Aim: What was the legacy of the Great Depression and FDR’s New Deal?

1. What is the claim of this document?

2. What evidence does the author include to prove the claim?

Do Now:

The New Deal

Closure In pairs, identify

the political impact of the Great Depression by reading the text and looking at the political cartoons.

1. Overall, what was the New Deal?

2. Why did the role of the federal government increase during the Great Depression?

1. What is the claim of this document?

2. What evidence does the author include to prove the claim?

Closure 1. How has the role of the federal

government increased throughout U.S. History? (mention 3 examples of this increase)

2. How have Americans changed their thinking about the proper role of the federal government?