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CHAPTER 24 – The New Deal

1. LAUNCHING THE NEW DEAL

a. Restoring Confidence

b. Agricultural Adjustment

c. Industrial Recovery

d. Regional Planning

e. Currency, Banks, and the Stock Market

f. The Growth of Federal Relief

2. THE NEW DEAL IN TRANSITION

a. Critics of the New Deal

b. The “Second New Deal”

c. Labor Militancy

d. Organizing Battles

e. Social Security

f. New Directions in Relief

g. The 1936 “Referendum”

3. THE NEW DEAL IN DISARRAY

a. The Court Fight

b. Retrenchment and Recession

4. LIMITS AND LEGACIES OF THE NEW DEAL

a. The Idea of the “Broker State”

b. African Americans and the New Deal

c. The New Deal and the “Indian Problem”

d. Women and the New Deal

e. The New Deal in the West and the South

f. The New Deal and the National Economy

g. The New Deal and American Politics

Essential Terms

The Following terms appear in the College Board's AP US History Curriculum Framework and, thus, may be used in questions on the AP exam. Students should become familiar with these terms and be able to define them in the context of ...

• Great Depression
• laissez-faire capitalism
• Great Migration
• Progressive reformers
• New Deal
• tradition v. innovation

FOCAL TERMS - The following terms are helpful in addressing the Key Concepts and Themes of the course.

• Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
• bank holiday
• welfare state
• Charles E. Coughlin
• Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
• court-packing plan
• Eleanor Roosevelt
• Frances Perkins
• Francis E. Townsend
• Harry Hopkins
• Huey Long
• John Collier
• Federal Writers' Project
• John L. Lewis
• Marian Anderson
• National Recovery Administration (NRA)
• Second New Deal
• Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
• sit-down strike
• Social Security Act
• Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

Huey Long (Ken Burns; PBS)

All the Kings Men (1947)

Sunrise at Campobello (1960)

Sounder (1976)

Eleanor Roosevelt Story (1965)

Eleanor and Franklin: The Early Years and the White House

(1976)