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New Deal Alphabet Agencies – Graphic Organizer

Organize a New Deal review around relief, recovery, and reform with a partly completed student chart and a companion reference version.
Grades
Grades 8–11
File type
PDF
Answer key
Included

Updated May 10, 2023

Subject
Social Studies, History: USA
Topic
New Deal agencies, Alphabet agencies
Resource types
Graphic Organizers, Worksheets
Answer key
Included

Product description

From the author

The New Deal was a series of economic programs and reforms implemented in the United States during the 1930s by President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR). It was a response to the severe economic crisis of the Great Depression, which began with the stock market crash in 1929.

The New Deal aimed to address the widespread unemployment, poverty, and economic instability that plagued the country. Its primary goals were relief for the unemployed and those in need, economic recovery, and reform to prevent future economic crises. The New Deal consisted of three main components, often referred to as the "Three Rs": Relief, Recovery, and Reform. Overall, FDR's New Deal represented a significant expansion of the federal government's role in the economy and social welfare, aiming to provide relief to those in need, stimulate economic recovery, and establish long-term reforms to prevent future economic crises.

Teacher-prepared notes show students what is important and how ideas relate, and offer a model for how students should take notes themselves (Marzano et al., 2001). This fill-in-the-blank graphic organizer is perfect for your student's interactive notebook. It looks at the 3 R's of the New Deal (Relief, Recovery, and Reform), and provides examples of agencies that aimed to fulfill those goals. Ready to use - no prep.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Categorize New Deal agencies under FDR's three goals of Relief, Recovery, and Reform.

  • Research and summarize the purpose of specific New Deal agencies, such as the WPA, TVA, PWA, HOLC, FHA, NYA, NIRA, SEC, FDIC, FSLIC.

  • Explain how a given New Deal agency, such as the CCC or AAA, addressed a specific Great Depression-era problem.

Teaching tips

  • Revise the reference before using it as a key. It lists fifteen entries, including the FAA, which was created in 1958 and does not belong among New Deal agencies.

  • Correct AAA to Agricultural Adjustment Administration and FHA to Federal Housing Administration.

  • The student version already includes CCC, AAA, SSA and FDIC, so reform has two supplied examples.

Skills covered

  • Historical categorization — organize programs using relief, recovery and reform.

  • Research and summarization — write a concise description of an assigned program.

  • Source checking — compare the supplied reference with reliable historical evidence.

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What work do students add to the organizer?

The student version supplies the category structure and some examples. Students fill the remaining agency spaces using the information you assign for the lesson.

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Concepts & topics

Core concepts

  • New Deal

  • Great Depression

  • Relief, Recovery, Reform

  • US history 1930s

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