Summary of Points
Notes
- Make work projects
- to be done in the first 100 days of FDR's administration
- Following John Maynard Keynes economic theories
- Building of the interstates, Hoover Dam etc.
Subjunctive Question
Had the New Deal not worked so well, would the Depression have been much more severe on the American People?
Qoutes
"I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it: If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it: If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
Website, Video and Audio links
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CDQQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.biography.com%2Fpeople%2Ffranklin-d-roosevelt-9463381&ei=3CtJVMXYNY6eyASGq4CYBQ&usg=AFQjCNFGufWBH4Y0UUv7BYcjudedqTSZKQ&sig2=v8ageFIu2hiI1oDkcBdMfQ
Comics
Art of the New Deal
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/ist/?next=/arts-culture/1934-the-art-of-the-new-deal-132242698/