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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 Choice
What problem were both the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and the Works Progress Administration (WPA) developed to address?
Excessive stock market speculation
High unemploment
Increased use of credit
Overproduction of goods
- 3. Multiple ChoiceThe ____ was an agency formed to insure bank deposits up to a certain amount.Social SecuritySECFDICTennessee Valley Authority
- 4. Multiple ChoiceWhen President Roosevelt talked to the American people directly over the radio, they called it ____ ____.Fireside Chatsthe President talkingChats with meCampfire chats
- 5. 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
- 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 Choice
Which New Deal program employed young men 18-25 to work on various projects to improve the country?
Social Security Act
Fair labor Standards Act
Rural Electrification Act
Civilian Conservation Corps
- 8. Multiple Choice
The Agricultural Adjustment Act tried to help farmers by
helping them become more efficient
paying them not to grow crops
buying up their surpluses
making land available for farming
- 9. Multiple Choice
The TVA provided ________ for rural citizens.
electricity
new farm land
new homes
New Deal support
- 10. Multiple Choice
What is the NRA?
National Registration Administration
National Recovery Administration
National Reservation Act
National Redistribution Acts
- 11. Multiple Choice
Franklin D. Roosevelt took many actions during his “First Hundred Days” in the White House in 1933, but what was the FIRST thing he did?
close all of the nation’s banks and order inspections of those banks
end slavery
borrow money from China
desegregate the Military
- 12. Multiple Choice
The Wagner Act (the National Labor Relations Act) forced employers to
bargain collectively with worker-elected union representatives.
end prohibition
share their profits with their employees collectively
hire undocumented illegal immigrants
- 13. Multiple Choice
Why did President Franklin D. Roosevelt attempt to “pack” the U.S. Supreme Court in 1937?
he was angry that the court had ruled some of his New Deal programs unconstitutional
he wanted to appoint a number of his friends to the court
he felt that having so many older men on the court was dangerous for the nation
he was having a bad week
- 14. Multiple Choice
This New Deal Program set standards for business practices and let companies that followed their rules use the Blue Eagle on their products.
Wagner Act
NRA
REA
HOLC
- 15. 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
- 16. Multiple Choice
Staring in 1924, FDR visited Warm Springs, GA to ease the pain in his paralyzed legs caused by _________?
MS
polio
thyphiod
scurvy
- 17. Multiple Choice
This senator was against FDR's New Deal policies and wanted to tax the rich heavily - using that money to give everyone a house, a car and a decent income
Charles Finney
Huey Long
Francis Townsend
John Hinch
- 18. Multiple ChoiceWhat are the 3 R's of the New Deal?Relief, Rebuild, and ReformRecover, Rebuild, and ReformRelief, Recovery, and ReformRecover, Revive, and Reform
- 19. Multiple Choice
Roosevelt wanted to extend the Supreme Court from 12 to __________ judges to support his New Deal programs
13
14
15
16
- 20. Multiple Choice
Government spending more than it is taking in, is called...
Negative Spending
Pensions
Collective Bargaining
Deficit Spending
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