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Question 1
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Q. Who was president during the New Deal?
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Theodore Rooesvelt
Franklin Roosevelt
Herbert Hoover
Woodrow Wilson
Question 2
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Q. What New Deal law provided for a 40hr work week in most insdustries, time and a half for overtime, a federal minimum wage, and a ban on oppressive child labor conditions?
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Fair Labor Standards ACt
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no
no
Question 3
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Q. What New Deal agency paid for production by writers, painters, and photographers?
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National Arts Council (NAC)
American Federation of Labor (AFL)
NAACP
Works Progress Adminsitration (WPA)
Question 4
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Q. Massive deficit spending and a dramatic increase in the national debt was suggested by what economist and followed by FDR?
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John Kenneth Galbraith
Andrew Mellon
Hnery George
John Maynard Keynes
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Q. What union representing industrial workers grew to a membership of over 9 million during the New Deal era?
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American Federation of Labor
Association of Federal State Municipal and County Employees
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Teamsters
Question 6
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Q. What New Deal Act guaranteed workers the right to organize and join labor unions?
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Fair Labor Standards Act
National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act)
workman's compensation
Social Security
Question 7
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Q. Which agency paid young adults to build national parks?
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Works Progress Adminstration
Civilian Conservation Corps
Tennessee Valley Authority
Bonus Army
Question 8
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Q. Which of the following New Deal laws/agencies regulated the buying and selling of stocks?
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Securities and Exchange Commission
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Emergency Banking Act
Home Owners Insurance Corporation
Question 9
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Q. Federal deposit insurance for banks stopped which of the following phenomena that was motivated by a lack of confidence in the financial industry?
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buying stock on margin
robbing banks
runs on banks
selling short
Question 10
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Q. What New Deal goal was met by giving help to people in need?
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relief
recovery
reform
reelection
Question 11
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Q. What did the 21st amendment end, giving the government a new source of income through an excise tax?
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prohibition
icome taxes
women's right to vote
WWI
Question 12
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Q. What Great Depression era singer and labor organizer wrote working man ballads including, "This Land is Your Land"? He also had "This Machine Kills Fascists" on his guitar.
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John Green
Henry Wallace
George Peek
Woody Guthrie
Question 13
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Q. Who wrote The Grapes of Wrath?
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HL Mencken
Clarence Darrow
Albert Camus
John Steinbeck
Question 14
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Q. What natural calamity coincided with the New Deal and caused intensified and increased poverty throughout Oklahoma, Arkansas, and other parts of the sotuh?
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the bank holiday
the great flood of 1927
the dustbowl
increaded lynchings
Question 15
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Q. What was the culminating event that brought the country out of the Great Depression?
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the Bonus Army
the building of the Hoover Dam
going off of the gold standard
World War II
Question 16
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Q. What was the name of FDR's plans and programs designed to meet the needs and problems of the Great Depression?
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New Deal
Great Deal
Social Security
the New Liberalism
Question 17
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Q. Did congress allow FDR to appoint more than justices?
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yes
no
not the correct answer
not the correct answer
Question 18
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Q. What was FDR's answer to 2 of his laws (programs) being declared unconstitutional?
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Executive Order 9066
US v. Butler
impeachment bu not conviction
couirt packing plan
Question 19
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Q. What group of Americans was hurt, as marginal farm land was taken out of production with federal subsidy payments?
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Kansas wheat growers
corporate framers
black sharecroppers and tenant farmers
west coast vegetable and fruit growers
Question 20
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Q. What New Deal critic and radio talk show host felt that FDR was controlled by bankers?
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Huey Long
Francis Townshend
Charles Couglin
Estes Kefauver
Question 21
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Q. What were the major goals of the New Deal?
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no gold standard and free coinage of silver
abolition and suffrage
relief, recovery, and reform
expanding the size and economic influence of the United States
Question 22
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Q. Which of the following major events coincided with the New Deal?
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the Civil War
the Great Depression
the Stock Market Crash
World War I
Question 23
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Q. When was the New Deal?
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1776-1791
1820-1860
1900-1920
1933-1945
Question 24
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Q. Which of the following events coincided with the New Deal?
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the Korean War
the Spanish American War
World War II
World WarI
Question 25
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Q. What New Deal program was an answer to demands for a pension for the elderly as put forward by Dr. Francis Townsend?
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National Labor Relations
Tennessee Valley Authority
Works {rogress Administration
Social Security
Question 26
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Q. What law limited the types of investments of banks and created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, insuring all bank deposits by the federal government?
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Keating Owens Act
Glass Stegall Act
US v. Butler
Bank Holiday
Question 27
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Q. What Supreme Court decision declared the Agricultural Adjustment Act unconstitutional because of its funding mechanism, taxing one group of people to specifically give the money to another group of people?
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US v. Butler
US v. Schechter Poultry
En Re Gault
US v. Debs
Question 28
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Q. What New Deal law/agency created controversy by putting the government into direct competition with private industry?
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the Agricultural Adjustment Act
the National Industrial Recovvery Act
the Tennessee Valley Authority
the Wagner Act
Question 29
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Q. Who was the first female cabinet member and FDR's Secretary of Labor who was key in creating the first minimum wage law and the Social Security Administration?
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Frances Perkins
Marian Anderson
Eleanor Roosevelt
Mary McCleod Bethune
Question 30
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Q. FDR's "Bank Holiday" was part of which of the following laws?
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Financial Srevices Act
Federal Emergency Relief Agency
Social Security Adminsitration
Emergency Banking Act
Question 31
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Q. Who was FDR's Secretary of Agriculture who wrote the Agricultural Adjustment Act, paying farmers to destroy pigs and plow under corn (very controversial but agricultural prices did go up)?
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Roswel Garst
Henry Wallace
Upton Sinclair
Harry Truman
Question 32
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Q. What popular southern Governor opposed FDR with a Share or Wealth program proposal that would have provided a guaranteed income to all Americans?
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Geroge Wallace
Lester Maddux
Orval Faubus
Huey Long
Question 33
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Q. Which of the following cases declared FDR's National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA stimulate the economy and raise prices) unconstitutional because of its limits on individual company's levels of production?
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US v. Butler
US v. Schecter Poultry
US v. Debs
the Slaughterhouse Cases
Question 34
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What was a guiding principle of the New Deal economic policies?
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Pro-business tax breaks would solve the problems associated with urban
poverty
Antitrust legislation would destroy the free market economy of the
United States
Rugged individualism must be allowed to solve social inequality
Government must assume more responsibility for helping the poor
Question 35
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Q. President Franklin D. Roosevelt believed that declaring a bank holiday and creating the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) would help the nation’s banking system by
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restoring public confidence in the banks
reducing government regulation of banks
restricting foreign investments
granting tax relief to individuals
Question 36
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Q. During the 1930s, the conditions shown in this photograph occurred mainly
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on the Atlantic Coast
on the Great Plains
in the Rocky Mountains
in the Pacific Northwest
Question 37
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Q. Based on the cartoon, how did President Roosevelt want to ease the Great Depression?
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by expanding the role of government in citizens’ lives
by expanding the authority of legislative representatives
by regulating the stock purchases by individual investors
by restricting the spending by government on domestic projects
Question 38
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Q. Which of the following compounded the devastation caused by the Great Depression?
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the beginning of WWII
the Red Scare and infiltration of communistic ideas
influenza epidemic and poor healthcare
Midwestern drought and Dust Bowl
Question 39
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Q. Which economic factor contributed most directly to the start of the Great Depression?
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low worker productivity
high income taxes
decreasing tariff rates
buying stocks on margin
Question 40
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Q. An advocate of President FDR's farm policy would most likely supported which economic strategy?
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Reducing agricultural output to increase product values
Utilizing minimum wage laws to stimulate farm productivity
Allowing market forces to operate freely to achieve stabilization
Increasing agricultural production to ensure food supply
Question 41
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Q. The Wagner Labor Relations Act of 1935 addressed what labor issue?
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Workplace safety
Health insurance
Collective bargaining
Minimum Wage
Question 42
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Q. An active supporter of Socialist Party during Great Depression most likely have felt about TVA?
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Alarmed, unprecedented and dangerous step toward collectivization
Angry, represented threat to spirit of free enterprise and capitalism
Enthusiastic, government asserting itself in private sector to benefit many
Discouraged, government undermining small family farmers and subsidizing agribusiness
Question 43
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Q. Which following most responsible for trend evident from 1933 through 1937?
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Effects of New Deal relief and recovery efforts
Establishment of Lend-Lease program
Impact of Great Depression on stockholders' profits
Increase in War Production Board orders to munitions
Question 44
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Q. Securities and Exchange Commission was...
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Insure bank deposits and promote economic stability
Mediate between business and labor and ensure fair competition
Regulate prices of agricultural goods and reduce surpluses
Oversee stock trading and prevent fraud
Question 45
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Q. What caused this?
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Passing Smoot-Hawley Act
Creating Securities and Exchange Commission
Implementing Revenue Act
Establishing Reconstruction Finance Commission
Question 46
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Q. A major criticism of TVA?
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Served only a few southern states
Job opportunities inadequate to meet unemployment demands
Publicly funded but price competed unfairly with private sector companies
Need for industrial infrastructure improvement a greater need
Question 47
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Q. Artists who painted public murals during 1930s worked for...
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Works Progress Administration
Good Neighbor Policy
National Urban League
Tuskegee Institute
Question 48
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Q. Which statement most accurately expresses the point of view of the cartoonist?
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Isolationism is the safest policy for these countries to follow.
The United States is ignoring the threat caused by foreign aggression
Trade restrictions are more of a threat than leaders recognize
England can defend itself against Axis aggression.