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The New Deal Ends
1. What does Roosevelt point out in his second 9. Why did some people criticize the New
Inaugural Address? Deal?

2. How much of the nation was ill-housed, ill- 10. What new debate was created in America?
clad, and ill-nourished?

View the images below and read the following

The Last New Deal Reforms excerpts to answer the final questions.
3. What did Eleanor Roosevelt urge the President Hoover’s Response
President to do?

4. What new agency does Roosevelt form to

help tenant farmers purchase farms?

5. What were the 3 parts of the Fair Labor

Standards Act?
a.

b.

c. President Roosevelt’s Response

The New Deal’s Legacy

6. Why was the New Deal limited in its
success?

7. How did the Supreme Court decisions

(NLRB v. Jones and Laughlin Steel & Wickard
v. Filburn) impact federal power?

8. What was the safety net that Roosevelt’s

programs had created for Americans?
This broadcast tonight marks the beginning of the mobilization of the whole Nation for a great undertaking to provide
security for those of our citizens and their families who, through no fault of their own, face unemployment and privation
during the coming winter. Its success depends upon the sympathetic and generous action of every man and woman in our
country… This task is not beyond the ability of these 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.
- President Hoover, Radio Address to the Nation, October 18, 1931

...the withered leaves of industrial enterprise lie on every side; farmers find no markets for their produce; the savings of
many years in thousands of families are gone.
More important, a host of unemployed citizens face the grim problem of existence, and an equally great number toil with
little return. Only a foolish optimist can deny the dark realities of the moment.
Our greatest primary task is to put people to work. This is no unsolvable problem if we face it wisely and courageously.
There are many ways in which it can be helped, but it can never be helped merely by talking about it. We must act and
act quickly.
- President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, March 4th 1933

1. Looking at the image of Hoover’s

response...
a. What/who is in the image? What b. According to the artist, how is FDR
does it represent? responding to the Great
Depression?

b. According to this artist, how is

Hoover responding to the Great
Depression? 4. Based on the reading of FDR’s First
Inaugural Address…
a. What task does FDR say is most
2. Based on the reading of Hoover’s Radio important? How should it be
address… accomplished?
a. Who does Hoover believe should
step in to help the unemployed and
struggling? b. How do you think the nation
responded to this speech?

b. How do you think the nation

responded to this speech?

3. Looking at the image of FDR’s response…

a. What/who is in the image? What
does it represent?