The Depression
Chapter 24
1. What were the causes of the Great Depression?

2. What was the Wall Street crash; why did it occur; and what were the immediate consequences? What percent of the population owned stock (page 508)?

3. How did the Hoover administration respond to the crash and subsequent depression? What actions did President Hoover take as the depression deepened? What limited his actions? What was the Bonus Army all about?

4. How was Franklin Roosevelt's political philosophy different from Hoover's? What the three R's of the New Deal?

5. During the 100 days how well does Franklin Roosevelt and congress work together? What were the short-term and long-term effects of actions taken during the First New Deal (1933-34) regarding banking, emergency relief, agriculture, business, labor and conservation. According to the text what was one of the purposes of the Public Works Administration (PWA)? How was the National Recovery Administration (NRA) to control the economy of the United States? What do you think about this program? What did the courts think?

6. What was the purpose and the results of the Tennessee Valley Authority?

7. Who were the critics of the New Deal during FDR's first term? What happens to them?

8. Why is there a need for the Second New Deal? What does the Works Progress Administration try to do? With what results?

9. For the first time, the federal government would make payments directly or through the states, for pensions to many of the aged and infirm, for unemployment insurance, and for benefits to dependent mothers and children. Discuss the effects of the Social Security Act on Americans.

10. What was the Dust Bowl, where was it and what caused it?

11. What does the New Deal do for labor? To what extent was there a "New Deal" for American minorities and women?

13. What major political defeats did Roosevelt sustain in his second term as president? What was the end result of FDR's attempt at "packing" the Supreme Court?

14. How is housing affected by the New Deal? What does the Fair Labor Standards Act do for wages and working hours?

15. Check out the chart on page 603 "Key 1930's Reform Legislation".

16. What happens in the Kitchen during the 1930's?

17. What happens to the Movies in the 1930's?

18. Evaluate the New Deal as an instrument of economic relief and recovery, and as an instrument of economic and social reform.

19. How did the depression and the New Deal change the concept and the function of the national government?