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- Examine the main idea that emerges from Chapter 14 of A People's History of the United States.
- How did the Great Depression happen?
- How did the New Deal contribute to the rise of the African American Civil Rights movement?
- How was FDR’s plan fitting in to the established condition (control by the wealthy) rather than giving the power back to the people (according to Zinn)?
- What were Hoovervilles and why were they constructed?
- Why does Zinn include the section of Langston Hughes's poem "Let America Be America Again" in Chapter 15, of A People's History of the United States?
- Incorporate these two questions into one answer. How does Zinn's view Roosevelt's New Deal, in chapter 15 of A People's History of the United States, differ from most histories' view?
Most histories reflect the New Deal as a massive social experience and is seen as the greatest extent of liberal government policy. Is Zinn's view different?