Name: ______
Period: ______
Study Guide:
Great Depression & the New Deal
Format of Test: 65 Points
Scantron portion (BRING A PENCIL!) ~ 45 points
· 45 questions
· Multiple choice, true/false, matching
Graded Discussion ~ 20 points
· You will have one night to prepare your answers to the discussion questions
· To earn full credit, you must speak 4-5 times during the course of the discussion
Materials to study from:
Ø Unit vocab terms
Ø Video guide ~ “1930s: The Great Depression”
Ø Reading ~ “Why Was the Great Depression So Severe?”
Ø 12.2 worksheet ~ “Americans Face Hardships”
Ø Video Guide ~ “Riding the Rails”
Ø Lecture notes ~ “Hoover’s Response to the Great Depression”
Ø Reading ~ “Roots of the New Deal”
Ø Worksheet ~ “FDR Offers Relief and Recovery”
Ø Chart ~ “Alphabet Soup”
Ø Worksheet ~ “Challenges to the New Deal”
Ø (Fill-in-the-blank) Lecture Notes ~ “The Second New Deal”
Ø Reading ~ “Achievements and Criticisms of the New Deal”
Ø Worksheet ~ “Effects of the New Deal”
Ø Lecture – “Legacy of the New Deal”
Topics/Concepts to study:
Great Depression ~ Ch. 12
- causes of the Great Depression
- Black Tuesday/Stock Market Crash
o immediate effects of
o Hawley-Smoot Tariff
- hardships faced by Americans
o in cities
o in rural areas
- effects of Dust Bowl
- Hoover’s Response
o ‘rugged individualism’
o volunteerism
o Reconstruction Finance Corp.
- Bonus Army
- election of 1932
o candidates; issues; platforms
General/Misc.
- unit vocabulary
- basic understanding of stock market& business cycle
- economic policies
o Market vs. Managed Economy
o Trickle Down ~ A. Mellon
o Pump Priming ~ J. Keynes
New Deal ~ Ch. 13
- roots of the New Deal
- FDR’s advisors
o “Brain Trust”
o Frances Perkins
o Eleanor Roosevelt’s role
- Three Rs ~ Relief, Recovery & Reform
- programs of the New Deal
o Bank Holiday; AAA; CCC; NRA; TVA; PWA; FDIC; SEC; Social Security; Wagner Act; Fair Labor Standards Act
- opposition to FDR
o Long; Coughlin; Townsend
- criticisms of the New Deal
o court-packing scandal
o Socialism? dictatorship?
o massive spending
- legacy (effects) of the New Deal
o achievements
o New Deal Coalition
o women, Native Americans, African Americans
o welfare state