Chapter 24/25

Chapter 24

1. What were the ideas contained in FDR’s “New Deal”?

2. Why do you think people liked the idea of a “New Deal” during the Great Depression?

3. Back during this time period when did an elected President take office?

4. How many states did Roosevelt win in the election of 1932?

Chapter 25

5. What is a Pragmatist?

6. What did former President Calvin Coolidge have to say about the Depression?

7. What was “the Brain Trust”, and why did FDR call them together?

8. List at least three things that the New Deal did.

9. What was the Social Security Act?

10. What was the “Aristocracy of Talent”?