Chapter 15 New Deal
New Deal Test
- 1.What is the policy of spending more money than the government recieves in revenue?
- A.
Deficit spending
- B.
AAA
- C.
Glass Steagall Act
- D.
National Industrial Recovery Act
- 2.How did FDR change the role of the federal government during the first hundered days?
- A.
Added 7 new justices
- B.
Decreased the size of government
- C.
Increased the size of government
- D.
None of the above
- 3.What did FDR do to fix the banking crisis?
- A.
Started the Works Progress Administration
- B.
Started a four day bank holiday to inspect the banks
- C.
Gave farmers a subsidy
- D.
Created Social Security
- 4.What did the Civilain Conservation Corps NOT provide?
- A.
Lodging
- B.
Food
- C.
Education
- D.
Cash Payments
- E.
The CCC provided all of these
- 5.The Works Progess Administration's immediate goal was to ______________________
- A.
Give farmers a subsidy
- B.
Help unions
- C.
Create as many jobs as possible
- D.
Provide an education to men
- 6.What organization provided student aid to highschool, college, and graduate students?
- A.
Works Progress Administration
- B.
Social Securities Act
- C.
Civilian Conservation Corps.
- D.
National Youth Administration
- 7.What is the point of the Wagner Act?
- A.
To help Americans gain a higher education
- B.
To protect those in a union
- C.
To provide aid to those 65 and older
- D.
To create more regulation for banks
- E.
None of the above
- 8.What did the Fair Labor Standards Act (1938) NOT pass?
- A.
Set a minimum wage
- B.
Set the maximum number of hours you can work per week
- C.
Set rules for employing workers under the age of 16
- D.
Gave men and women the same wages and treatment
- 9.The Social Securities Act did NOT provided________________________
- A.
Aid to the unemployed
- B.
Aid to families with dependent children
- C.
Retirement plan for those 65 and older
- D.
All of them were provided
- 10.Who played a key role in advising FDR to hire minorties and women?
- A.
Huey Long
- B.
Eleanor Roosevelt
- C.
Mary McLoed Bethune
- D.
John Collier
- 11.FDR was committed to full civil rights for African Americans.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 12.John Collier increased rights to _________________ through economic, cultural, and political means.
- A.
Native Americans
- B.
Women
- C.
Mexican Americans
- D.
African Americans
- 13.Which organization paid painters to produce public art?
- A.
The CCC
- B.
Works Progress Administration
- C.
National Youth Administration
- D.
National Public Art Administration
- 14.Orson Wells created nation wide panic with_______________________
- A.
Touch of Evil
- B.
Gone with the Wind
- C.
War of the Worlds
- D.
All of the above
- 15.Which of the following of Roosevelt's ideas failed to become law?
- A.
The creation of a federally supported pension system
- B.
The establishment of regional planning authorities
- C.
The reorganization of the Supreme Court
- D.
Federally supported loans for housing
- 16.Republicans did not like the New Deal
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 17.Political Cartoon What could "back to farm and forest" refer to?
- A.
The AAA
- B.
The WPA
- C.
The CCC
- D.
All of the above
- E.
None of the above
- 18.How was FDR able to do what the cartoon conveyes?
- A.
Congress was Rebilican like FDR
- B.
Congress was Democratic like FDR
- C.
Congress was Republican unlike FDR who was a Democrat
- D.
Congress was Democratic unlike FDR who was a Republican
- 19.The American public percieved many characteristics in FDR but _________________was probably not one of them.
- A.
Self-confidence
- B.
Compassion
- C.
Economic conservatism
- D.
Determination
- 20.By decreasing farm surpluses, the AAA helped to _________________
- A.
Lower the cost of food
- B.
Increase the food supply
- C.
Raise the price of food
- D.
Combat the effects of the Dust Bowl
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