- How would you compare the challenges former president Barack Obama dealt with in terms of domestic economic issues to those faced by Franklin Delano Roosevelt? Describe both presidents’ critics?
- What was the Liberty League?
- Would you compare the Liberty League to the Tea Party Movement of the 2000s?
- How did the 1932 presidential election mark a turning point in American politics?
- What was Roosevelt’s attitude about putting people on public assistance or the dole (i.e. giving out welfare ‘checks’)?
- What caused the “Roosevelt Recession”?
- What steps did the Roosevelt Administration take to reverse it?
- What were the overall effects of the New Deal on American Society? (Look at the “big picture.”)
- What did critics say were the shortcomings of the New Deal?
