DE US History - Ch. 24

During President Franklin Roosevelt's early days in office,

he promised to take drastic, even warlike, action against economic conditions

One long-term consequence of the New Deal was that

C. the national government assumed a responsibility for the basic welfare of the people.

The Works Progress Administration of 1935

E. was much larger than previous programs of its kind.

(T/F): By 1936, the black vote had become evenly split between Republicans and Democrats.

False

(T/F): During the 1930s, the smaller steel companies were more willing to accommodate unions than were the large steel companies.

False

(T/F): On the prompting of Eleanor Roosevelt, New Deal agencies tried to eliminate racial segregation in their programs.

False

(T/F): Roosevelt's "Court-packing plan" called for replacing conservative justices with liberal ones.

False

(T/F): Early into his first term, President Roosevelt let it be known that balancing the federal budget was a high priority of his administration.

True

(T/F): In general, the CIO was a more militant labor organization than the AFL.

True

(T/F): Largely as a result of the New Deal, the Democratic Party grew massively in size and power.

True

(T/F): Much of Franklin Roosevelt's early success as president was a result of his personality.

True

(T/F): New Deal Social Security was primarily designed to provide assistance to those who had earned it, but it also provided considerable direct assistance based on need.

True

(T/F): President Roosevelt had misgivings about establishing a federal "dole" for the jobless.

True

(T/F): President Roosevelt was dissatisfied with the National Labor Relations Act, but he did sign it.

True

(T/F): President Roosevelt's 1936 reelection was the greatest landslide victory to that point in the history of American presidential elections.

True

(T/F): Roosevelt's Court-packing plan came to be considered unnecessary by Congress once the Supreme Court began supporting New Deal legislation.

True

John Collier is associated with New Deal

A. Indian policies.

To oversee activities in the stock market, in 1934 Congress established the

A. Securities and Exchange Commission.

All of the following groups were part of the New Deal political coalition EXCEPT

A. big business owners.

In the 1930s, industrial unionism was

A. considerably strengthened by New Deal legislation.

In the 1930s, the Congress of Industrial Organization

A. grew out of a dispute within the American Federation of Labor.

One of the major effects the New Deal had on the United States was that

A. it fostered stronger and more varied interest groups.

The Economy Act of 1933

A. proposed to balance the federal budget and cut government workers' salaries.

During its first year, the Civil Works Administration

A. put four million people to work.

The Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933

A. sought to raise crop prices by paying farmers not to plant.

All of the following programs were part of the Second New Deal EXCEPT

A. the Federal Emergency Relief Administration.

The Social Security Act of 1935

B. did not begin making payments to participants for years.

In response to President Franklin Roosevelt's first days in office, the American people

B. felt a mixture of relief and hope.

The National Labor Relations Act of 1935

B. gave the government the authority to force employers to accept labor unions.

In 1935, Senator Huey Long

B. had a strong record of progressive accomplishments./had proposed a national wealth-sharing plan that involved heavily taxing the wealthiest Americans.

The Civilian Conservation Corps

B. put the unemployed to work on rural and wilderness areas.

The Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 established

B. the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

During the recession of 1937,

B. the economy was as bad as during the worst period of the Hoover administration.

During the 1930s, the sit-down strike

B. was a new and controversial labor tactic.

African Americans employed by New Deal relief programs

B. were among the first to be released when funds ran out.

The New Deal program that created utility cooperatives for rural Americans was the

C. Rural Electrification Administration.

In the 1930s, the industrial union movement

C. grew more militant and powerful.

In 1934, Dr. Francis Townsend attracted widespread national support for a plan that

C. helped pave the way for the Social Security system.

Frances Perkins, the first female cabinet member in American history, was secretary of

C. labor.

During the first year of the National Recovery Administration,

C. large producers consistently dominated the code-writing process.

All of the following occurred as a result of the Tennessee Valley Authority EXCEPT

C. poverty in the region was significantly reduced.

The election of 1936

C. produced a new and enduring coalition of voters for the Democratic Party.

Beginning in 1933, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

C. protected the assets of small bank depositors.

Under the New Deal, African Americans

C. received more sympathy than under most previous administrations.

New Deal policy toward American Indians, as led by John Collier,

C. was grounded in a commitment to cultural relativism.

In 1934, strong criticism of the New Deal came from

D. All the answers are correct.

The "Second New Deal" was launched partly in response to the

D. All the answers are correct.

The Works Progress Administration provided federal assistance to

D. All the answers are correct.

The most influential advocate for African Americans in the Roosevelt administration was

D. Eleanor Roosevelt.

Much of Father Charles Coughlin's outspoken criticism of the Roosevelt administration revolved around the issue of

D. changing the banking and currency system.

In the American West, New Deal programs

D. disproportionately benefited the region in funding.

The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938

D. established a national minimum wage.

The National Recovery Administration of 1933 did all of the following EXCEPT

D. increase competition between companies.

In 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt decided

D. that he should try to balance the federal budget.

In 1937, regarding the organizing of industrial labor,

D. the great majority of strikes were settled in favor of the unions.

President Franklin Roosevelt's proposal to expand the Supreme Court

D. was eventually defeated in Congress.

In the 1930s, the New Deal generally gave

D. work relief to men and cash assistance to women.

During the Second New Deal, President Franklin Roosevelt

E. became more willing to attack corporate interests openly.

In 1934, the American Liberty League was formed

E. by wealthy conservatives who strongly opposed the New Deal.

In 1933, two days after he took office, President Franklin Roosevelt

E. closed all banks (for a short period).

In 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt's call to expand the Supreme Court came from

E. his desire to change the ideological balance of the Court.

All the following statements regarding the New Deal and women are true EXCEPT that

E. in general, women were major critics of the New Deal.

During the 1937 sit-down strike of General Motors, the federal government

E. refused to intervene in the dispute.

By the end of 1938,

E. the New Deal had largely come to an end.

The Tennessee Valley Authority of 1933

E. was an experiment in regional planning by the federal government.

The Agricultural Adjustment Act

E. was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.

(T/F): The Agricultural Adjustment Act did not bring about a rise in farm prices in the years immediately following its passage in 1933.

False

(T/F): The National Industrial Recovery Act sought to tighten antitrust provisions and make important concessions to labor.

False

(T/F): The New Deal had moved far enough to the left by 1935 that the poorest of workers, including domestic servants and agricultural laborers, were covered by the Social Security Act.

False

(T/F): The New Deal substantially altered the distribution of power within American capitalism.

False

(T/F): Theories of cultural relativism fed into New Deal plans to assimilate the American Indian into the larger white society.

False

(T/F): Under the National Industrial Recovery Act, the code writing was to be done by Congress.

False

(T/F): A series of 1935 Roosevelt proposals for higher tax rates on the wealthy was likely designed to undercut Senator Huey Long's Share-Our-Wealth Plan.

True

(T/F): Charles Coughlin quickly moved from supporting to opposing President Roosevelt.

True

(T/F): Despite the challenge of the CIO, the AFL remained committed to the craft union idea.

True

(T/F): During his first term, President Roosevelt grew increasingly willing to openly attack corporate interests.

True

(T/F): During his first term, President Roosevelt preferred work relief programs to those that simply provided cash assistance.

True

(T/F): During the New Deal, the federal government maintained a much greater and more visible bureaucratic presence in the West than in any other region of the country.

True

(T/F): The Congress of Industrial Organizations was more receptive to women and blacks than the American Federation of Labor had been.

True

(T/F): The Home Owners Loan Corporation provided funds for refinancing home mortgages.

True

(T/F): The New Deal generally supported the notion that in hard economic times, women should leave the workplace in order to open up jobs for men.

True

(T/F): The New Deal was not hostile to black Americans, but it did not give the issue of race a high priority.

True

(T/F): The Rural Electrification Administration was more effective and affected more people than did the Resettlement Administration.

True

(T/F): The Social Security Act was part of what has been called the Second New Deal.

True

(T/F): The Supreme Court declared both the National Industrial Recovery Act and the Agricultural Adjustment Act to be unconstitutional.

True

(T/F): The industrial codes set up under the National Recovery Administration set floors below which no company could lower prices or wages.

True

(T/F): The original Social Security Act included a system of unemployment insurance.

True

(T/F): The principal government aid to women was not work relief, but cash assistance.

True

(T/F): The provisions of the National Industrial Recovery Act included a promise to workers that they could participate in collective bargaining, but there were no enforcement mechanisms in the legislation.

True

(T/F): The recession of 1937 seemed to many observers at the time, including the president, to be the result of reductions in federal spending.

True

(T/F): The sit-down strike was an effective way to prevent companies from using strikebreakers.

True

The principle New Deal government aid to women during the 1930s was in the form of

cash assistance.