Describe the cycle of the Great Depression?
What was the New Deal(1st and 2nd) and it's goals(3 R's)?
Why did people criticize the New Deal?
Why was FDR upset with the US Supreme Court and what did he do to try to solve this issue?
How did the New Deal help:
unemployed
farmers
factory workers/labor
young people
banks/business
home owners
elderly
Native Americans
Describe the culture of the 1930's.
Key terms:
Hundred Days
fireside chats
priming the pump
deficit spending
FDR Started the FIreside chats in 1933. He used the radio to communicate with the people as if he was standing in their living rooms talking to them, and almost everybody had a radio, just like almost everybody today has a TV. He did this to calm down the people and restore confidence. He wanted to support the New Deal. Some people spent many hours listening to this radio broadcast. You couldn't actually reply directly to the radio broadcast, though. THe first fireside chat waws on March 12, 1933 during the Great Depression. It explained the New Deal Plan and his theories on the Great Depression.
agricultural Adjustment Act - was made to restore the power of farmers like it was before WWI. They got the money from taxes on companies that processed farm goods.
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