Para 6: The 30s

Question 1

What idea of freedom does the Great Depression combat?

Answer 1

The idea that freedom is unfettered capitalism and unregulated economy by demonstrating the worst of capitalism

Question 2

What causes what new freedom to emerge?

Answer 2

Rising unemployment, homelessness and poverty lead to a new idea freedom not examined in America’s history, freedom from want, and this revolutionises the governments role

Question 3

Who invented the New Deal and what does it do?

Answer 3

Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal is the first time the government has acknowledged that it has a responsibility to its people to provide a certain level of prosperity

Question 4

What act raises the idea of social security in America?

Answer 4

Social Security Act

Question 5

What year was the Social Security Act passed?

Answer 5

1935

Question 6

What year did the Great Depression begin in?

Answer 6

1929