Plan a trip-

1. Pick a state to start from and plan a trip from there at least 2,000 miles to a location of your choosing
2. You can not drive more than 550 miles a day
3. You must go through 5 states
4. You need to figure out:

• Identify the states that you are going to drive through
• What places you are going to stay
• Give a brief description of the towns you are going to stay
• What attractions you might stop at
• What roads you are going to take
• Map out your trip
• Explain why you choose to end in the location that you did

Have fun with this. Create a slide to show your information.

1. According to Pedro J. Gonzales, how did people view Mexican immigrants?
2. What opportunities were available for women during the New Deal period?  What limitations still existed at the time?
3. Why was the “Black Cabinet” important to FDR’s administration?
4. Why was FDR never fully committed to full civil rights for African-Americans?
5. How did the New Deal discriminate against African-Americans?
6. What actions did Africa-Americans take themselves to push civil rights onto the national agenda during the New Deal?
7. How was the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 a challenge to prior government treatment of Native Americans as laid down by the Dawes Act of 1887?
8. What groups made up the “New deal Coalition”?
9. How did New Deal policies affect organized labor?
10. Why did the CIO use sit-down strikes?  How effective were they?
11. Why did urban voters support President Franklin D. Roosevelt?

Here is a link to an online Chapter 15: https://icomets.org/ush-textbook/ch15.pdf

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

The Great Depression was a time of economic distress for the American people. One thing that helped people to cope with the depression was the New Deal. During the New Deal FDR and Congress created many programs to help pull the US out of the Depression.  For the following assignments, you will be asked to create trading cards for certain Great Depression events and New Deal programs, so that you have a tool to review and study from.  This project will be worth 50 summative points. You will need to meet the requirements for each card. It is due on January 16th.

Here are the requirements: 10 Cards Total

Front:

• The Name of the event/program
• Date of Event/Program
• Date of end if applicable
• Picture representation

Back:

• What did it do?
• Why is it significant?
• Picture

THE FRONT AND BACK MUST BE SEPARATE AND CLEAR

Here are the Events/Programs to choose from, but you must do the bolded terms:

• AAA
• TVA
• WPA
• CCC
• PWA
• Election of FDR
• FHA
• NRA
• FDIC
• Fireside Chats
• Deficit Spending
• Social Security Act
• Wagner Act

 

Chapter 15: The New Deal (1933-1940)- Study Questions

Section 1: A New Deal Fights the Depression

1. According to Hank Oettinger, why were people so happy?
2. Why was FDR elected in 1932?  What personal characteristics of his seemed to appeal to the general public?
3. What did the 20^th Amendment change?
4. What were the three major goals of the New Deal?
5. How did FDR handle the banking crisis during his first hundred days in office?
6. Why did FDR engage in a series of “Fireside chats” with the American people?
7. How did Congress and the president attempt to save the banking system and the stock market in 1933?
8. How did the AAA, CCC and NIRA attempt to help people?
9. In general, how did liberal and conservative critics differ in their opposition to the New Deal?
10. Why did people regard FDR’s court-packing scheme as a threat to the constitutional principle of separation of powers?
11. What did Father Coughlin, Dr. Townsend, and Senator Huey Long dislike about the New Deal?

Here is a link to an online Chapter 15: https://icomets.org/ush-textbook/ch15.pdf

Here are some of the topics you will need to understand for the test on Chapter 14 on Tuesday 12/19.

• Dust Bowl
• Causes of the Great Depression
• Effects of the Great Depression
• Buying on the margin
• Hobos
• Speculation
• Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act
• McNary-Haugen bill
• Reconstruction Finance Corporation
• Dow Jones Industrial Average
• Alfred E. Smith
• Shantytowns/ Hoovervillies
• Employment during the Great Depression
• Causes of the farming crisis
• Herbert Hoover
• Black Tuesday
• Great Depression
• Credit
• Soup Kitchens
• Direct Relief
• Price supports
• Hoover Dam
• Effects of the depression on children
• Price supports

The following is due Monday 12/18.

Chapter 14-The Great Depression Begins-Web Quest-2017

Section 2: Hardship and Suffering During the Depression

1. How did Ann Marie Low describe the “Dust Bowl”?
2. How did the Great Depression affect the lives of ordinary people in cities, towns, and on the farms?
3. How were shantytowns, soup kitchens, and bread lines a response to the Depression?  How successful were they?
4. How were African-Americans affected by the Depression? (See the box Another Perspective)
5. What created the “Dust Bowl” of the mid-1930s?  What were its effects on the people of the Great Plains and West Coast?
6. According to the map titled, “The Dust Bowl,” approximately how many mile of damage, north to south, was caused by the Dust Bowl?
7. Why did so many men leave their homes during the Depression?  Where did they go? What were they called?
8. How did the Great Depression affect women and children?
9. What were the social and psychological effects of the Depression?

Link to book: https://icomets.org/ush-textbook/ch14.pdf

Chapter 14: The Great Depression Begins (1929-1933)- Section 1: The Nation’s Sick Economy

1. Give specific examples to show how the superficial prosperity of the late 1920s hid troubling weaknesses in the country.
2. Identify reasons why agriculture suffered more throughout the 1920s than any other part of the country.
3. How were Americans able to live beyond their means in the 1920s?
4. How was the distribution of income so unequal in the United States during the 1920s?  How was this bad for the economy?
5. What is the economic significance of the Dow Jones Industrial Average?
6. What is “speculation”? What does it mean to “buy on margin”?  How did these practices contribute to creating the Great Depression?
7. What happened on “Black Tuesday”?
8. Why did so many banks fail so quickly during the early 1930s?
9. How many people were unemployed in 1929? 1933?
10. What happened to ordinary workers during the Great Depression?
11. List the major causes of the Great Depression.

 

Book Link to Chapter 14: https://icomets.org/ush-textbook/ch14.pdf

Chapter 12 Section 1: Americans Struggle with Postwar Issues

1. Why did Americans want to return to “normalcy” after World War I?
2. Identify the major trends in American society which resulted from this desire for “normalcy.”  (What three “isms” emerged at this time?)
3. List some of the major principles of communist ideology.
4. What was the “Red Scare?”  Why did Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer launch a series of raids against suspected communists?
5. Who were Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti?  What did the handling of their case tell you about the America of the 1920s?
6. Who were the groups that were hated most by the revived KKK of the 1920s?  What were their main goals/fears?
7. Why did the police strike in Boston in 1919?  What was Governor Calvin Coolidge’s position on the strike?
8. How was the Steel Strike of 1919 portrayed to the public by management?
9. Why did union membership drop in the 1920s?

Chapter 12 Section 3: The Business of America

1. What were the major effects of the automobile on American industry?  On American life?
2. How did the use of electricity affect Americans’ lifestyles?
3. Identify the major changes that took place in the 1920s in business and marketing.
4. What were the advantages and disadvantages of buying on credit?
5. What evidence suggests that the prosperity of the 1920s was not on a firm foundation?