21H.102: The Emergence of Modern America
Study Questions for Week of Oct. 17

Readings:
New Deal primary sources on the course website; Eleanor Roosevelt biography in Nash and Graves, From These Beginnings; Chapter 24 of American People

Questions:
1. What were the causes of the Great Depression?

2. How did Hoover respond?

3. What did Hoover think the federal government should do to provide economic relief? What did FDR think?

4. How did First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt help Americans during the Depression?

5. Why was the Arthurdale, West Virginia, project of 1934 controversial?

6. Why did Eleanor Roosevelt resign her membership in the DAR in 1939?

7. What was "My Day" and why was it important?

8. Why was Eleanor Roosevelt called the "conscience of the New Deal"?

9. How would you characterize the New Deal legislative proposals from 1935 on?

10. Whom were they intended to help and why?

11. In what ways did Roosevelt carve out a new vision of the New Deal?

12. What was the Administration's political strategy in 1935?

13. Who gained under the 1935 initiatives?

14. What were the long-term consequences of these acts?