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4. The Roosevelt "Revolution"
POWERPOINT PRESENTATION
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1. What was achieved in the "Hundred Days"?
2. How far did the New Deal represent a revolutionary shift in American life?
3. What was the purpose and impact of the Social Security Act, the Wagner Act and the WPA?

Required Reading
William E. Leuchtenburg, "The Hundred Days War", chapter 3 from Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1832-1940
Davies, Gareth, "The Unsuspected Radicalism of the Social Security Act" in The Roosevelt years : new perspectives on American history, 1933-1945 Garson & Kidd, eds, (Edinburgh University Press, 1999), pp. 56-71
Further Reading
David M.Kennedy, "The Hundred Days," chapter 3 of Freedom From Fear

Web resources
The New Deal Network: featuring over 900 New Deal era documents and hundreds of photographs

Primary Documents
Two Perspectives on Child Labor
Photographs of the Great Depression from the Library of Congress
“This What the Union Done”The Story of the United Mine Workers of America in Song