The big ideas: how did roosevelt feel the government should respond to the great depression? how did roosevelt work to restore the banking system during the first hundred days? how did the new deal farmers? what did the new deal do to the unemployed? what were the arguments for and against the new deal programs? how were the first and second new deal similar? how were they different? how did the new deal affect labor unions and workers? what cultural changes took place during the 1930s? what long-term effects of the new deal can still be felt today?