PBL+New+Deal


 * Did The New Deal Solve the Great Depression? **
 * Total Points: 78 Points **

If the 1920s was the party, then the 1930s was the hangover. No two decades are more dissimilar than the 1920s and 1930s. And while this is interesting, it is important to understand WHY it happened and HOW the government responded.

We've already discussed foreign policy - objectives and policies created to achieve the objectives. Domestic policy follows a similar pattern for governments. What were the objectives, what policies were created to achieve the objectives, and were the policies successful.

So ultimately, what were the government's objectives with respect to The Great Depression, what policies were created to achieve those objectives, and were the policies successful?


 * Teacher Input **


 * 1) Introduction: What do you think of when you hear about "The Great Depression".
 * 2) Causes of the GREAT Depression: Optimism of the 1920s, Buying Stocks on Margin, Stock Market Crash, Cyclical Effect of Depression, Bank Runs, Mistakes by the Federal Reserve.


 * Student Output **

3. Go to the New Deal Wiki Post page for instructions/discussion post.
 * 1) Assignment One: The Great Depression: **(5 points)**
 * 2) What were the effects of the Great Depression? List at least 2 answers you learnedfrom the in-class video and 2 answers from the textbook (look at section 2 on page 474).
 * 3) How did what you asked for differ from what [[file:mrwilliamshistory/rsj_mrsroosevelt.doc|kids asked for from Eleanor Roosevelt]] during the Great Depression? Why do you think there was such a difference?
 * 4) What did President Hoover suggest should be done to solve the Great Depression? Compare his ideas from his Madison Square Speech in 1928 (see below) and his Lincoln Day Speech in February 1931 (see below)? What is the overall message of each speech? Are the speeches similar or different?
 * __From Hoover's Madison Square Garden Address, 1928__: "During one hundred and fifty years we have built up a form of self-government and a social system which is peculiarly our own....It is founded upon the particular conception of self-government in which decentralized local responsibility is the very base....During the war [WWI] we necessarily turned to the government to solve every difficult economic problem. However justified in time of war, if continued in peacetime it would destroy...our progress and freedom....The acceptance of these ideas would have meant the destruction of self-government through centralization of government. It would have meant the undermining of our individual initiative and enterprise which our people have grown to unparalleled success."
 * __From Hoover's Lincoln Day Radio Address, 1932__: This task [getting out of the Great Depression] is not beyond the ability of...thousands of community organizations to solve. Each local organization from its experience last winter and summer has formulated careful plans and made estimates completely to meet the need of that community. I am confident that the generosity of each community will fully support these estimates. The sum of these community efforts will meet the needs of the Nation as a whole. To solve this problem in this way accords with the fundamental sense of responsibility, neighbor to neighbor, community to community, upon which our Nation is founded...The maintenance of a spirit of mutual self-help through voluntary giving, through the responsibility of local government, is of infinite importance to the future of America. (Herbert Hoover, Radio Address, February 12, 1931)
 * 1) Assignment Two: FDR's Inaugural Address: **(3 points)**
 * 2) FDR lists FOUR ideas to solve the Great Depression in his [[file:mrwilliamshistory/rsj_fdraddress.pdf|Inaugural Address]]. What were they? Was FDR's Inaugural similar to or different from Hoover's 1928 speech? How?
 * 1) Assignment Three: The New Deal **(20 points)**
 * 2) In small groups research the following New Deal programs
 * 3) __Responses to the Great Depression – New Deal / People’s Responses__
 * Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
 * Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
 * Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
 * Civil Works Administration (CWA)
 * Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC)
 * Social Security Act (SSA)
 * Public Works Administration
 * National Labor Relations Act
 * Works Progress Administration
 * Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
 * Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
 * Farm Security Administration(FSA)
 * Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
 * 1) Complete the Foreign Policy, 1920s, Great Depression and New Deal Quiz **(40 Points)**
 * [[file:mrwilliamshistory/pbl_depression_newdeal.ppt|PowerPoint for Review]]


 * Did The New Deal Work? **


 * 1) Look at the [[file:mrwilliamshistory/pbl_newdeal_successfailuredocs.pdf|New Deal: Success or Failure documents]]. For each document, state whether or not it shows the New Deal solving the Great Depression or not. Then write a short paragraph answering the following question: Overall, do you think the New Deal was effective in ending the Great Depression? Please refer to at least THREE documents when answering the question. **(10 Points)**
 * 2) In Class Discussion: Did The New Deal solve the Great Depression?