U. S. HISTORY II HONORS
Chapter 25 Syllabus: The Great Depression and the New Deal
Section 1: Hard Times in Hooverville -Crash! -The Depression Spreads - “Women’s Jobs” and “Men’s Jobs” -Families in the Depression - “Last Hired, First Fired” -Protest Section 2: Herbert Hoover and the Depression -The Failure of Voluntarism -Repudiating Hoover: The Election of 1932 Section 3: Launching the New Deal -Action Now! -Creating Jobs -Helping Some Farmers -The Flight of the Blue Eagle -Critics Right and Left Section 4: Consolidating the New Deal -Weeding Out and Lifting Up -Expanding Relief -The Roosevelt Coalition and the Election of 1936 Section 5: The New Deal and American Life -Labor on the March -Women and the New Deal -Minorities and the New Deal -The New Deal: North, South, East, and West -The New Deal and Public Activism Section 6: Ebbing of the New Deal -Challenging the Court -More Hard Times -Political Stalemate Section 7: Good Neighbors and Hostile Forces -Neutrality and Fascism -Edging Toward Involvement
VOCABULARY - PEOPLE
Franklin D. Roosevelt Eleanor Roosevelt John Maynard Keynes Frances Perkins Mary McLeod Bethune Mary Dewson Alf Landon Huey Long Charles Coughlin Frances Townsend John Lewis Wendell Willkie Herbert Hoover
VOCABULARY - TERMS buying on margin real wages installment buying overspeculation Black Tuesday Gross National Product foreclosures collateral Hoovervilles Scottsboro boys socialism direct relief relief gardens Federal Farm Board Hawley-Smoot Tariff Bonus Army Home Loan Bank Act Reconstruction Finance Corporation Jim Crow unemployment soup kitchens breadlines American Plan recession New Deal depression the hundred days national debt public works programs deficit spending fireside chats pump priming Brain Trust direct relief subsidies sit-down strike bank holiday 21st Amendment Dust Bowl American Liberty League Okies court packing black blizzards lynching Schechter v. U.S. sharecropping U.S. v. Butler tenant farmers The Grapes of Wrath segregation blacklists collective bargaining minimum wage demagogue child labor laws parity Congress of Industrial Organizations American Federation of Labor see also NEW DEAL LEGISLATION handout
Week one:
1. Why did most people believe that the American economy was strong in the 1920s; why did most Americans not realize that the economy was not as healthy as it seemed? 2. Describe the main events leading up to Black Tuesday. What were the results for investors when the stock market dropped suddenly? 3. Explain how the stock market crash started a downward cycle that affected not only the United States, but the global economy as well. 4. What were some of the earliest effects of the Great Depression on American society? How did the depression affect family life? 5. How did President Herbert Hoover hope to end the depression and its hardships? Why did the steps taken by the Hoover administration not succeed? 6. Why did radical groups gain support in the early 1930s?
Week two: 1. What were some ways in which the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt tried to restore hope to the nation? 2. Identify and describe specific New Deal measures designed to help: (A) workers (B) business (C) consumers. 3. How did the depression affect women and minorities? How did the Roosevelt administration attempt to help women and minorities? How did New Deal programs discriminate against or neglect women and minorities? 4. How do you explain the popularity of FDR with the American voters? Describe the various critics of the New Deal.
Week three: 1. What was the effect of the Dust Bowl on farmers in the Great Plains? How did the New Deal attempt to aid farmers? 2. Why did FDR want to “pack” the Supreme Court? Describe Roosevelt’s plan and the consequences that resulted from it. 3. What effects did the New Deal have on the American economy? What factors contributed to the recession of 1937? 4. In what ways did labor unions gain in the 1930s? How did labor unions change during the 1930s?