Reading Check: Great Depression Video Questions

You may not be excited to see yet another video for this week’s assignments, but this choice was made intentionally with the essay deadline in mind. While a lot of this information has already been covered in the Background Reading page, repetition of themes, ideas, figures, and events can be helpful to learning. In this assignment, you’ll watch a thirty-minute documentary on the Great Depress and New Deal and answer five questions related to segments of the video for a more focused-viewing approach.

Assignment Instructions

Step 1: Watch the video and answer the questions.

Watch each of the short video below. Answer the questions that follow. I have provided directions in each question so that you can pause the video and answer the questions as you watch. There are five questions total.

Confine each response to a few sentences, but be sure that you’ve answered the question completely. Compose your responses in a file that can be uploaded.

The video is thirty (30) minutes long and has closed captions.

Questions to answer:

1. Pause at 00:11:45 (eleven minutes and forty-five seconds in). Summarize Hoover’s early response to the Great Depression. What were Hoovervilles?
2. Pause at 00:13:35 (thirteen minutes and thirty-five seconds in). Summarize the Bonus Army March, and analyze its significance. What happened, and why is it important to history?
3. Pause at 00:18:09 (eighteen minutes and nine seconds in). Choose and summarize one of the programs mentioned in the video as part of the First New Deal.
4. Pause at 00:21:42 (twenty-one minutes and forty-two seconds in). What is court-packing, and why did President Roosevelt propose the Court Reform Bill? Although it failed, how was Roosevelt still able to appoint Supreme Court justices sympathetic to his New Deal programs?
5. Pause at 00:25:22 (twenty-five minutes and twenty-two seconds in). Choose and summarize one of the programs mentioned in the video that was part of FDR’s Second New Deal.