Chapter 15 Section 2: The Second New Deal Takes Hold Questions

  1. According to Dorothea Lange, what types of people did she photograph?
  2. What role did Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt play in her husband’s administration during the Second New Deal?
  3. Describe the photo, “Migrant Mother.”
  4. What was the political significance of the 1936 presidential election?
  5. How did the Second New Deal attempt to help sharecroppers, migrant workers, and other poor farmers?
  6. What arguments could be used by the supporters and critics of the Works Progress Administration [WPA] and the National Youth Administration [NYA]?
  7. What were the major provisions of the Wagner Act of 1935?  What were the three areas covered by the original Social Security Act of 1935?
  8. Why might the Social Security Act be considered the most important achievement of the entire New Deal era?

Section 2 terms-  2nd AAA, W.P.A., N.Y.A., Wagner Act, Social Security

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