Chapter 23, 24, and 25 assignment.

Chapter 23

1. What crippling disease affected Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
2. What are the symptoms of that disease?
3. How did William Phillips describe FDR?

Chapter 24

4. What were the ideas contained in FDR’s “New Deal”?
5. How many states did Roosevelt win in the election of 1932?

Chapter 25

6. What is a Pragmatist?
7. What did former President Calvin Coolidge have to say about the Depression?
8. What was “the Brain Trust”, and why did FDR call them together?
9. List at least three things that the New Deal did.
10. What was the Social Security Act?
11. What was the “Aristocracy of Talent”?

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Chapter 17

Chapter 17

1. Who is hurt most during an economic depression?
2. How was the Great Depression different from others?
3. What did the census of 1920 show?
4. What advantage did farmers have during the depression when compared to people in the cities?
5. What caused the Dust Bowl?
6. What states were directly affected by the Dust Bowl?
7. How had farmers been irresponsible?
8. Could the dust bowl have been prevented? If so, how?
9. What was a “Hooverville”?
10. How many people were living in Hoovervilles by 1933?
11. In your opinion, what would be the worst part about living through the Depression? (100 words)

Herbert Hoover Mini-Essay

Due Thursday

Write a 250 word mini-essay on whether President Hoover is “to blame” for the Crash of 1929. You MUST take a position and provide at least THREE arguments.

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Chapter 15/16

Chapter 15/16

1. What were Hoover’s qualifications to be President?
2. What ugly tactics were used by the campaign to win the election of 1928?
3. What is a dividend?
4. What does the SEC do?
5. What does it mean to buy stock on margin?
6. Specifically where is the Stock Exchange located, and what does it do?
7. What was happening to the Stock Market in 1927?
8. What does “Dies Irae” mean?
9. How do historians believe that the crash could have been prevented?
10. Describe, in your own words, how an economic crash happens.
11. Was Hoover’s Presidency a success and why?