Indiana Social Studies IS.1.21
The Standard
Explain the significance of the expansion of federal power during the New Deal Era in the areas of agriculture, money and banking, industry, labor, social welfare, and conservation.
2026 Indiana Academic Standards: K-12 Social Studies · Prosperity, Depression, and World War II
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify federal actions in farming, banking, industry, labor, social welfare, and conservation. They explain how those actions changed the government's role and affected people during the Depression.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student explains how AAA payments encouraged farmers to cut production and how FDIC insurance protected bank deposits. They connect industry rules, union rights, retirement benefits, and CCC projects to a larger federal role. They can name a limit, such as the Supreme Court striking down industry codes.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think the federal government owned every factory or directly ran every farm. They may confuse FDIC insurance with loans to banks or assume farmworkers got the same labor protections as factory workers.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: How did FDIC insurance and the Wagner Act expand federal power in different ways? Name one group helped by each and one group the Wagner Act left out.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give groups cards for AAA payments, FDIC insurance, NRA codes, the Wagner Act, Social Security, and CCC; sort by sector and mark federal actions.
Ask students to write: Who gained more from New Deal labor protections, factory workers or farmworkers? What evidence supports your answer?
Read six program clues aloud; pairs hold up the matching program card and say what the federal government did.
Open a bank's FDIC insurance page; ask how a government guarantee might affect a family's choice to keep savings there.
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