Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Lesson on Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Aim: What new roles did the American government take on during the New Deal, and how did these roles shape the economy and society?

Bell Ringer: Current Events (10 min)


Agenda: 

1. Review Journal 126 / A: Roosevelt cited the economic emergency of the depression to expand presidential power. In Roosevelt's first hundred days, the government stabilized the financial sector, increased farm and industrial prices, and created job and relief programs to put Americans back to work. The fifteen major bills that Congress passed in this period created a new American welfare state. 

2. Review Journal 127 / A: Roosevelt's critics on the right attacked the president or being antibusiness and for promoting socialism in America. On the left, many attacked FDR for not providing enough support. Father Coughlin and Huey P. Long argued that the federal government was not providing enough assistance to the ailing nation. The Supreme Court repudiated many aspects of the New Deal as well, striking down key New Deal legislation, in eluding the national Industrial Recovery Act. 

3. It is important for students to be able to articulate the concept of liberalism as expressed by Roosevelt's New Deal and to explain and evaluate how the New Deal was developed by liberal progressive philosophy. 

4. Fireside chats (CUL), Hundred Days (CUL), Glass-Steagall Act (WXT) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xh-hxdF6BTc and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7BUmXUV0kw (10 min)

5. What were the banking reforms of the New Deal? (page 740)

6. Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) (WXT), National Recovery Administration (NRA) (WXT): led to positive effects in some regions. Overall, they did little to end the depression.

7. Public Works Administration (PWA) (WXT), Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC),

8. A valuable resource for New Deal photographic evidence is Engendering Culture: Manhood and Womanhood in the New Deal Public Art and Theatre (1991) http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG97/fsa/lang.html and the National Archives https://www.archives.gov/exhibits/picturing_the_century/galleries/greatdep.html


9. The AAA was one of the more controversial measures of the New Deal. Why?

10. Social critics of the time suggested that the Great Depression helped cause the disintegration of city life. In response, the New Deal created a number of futuristic model communities. Research two of the most famous of these planned communities: Greenbelt, Maryland and the Jersey Homesteads. 

10. Federal Housing Administration (FHS) (WXT) - permanently changed the mortgage system and set the foundation for the broad expansion of home ownership in the post-World War II decades. 

11. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) (WXT) - regulated the stock market, by carrying out powers to determine how stocks and bonds were sold to the public, to set rules for margin (credit) transactions, and the prevent stock sales by those with inside information about corporate plans. FDR became "That Man," a traitor to his class. 

12. Liberty League (WXT) and National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) (WXT) - opposed the New Deal. Senator Huey Long: the most direct threat to FDR

13. Townsend Plan (WXT) - mobilized mass support for old-age pensions. 




In-Class Assignment: New Deal Venn Diagram

Create a Venn Diagram with the headings Relief, Recovery, Reform. For each category, you should list and define the appropriate New Deal agency and then use the completed diagram to assess the effectiveness of New Deal measures.  



Terms to Know: Smoot-Hawley Tariff, Bonus Army, fireside chats, Hundred Days, Glass-Steagall Act, Agricultural Adjustment Act, National Recovery Administration, Public Works Administration, Civilian Conservation Corps, Federal Housing Administration, Securities and Exchange Commission, Liberty League, National Association of Manufacturers, Townsend Plan,

welfare state, Wagner Act, Social Security Act, Classical Liberalism, Works Progress Administration, Indian Reorganization Act, Dust Bowl, Tennessee Valley Authority, Rural Electrification Authority.

Key People: Herbert Hoover, FDR, Huey Long, Eleanor Roosevelt.       

Home Learning (Spring Break): 

1. Senator Elizabeth Warren and the Glass-Steagall Act https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6rnsLNvXzM (6 min)

2. Read pages 747-751

3. Journals 128 - How did the Second New Deal differ from the first?

4. Read pages 751-763

5. Journal 129 -  Analyze the timeline on page 765 and answer KEY TURNING POINTS: Identify two critical turning points between 1934 and 1937, when the New Deal faced specific challenges.

6. Thinking Like a Historian 23 (thesis with citation)

7. Brainpop.com: Great Depression. Take the graded quiz and send to Mr. Oliveros: misteroliveros@gmail.com

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8. Chapter 23 Vocabulary Quiz: Monday, April 2, 2018

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