• textbook --> pp. 790 - 799.
• AMSCO --> pp. 492 - 499.
• Heffner --> pp. 308 - 316;  322 - 327.

1. What caused the stock market boom of the late 1920s to get out of control?
2. What was the immediate economic impact of the Great Depression on the lives of averages Americans?  What was its unique impact on the availability of jobs for women?  on the lives of children?  on African-Americans?  on Hispanic-Americans?
3. What happened t the banking system early in the Great Depression?  What role did the Federal Reserve System play?
4. How did American families adjust to the pressures of hard times>
5. What role did radio play for Depression-era Americans?
6. How much allure did radical movements such as communism and socialism have for Americans in the 1930s?
7. Describe the significance of voluntarism in the Hoover Administration's approach to easing the nation's suffering during the Great Depression.
8. What was Hoover's new approach to the Depression after mid-1931?  What caused his shift in emphasis?
9. How did Hoover's handling of the veterans' Bonus March affect his popularity?
10. Briefly describe Franklin Roosevelt's political background and why voters found him such an appealing candidate in the election of 1932.

                          ASSIGNMENT 2:

• textbook --> pp. 799 - 808.
• AMSCO --> pp. 499 - 505; 508 - 509.
• web site --> A New Deal for the Arts.

1. Why was FDR's administration labeled "The New Deal?"
2. Why was banking the new president's number-one order of business?
3. What measures were taken to restore confidence in the stock market?
4. Why was the Democratic party politically realigned in the 1930s?
5. What assumptions and values underlay the early social programs of the New Deal?
6. What were the goals and concepts of the NRA?  Why was it less than fully successful?  How did it end?
7. What were the goals of the American Liberty League?  Why did it lead the attack on FDR in 1934 and 1935?  Who were its main supporters?
8. Briefly characterize the ideas of Dr. Francis Townsend, Fr. Charles Coughlin, and Senator Huey P. Long.  Who was probably most important [to President Roosevelt] among them?  How did FDR respond to their criticisms?
9. How successful were the socialists and communists in exploiting the unrest caused by the Great Depression?
10. What 1935 legislative initiatives signaled the emergence of the "Second" New Deal?  To what extent were its acts reactions to political agitation and Supreme Court rulings?
11. What were the accomplishments of the WPA?  How did it go beyond traditional public-works programs of the past?
12. What were the elements of the New Deal political coalition that propelled FDR to a landslide victory in the election of 1936?  How did he interpret the results of this election? 

                         ASSIGNMENT 3:

• textbook --> pp. 808 - 815.
• AMSCO --> pp. 505 - 508;  510 - 511.

1. Why did the AFL and CIO split in 1937?
2. Why did organized labor become more militant in the 1930s?  How did the Wagner Act help?
3. What was the political and economic impact of the New Deal on American women?  How did the New Deal represent a "breakthrough" in the role of women in public life?
4. What did the New Deal offer to African Americans?  What role did Eleanor Roosevelt play?  What were the political implications of this New Deal approach?
5. What new direction in Indian policy did the Roosevelt administration take?  What were the results of this new policy?
6. Why did FDR "pack" the Supreme Court?  What were the political repercussions of this episode?
7. What was the status and effectiveness of the New Deal by 1938?
8. List the positive and negative outcomes of the New Deal in terms of its impact on American politics.