TERMS & NAMES
For each term or name below, write a sentence explaining its
historical significance or contribution to the New Deal.
1. Franklin Delano Roosevelt 6. Mary McCloud Bethune
2. New Deal 7. Congress of Industrial
3. Eleanor Roosevelt Organizations (CIO)
4. Works Progress 8. Orson Welles
Administration (WPA)
9. Richard Wright
5. Social Security Act 10. Tennessee Valley Authority
MAIN IDEAS
Use your notes and the information in the chapter to answer
the following questions.
A New Deal Fights the Depression (pages 694–700)
1. How did Franklin Roosevelt change the role of the federal
government during his first Hundred Days?
2. Summarize the reasons why some people opposed the New
Deal.
The Second New Deal Takes Hold (pages 701–707)
3. In what ways did the New Deal programs extend federal aid?
4. How did the Wagner Act help working people?
The New Deal Affects Many Groups (pages 710–715)
5. Summarize the impact the New Deal had on various ethnic
groups.
6. Why did many urban voters support Roosevelt and the
Democratic party?
Culture in the 1930s (pages 716–720)
7. What purpose did movies and radio serve during the Great
Depression?
8. Explain how the New Deal programs supported artists and
writers in the 1930s.
The Impact of the New Deal (pages 721–725)
9. List five New Deal agencies that are still in place today.
10. What benefits did the Tennessee Valley Authority provide?
What negative impact did it have?
THINKING CRITICALLY
1.
USING YOUR NOTES Copy the web below and fill it in with
actions that Americans took to end the economic crisis of the
1930s.
2. DEVELOPING HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE What federal pro-
grams instituted in the 1930s and later discontinued might be
of use to the nation today? Explain and support your opinion
in a paragraph or two.
CHAPTER ASSESSMENT
American Actions to
End Economic Crisis
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• Industries and farms failed.
• U.S. stock market crashed and banks
closed.
• Bankrupt businesses
• Unemployment
• Homelessness
PROBLEMS
SOLUTIONS
• Banking and finance are reformed.
• Government takes a more active role in
the economy.
• Workers benefit from labor standards.
• Social Security system continues to
provide for the needy.
• Conservation efforts continue to
preserve the environment.
VISUAL SUMMARY
CONTINUING EFFECTS
• Work projects help the
unemployed.
• Money given to farmers,
sharecroppers, and migrant
workers
• New opportunities for
women and minorities
• Social Security Act allocates
money to the elderly, the
unemployed, and the
disabled.
• NLRB protects workers’ rights.
• SEC monitors stock market.
• FDIC protects individuals’
deposits in banks.
• Fireside chats increase
public confidence.
(TVA)