After mastering this chapter, you should be able to:
- Explain the causes of the "great bull market" and the stock market crash.
- Describe the material and psychological effects of the Great Depression.
- Discuss President Hoover's attempts to end the Depression.
- Analyze the New Deal legislation passed in the "Hundred Days."
- Differentiate between Roosevelt's programs for relief and recovery.
- List and evaluate New Deal reforms.
- Compare and contrast the programs of the various critics of the New Deal.
- Show how the New Deal affected labor, women, and minorities.
- Narrate the events and explain the significance of Roosevelt's attempt to "pack the court."
- Discuss the factors that ended the New Deal.
