Assignment task: Choose one of the following questions, and write an essay in which you answer the questions as thoroughly and specifically as you can, using full sentences, and specific examples to support your main arguments.
Write an essay in which you identify and analyze the strengths & weaknesses successes and failures-of the New Deal. What were the major reasons for the New Deal? What were its major goals, and what groups in society was New Deal programs aimed at helping? Who were the major supporters and opponents of the New Deal, and why did they support or oppose it? Thinking about both the short-term (the 1930s) and the long-term (since the 1930s), what do you see as the major accomplishments of the New Deal, and what were its major failings? If you had been an advisor to FDR, what would you advised him to do differently?