Chapter 13 The New Deal

1. What was FDR’s “New Deal?” 2. How did the new administration under FDR handle the second “bonus march” differently? 3. What were FDR’s “fireside chats” and how did they help? 4. What was the “hundred days?”

5. Why did FDR declare a bank holiday and close them all for four days 5. Why did FDR declare a bank holiday and close them all for four days? How did this help the economy? 6. What was the FDIC? 7. What was the Works Progress Administration? (WPA) 8. What was the CCC?

9. What did FDR’s “Indian Reorganization Act” do? 10. What were two ways the government helped regulate private businesses? 11. What was the SEC and what did it do? 12. How did the government help save homes and farms?

13. How did the government raise low farm prices? 14. What was the TVA and what did it do? 15. How did FDR’s administration break new ground? 16. How was Eleanor Roosevelt a different kind of first lady?

17. What were two reasons the New Deal came under fire? 18. What did the National Labor Relations Act and Fair Labor Standards Act do? 19. What three things did the Social Security Act do?