FDR & the New Deal

1. Describe how people struggled to survive during the depression.
During the Great Depression many people lost their jobs, got evicted from their homes, and ended up living on the streets. Many people lived in shantytowns and scavenged for fod in the garbage.

2. How was what happened to men during the Great Depression different from what happened to women? Children?
Men would often feel discouraged that they couldn't take care of their familes and some after a while would abandon them. Some men became hoboes and would travel around in large group of men, hitchhiking and finding whatever food they could. Women would often work for a small pay so that they could feed their children, but after a while the men started to feel resentment toward the woman because they said that women had no right to work when there was unemployed men. Children became much weaker because of malnutrition and poor diet.

3. Describe the causes and effects (on people) because of the Dust Bowl.
They dust caused a drought and their crops died so farmers were forced to leave. Many people inhaled too much dust and this would often leave people with health problems, expecially babies and the elderly.

Objective: Summarize the initial steps Franklin D. Roosevelt took to reform banking and finance.

4. What was the New Deal and its three general goals? (The 3 Rs)

5. What did Roosevelt do during the Hundred Days?
Helped pass the New Deals

6. Why were Roosevelt's fireside chats significant?
It made peace and seemed like a friendlier way to talk

7. Describe four significant agencies and/or bills that tightened regulation of banking and finance.
Glass-Steagall Act
Federal Securities Act
Agurcultural Act
Citizens Act