The New Deal

Wed/Mon. 5/18-23: Read 770-778
Tuesday. 5/24: Read 778-791
Wed/Thrs, 5/25-26: Read 791-799
Friday, 5/27: Test

Big Questions
1. What factors and events caused the Great Depression?
2. Why was FDR such a successful politician? Why was Hoover a failure?
3. Describe the differences between the First, Second, and Third New Deals.
4. Describe the new Democratic coalition created by FDR?
5. How did the war New Deal affect the labor movement?
6. How did the New Deal change government?
7. Why did the FDR’s “court-packing” scheme fail?
8. How did the New Deal affect African Americans?
9. What is Keynesian economics?

Know the significance of the following:

New Deal Programs: Emergency Banking Relief Act; Glass-Steagall Act.; Agricultural Adjustment Act; Tennessee Valley Authority; Rural Electrification Administration; Truth in Securities Act; Public Works Administration; Works Progress Administration; Resettlement Administration

Economics: Roosevelt Recession; John Maynard Keynes

Labor: Wagner Act; National Labor Relations Board; AFL; CIO; John L. Lewis; Trade union; Industrial Union; UAW; Sit-down strike;

Politics: FDR; Al Smith; Herbert Hoover; Fr. Coughlin; Dr. Townsend; Huey Long; Court-packing scheme