Chapter+33+Reading+Objectives

__**After reading this chapter, you should be able to:**__ 1.Describe the rise of Franklin Roosevelt to the presidency in 1932 and the important role that Eleanor Roosevelt played in the Roosevelt administration. 2.Describe each of the early New Deal three R goals - relief, recovery, and reform - and indicate what major efforts were made to achieve each goal. 3.Describe the New Deal’s effect on labor and labor organizations. 4.Discuss the early New Deal’s efforts to organize business and agriculture in the NRA and the AAA, and indicate what directions Roosevelt took after those two agencies were declared unconstitutional. 5. Explain why Roosevelt became so frustrated with the conservative Supreme Court, and how his Court-packing plan backfired and weakened the political momentum of the New Deal. 6. Explain how Roosevelt mobilized a New Deal political coalition that included the south, Catholics, Jews, African Americans, and women. 7.Describe and analyze the arguments presented by both critics and defenders of the New Deal.

Franklin D. Roosevelt New Deal Emergency Banking Relief Act (Bank Holiday) First Hundred Days Second Hundred Days Social Security Act Father Coughlin Huey Long Dust Bowl Court Packing Keynesianism
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CCC FERA AAA TVA NIRA Glass-Steagall Act NRA PWA WPA Wagner Act Fair Labor Standards Act SEC Mary McLeod Bethune
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 * A Final Note:** As you go through this, it would be helpful if you had the chart from the Unit 14 Page on New Deal Agencies in front of you. It provides a nice overview of what you really need to know.

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