FDR & the New Deal

Read 22-2 and answer the first 3 questions. Then read Chapter 23-1 through page 696 and answer the remaining 4 questions. Please post your answers to your blog. These are due at the beginning of your next class.

Title: FDR & the New Deal Labels: Dust_Bowl, FDR, fireside_chats, Great_Depression


1. Describe how people struggled to survive during the depression.
People lost their jobs, were evicted from their homes and had to live on the streets, sometimes sleeping in parks or sewer pipes, wrapping themselves in newspapers to try and prevent getting cold. Eventually shantytowns began appearing, which were little "towns" essentially built of junk that people lived in.

2. How was what happened to men during the Great Depression different from what happened to women? Children?

During the Great Depression the men had a hard time coping with unemployment. They were often out on the streets looking for jobs. Some men became so discouraged that they left their families or stopped trying. Women canned food and sewed their own clothes, but working women, especially married working women became hugely resented because they were taking jobs from men. Women weren't seen out on the streets as much as men, but many women starved and froze to death. For children, poor diets and no money led to many health problems. Child-welfare services had their budgets cut.Schools were softening the year and even closing in some cases. Many teenagers hopped on freight trains in search of work but this was dangerous.

3. Describe the causes and effects (on people) because of the Dust Bowl.
Farmers had overflowed land, destroying the prairie grass that kept the earth in place. When drought and winds came, the dust bowl was caused. Between the dustbowl and evictions, thousands of farmers left their land in the oklahoma, kansas, new mexico texas and colorado region and went to california.

Objective: Summarize the initial steps Franklin D. Roosevelt took to reform banking and finance.

4. What was the New Deal and its three general goals? (The 3 Rs)

The New Deal was a program meant to ease the hardships of the depression. It's three goals were relief for the needy, economic recovery and financial reform.

5. What did Roosevelt do during the Hundred Days?
During the Hundred Days,Roosevelt worked intensely on the New Deal. Congress passed 15 major pieces of New Deal legislation.

6. Why were Roosevelt's fireside chats significant?
The fireside chats were significant because they made americans feel as thought the president were talking with them. He used clear, simple language for all the public to understand and explained the New Deal measures.

7. Describe four significant agencies and/or bills that tightened regulation of banking and finance.
Glass-Steagall Act-established FDIC, reassured banking customers that their money was safe
Federal Securities Act-required all corporations to provide complete information on all stock offerings. This heed them accountable.
The Securities and Exchange Commission-to regulate stock market
Repealing prohibition-meant to raise nation's revenue by taxes on alcoholic beverages.