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- 1. Multiple Choice
Which government agency gives benefits to people when they are retired or unemployed?Federal Deposit Insurance CorporationSecurities and Exchange CommissionTennessee Valley AuthoritySocial Security Admistration - 2. Multiple ChoiceWhich New Deal program was chiefly designed to correct abuses in the stock market?Civilian Conservation CorpsFederal Deposit Insurance CorporationSecurities and Exchange CommissionNational Recovery Administration
- 3. Multiple ChoiceWhat problem were both the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Works Progress Administration developed to address?Excessive stock market speculationHigh unemplomentIncreased use of creditOverproduction of goods
- 4. Multiple ChoiceWhat was Roosevelt’s goal in creating the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation?Restore the public’s faith in financial institutionsStimulate demand for manufactured goodsProvide jobs for the unemployedHelp farmers pay back their loans
- 5. Multiple ChoiceDuring the New Deal, how did the government attempt to improve conditions for farmers?By ending the practice of sharecroppingBy raising tariffs on farm importsBy paying farmers to grow fewer cropsBy training farmers for jobs in a new field
- 6. 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
- 7. Multiple ChoiceWhich was a guiding principle of New Deal economic policies?“Rugged individualism” will end social inequalityGovernment must assume greater responsibility for helping the unfortunateAntitrust legislation could destroy the free enterprise systemState governments should have more power over the economy than the national government
- 8. Multiple Choice
Which of the following was NOT one of FDR's "three R's"?
Recovery
Reform
Revitalize
Relief
- 9. Multiple Choice
Schecter Poultry Company vs. US was a court case in which the Supreme Court struck down
the New Deal
the authority of the NRA
deficit spending
the Glass Steagall Act
- 10. Multiple Choice
FDR believed that this was the most important thing to turn around the Depression
Building the confidence of the people back up
Going to war
Pumping money into businesses
A hands off approach
- 11. 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
- 12. Multiple ChoiceBelieved the New Deal did not go far enough to help people during the Depressionliberalsconservatives
- 13. Multiple ChoiceBelieved the New Deal allowed the government to interfere too much in the free market economyliberalsconservatives
- 14. Multiple ChoiceThe Liberty League argues that the New Deal gives the federal government too much powerliberalsconservatives
- 15. Multiple ChoiceWhat statement best describes why liberals such as Father Coughlin criticized the New Deal?The government should take a laissez-faire approach to the economythe federal government should not go into debt to pay for new programsThe states, not the federal government, should take control of people's welfareThe federal government should do more to help worker's and the middle class
- 16. 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
- 17. Multiple ChoiceWho wrote the Grapes of Wrath?Grant WoodJohn SteinbeckRichard WrightDorothea Lange
- 18. Multiple ChoiceThe Wagner Act was also known as theNational Industrial Recovery ActsAgricultural Adjustment ActsNational Banking ActSocial Security Act
- 19. Multiple ChoiceWhat were the people called who left the Dust Bowl area and went to other places?migrantstravelersOkiesloners
- 20. Multiple ChoiceThe New Deal brought __________ and __________ into the Democratic PartyLabor Unions, African AmericansLaw Enforcement, White SouthernersAfrican Americans, Wealthy BusinessmenNative Americans, Labor Unions
- 21. Multiple ChoiceFranklin Roosevelt's "court-packing plan" was a serious mistake becauseMany Americans opposed the idea of forced retirementThe angry judges reacted by striking down much of the New Deal legislationIt appeared to interfere with the Constitution's separation of powersthe angry judges struck down the plan as unconstitutional
- 22. Multiple ChoiceWhat was the primary reason that President Roosevelt attempted to increase the number of justices on the Supreme Court?to make the Court more supportive of New Deal Programsto force the Court to hear cases involving women’s rightsto speed up the Court’s review of casesto increase the independence of the Court
- 23. Multiple ChoiceThe stock market crash and the dollar’s rapid decline in value, resulted in many Americans to conduct “runs” on which of the following?banksmovie theatersgrocery storesbrokerage offices
- 24. Multiple ChoiceWhich event marked the beginning of the Great Depression?The End of ProhibitionThe New DealThe Stock Market CrashThe Election of Herbert Hoover
- 25. Multiple ChoiceWhich New Deal program employed young men to work on various projects to improve the country?Social Security ActFair labor Standards ActRural Electrification ActCivilian Conservation Corps
- 26. Multiple Choice
The Indian Reorganization Act of 1934
was called the "Indian New Deal"
encouraged tribes to establish local self-government.
encouraged the preservation of native crafts and traditions.
all of the above.
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