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Questions:

1. What was the New Deal?
2. What were the four major goals and achievements of the New Deal?
3. How did the New Deal give Americans jobs?
4. How did the jobs from the New Deal benefit American public works?
5. In your opinion, how do you think the government giving Americans jobs would boost the economy during the Great Depression?
6. What did FDR do right after becoming president?
7. How did the FDIC reestablish American faith in banks?
8. What did workers in the Civil Works Administration (CWA) do?
9. How did the CCC: Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) help both unemployed Americans and American environments?
10. Why was the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) formed?
11. Is there anything in NIRA that you can benefit from today?
12. Why did the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) try and limit production of crops?
13. What was the Tennessee Valley Authority? How would bringing electricity to the Tennessee Valley improve people's lives?
14. How many Americans worked for the Works Progress Administration (WPA)? What did they do?
15. What is the Wagner Act? How does collective bargaining help workers? If you need some extra help on this question, do some research on collective bargaining. Use your notes!!!
16. Who benefits from Social Security?
17. Do you think that workers paying taxes to aid retirees, the poor, and the disabled is a good or bad thing? Why or why not?
18. Look at all of the New Deal programs. Based on what you see, why do you think they nicknamed the New Deal programs "alphabet soup"?
19. How many New Deal programs are still active today?
20. What does the number of programs still being used tell you about the success of the New Deal?