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=Chapter 26: The New Deal=

** Main Ideas: **

 * 1) The flurry of New Deal programs offered by FDR to combat the Depression, and how they played out in the realms of economic confidence, agriculture, industrial recovery, and regional planning.
 * 2) The critics on the right and left of New Deal policies, and how they inspired Roosevelt to launch what's referred to as the "Second New Deal."
 * 3) The challenges facing the New Deal after Roosevelt's landslide in 1936, particularly increasing conservative opposition, his own political blunders, and continuing hard times.
 * 4) The economic, political, and party legacies of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal.

** Text Resources: **
Elna C. Green, //"Relief from Relief: The Tampa Sewing-Room Strike of 1937 and the RIght to Welfare//, Journal of American History, Vol. 95 No. 4, March 2009. This reading will help students acquire a nuanced overview of women in the New Deal, gain a detailed understanding that strikes occurred during the Great Depression (even in relief programs!), as well as gain a better understanding of the movements for labor reform and socialism during the Great Depression. Green argues that the tactics of organized labor proved unsuited to the needs of welfare recipients; it would be another generation before a welfare rights movement would find its voice

** Handouts/Homework: **
Brinkley notes:

Analyze the responses of Franklin D. Roosvelt's administration to the problems of the Great Depression. How effective were these responses? How did they change the role of the federal government? Use the documents and your knowledge of the period 1929-1941 to construct your essay. (AP US 06-07 Professional Workshop Materials, p26).
 * DBQ:**