Assignment Discussion:
The decade after World War I is often characterized as one of prosperity for many Americans (but certainly not all): increased manufacturing and production; rise of consumer culture; relaxation of government regulations, etc. But the "roaring twenties" came crashing down in 1929 beginning with the collapse of the stock market and bringing about thirteen years of a global economic depression. In the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected president in 1932 on the idea that he would make a "new deal" between government and the American people.
QUESTIONS:
Q1. What was so "new" about the New Deal?
Q2. What was it designed to do and did it succeed?
Q3. How did it change Americans' perspectives about government?