Section 1: a New Deal Fights the Depression

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Reading Review Chapter 15, Section 1: A New Deal Fights the Depression

KEY TERMS: 1. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

2. New Deal

3. Bank Holiday

4. Deficit spending

5. Huey Long

Questions: 6. What were the first actions that FDR took during what became known as the “Hundred Days”?

7. What were FDR’s fireside chats and how successful were they?

8. In what ways did the New Deal legislation attempt to help the American People?

9. How did the New Deal support labor organizations?

10. How did the “court-packing plan” and other actions of the New Deal lead to opposition from the Supreme Court and liberal and conservative leaders? Section 2: The Second New Deal Takes Hold

KEY TERMS: 1. Dorothea Lange

2. Eleanor Roosevelt

3. John Steinbeck

4. Resettlement Administration

5. Farm Security Administration

Questions: 6. Why did FDR launch a 2nd New Deal in his Second Hundred Days and why was it popular?

7. How did the 2nd New Deal help farmers?

8. What was significant about “Migrant Mother”?

9. What was the National Youth Administration and what did it do?

10. What was the Fair Labor Standards Act and what contributed to it being passed by Congress? Section 3: The New Deal Effects Many Groups

KEY TERMS: 1. Frances Perkins

2. Mary McLeod Bethune

3. John Collier

4. New Deal Coalition

5. Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)

Key Questions: 6. What new opportunities for women were created under the New Deal?

7. What was the “black cabinet” and why was it important to the Roosevelt administration?

8. Why didn’t FDR do more to help and promote civil rights?

9. How did the New Deal impact Native Americans?

10. How did the new deal impact unions and organized labor? Chapter 15, Section 4: Pop Culture in the 1930s

KEY TERMS: 1. Gone With the Wind

2. Orson Welles

3. Woody Guthrie

4. Richard Wright

5. The Grapes of Wrath

Questions: 6. Why were movies popular during the Depression?

7. What role did radio play in American homes during the Depression?

8. Why and how did the New Deal fund art projects?

9. Who were the most successful artists, musicians and writers of the Depression era?

10. How did the literature of the time reflect the issues of the Depression? Chapter 15, Section 5: The Impact of the New Deal

KEY TERMS: 1. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

2. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

3. parity

Questions: 4. Why did industrial production drop and unemployment go up again in 1938?

5. How did FDR’s administration expand the power of the federal government?

6. Who were the supporters and critics of the New Deal?

7. What ended the depression?

8. Why was the establishment of Social Security such an important part of the legacy of the New Deal?