Learning Objective Understand FDR’s impact on bringing the United States out of the Great Depression and analyze the changing role of the federal government.

New Deal Analysis Looking at the New Deal (including the Second New Deal) which of the polices worked the best and why? What New Deal plan failed, but should have worked? Explain why you think it didn’t work and why do you think it should have but didn’t. If you were responsible for creating a New Deal policy what would it be and why do you think it was needed and would it have worked? Explain

Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt is widely regarded as one of the most visionary and influential American public figures of the twentieth century, and her life and achievements continue to inspire men and women everywhere. She was one of the first to champion human and civil rights for all Americans during the Great Depression and the Second World War. After the war, she was the architect of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In the decades that followed, her tireless efforts to promote international understanding and human rights earned her worldwide respect and the title “First Lady of the World.”

Quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor. When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die. Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.