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Terms for Chapter 33- terms check Monday

Chapter 33 The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1933-1939
Identify the historical significance of the following:
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Father Coughlin,  George Norris,
Eleanor Roosevelt,Huey Long, John L. Lewis,
Harry Hopkins, Harold Ickes, New Deal,
Public Works Administration, National Labor Relations Board,  “Brain Trust,”
Agricultural Adjustment Act, Congress of Industrial Orgs,  Dust Bowl,
Hundred Days, Glass-Steagall Act, Liberty League,
Securities & Exchange Comm., Tennessee Valley Authority, “managed currency,”
Roosevelt coalition,  Civilian Conservation Corps, 20th Amendment,
Federal Housing Authority, 20th Amendment,  Social Security Act,
Works Progress Administration, Wagner Act, National Recovery Act,
Schechter case, Agricultural Adjustment Act, “three Rs,”
Federal Emergency Relief Act, “Share Our Wealth,” Frances Perkins,
Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act,   Okies,
Indian Reorganization Act,  John Collier,  San Joaquin Valley,
Alf Landon, Fair Labor Standards Act,  Court-packing scheme,
Hatch Act,  subversives,  Emergency Congress,
21st Amendment,  “forgotten man,” “half-way revolution,”
Alan Brinkley,  Lizabeth Cohen, Carl Degler,
“Roosevelt recession,” John Maynard Keynes,
Court-packing plan,   “Memorial Day massacre,” sit-down strike
Be able to explain the following fully:
— Describe the impact of Roosevelt and the New Deal upon America.
— Examine the goals and activities of the major New Deal programs.
— Analyze the costs and benefits to the American people by the massive spending engendered by the New Deal. What effects did this spending have?
— Respond to the following statement: “Roosevelt went too far in correcting the flaws of capitalism and laissez-faire.  In creating his New Deal programs, he undermined the traditions of the Protestant work ethic and rugged individualism, which had been the bedrock of American society.”

Outline Notes 33– due Monday, Feb 25

Since this is a relatively well-known era, I’m going to put some of the onus on you to organize the notes for this chapter. I will expect to see you put the details into your notes on this chapter. All of the terms should be included in your notes, using Arabic numerals and lower-case letters under those to flesh out this outline. Make sure you do your own work.

These will be due Monday, February 25.

Chapter 33 Outlines

I. FDR
—–A. His early life and wife
—–B. What effect does his disability have?
—–C. Election of 1932
———-1. shift in election demographics
—–D. Lame duck period
———-1. Brain Trust
—–E. How does he change the role of government?

II. The New Deal: Relief, Recovery, and Reform

(You will divide up this part yourselves!!!! Your own work, please….)

III. Criticism of the New Deal
—–A. TVA and “creeping socialism”
—–B. Republicans
———-1. Alf Landon
—–C. Supreme Court
———-1. Schecter case
———-2. Attempt to pack the court
—–D. Huey Long
—–E. Charles Coughlin
—–F. Francis Townsend
—–G. Deficit spending—good or bad?