History 371H

Devine

Fall 2014

Writing Assignment #4

Reading: David M. Kennedy, “What the New Deal Did”

After reading Kennedy’s chapter, answer two of the following questions:

1) What did the New Deal do to solve the banking and financial crisis the country faced during the 1930s?

2) What did the New Deal do to put home ownership within reach of more Americans?

3) What were the New Deal’s major non-economic achievements?

You should turn in your typed answers either by email BEFORE class starts or in hard copy form during class.