This quiz evaluates knowledge on key events and policies during the 1930s in America, focusing on presidential campaigns, amendments, and social reforms. It assesses understanding of historical impacts and legislative changes relevant to learners studying American history.
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Was permanently disabled after contracting polio
Was twice elected governor of Georgia
Was born into a family of sharecroppers
Supported the continuation of Prohibition
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Radical Socialist and Communist party candidates won nearly 1 million votes
FDR’s training as vice president under Herbert Hoover helped him win the Democratic nomination
Republican Alfred Landon won the electoral votes of only six states
FDR promised to continue the economic policies of Herbert Hoover
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Al Smith
Herbert Hoover
Theodore Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Train young men for the Army Corps of Engineers
Provide work relief for young men
Give young women an opportunity to earn money for higher education
Promote conservation practices by the general public
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FERA
NRA
CCC
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Ernest Hemingway and John Cheever
Ralph Ellison and Saul Bellow
John Cheever and Eugene O’Neil
Eugene O’Neil and Ernest Hemingway
Cutbacks in production
Intensive farming
A government takeover of the commodity trade in Chicago
State and federal subsidies
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The production of cheap electric power
Opening rivers to boats and barges
Flood control
The development of Smoky Mountain National Park
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FDIC
HOLC
NRA
PWA
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Developed a program called Share the Wealth
Founded the National Union for Social Justice
Challenged FDR for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1936
Complained that the New Deal had gone too far by infringing on “the rights of persons and property”
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Overturned the Farm Credit Act
Overturned the National Industrial Recovery Act
Decided that Schechter was involved in interstate, not local, trade
Upheld the constitutionality of the second Agricultural Adjustment Act
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Was upheld by the Supreme Court in United States v. Butler
Gave jobs to several thousand unemployed miners
Was often called the Wagner Act
Was struck down by the Supreme Court in 1935
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It was, according to Roosevelt, the “supreme achievement” of the New Deal.
It committed the national government to a broad range of welfare activities.
It provided old-age pensions.
It was based on a progressive tax that took a larger percentage of higher incomes.
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Provided for a regressive tax
Increased federal revenue significantly and thus helped finance the New Deal
Raised taxes on incomes above $50,000
Created a more equal distribution of wealth in America
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Upheld the state’s Democratic white primary
Overturned a state law restricting the sale of petroleum products beyond certain quotas
Upheld Alabama’s claim that the Scottsboro Boys were not entitled to public defenders
Ruled that the systematic exclusion of blacks from juries denied defendants equal protection of the law
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Widespread industrial agriculture to scattered subsistence farming
Fertilization to naturalization
Widespread scattered subsistence farming to industrial agriculture
Forests to clear cuts across the Great Plains
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African Americans voted overwhelmingly Republican for the first time since Reconstruction
Republicans won most of the western farm vote and almost upset Roosevelt
Republicans hoped that third-party candidates might split the Democratic vote and throw the election to them
Socialist and Communist candidates together received over 2 million votes
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The Supreme Court ruled that the president, and not Congress, has authority to adjust the number of justices
The Supreme Court agreed to an extension of the number of justices
Congress removed cases involving the New Deal from the Supreme Court’s jurisdiction
The Supreme Court began reversing previous judgments and upholding the New Deal
Black workers
Southern workers
Steel workers
Automobile workers
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Decentralization of union organization
Industrial unions
Women in unions
The Republican party
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A sharp decrease in government spending
A sharp rise in private spending
The huge government deficit
The repeal of the Revenue Act of 1935
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African Americans
Liberal Democrats
All western Democrats
A bipartisan conservative bloc
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Roosevelt was defeated in his bid for reelection
Roosevelt’s attempts to “purge” the Democratic party were largely unsuccessful
Republicans won control of the House and the Democrats kept a majority of only two in the Senate
Republicans won control of the Senate and Democrats kept a majority of only two in the House
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Administered the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1937 (the “Second AAA”)
Offered loans to marginal farmers (so they could avoid falling into tenancy) and to tenant farmers (so they could purchase their own farms)
Provided federal subsidies for the expansion of large farms
Established educational programs to teach farmers new agricultural methods
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Was heaviest in the South
Succeeded in removing three of Roosevelt’s cabinet members
Supported plans to replace Roosevelt with Henry Wallace as the Democratic presidential candidate in 1936
Supported plans to replace Roosevelt with Huey Long as the Democratic presidential candidate in 1936
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Was the “radio priest”
Headed the TVA
Headed the BIA
Wrote Uncle Tom’s Children
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Henry Morgenthau
Arthur Laffer
Milton Friedman
John Maynard Keynes
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Attempted to reinvigorate traditional Indian cultures
Broke up tribal lands and allocated them to individuals
Had the support of western congressmen and assimilated Indians
Was the brainchild of Henry Dawes
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Lucy Mercer
Margaret Mitchell
Paul Muni
John Steinbeck
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Led the conservative outcry against New Deal business regulation
Starred in the original version of Scarface
Wrote Native Son, a story of racial prejudice
Was the outspoken head of the Farm Security Administration
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Secretary of state
Vice president
Governor of New York
National chairman of the Democratic party
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Pushed through a bank bailout bill worth more than $7 billion
Used his emergency powers to nationalize the banking industry
Put strict limits on the issuance of paper currency
Declared a bank holiday, shutting the banks down briefly
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Frances Perkins
John Nance Garner
Henry Wallace
Harry Hopkins
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Prohibit child labor
Establish minimum wages of $13 per week
Set a forty-hour work week
Break up large corporations
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