Please write your answers on a separate sheet of binder paper. Use the link at the bottom of the page to answer the questions. Due tomorrow!

1. Where did FDR attend college?

2. How was he related to his wife Eleanor?

3. At what college did he attend law school?

4. What was the first political office that FDR held?

5. What position did he accept under President Wilson?

6. Who was Lucy Mercer and what was FDR's relationship with her?

7. What disease did FDR get in 1921?

8. What public office did he win in 1928?

9. When FDR started his run for the presidency what changes did he call for?

10. What he was elected as President in 1932 - how many Americans were unemployed? 

11. What was the slogan used to describe his first 100 days in office?

12. What are the AAA, CCC and NRA?

13. What was the unemployment rate down to in 1936?

14. The U.S. Supreme Court declared that several of FDR's New Deal acts were unconstitutional. How did he retaliate? 

15. What did he do that was not in line with the Monroe Doctrine?

16. What did he push to have American factories become in 1941?

17. What strategies did he develop for defeating Germany in Europe?

18. What health issues did he encounter in 1944?

19. How many states did he and Truman win in the 1944 election? Why do you think he was still so popular with the American public?

20. (Please answer the following question in one full paragraph): Many current Americans think FDR was a socialist who brought us too many social programs (see #12 above), and abused the power of the presidency (see #14 above), thus creating BIG goverment. What do you think? Do you think the New Deal was good for America? Why or why not?