The+Great+Depression+and+the+New+Deal

Previous multiple choice questions have covered the following topics:

Causes of the Great Depression Bonus Expeditionary Force (a.k.a. Bonus Army) Hawley-Smoot Tariff Reconstruction Finance Corporation Herbert Hoover Hoovervilles Hundred Days Legislation NLRA AAA TVA NIRA Wagner Labor Relations Act American Federation of Labor Congress of Industrial Organizaton Francis Townsend Court Packing Election of 1936 Social Security Act

Listed below are DBQs and FRQs from previous exams on this topic:

__**DBQs**__ 1. President Franklin D. Roosevelt is commonly thought of as a liberal and President Herbert C. Hoover as a conservative. Using the documents and your knowledge of the period 1925-1945, assess the extent to which these characterizations are valid.

2. Analyze the responses of Franklin D. 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? Use the documents and your knowledge of the period 1929-1941 to construct your essay.

1. Identify THREE of the following New Deal measures, and analyze the ways in which each of the three attempted to fashion a more stable economy and a more equitable society: (1) Agricultural Adjustment Act, (2) Securities and Exchange Commission, (3) Wagner Labor Relations Act, and (4) Social Security Act.
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2. Analyze the ways in which the Great Depression altered the American social fabric in the 1930s.

3. Compare and contrast the programs and policies designed by reformers of the Progressive era to those designed by reformers of the New Deal period. Confine your answer to programs and policies that addressed the needs of those living in poverty.

Causes of the Great Depression The Hoover administration's response Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal Labor and union recognition The New Deal coalition and its critics from the Right and the Left Surviving hard times: American society during the Great Depression
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