1. Please have out yesterday’s “NEW DEAL” closure activity and HW out…
Today’s key historical question:
Was the New Deal a success or failure?

2. Review: How did the New Deal programs attempt to address the causes and hardships of the Great Depression? 2 “RELIEF” 2 “RECOVERY” 2 “REFORM”
N E W D A L
High unemployment
Home foreclosures
Corruption in the Stock Market
Bank failures
Overproduction of industry
Overproduction of crops

3. Today’s Task:
You will use evidence from documents to support your report card “grade” for FDR and his New Deal
Individually close read the documents to search for evidence supporting your “A+” or “D”
With a partner, collaborate to fill in the report card
Blue Report Card:
FDR gets a D
Yellow Report Card:
A+!

4. Close Reading: Example 1: (“Historian A”, History Alive textbook)
The New Deal basically rescued capitalism from its own abuses. By 1933 many Americans were upset with the capitalist system. Franklin Roosevelt brought about needed government involvement and reformed the system, thereby preventing the possibility of a revolution. Business leaders who are so critical of the New Deal should instead be grateful for it.

5. If a document has any evidence to support your grade, fill in the report card by:
Identifying the letter of the document
Creating a “COURSE TITLE” for the main idea that the document deals with
Rating the reliability of the source (1= unreliable, possible bias; 4= very reliable)
Identifying specific supporting evidence from the document for your grade of A+ OR D

6. Example 2 report card 1- Document:_ Example 1_
2- “COURSE”: (title you create should reflect the main issue that the document is about)
RESCUING CAPITALISM
3- Source reliability (circle one):
1(not reliable) (reliable)
4- Specific evidence to justify A+:
Americans were upset with abuses of capitalism
Gov’t involvement and reform were needed
New Deal prevented possibility of revolution

7. Example 2: (Historian B, History Alive textbook activity)
The New Deal brought a radical break with the past by greatly expanding government involvement in the economy. President Roosevelt put the United States firmly on the road toward the welfare state by initiating harmful government meddling in many areas of individuals’ lives. Because the New Deal suffered from the same flaws as today’s government programs- contradictory, haphazard programs that do not accomplish their original goals- it was doomed to be just as much as a failure.

8. Report Card Example Two
1- Document:_ Example 2_
2- “COURSE”: (title you create should reflect the main issue that the document is about)
GOV’T “MEDDLING” IN THE ECONOMY
3- Source reliability (circle one):
1(not reliable) (reliable)
4- Specific evidence to justify D
New Deal radically expands role of gov’t in the economy
“ “ leads towards a “welfare state”
“harmful meddling” in people’s lives
Gov’t programs are ineffective
New Deal was doomed to failure

9. Report cards will be collected at end of lesson tomorrow (rubric at bottom of sheet):
10-9
8-6
5-0
-All 4 aspects of the task are completed for 5 “courses”
-Course titles all correctly reflect the main issue of the document
-Evidence is from the documents, and supports an “A+/D” for that “course
-Some aspects of the task are incomplete/ some “courses” not completed correctly
-some “titles” do not reflect the issues in the document
-some evidence is vague, missing, incorrect, not in document
-Several aspects of the task are incomplete/ most/ all “courses” not completed correctly
-most “titles” do not reflect the issues in the document
-most evidence is vague, missing, incorrect, not in document

10. When sourcing, be sure to look at date of the document….
Oct. 29, Stock Market Crash, Great Depression begins
March FDR is elected
March- June “1st 100 Days”- New Deal begins
“Second New Deal”
1936- FDR re-elected
1940- World War 2 has begun in Europe; FDR is re-elected for a third term
December US enters World War 2 after Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

11. If you and your partner did not finish, please do so for homework!
Closure: “Letter home to mom” (on separate piece of paper to be handed in before you leave):
Write a 2-3 sentence “letter home to mom” as FDR’s “teacher”. The letter should….
Identify the most important “course” young Franklin is (succeeding OR failing) in (1 pt)
and provide specific evidence to back it up. (1 pt)

12. Key Question Was the New Deal a success or failure? Yesterday: Today:
Sourcing
Contextualization
Close Reading
Today:
Corroboration

13. Step One
With your partner from yesterday, prepare to summarize your argument for FDR’s grade.
Each of you need to share the “presentation”
Each yellow team will be paired with a blue team
Yellow presents argument
Blue repeats it back. When yellow is satisfied, roles are switched
CORROBORATION:
NOT A DEBATE. Reach a consensus on a grade.
EITHER A OR D!!!
5 pts: Hand in one summary of your consensus. Should address evidence and argument from both sides.

18. CLOSURE: Checks and Balances review:
What judicial power did the Supreme Court use to “check” some New Deal programs passed by Congress and FDR?
What presidential power did FDR hope to use to “check” the Supreme Court?
What legislative power(s) did Congress use to prevent FDR’s “Court packing proposal”?

19. Schechter Poultry v. United States
“Sick Chicken” case
Unconstitutional power given to Executive Branch under the National Industrial Recovery Act
“This is the end of this business of centralization, and I want you to go back and tell the president that we're not going to let this government centralize everything.”
-Justice Louis Brandeis

20. Checks and Balances in action
Power used by Supreme Court to “check” FDR:
Power FDR tried to use to “check” Supreme Court?
Power(s) Congress used to “check” FDR’s power grab?

21. Creates court system

22. Unit10- Key Ideas

23. Unit 10- key people

24. Regents questions:
Key result of ND: federal government is responsible for well being of Americans
Hoover v. Roosevelt- ideas on role of government in the economy
Wagner Act/ NLRB- power to labor unions to form/ collective bargaining
Sup Ct. vs. Roosevelt: increased power of pres/ programs unconstitutional/ “court packing plan”

25. Unit 10- Questions?

26. Describe the problem the program sought to address
Essay question: RELIEF, RECOVERY, REFORM For each goal, choose one New Deal law/ program and….
Describe the problem the program sought to address
Explain how the law/ program was meant to address the problem
25 pts- (3 programs, 8 pts each)
Right now, choose which 3 programs/ laws you will write about (refer to your “Relief, Recovery, Reform” notes chart if necessary)