FDR & the New Deal

Read 22-2 and answer the first 3 questions. Then read Chapter 23-1 through page 696 and answer the remaining 4 questions.

1. Describe how people struggled to survive during the depression.

Most people slept in parks or sewer pipes, built shacks out of scraps, had to go to soup kitchens or the bread lines, 400,000 farms were lost through foreclosure.

2. How was what happened to men during the Great Depression different from what happened to women? Children?

Men tried to find work so that they could support their famillies, but most would give up and just abandon their famillies instead. Women would work really hard and do what they could to take care of the family such as canned food and sewed clothes. Children suffered more with health problems and they couldn't go to school because of the depression.

3. Describe the causes and effects (on people) because of the Dust Bowl.

Farmers had to leave their land and wandered around looking for work.


Objective: Summarize the initial steps Franklin D. Roosevelt took to reform banking and finance.


4. What was the New Deal and its three general goals? (The 3 Rs)

It was a program designed to alleviate the problems of the Great Depression and the 3 goals were: Relief for the needy, Economic Recovery, and financial Reform.

5. What did Roosevelt do during the Hundred Days?

Congress passed more than 15 major pieces of New Deal legislation.

6. Why were Roosevelt's fireside chats significant?

He let the people know what was going on and it made them feel good because they felt as though he were talking directly to them.

7. Describe four significant agencies and/or bills that tightened regulation of banking and finance.

The Glass-Steagall Act established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) which provided federal insurance for individual bank accounts of up to $5,ooo, reassuring bank customers that their money was safe.

The Agricultural Adjustment Act was when the government payed farmers to leave a certain amount of every acre of land unplowed because lowering production would raise crop prices.

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) had men aged 18 to 25 work building roads, develop parks, plant trees, help in soil-erosion and flood-control projects.

The National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) provided money to states to create jobs chiefly in the construction of schools and other community buildings.