Ap U.S. Study Guide
Name___________________________ Section______________ Date ______________ Study Guide for Chapter 34
The Great Depression
And the New Deal,
1933-1939
PART I: Reviewing the Chapter
A. Checklist of Learning Objectives
After mastering this chapter, you should be able to
1. describe the rise of Franklin Roosevelt to the presidency in 1932.
2. Explain how the New Deal’s pursued the “three Rs” of relief, recovery, and reform.
3. Describe the New Deal’s effect on labor and labor organization.
4. Discuss the early new Deal’s efforts to organize business and agriculture in the NRA and the AAA and indicate what replaced those programs after they were declared unconstitutional.
5. Describe the Supreme court’s hostility to many New Deal programs and explain why FDR’s court-packing” plan failed.
6. Explain the political coalition that Roosevelt mobilized on behalf of the New deal and the Democratic Party.
7. Discuss the changes the New Deal underwent in the late thirties and explain the growing opposition to it.
8. Analyze the arguments presented by both critics and defenders of the New Deal.
B. Glossary
To build your social science vocabulary, familiarize yourself with the following terms.
1. Dispossessed The economically deprived. “…She …emerged as a champion of the dispossessed….”
2. Rubber-stamp To approve a plan or law quickly or routinely, without examination. “…it was ready to rubber-stamp bills drafted by Whit House advisors….”
3. Blank-check Referring to permission to use an unlimited amount of money or authority. “…Congress gave the president extraordinary blank-check powers….”
4. Foreign exchange The transfer of credits or accounts between the citizens or financial institutions of different nations. “The new law clothed the president with power to regulate banking transactions and foreign exchange….”
5. Hoarding Secretly storing up quantities of goods or money. “Roosevelt moved swiftly…to protect melting gold reserve and to prevent
The Great Depression
And the New Deal,
1933-1939
PART I: Reviewing the Chapter
A. Checklist of Learning Objectives
After mastering this chapter, you should be able to
1. describe the rise of Franklin Roosevelt to the presidency in 1932.
2. Explain how the New Deal’s pursued the “three Rs” of relief, recovery, and reform.
3. Describe the New Deal’s effect on labor and labor organization.
4. Discuss the early new Deal’s efforts to organize business and agriculture in the NRA and the AAA and indicate what replaced those programs after they were declared unconstitutional.
5. Describe the Supreme court’s hostility to many New Deal programs and explain why FDR’s court-packing” plan failed.
6. Explain the political coalition that Roosevelt mobilized on behalf of the New deal and the Democratic Party.
7. Discuss the changes the New Deal underwent in the late thirties and explain the growing opposition to it.
8. Analyze the arguments presented by both critics and defenders of the New Deal.
B. Glossary
To build your social science vocabulary, familiarize yourself with the following terms.
1. Dispossessed The economically deprived. “…She …emerged as a champion of the dispossessed….”
2. Rubber-stamp To approve a plan or law quickly or routinely, without examination. “…it was ready to rubber-stamp bills drafted by Whit House advisors….”
3. Blank-check Referring to permission to use an unlimited amount of money or authority. “…Congress gave the president extraordinary blank-check powers….”
4. Foreign exchange The transfer of credits or accounts between the citizens or financial institutions of different nations. “The new law clothed the president with power to regulate banking transactions and foreign exchange….”
5. Hoarding Secretly storing up quantities of goods or money. “Roosevelt moved swiftly…to protect melting gold reserve and to prevent