HIST405 Week 6 discussion 2020

• Textbook: Chapter 24 (Section 24.4), 25, 26
• Lesson
• Link (video): A New Deal: Part 5 (Links to an external site.) (7:20)
• Link (website): New Deal Programs: Selected Library of Congress Resources: Introduction (Links to an external site.) (Read this introduction before exploring the other links in this discussion.)
• Link (website): New Deal Programs: Selected Library of Congress Resources (Links to an external site.) (Explore the links under Sections and Topic for specific New Deal Programs.)
• Link (website): New Deal Programs: Selected Library of Congress Resources: Digitized Materials (Links to an external site.) (Explore the links for primary sources including audio recordings, written narratives, photographs, posters, and music.)
• Link (website): President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal (Links to an external site.) (Review the documents and interviews on this site.)
• Minimum of 1 scholarly source (in addition to noted resources)

Initial Post Instructions:
For the initial post, pick two (2) of the following (any program and/or act of the New Deal):

Reflecting over the weekly reading and lesson video The New Deal Coalition (also linked in the Required Resources), address the following for your selections:

• Consider workers, immigrants, and African Americans. Explain how minorities were represented by the New Deal.
• Analyze to what extent you think that the New Deal effectively ended the Great Depression and restored the economy.

Textbook link is here https://openstax.org/books/us-history/pages/1-introduction