#1: Was FDR’s election in 1932 inevitable? What characteristics did he bring to the White House, that Hoover did not have? What did his wife bring? • Hoover’s Promise v. Hoover’s Reality

• FDR: Politician in a Wheelchair

– Common Clay | Eleanor | Heavy State Spending

– Balanced Budget & Economic Social Reforms

• Presidential Hopefuls of 1932

– The Forgotten Man

– Happy Days are Here Again!

• Hoover’s Humiliation in 1932 *

• The Vanquished and the Victor

• A dour Hoover and an ebullient Roosevelt ride to the inauguration ceremonies on March 4, 1933. This magazine cover was never published, presumably because of the editors’ sensitivity about the attempted assassination of Roosevelt when he was riding in an open car in Florida on February 15, 1933, less than three weeks earlier. The attempt on Roosevelt’s life ended in the death of Chicago mayor Anton J. Cermak.

#2: How did the early New Deal legislation attempt to achieve the three goals of relief, recovery, and reform? • Banking Reform: Emergency Banking Relief Act, Glass-Steagall

Banking Reform Act, “managed currency”, Federal Securities Act, SEC

• Creating Jobs: CCC, CWA, WPA, PWA

• Helping Hand for Industry and Labor: NRA, Sick Chicken Decision, PWA, HOLC, Fair Labor Standards Act, Wagner Act

• Farmers: AAA, 2nd AAA, Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act

• Government Control: TVA, FHA, USHA, Social Security Act, Hatch Act *

#3: Which of the New Deal’s many programs to reform the economy and alleviate the depression was the most successful, and why? Which was least successful, and why? *

#4: Why did the New Deal arouse such opposition from conservatives on the right, including those on the Supreme Court, as well as liberals on the left?

• A Day for Every Demagogue

– Huey Long | Francis Townsend | Charles Coughlin

– Herbert Hoover | American Liberty League

• Nine Old Men on the Supreme Bench

• The Court Changes Course *

#5: Was the New Deal essentially a conservative attempt to save American capitalism from collapse, a radical change in traditional American antigovernment beliefs, or a moderate liberal response to a unique crisis?

• The Twilight of the New Deal

• New Deal or Raw Deal?

• FDR’s Balance Sheet

• How Radical Was the New Deal? *