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11.6 Students analyze the different explanations
for the Great Depression and how the New Deal fundamentally changed the role of the federal government. - Describe the monetary issues of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that gave rise to the establishment
of the Federal Reserve and the weaknesses in key sectors of the economy in the late 1920s.
- Understand the explanations of the principal causes of the
Great Depression and the steps taken by the Federal Reserve, Congress, and Presidents Herbert Hoover and Franklin Delano
Roosevelt to combat the economic crisis.
- Discuss the human toll of the Depression, natural disasters, and unwise agricultural practices and their effects
on the depopulation of rural regions and on political movements of the left and right, with particular attention
to the Dust Bowl refugees and their social and economic impacts in California.
- Analyze the effects of and the controversies arising from New Deal economic policies
and the expanded role of the federal government in society and the economy since the 1930s (e.g., Works Progress
Administration, Social Security, National Labor Relations Board, farm programs, regional development policies, and energy
development projects such as the Tennessee Valley Authority, California Central Valley Project, and Bonneville Dam).
- Trace the advances and retreats
of organized labor, from the creation of the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations
to current issues of a postindustrial, multinational economy, including the United Farm Workers in California.
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