Wednesday March 28

1. Pass Chapter 29 notes to Left, Speed Dating to Left.

2. Great Depression Document Analysis – Discuss

documents: Pass to Left

3. Timeline: American Foreign Policy and the rise and fall

of Isolationism in the 1930s.

World Events affecting AFP on top & events U.S. enters with

other nations in middle range.

Most actions in U.S. below the timeline.

At least two facts for U.S. events (potentially a great review sheet)

4. Complete Annotation: 552-560 for Wednesday; 561-571

for Thursday; 586-571 for Friday

Focus to Finish Strong!!!

Electronic Devices Off and Away

Friday March 16

1. Bell: CompBook – HIPP

DocBook page 536, Document 2

2. Venn Diagram: Herbert Hoover

& Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR)

3. DocBook: Mindmap - Causes of

Great Depression on back of

1920s chart.

4. Pass to Left.

5. Monday: CH 29 Quiz; Closure

essay on speed dating; Ranking

the Top Ten New Deal programs

Essential Question: What is the proper role of government?

All Electronics Off & Away !!!

FDR: Simple Truths message to Congress (1938)

“Unhappy events abroad have retaught us two simple truths about the liberty of a democratic people. The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself. That, in its essence, is fascism — ownership of government by an individual, by a group or by any other controlling private power.The second truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if its business system does not provide employment and produce and distribute goods in such a way as to sustain an acceptable standard of living. Both lessons hit home. Among us today a concentration of private power without equal in history is growing.”

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.Time Magazine: 1998

“Take a look at our present world. . . . It is

manifestly not Joseph Stalin's world. That ghastly

world self-destructed before our eyes. Nor is it

Winston Churchill's world. Empire and its glories

have long since vanished into history. The world we

live in today is Franklin Roosevelt's world.”

Dear Mr. President:

My wife & I want to thank you for your radio talk this evening.

While we don’t know much about banking your talk made us

feel we have a Big Brother in the White House that’s going to

do real things for all of us. It made us feel at last our President

& us common people are able to get together directly. Wish

you’d do it right along. By the way we have put your picture

up in the kitchen where…

Friday March 161. Bell: CompBook – HIPP DocBook page 536,

Document 2

2. Discuss DocBook: Causes of Great Depression or

take Ms. Fine’s DocBook Quiz

3. Venn Diagram: Herbert Hoover & Franklin D.

Roosevelt (FDR)

4. 1920s Chart to Left.

Monday March 26

1. Bell: CompBook – HIPP Lyrics on

page 549 of DocBook Brother, Can

You Spare a Dime

2. New Deal Analysis: 1) Develop your

Top 9 list of New Deal programs 2)

Reconcile the list with the person at

your table 3) Develop your Top 9

with justification in the right column. –

Pass to Left

3. Complete Annotation: 547-48; 550-51

for Tuesday; 552-560 for Wednesday;

561-571 for Thursday; 586-571

Electronic Devices Off and Away

Campaign Song:

Happy Days Are

Here Again

Tuesday March 27

1. Bell: CompBook – SAQ (3x3 w/ proper nouns)

2. Great Depression Document Analysis

3. Complete Annotation: 552-560 for Wednesday;

561-571 for Thursday; 586-571

Focus to Finish

Strong!!!

Electronic Devices Off and Away

Describe what you see in the Graph?

Next: Significance of dates - 1930 ? 1932 ? 1933 ? 1937 ?

US Political Culture

Left Right

Left-Right defined as accepted level of government intervention in

the economy:

*right = conservative = less intervention = minimal state

liberalism

*left = liberal = more intervention = active state liberalism

U.S.Pre-1981;

New Deal

and Great

Society

era

DEMOCRATS REPUBLICANS

Moderates

ConservatismLiberalism

New Deal “Agitators” Opposed New Deal

before a national

audience

All felt FDR had gone

too far, or not far

enough

None had much

influence on the 1936

election or on the

New Deal in general

The American Liberty League

Saw FDR as a “traitor

to his class”

Believed the New Deal

was leading the country

toward socialism

Several famous

members

Challenged the legality

of the Wagner Act

Disappeared by 1940

“New Deal Coalition”

Diverse coalition of various groups who

supported FDR in 1936:

• Labor unions

• Urban political machines

• Racial and religious minorities

• Southern whites

Groups agreed on little besides the New Deal

Based on this framework, Democrats dominated

the federal legislature from 1932–1980