Respond to 3 of the following prompts, responses should be 100 words long or longer. Everything should be in your own words with no quotes or citations.
Prompts:
Which federal economic policies do you think work better? Defend your answer. (found in Hoover and the Financial Crash of 1929)
Which policy outcome should historians stress when they student Herbert Hoover’s philosophy of “Rugged Individualism”? Defend your answer. (found in Hoover and the Financial Crash of 1929)
Which organization should have led the relief effort during the Flood of 1927? (found in The Failures of Hoover’s Economic Policies)
Which was Hoover’s worst mistake? Defend your answer. (found in The Failures of Hoover’s Economic Policies)
What is the most effective way that the “Forgotten Man” speech contrasts Franklin Roosevelt’s political philosophy with Herbert Hoover? Defend your answer. (found in FDR’s Election in 1932)
Which action would you give most priority (after putting people back to work)? Defend your answer. (found in First New Deal (FDR’s “Hundred Days”))
Which do you think was the most important financial reform of Roosevelt’s first Hundred Days? Defend your answer. (found in First New Deal (FDR’s “Hundred Days”))
Which federal agency do you think took the most important steps to put Americans back to work During the First New Deal? Defend your answer. (found in First New Deal (FDR’s “Hundred Days”))
Whose economic policy do you think was a more appropriate response to the Great Depression? Defend your answer. (found in New Deal Under Attack)
Which liberal policy do you think would have been most effective at reviving the economy during the Great Depression? Defend your answer. (found in New Deal Under Attack)
From FDR’s signing statement, why did the President think it was so important to create the “welfare state”? (found in Rise of the Welfare State)
What do you think was the most important plank of FDR’s “federal welfare state”? Defend your answer. (found in Rise of the Welfare State)
Do you think the HOLC’s “Redlining” maps are evidence of white supremacy during the New Deal? Explain your answer. (found in The New Deal’s Limitations to Reform)
Which form of federal discrimination do you think was most damaging to African Americans? Defend your answer. (found in The New Deal’s Limitations to Reform)
How do you view the civil rights efforts of Eleanor Roosevelt and Marian Anderson? Defend your answer. (found in The New Deal’s Limitations to Reform)
Which Social Security rule do you think was more harmful to women? Defend your answer. (found in The New Deal’s Limitations to Reform)
If you were to write a biography of one woman from the New Deal, which would it be? Defend your answer. (found in The New Deal’s Limitations to Reform)
Which account of Mexican repatriation seems more reliable to you? Defend your answer. Be sure to use evidence from both sources in your response. (found in The New Deal’s Limitations to Reform)
Which fresco do you think best represents the experience of ordinary workers during the Great Depression? Defend your answer. (found in The New Deal’s Limitations to Reform)
What makes Dorothea Lange’s photograph, “Migrant Mother,” such a powerful symbol of the Great Depression? (found in The New Deal’s Limitations to Reform)
