Chapter 33 Focus Questions:
Essay question: A popular slogan of the mid-1930s claimed that “Roosevelt wants you to join a union.” Explain why this assertion contained some truth.
Objective Questions:
1)How did Franklin Roosevelt’s affliction with polio affect his character?
2)What role was played by First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt in the New Deal?
3)What were the important platform planks on which the Democrats and FDR campaigned in 1932?
4)In addition to his promise to balance the budget, what did FDR propose to do to deal with the problems of the depression?
5)How did the depression and the New Deal affect the voting habits of African Americans?
6)What group experienced the worst suffering as a result of the Great Depression?
7)What agreement did Herbert Hoover try to get from Roosevelt after the election and what impact would that agreement have made if Roosevelt had accepted it?
8)What level of support did Roosevelt receive from Congress in the early days of his presidency?
9)What was the most immediate emergency facing FDR when he became president?
10)Immediately after taking office, FDR responded to the banking crisis by doing what?
11)What were the “hundred days”?
12)What were the Three Rs of the New Deal and define each “R”?
13)The early New Deal experiments borrowed rather freely and randomly from what previous act and European acts?
14)What was the Glass-Steagall Act?
15)Was Roosevelt’s attempt at “managed currency” consistent with inflation or deflation and why did he choose to direct that particular change in the nation’s currency supply?
16)What was the single most popular New Deal program?
17)Describe the men that joined the Civilian Conservation Corps. (4)
18)Who was Harry Hopkins and why was he an important figure in the New Deal?
19)Who were: Father Coughlin; Huey Long; and Francis Townsend and what were their criticisms of the New Deal?
20)Who were Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead?
21)Who were Frances Perkins, Robert Wagner, Harry Hopkins, and Harold Ickes?
22)What was the most complex and ambitious New Deal effort to achieve recovery and reform for the entire American economy?
23)Why did the NRA fail?
24)Why did Roosevelt support the repeal of prohibition?
25)What was the AAA and how did it propose to solve the farm problem of overproduction?
26)How would the AAA raise money to accomplish its goal?
27)What was the Dust Bowl, what caused it, and what impact did it make in the central part of the US?
28)What was the Resettlement Administration and how did it attack one of the problems created by the first AAA?
29)Where did most Dust Bowl migrants head to and what happened to them there?
30)What was the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934?
31)How did most Native Americans respond the Indian Reorganization Act?
32)How did the Federal Securities Act and the SEC help reform and stabilize the stock market?
33)What was the TVA and why was it considered one of the most radical New Deal programs?
34)Who was most threatened by the TVA?
35)At this point in the chapter, which area, relief or recovery, appears to be the more effective response of the Roosevelt administration to the problems of the depression?
36)What were the provisions of the Social Security Act?
37)How did our Social Security System differ from most European social welfare systems?
38)What were the provisions of the Wagner Act or National Labor Relations Act of 1935 and how did it benefit unskilled workers?
39)What was the primary interest of the CIO and how did that union achieve its early success?
40)What two constitutional amendments were added early in the New Deal?
41)Roosevelt tried to pack the court in 1937 because he wanted to make the Supreme Court more sympathetic to what?
42)What was the result of the failure of his attempt at packing the Supreme Court?
43)What was the Roosevelt Recession and what did Roosevelt adopt because of it?
44)What impact did the New Deal have on the national debt?
45)By 1938, the New Deal had lost most of its what?
46)What was most notable about FDR’s New Deal?