Objective: Explain how the Great Depression and the New Deal impacted American political, social, and economic life over time.

Class Notes for the Day:

7.10- The New Deal
7.10 Slides

Starter: Analyze the responses of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s administration to the problems of the Great Depression. How effective were these responses? How did they change the role of the federal government?

1) Contextualize the image.

2) What were Roosevelt's responses to the Great Depression?

3) How effective were these responses?

4) How did they change the role of the federal government?

5) Describe the point of view of the cartoon?

6) Who is the intended audience of the cartoon?

Recap: ​Explain the causes of the Great Depression and its effects on the economy.

Word of the Day

Legislation / Executive Order
  • Define it.
  • Use it in a sentence.
  • Which is done by Congress?  Which is done by the president?
  • Which is quicker?  Which is more permanent?
  • In your opinion, is an executive order legal?  Notable executive orders:
    • suspension of habeas corpus
    • emancipation of Confederate slaves
    • confiscating gold from U.S. citizens
    • public works programs during the Great Depression
    • developing the nuclear bomb
    • internment of people with Japanese ancestry in World War II
    • requirement of loyalty oaths during the Cold War
    • federal anti-discrimination policies
    • separating families of undocumented immigrants

Ch. 32 Outline

Complex Sentences
  • “First Hundred Days” (Comparison)
  • Keynesian Economic Theory (CCOT)
  • National Recovery Administration (Causation)
  • Agricultural Adjustment Act (Causation)
  • Social Security Act (CCOT)
Paragraph Responses
  1. Briefly explain how the New Deal drew on earlier progressive ideas and represented a multifaceted approach to both the causes and effects of the Great Depression.
  2. Briefly explain how the New Deal helped foster a political realignment in which many ethnic groups, African Americans, and working-class communities identified with the Democratic Party.

New Deal Programs

There's an old saying that if you select three letters at random and arrange them in any order, you will likely have spelled the abbreviation of a federal government agency.  This was nearly the case with the New Deal, as FDR issued executive orders and Congress passed laws creating all sorts of executive agencies designed to provide relief, recovery, or to reform the U.S. economy to alleviate the effects of the depression.  Many succeeded, while many more failed or were overturned by the courts, which explains why several of them essentially do the same thing.

1A     3A     3B

Lecture: New Deal

Reform Movements in U.S. History

We've already reviewed the antebellum reforms and added the progressive era, let's now complete it with the New Deal.

Extra copy of the chart here!

Work on your Project!

Closer: Explain how the Great Depression and the New Deal impacted American political, social, and economic life over time. 

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Next Topic: World War II: Rise of the Axis
​Complete Ch. 33 outline for extra credit
Quiz Next Class: World War I, 1920s, Great Depression and New Deal
On the quiz you will be select from 3 SAQs to write 2 of them in 30 minutes.

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