New Deal Study Guide

Chapter 18

American History

 

  1. What was the New Deal?

 

 

  1. How was FDR’s personality an advantage for him in the election of 1932?

 

 

  1. Why were there banks runs in the days between FDR’s election and his inauguration? What did these people want instead of their $, why?

 

 

 

  1. What was the significance of the 1st 100 Days?

 

 

  1. Why did FDR want his advisors to have many different and competing views about different issues?

 

 

  1. What was the difference between the 3 different groups of advisors in FDR’s administration?

 

 

 

 

  1. What was the 1st thing FDR did when he came into office? Why?

 

 

 

  1. What did the SEC and FDIC do?

 

 

 

  1. What was the goal of the AAA? What were some pros and cons of this program?

 

 

 

  1. What did the NRA/NIRA do?

 

 

What did each of these programs do?

 

  1. HOLC.FCA-
  2. CCC-

 

  1. FERA-

 

  1. PWA-

 

  1. CWA-

 

  1. TVA-

 

  1. WPA-

 

  1. NLRB-

 

  1. SSA-

 

  1. What did conservative critics think about the New Deal? Give and example.

 

 

  1. What did liberal critics think about the New Deal?

 

 

  1. Explain Huey Long’s Share Our Wealth program.

 

 

  1. Explain Father Charles Coughlin’s ideas about FDR and banking.

 

 

  1. Explain Francis Towsend’s program and tell how it was designed to help the economy.

 

 

 

  1. Why did FDR start the 2nd New Deal?

 

  1. Why were there more strikes during the New Deal era?

 

 

  1. What happened to the Democratic Party as a result of the New Deal?

 

 

  1. Describe FDR’s problems with the Supreme Court and tell how he proposed to get around the problems? Did this work?

 

 

 

  1. How did FDR possibly help cause a recession in 1937?

 

 

 

  1. Why did some people say the gov’t should balance the budget during economic problems?

 

 

 

  1. Why did some people say the gov’t should spend more?

 

 

  1. Why does the ND end?

 

 

 

  1. Give two ways the gov’t changes as a result of the ND.