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CP US HISTORY CHAPTER 15, SECTION 3 GROUP ACTIVITY
GROUP 1 (HOOVER’S PHILOSOPHY AND OPPOSING DIRECT RELIEF)-Pp. 456 & 457
1) What did President Hoover think was the best thing for economic recovery?
2) What did Americans begin to demand of the federal government as the Depression worsened?
3) Why was Hoover so against direct federal relief for the American people?
4) Describe the bill that Senators Robert La Follette Jr. and Edward Costigan proposed in 1931.
5) What is rugged individualism?
GROUP 2 (ENCOURAGING VOLUNTEERISM, BOOSTING THE ECONOMY, AND STIMULATING THE ECONOMY)- Pp. 457-459
1) What was the President’s Committee for Unemployment Relief (PCUR)?
2) What was it that the Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon argued?
3) Who attended President Hoover’s White House Conference?
4) What was one of the largest public works programs spearheaded by the Hoover Administration?
5) The government built more than ___________ public buildings and assisted states in building approximately ___________________ miles of highway. Overall, Hoover approved some $_______________ million in funding for public-works projects.
GROUP 3 (COPING WITH THE FARM CRISIS AND THE RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION)- Pp. 459 & 460
1) What did the Agricultural Marketing Act do?
2) What did President Hoover encourage the Federal Farm Board (FBB) to do with surplus crops? Did it raise crop prices at all?
3) Describe the Home Loan Bank Act of 1932.
4) What did the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) do?
5) Why was The Reconstruction Finance Corporation criticized?
GROUP 4 (GOVERNMENT ACTIVISM, RAMBLINGS OF DISCONTENT, AND RADICAL PROTESTS)- Pp. 460 & 461
1) Why do you think Americans blamed their sufferings during the Great Depression on the Hoover Administration?
2) What were movie audiences’ reactions to the appearance of Herbert Hoover in newsreels?
3) What two political parties in America became more popular as a result of the Great Depression?
4) Describe what happened in the Scottsboro Case.
5) What happened at the Ford auto plant near Detroit in 1932? What happened in Seattle?
GROUP 5 (THE BONUS ARMY AND THE ELECTION OF 1932)- Pp. 461 & 462)
1) What was the Bonus Army?
2) The Bonus Army was made up of veterans of what war?
3) Who directed and controlled the troops that drove the veterans from the buildings they were staying in as well as from their encampments?
4) Did the Bonus Bill pass the Congress?
5) Who was the Democratic nominee for president in 1933?
GROUP 6 (THE DEMOCRATIC CHALLENGER AND A CHANGE IN LEADERSHIP)- Pp. 462 & 463)
1) Describe Franklin Roosevelt’s socioeconomic status.
2) Who was Franklin Roosevelt’s wife?
3) What almost ended Franklin Roosevelt’s political career?
4) What did Franklin Roosevelt mean by a “new deal.”
5) Who won the election of 1932? Why do you think he won so easily?