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US History › Unit 4 · The New Deal
Tuesday: Did the New Deal work?
Objective. Students evaluate whether the New Deal restored public confidence in the banks, using Roosevelt’s first fireside chat as evidence.
- Warm-upQuick write: would you put your money back?5 min
- Listen and annotateFDR’s first fireside chat, excerpted.20 min
- DiscussionWhat did he ask for, and did it work?20 min
- Exit ticketDid it restore confidence? Two sentences.5 min
Warm-up5 min
On the board as students come in: “It’s March 1933 and your bank just reopened. Do you put your money back in? Why or why not?”
Listen and annotate20 min
Play the first four minutes of the March 12, 1933 broadcast while students follow the excerpt.
- Second read: underline the words Roosevelt uses to reassure listeners.
- Margin note: one question you would ask him.
Discussion20 min
Whole class. Show the slide on deposits after the bank holiday once the first two questions have been discussed.
- What is Roosevelt asking listeners to do?
- What does he promise in return?
- What evidence would tell us whether it worked?
Exit ticket5 min
Two sentences, one piece of evidence from today. Collect at the door.
4th period
Also periods 1, 2 and 6 · 50 minutes
- Warm-up5
- Listen and annotate20
- Discussion20
- Exit ticket5
Materials
- Fireside chat, excerpted
- Slides
- Exit ticket
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Reading
Excerpt · 3 of 24 paragraphs
Fireside chat on the banking crisis
I want to talk for a few minutes with the people of the United States about banking — with the comparatively few who understand the mechanics of banking but more particularly with the overwhelming majority who use banks for the making of deposits and the drawing of checks.
I can assure you that it is safer to keep your money in a reopened bank than under the mattress.
When the people find that they can get their money — that they can get it when they want it for all legitimate purposes — the phantom of fear will soon be laid.
I want to talk with everyone in the United States about banks. A few people understand how banks work. Most people just use them to save money and write checks.
I promise you: your money is safer in a bank that has reopened than hidden under your mattress.
Once people see they can get their money whenever they really need it, their fear will go away.
Vocabulary
- deposit
- money you put into a bank
- legitimate
- real and allowed; fair
- phantom
- something scary that isn’t real
Source
Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio address, March 12, 1933
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Handouts
Name ______________________Period 4
Close read: the first fireside chat
- 1.What does Roosevelt ask listeners to do? Take their money out while they still canKeep their money in the reopened banksWrite to Congress about the banks
- 2.Underline the words he uses to reassure you. “I can assure you that it is safer to keep your money in a reopened bank than under the mattress.”
- 3.Who is he trying to reassure, and why them?
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- Exit ticket
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