Sample 1: Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes
1. Explain how the early New Deal pursued the 3 Rs: relief,
recovery and reform.
2. Examine the changes to the New Deal after 1936. How did the
New Deal impact: Women, African Americans, Labor, Farmers
3. Essay Question: How successful were the programs of the
New Deal in solving the problems of the Great Depression?
Assess with respect to TWO of the following: Relief, Recovery,
Reform

Terms:
1. Franklin D. Roosevelt, New Deal
2. Hundred Days
3. Three Rs: Relief, recovery, reformknow which Acts fall in each
category (page 774 & 777)
4. Emergency Banking Relief Act, Glass-Steagall Act
5. FERA (Federal Emergency Relief Act)
6. Works Progress Administration
7. National Recovery Act
8. Public Works Administration
9. AAA (Agricultural Adjustment Act)
10. CCC Civilian Conservation Corps
11. Securities and Exchange Commission
12. Tennessee Valley Authority
13. Federal Housing Authority
14. Social Security Act
15. Wagner Act
16. National Labors Relations Board
17. Court-packing plan
18. Keynesianism
19. Hatch Act
20. Indian reorganization Act
21. 21st amendment
22. Schecter case, Sick chicken case
23. Frances Perkins, Eleanor Roosevelt
24. Father Coughlin, Huey Long
25. Mary McLeod Bethune
26. Harold Ickes
27. John L. Lewis, CIO, General Motors sit-down Strike
28. Alfred M. Landon, election of 1936
Learning Outcome #1: Explain how the early New Deal
pursued the 3 Rs: relief, recovery and reform.

Directions: Categorize and then analyze how the New Deals brought
RELIEF, RECOVERY and REFORM.

I. Relief: List emergence relief acts passed during the Hundred

Days for these groups:

A. Poor: What were the problems that the poor faced?

Example: families evicted from their homes/those who faced
foreclosures

New deal agencies that gave relief to the poor:

_________________, ____________________, _______________________

b. Unemployed: What were the problems?

New deal agencies that provided immediate relief to the
unemployed:
_________________, ____________________

c. Farmers: What were the problems?

New deal agencies that helped farmers:
_____________, ________________, _____________

II. Recovery:
List 3 Hundred Days Actions that were aimed only at recovery
a. Problem/issue:
Act: _________________________
Purpose:

b. Problem/issue:
Act: _________________________
Purpose:

c. Problem/issue:
Act: _________________________
Purpose:

III. Reform: List 3 later New Deal programs aimed only at reform
(Significant and long term reforms to curb the excesses of
capitalism)
a. Problem/issue:
Act: _________________________
Purpose:

b. Problem/issue:
Act: _________________________
 Purpose:

c. Problem/issue:
Act: _________________________
Purpose:

Mid-point summary question:

a. What can you conclude about the goals of the Hundred Days in
relations to the goals of the later New Deal? Where do you see the
most continuity of purpose?

Learning Outcome #2: Analyze the arguments presented by both

critics and defenders of the New Deal,
Analysis
Defenders of the New Deal Criticism of the New Deal
Arguments defending relief measures: I. Some people believed that relief destroyed the spirit of
American individualism and self reliance. Relief made
people dependent on dole.

Evidence:
1. ___________________________________

Arguments defending recovery and
reform measures
II. Too much government intervention in the economy and
individual lives.
If the goal was to preserve the American political system, it
failed because it changed and expanded the Federal
government powers in to the lives of individuals, restricting
freedom of choice.

Evidence:
1. _______________________ regulated businesses strictly
and restricted business owners with the freedom to determine
how they wanted to conduct business.
2. ______________________ Supreme Court ruled that the
federal government could only regulate interstate commerce;
could not intervene in business
3. _______________________ the government overstepped
its boundaries by participating in the public utility industry,
producing and distributing electricity.
4. _______________taxed workers and took money out of
circulation
5. High taxes for the wealthy took the incentive away for rich
people to keep generating more wealth by expanding their
businesses, create jobs, stimulate economic recovery
6. Business-Labor relations
a. Unions pushed businesses to increase wages suddenly,
making it difficult for companies to make a profit, generate
Defenders of the New Deal Criticism of the New Deal
more jobseconomic slowdown (recession of 1937)

III. What did the New Deal accomplish? Did the economy
recover?
Experiment=chaos. FDR was inconsistent and his New Deal
did not bring the nation out of the Great Depression.
a. 1937 Black Tuesday, the stock market crashed (similar to
1929) and the economy went into recession (recession within
the depression).
b. Roosevelt Recession: government policies caused t 1937
recession. FDR wanted to balance the budget and took
government spending out of the economy just when the
economy needed more stimulus
c. unemployment persisted in 1936 around 15%
d. Demagogues
Father Charles Coughlin, Social Justice
Huey Long, Share Our Wealth
Learning Outcomes #3:
Social impact of the Great Depression and the New Deal

Social Impact of the Effect of New Deal Evaluate: Did the New Deal have a
Group Great Depression Programs positive/negative effect on society? WHY?
African Black Cabinet
American Mary McLeod Bethune,
s director of the Office of
Minority Affairs in the
National Youth
Administration
FDR issues an executive
order for public
agencies not to
discriminate when
giving out jobs
Women

Mexican-
American
s

Industrial
workers
Farmers
(esp. poor
tenant or
share-
croppers)

Families

Write your introduction providing an overview of your key

arguments in your essay.
Paraphrase the following essay question:
How successful were the programs of the New Deal in solving the
problems of the Great Depression? Assess with respect to TWO of
the following: Relief, Recovery, Reform

Analysis: Under relief

a. Who needed relief? What were the problems? Identify at least 3
problems
b. What was the New Deal response aimed at the problems? How
did the Hundred Days address these problems and bring relief to
these problems?
c. To what extent were they successful? Why were they successful?
(need to address the arguments for and against of the New Deal)

Note:
Howmeans you have to show how it specifically addressed the
problem.
Whymeans you have to demonstrate why their methods were
un/successful; for example, you can state that one of the reasons
why the NRA was not successful was because the Supreme Court
judged that the New Deal gave too much power to the federal
government to interfere with business.

Relief
a. Who b. What was the c. How did the Hundred d. To what extent were
needed New Deal Days address these they successful? Why
relief? response aimed problems and bring/fail were they successful?
What were at the problems? to bring relief to these (need to address the
the problems? arguments for and
problems? (analyze the effects against of the New
Identify at how did it address the Deal)
least 3 problem?)
problems

Recovery:
a. What b. What were c. How did the Hundred d. To what extent were
were the the New Deal Days address these they successful? Why
problems responses aimed problems and bring/fail were they successful?
preventing at economic to bring recovery? (need to address the
economic recovery? (analyze the effects arguments for and
recovery? how did it address the against of the New
Identify at problem?) Deal)
least 3
problems
Recovery:
a. What b. What were c. How did the Hundred d. To what extent were
problems the New Deal Days address these they successful? Why
needed responses aimed problems and bring/fail were they successful?
reform? at reform? to bring reform? (need to address the
Identify at (analyze the effects arguments for and
least 3 how did it address the against of the New
problems problem?) Deal)