■ COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS ■

1. Question

   Compare Roosevelt’s first inaugural address with the economic and social philosophy of William Graham Sumner (Document P6-1). What evidence do these documents provide of how the role of government changed over time?

2. Question

   What similarities can you identify between Gellhorn’s reporting and Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle (Document 19-6)? To what extent is Gellhorn an heir to a Progressive-Era tradition of muckraking journalism?

3. Question

   Assess the New Deal by identifying the arguments for and against Roosevelt’s programs. To what extent are those arguments of the 1930s relevant today?

4. Question

   How might you interpret the New Deal within the broader narrative of American history? Would you emphasize continuities in the New Deal by linking Roosevelt’s ideas to the earlier Populist and progressive reform movements? Or would you see the New Deal as a break with the past and the beginning of something new? Explain.