** ||
 * [[image:http://www.historyteacher.net/AmericanHistoryAndGovernment/Images/AmericanHistoryText-Questions.gif width="104" height="26" align="center"]] ||< # **As you read this section of Chapter 23, create a CHART with three columns labeled: "New Deal Programs," "Purpose," and "Results" [this will eventually be collected for a grade of __40 points__]. Bullet information that lists the accomplishments of the First New Deal programs. Be sure to include ALL of the government programs in the TERMS list below!**
 * 1) **Why was FDR elected in 1932? What personal characteristics of his seemed to appeal to the general public?**
 * 2) **What were the three major goals of the New Deal?**
 * 3) **Why did FDR engage in a series of "Fireside chats" with the American people?**
 * 4) **How did Congress and the president attempt to save the banking system in 1933?**
 * 5) **In general, how did liberal and conservative critics differ in their opposition to the New Deal?**
 * 6) **Why did people regard FDR's court-packing scheme as a threat to the constitutional principle of separation of powers?**
 * 7) **What did Father Coughlin, Dr. Townsend, and Senator Huey Long dislike about the New Deal?**
 * 8) **How did FDR change the role of the federal government during his first term as president?** ||
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 * * New Deal ||< * CWA ||
 * * 20th. Amendment ||< * National Industrial Recovery Act
 * * bank holiday ||< * NRA ||
 * * Emergency Banking Relief Act [1933] ||< * TVA ||
 * * "Fireside Chats" ||< * HOLC ||
 * * Glass-Steagall Banking Act [1933] ||< * FHA ||
 * * FDIC ||< * "First One Hundred Days" ||
 * * Federal Securities Act [1933] ||< * "court-packing" ||
 * * SEC ||< * American Liberty League ||
 * * 21st. Amendment ||< * Fr. Charles Coughlin ||
 * * AAA ||< * Dr. Francis Townsend ||
 * * farm subsidies ||< * Senator Huey Long [LA] ||
 * * CCC ||< * "Share Our Wealth" program ||
 * * FERA ||< * //Every Man A King!//
 * PWA


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|| * Eleanor Roosevelt
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 * PHOTOS --> Dorothea Lang's work. ||
 * [[image:http://www.historyteacher.net/AmericanHistoryAndGovernment/Images/AmericanHistoryText-Questions.gif width="104" height="26" align="center"]] ||< # **What role did Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt play in her husband's administration?**
 * 1) **What was the political significance of the 1936 presidential election?**
 * 2) **Who were the groups that now made up the "New Deal Coalition?"**
 * 3) **How might the Second New Deal help sharecroppers, migrant workers, and other poor farmers?**
 * 4) **What arguments could be used by the supporters and critics of the Works Progress Administration [WPA] and the National Youth Administration [NYA]?**
 * 5) **What were the major provisions of the Wagner Act of 1935? Why could it be called the "Magna Carta of Labor?"**
 * 6) **What were the three areas covered by the original Social Security Act of 1935?**
 * 7) **Why might the Social Security Act be considered the most important achievement of the entire New Deal era?** ||
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 * * the "forgotten man" ||< * Wagner Act [1935] ||
 * * Alfred Landon ||< * NLRB ||
 * * New Deal Coalition ||< * Fair Labor Standards Act [1938] ||
 * * FSA ||< * Social Security Act [1935] ||
 * * WPA ||< * Francis Perkins ||
 * * infrastructure ||< * REA
 * NYA ||  ||


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|| * Francis Perkins ||  ||
 * [[image:http://www.historyteacher.net/AmericanHistoryAndGovernment/Images/AmericanHistoryText-Sources.gif width="85" height="24" align="center"]] || * ** Textbook --> pp. 677 - 682. ** ||
 * [[image:http://www.historyteacher.net/AmericanHistoryAndGovernment/Images/AmericanHistoryText-Questions.gif width="104" height="26" align="center"]] || # **What opportunities were available for women during the New Deal period? What limitations still existed at the time?**
 * 1) **Why was the "Black Cabinet" important to FDR's administration?**
 * 2) **Why was FDR never fully committed to full civil rights for African-Americans?**
 * 3) **How did the New Deal discriminate against African-Americans?**
 * 4) **What actions did Africa-Americans take themselves to push civil rights onto the national agenda during the New Deal?**
 * 5) **How was the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 a challenge to prior government treatment of Native Americans as laid down by the Dawes Act of 1887?**
 * 6) **How did New Deal policies affect organized labor?**
 * 7) **Why did the CIO use sit-down strikes? How effective were they?**
 * 8) **Why did urban voters support President Franklin D. Roosevelt?** ||
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 * * Mary McLeod Bethune || * Congress of Industrial Orgs. [CIO] ||
 * * "Black Cabinet" || * John L. Lewis ||
 * * Marian Anderson || * Walter Reuther ||
 * * 1941 March on Washington || * Mayor Fiorello La Guardia of NYC
 * Indian Reorganization Act [1934]


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|| > FILM --> clips from the series, "American in the 20c." * Clark Gable * Federal Art Project ||  ||
 * [[image:http://www.historyteacher.net/AmericanHistoryAndGovernment/Images/AmericanHistoryText-Sources.gif width="85" height="24" align="center"]] || * Textbook --> pp. 683 - 688.
 * SLIDES --> WPA art. ||
 * [[image:http://www.historyteacher.net/AmericanHistoryAndGovernment/Images/AmericanHistoryText-Questions.gif width="104" height="26" align="center"]] || # **What types of entertainment were most popular during the Depression?**
 * 1) **What purpose did movies and radio serve during the Great Depression?**
 * 2) **What New Deal programs supported artists and writers in the 1930s? [Be sure to add them to your CHART of New Deal programs!!]**
 * 3) **Why did the New Deal fund these projects?**
 * 4) **What were the themes of the plays, books, and paintings/murals of this period?**
 * 5) **How did the literature of the time reflect the issues of the Depression?**
 * 6) **What were the main benefits of government support for art and literature in the 1930s?** ||
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 * * //Gone With the Wind// || * Grant Wood ||
 * * the Marx Brothers || * Edward Hopper ||
 * * Jimmy Cagney || * Federal Theater Project ||
 * * Frank Capra || * Richard Wright ||
 * * Burns and Allen || * __The Grapes of Wrath__ ||
 * * Bob Hope || * John Steinbeck ||
 * * Orson Welles || * John Dos Passos

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 * [[image:http://www.historyteacher.net/AmericanHistoryAndGovernment/Images/AmericanHistoryText-Sources.gif width="85" height="24"]] || * Textbook --> pp. 689 - 693. ||
 * [[image:http://www.historyteacher.net/AmericanHistoryAndGovernment/Images/AmericanHistoryText-Questions.gif width="104" height="26"]] || # **Why did industrial production drop again and unemployment go up once more in 1938?**
 * 1) **What is "deficit spending?" Why was the New Deal over, in reality, by 1939?**
 * 2) **What impact did the New Deal have on the role and structure of the federal government?**
 * 3) **How did the Social Security system represent a change from past government policies?**
 * 4) **How did New Deal programs benefit as well as harm the environment?**
 * 5) **In what ways was the New Deal a success? a failure?**
 * 6) **Identify the New Deal programs that are still in place today.** ||
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 * * John Maynard Keynes || * deficit spending
 * Keynesian economics