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Homework 3: Questions from chapter 21 in Foner, Give Me Liberty!


Answer each of the following questions from your Week 9 assigned reading in the Foner textbook, and type them into this document. Be sure to include the numbered questions followed by your corresponding answers. Submit these completed homework questions to our Canvas course beforethe Sunday 11:59PM deadline for credit.

Be sure that your answers are written in your own words, and that if you choose to quote from the textbook that the quoted material is offset by quotation marks and a page number reference in parenthesis is provided as citation.

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1. How did the Columbia River/Grand Coulee Dam project reflect Roosevelt’s belief in “regional economic development” during the Depression? (p. 644)
2. Despite his use of the phrase “New Deal” during the Democratic Party nominating convention in 1932, on what did FDR’s actual campaign for the presidency that year mostly focus?
3. Explain Foner’s claim that the National Recovery Administration (NRA) failed to produce economic recovery, but it did combat “the pervasive sense that the government was doing nothing to deal with the economic crisis.” (p. 648)
4. How does the map on p. 649 reflect the basic scope of action undertaken by the Public Works Administration (WPA)?
5. Why does Foner say that the New Deal “transformed the role of the federal government….”? (p. 652)
6. What is the “grassroots revolt” by organized labor during the 1930s that Foner describes?
7. In what sense was the Social Security Act an “American version of the welfare state”?
   (p. 658)
8. What new economic viewpoint was advanced by John Maynard Keynes in the 1930s?
   (p. 663)
9. In what sense did the 1930s witness “an acceleration of cultural assimilation”? (p. 670)

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