Chapter Review

1. Question

   How did President Hoover respond to the problems and challenges created by the Great Depression?

2. Question

   How did different segments of the American population experience the depression?

3. Question

   What steps did Roosevelt take to stimulate economic recovery and provide relief to impoverished Americans during his first term in office?

4. Question

   What criticisms did Roosevelt’s opponents level against the New Deal?

5. Question

   Why and how did the New Deal shift to the left in 1934 and 1935?

6. Question

   Despite the president’s landslide victory in 1936, why did the New Deal stall during Roosevelt’s second term in office?