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”?

Storytelling Project Info + Rubric

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11th Grade APUSH Notes Master Post

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Great Depression Research Assignment

Using the interwebs do research online and find 15 interesting and meaningful facts about the great depression. Write them down (in complete sentences) on a piece of paper. 

Chapter 18 Assignment

Chapter 18

1. Who did Hoover send the military out to remove from Washington DC?
2. Why were the people from question 1 camped there?
3. What did the army do when it reached the protesters?
4. Who did Charles Lindbergh claim was a “fine leader”?
5. Give an example of how Hoover “did not understand the needs of ordinary people”.
6. What did Hoover believe about spending government money to stop the Depression?
7. What did Stephen Spender say about the US?
8. How did FDR campaign for President?
9. What is voluntarism, and why did it not work during the Great Depression?

11th Grade US History Essays

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