1. Working with Sources History

2. Directions For each source identify its purpose and origin values limitations

3. Source # 1 Political Cartoon “The Best They Have to Offer” New York Word Telegram August 11, 1934

4. Source #2 Historian Venn Recent historical interpretations of the New Deal have tended to emphasize its limitations as a reforming, radical force. Many of its achievements helped to institutionalize and consolidate the existing status quo in both economic and political spheres. Certainly, it also reinforced the prevailing gender stereotypes, incorporated organized labor into a regulated contractual relationship with capital and failed to address critical issues such as the racial discrimination endemic in American society. Many of its longest-lasting effects were virtually coincidental, most notably the changes in the role of the federal government, the strengthening of the executive branch and the beginning of an “imperial presidency.”

5. Professor Fiona Venn The New Deal First published 1983, revised 1998 Fiona Venn is senior lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Essex. She has published books on the history of oil diplomacy and the presidency of Franklin Roosevelt.

6. Source #3 Historian Maldwyn Yet for all its failures and limitations the New Deal can claim achievements which have stood the test of time and have become part of the national consensus. It laid the foundations of the welfare state and created a new legal framework for industrial relations. It introduced much-needed controls on banks and stock exchanges. It established the principle that government had the primary responsibility for regulating the economy... Roosevelt...restored national morale... The New Deal permanently enlarged the role of the Federal government. It gave American capitalism a more humane aspect. While it did nothing to redistribute wealth or income, it redistributed power between capital and labor... Finally, Roosevelt raised the presidential office to a new peak of prestige and power. He revitalized and dramatized the presidency.

7. Maldwn A. Jones The Limits of Liberty: American History, 1607- 1992 Published 1995 Dr. Jones, who died in 2007, was a Professor of American History at the University of London. In addition to the Limits of Liberty, he published books on American immigration

8. Source #4 Campaign Photo F.D.R. campaigns at Elm Grove, West Virginia, October, 1932

9. Source #5 Folksong Do Re Mi Words and Music by Woody Guthrie Lots of folks back East, they say, is leavin' home every day, Beatin' the hot old dusty way to the California line. 'Cross the desert sands they roll, gettin' out of that old dust bowl, They think they're goin' to a sugar bowl, but here's what they find Now, the police at the port of entry say, "You're number fourteen thousand for today." Oh, if you ain't got the do re mi, folks, you ain't got the do re mi, Why, you better go back to beautiful Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Georgia, Tennessee. California is a garden of Eden, a paradise to live in or see; But believe it or not, you won't find it so hot If you ain't got the do re mi. You want to buy you a home or a farm, that can't deal nobody harm, Or take your vacation by the mountains or sea. Don't swap your old cow for a car, you better stay right where you are, Better take this little tip from me. 'Cause I look through the want ads every day But the headlines on the papers always say: If you ain't got the do re mi, boys, you ain't got the do re mi, Why, you better go back to beautiful Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Georgia, Tennessee. California is a garden of Eden, a paradise to live in or see; But believe it or not, you won't find it so hot If you ain't got the do re mi. © Copyright 1961 (renewed) by Woody Guthrie Publications, Inc. & TRO- Ludlow Music, Inc. (BMI)Woody Guthrie Publications, Inc. & TRO- Ludlow Music, Inc. (BMI) Contact The Publisher- The Richmond Organization (TRO) Attention: Kathryn Ostien 266 West 37th Street, 17th Floor / New York, NY 10018-6609 Email: copyright@songways.comcopyright@songways.com