Overall Purposes:
Identify the main
causes and effects of the Great Depression.
Evaluate the success of the New
Deal in coping with the problems of the Great Depression.
Main Ideas:
A) When did the Great Depression begin?
B) Describe the normal business cycle. How did this change during the Depression? In what ways did the Great Depression differ from previous economic hard times?
C) What factors led to the crash of the stock market? Why was this a trigger for the Depression?
D) Explain the basic economic problem of the Depression. Explain why this occurred. Explain why the Depression got progressively more severe.
E) Summarize the effect of the Depression on the American economy.
F) Describe the impact of the Depression on Black Americans.
G) What impact did the Depression have on families, beliefs, and American culture?
H) Explain the factors that led to the growth of support for the American Communist Party. What factors limited the appeal of communism and other leftist ideas to Americans?
I) Describe President Hoover’s response to the Depression. Why was this ineffective?
J) Describe President Roosevelt’s career prior to his election to the presidency. How did President Roosevelt’s approach to the Depression differ from President Hoover’s?
K) Explain the three main goals of the New Deal (Relief, Recovery, and Reform). Be able to cite several programs that focused on each goal.
L) Explain and cite specific examples of how New Deal programs sought to increase the national income and lower the output of goods.
M) Describe the three phases of the New Deal. How did they differ in philosophy and programs?
1. 1933-1934
2. 1935-1936
3. 1937-1940
N) Explain the purpose of the following New Deal programs:
1.
FERA
2.
CCC
3.
FHA
4.
AAA
5. REA
6. NRA
7. TVA
8. FDIC
9. SEC
10. Wagner Act
11. Social Security
12. WPA
O)
Explain the origins of
P) Explain the criticisms of the New Deal from both the political Right and Left.
Q) Why was labor so supportive of the New Deal?
R)
What was Keynesian Economics? What evidence was there of its
effectiveness? Why did
S) In what ways was racial and religious prejudice present during the 1930s?
T) Analyze the effectiveness of the New Deal in advancing the cause of Black Americans and women.
U)
Explain the concept of the “
V) How did the New Deal change the way that Americans viewed the purpose of their government? In what ways are these issues still part of our political debate today?
W) Analyze the positive and negative aspects of the New Deal.
Key Terms:
1) Dow Jones Industrial Average
2) Black Tuesday
3) John Maynard Keynes
4) GNP
5) Dust Bowl
6) sharecropping
7) lynching
8) Scottsboro Case
9) The Grapes of Wrath
10) Smoot-Hawley Tariff
11) Hooverville
12) Reconstruction Finance Corporation
13) Bonus Army
14) New Deal
15) Fireside Chat
16) Bank Holiday
17) subsidies
18) Charles Coughlin
19) Huey Long
20) Francis Perkins
21) AFDC
22) entitlements
23) NLRB (Wagner Act)
24) industrial unionism
25) John L. Lewis
26) sit down strikes
27) New Deal Coalition
28) Eleanor Roosevelt
29) Joe Louis
30) Jesse Owens
31) Reagan Democrats
32) social safety net