Agenda for 3/20

1. "Give a man a job!"

• Based on the video what was the goal of many of FDR's "first 100 days" New Deal programs? 

 2. FDR's Fireside Chat #1

• Why was important for FDR to address the banking crisis if the economy was the recover? 

 2. Roosevelt's Response the Great Depression - American Experience

3. FDR's New Deal

• a list of New Deal Programs 

4. The New Deal on Trial (Criticisms of the New Deal) 

• The American Liberty League - Background on the ALL 
• Huey Long 
• Father Coughlin 
• Francis Townsend
• Supreme Court

8. Was the New Deal an Effective Answer to the Great Depression?

 HW

• Read both New Deal Articles from “Taking Sides” chapter

o   Choose position

o   Write paragraph describing which article you side with

o   Write “Although” topic sentence

o   At least two quotes from article

o   5 pieces of factual evidence to support thesis