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- 1. Multiple ChoiceMany people lost their jobs during the Great Depression. The national government responded with President Franklin Roosevelt's "New Deal," whichprovided programs to help people make money to provide for their needs.helped reduce the national debt, providing more capital for businessesforced people to join the military forces to make money for their needs.forced people to use charities to help them provide for their needs.
- 2. Multiple ChoiceOne difference between the administrations of President Roosevelt and President Hoover was that Roosevelt was-more willing to use government intervention to solve economic problemsunwilling to allow government agencies to establish jobsable to ignore economic issues for most of his first term in officeopposed to any type of government regulation of financial institutions
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What problem were both the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Works Progress Administration developed to address?Excessive stock market speculationHigh unemploymentIncreased use of creditOverproduction of goods - 4. Multiple ChoiceDuring the New Deal, how did the government attempt to improve conditions for farmers?By ending the practice of sharecroppingBy encouraging farmers to grow more to increase profitsBy paying farmers to grow fewer cropsBy training farmers for jobs in a new field
- 5. Multiple ChoiceA major reason for creating the Tennessee Valley Authority in 1933 was to-Provide health care benefits to southernersEncourage African-Americans to settle in the valleyImprove economic conditions in a poor rural regionEvacuate farmers from the impoverished region
- 6. Multiple ChoiceWhat was a major result of FDR’s New Deal programs?The national deficit declined for most U.S. citizensThe suffrage rights for women changedThe power of the federal government was expandedThe federal government lowered taxes for most Americans
- 7. Multiple ChoiceWhat was the first order of business by FDR when he got into office?End the depressionclosed the stock market for a week4 day bank holidayclose hoovervilles
- 8. Multiple ChoiceWhat was created to protect bank deposits up to $5,000?WPACCCTVAFDIC
- 9. Multiple ChoiceWhat institution opposed parts of the New Deal because it believed it gave the federal government an unconstitutional amount of power over the states and economy?CongressSupreme CourtStock MarketExecutive Branch
- 10. Multiple ChoiceWhat cause of the Great Depression did the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) attempt to solve?Stock market speculationOverproductionWeak banking systemUnsafe loans
- 11. Multiple ChoiceWhat were stock brokers doing that inflated the stock prices?giving out loans they knew would not be paid backspeculating stocks to be worth more than they actually werebuying stocks on creditnot insuring the customers' money
- 12. Multiple ChoiceWhich event marked the beginning of the Great Depression?The End of ProhibitionThe New DealThe Stock Market CrashThe Election of Herbert Hoover
- 13. Multiple ChoiceWhat was a major result of FDR’s New Deal programs?The national deficit declined for most U.S. citizensThe suffrage rights for women changedThe power of the federal government was expandedThe federal government lowered taxes for most Americans
- 14. Multiple ChoiceThe New Deal stressed Relief, Recover, and _______.ReformRevolutionReinventionReinforcement
- 15. Multiple ChoiceThe largest New Deal program which worked on public projects such as roads, bridges, public buildings, etc.Works Progress AdministrationWorld Peace AssociationWorking Period AdministrationTennessee Valley Authority
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