From the Records of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics.

“Squatter Camp” in Sacramento, California.

Roosevelt Library Photographs Franklin D. From the Collection FDR-Photos: Franklin D.

Roosevelt Broadcasting his First Fireside Chat Regarding the Banking Crisis, from the White House, Washington, DC. Roosevelt Library Public Domain Photographs Franklin D. From the Collection FDR-PHOCO: Franklin D. “Farmer and sons walking in the face of a dust storm” Cimarron County, Oklahoma, 4/1936.Roosevelt Library Public Domain Photographs. The sense of connection with the president was immediate. From the Collection FDR-PHOCO: Franklin D. The first Fireside Chat, updating the electorate on what the federal government was doing to address the banking crisis of 1933, came just eight days into Roosevelt’s first administration, direct from the White House to half a million listeners. Farm Security Administration-Resettlement Administration: Vernon Evans family leaving South Dakota drought area for west, 1935.From the Records of the Office of Government Reports.

Hold on to Your Social Security Card, 1941 – 1945.Soup Kitchen During the Depression, 6/1936.Migratory Cotton Picker with Her Baby, 11/1940.In the map-based activity Where Was the New Deal?, students identify three New Deal programs – the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), and Works Progress Administration (WPA), locate where projects associated with each took place, and analyze their impact on each region.

In another new activity, Analyzing FDR’s First Fireside Chat, students analyze the tone, mood, and rhetorical devices of the first of FDR’s famous radio addresses, this time about the banking crisis. “Squatter Camp” in Sacramento, California.

Fireside chats with fdr answers