Assignment
A People and a Nation by Norton, et al.
Chapter 22 Review
I. Hoover and Hard Times
1. What were Hoovervilles?
2. What happened to farm workers/prices during the 1920s?
3. Why were minorities hit so hard during the Great Depression?
4. What impact did the Depression have on women workers?
5. What were some of Herbert Hoover's attempts at addressing the economic depression?
6. What was the Reconstruction Finance Corporation?
7. What were the "Unemployed Councils?
8. What was the "Bonus Army?"
II. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Launching of the New Deal
1. Why was Eleanor Roosevelt so popular and important to FDR's presidency?
2. Describe the Banking Crisis of 1933
3. What was the "Brain Trust?"
4. Identify the Following:
a. NIRA
b. AAA
c. NRA
d. CCC
e. PWA
5. Why did FDR lower tariffs?
6. Why did FDR feel that recognizing the Soviet Union was so important?
7. What was the "Good Neighbor Policy?"
III. Political Pressure and the Second New Deal
1. Why did some business leaders criticize the New Deal?
2. Who was Father Charles Coughlin?
3. Who was Huey Long?
4. What was the "Popular Front?"
5. What was different about the "Second New Deal?"
6. Identify the following:
a. WPA
b. Social Security Act
IV. Labor
1. Identify the following:
a. The Wagner Act
b. Congress of Industrial Organizations
c. "Sit Down Strikes"
2. What was the "Memorial Day Massacre?"
V. Federal Power and the Nationalization of Culture
1. How did the New Deal impact the American West?
2. How did the New Deal impact Native Americans?
3. What was the Indian Reorganization Act?
4. What was the TVA?
5. Why was mass media so important to FDR's New Deal?
VI. The Limits of the New Deal
1. What is "Court Packing?"
2. Why did the New Deal come to an end?
3. Who were the "Scottsboro Boys?"
4. Why did African Americans support FDR?
VII. The Approach of War
1. Who was Adolph Hitler?
2. What was the Nazi Party?
3. What is "Appeasement?"
4. What were the "neutrality acts?"
5. What is "blitzkrieg?"
6. Why was Japan seen as a threat to the US?
7. Describe FDR's "quarantine speech?"
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