THE NEW DEAL
Questions/Thinking Points
            1.  What was President Hoover's response to the stock market crash?
            2.  To what extent do you think the Republicans were to blame for the Crash and the Great Depression?
            3.  How did the programs off FDR's "first" New Deal address relief, recovery, and reform?
            4.  What qualities as a leader did Franklin Roosevelt employ as president during the New Deal?
            5.  What kind of political opposition did FDR face with his New Deal?
            6.  What parts of society gave their greatest support to FDR in the 1936 election?
            7.  How did the New Deal affect organized labor?
            8.  How did African-Americans and women fare under the New Deal?
            9.  What New Deal programs did the Supreme Court declare unconstitutional and why?  How did FDR respond to these
            setbacks?
            10.  Did the New Deal end the Great Depression?  Why or why not?
            11.  What are the legacies of the New Deal for Americans today?

Terms

Franklin D. Roosevelt
New Deal
Brains Trust
Bank Holiday
Emergency Banking Act of 1933
Economy Act
 Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)
Harry Hopkins
 Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
 Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
 National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)
National Recovery Administration (NRA)
Gen. Hugh Johnson
 Public Works Administration (PWA)
Harold Ickes
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
David Lilienthal
 Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC)
Federal Securities Act
Banking Act of 1933
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
National Housing Act (1934)
Federal Housing Administration (FHA)
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
 Father Charles Coughlin
Huey Long
Share the Wealth
National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), a.k.a. Wagner Act
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
 Works Progress Administration (WPA)
 Social Security Act
Public Utility Holding Company Act
Resettlement Administration (RA)
Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenancy Act (1938)
Farm Security Administration (FSA)
Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenancy Act (1938)
Rural Electrification Administration (REA)
Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
John L. Lewis
industrial unionism
 Schechter Poultry Corporation v. the United States (1935)
Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC)
Republic Steel
 Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
Domestic Soil Conservation and Allotment Act
Two-Thirds Rule
Yellow Dog Democrats
Election of 1936
Court Reform Bill
Roosevelt Recession