AMERICAN HISTORY STUDY GUIDE 6.3 – Two Presidents Respond (296-306) |
Heading Section Title Section # Write the questions; number them per the study guide Highlight vocabulary (use all terms from the list that appear in the textbook) Respond with a well supported paragraph (nearly always) Skip a line after each item. |
** Write additional terms into your notes for defining in class ** You may also Google them 😀
A. Hoover’s Response Fails OBJECTIVE: Evaluate Hoover’s approach to resolving the Great Depression and how Americans reacted to them. | |
1. Complete the organizer: Hoover’s Strategies to Fight the Depression. [p 296+] Use the attached paper copy. It should go without saying...both sides of the handout! | 1. Introduction 1. Business cycle 2. Relying on Volunteerism 2. Volunteerism (Hoover style) 3. Voluntary Cooperation Fails 3. Localism 4. “Rugged individualism” 4. Hoover Reverses Course 5. Hoover wagons, Hoover heaters, Hoover houses 6. Reconstruction Finance Corporation 7. Trickle-down Economics 8. Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam) |
B. Challenging Times Lead to Protest OBJECTIVE: Contrast Hoover’s approach to the economic crisis with Franklin D. Roosevelt’s approach. | |
2. Briefly explain why communism & fascism did not take hold in America during the Depression. [p 298+] | 1. Introduction 2. Calls for Radical Change |
3. Create a flowchart to show the events surrounding the Bonus Army march. [p 299+] *Note that the events are not listed in chronological order in your book, but must be in the flowchart. DIGITALLY
| 3. Bonus Army Marches on Washington 9. Bonus Army 10. Adjusted Compensation Act 4. The Protests End Badly 11. Douglas MacArthur 12. Dwight D. Eisenhower 13. George Patton |
Create your own flowchart digitally
C. Americans Turn to Roosevelt OBJECTIVE: Contrast Hoover’s approach to the economic crisis with Franklin D. Roosevelt’s approach. OBJECTIVE: Describe the programs that were part of the first New Deal and their immediate effect on Americans’ lives. | |||||||||||||||
4. Create a bulleted list of FDR’s resume. [p 300] | 1. Introduction 14. Franklin D. Roosevelt 2. Political Success and Personal Challenge 15. Eleanor Roosevelt 16. polio | ||||||||||||||
5. Contrast the approaches of Hoover & FDR to solving the Depression. Explain why FDR’s approach won. [p 300+] | 3. Roosevelt Becomes President 17. New Deal | ||||||||||||||
6. Create a table of information about FDR’s Brain Trust. [p 301+] Handwritten is acceptable
| 4. Forming the Brain Trust 18. Brain Trust 19. Henry Wallace (Sect. Agriculture) 20. Harold Ickes (Sect. Interior) 21. Frances Perkins (Sect. Labor) | ||||||||||||||
D. The New Deal Begins OBJECTIVE: Describe the programs that were part of the first New Deal and their immediate effect on Americans’ lives. | |
7. Complete a table of FDR’s New Deal Programs [p 302+] Use the handout distributed in class. | 1. Introduction 22. [First] Hundred Days 23. 3 Rs: relief, recovery, reform 2. Restoring the Nation’s Confidence 24. Emergency Banking Bill 25. Bank Holiday 26. Fireside Chats 3. Reforming the Financial System 27. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation 28. Securities and Exchange Commission 29. Fiat money 4. Reforming Agriculture 30. Agricultural Adjustment Act 5. Creating the TVA 31. Tennessee Valley Authority 6. Relief and Recovery 32. Civilian Conservation Corps 33. Federal Emergency Relief Act 34. Civil Works Administration 35. Home Owners Loan Corporation 36. Federal Housing Administration 37. National Industrial Recovery Act 38. National Recovery Administration 39. Public Works Administration |
E. Critics of the New Deal OBJECTIVE: Explain the point of view of the opponents of the New Deal and their major criticisms. | |
8. Create a table of the complaints against FDR’s New Deal Programs [p 304+] Handwritten is acceptable | 1. Introduction 2. Too Much or Not Enough? 40. The Challenge to Liberty by H. Hoover 41. Robert Taft 42. American Liberty League 43. Norman Thomas 3. Populist Critics Gain a Following 44. Francis Townsend 45. Townsend Clubs 46. Father Charles Coughlin 47. Senator Huey Long 48. Share Our Wealth |
