The Great Depression

Essay questions:

1. Outline the causes of the great crash of 1929.  Why did it come so unexpectedly?

2. Explain how each of the following contributed to New deal plans for recovery from the Great Depression:

1. ending prohibition
2. abandoning the gold standard;
3. the court-packing scheme.

3. Select the three most important programs of the New Deal, explain what they did, and tell why you chose these three.

4. The text authors conclude that Franklin Roosevelt “was in fact Hamiltonian in his espousal of big government, but Jeffersonian in his concern for the ‘forgotten man.’”  With this as a thesis sentence, write an essay that uses specific parts of the New deal program to support both halves of your thesis.

5. Cite at least three New Deal programs that were clearly pre-World War I progressive-movement reforms reborn.  Also, explain how government action during World War I itself can be viewed as a precursor to the New Deal.

Internet-based assignment:

 The Great Depression

To Kill a Mockingbir:Growing up in the 1930s

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