The Great Depression & New Deal Review

All of the following statements about the Civilian Conservation Corps are true EXCEPT: a. Its members lived in camps, wore uniforms, and were under semi-military discipline. b. It engaged in such projects as preventing soil erosion and impounding lakes. c. It eventually came to employ over one-third of the American work force. d. It provided that some of the workers' pay should be sent home to their families. e. It was part of FDR's New Deal.

It eventually came to employ over one-third of the American work force.

To alleviate unemployment, the Works Progress Administration attempted to provide all of the following EXCEPT: a. Jobs building bridges, dams, and public buildings. b. Part-time employment and technical training for jobless youth. c. Jobs for artists to create murals and other works of art for federal buildings. d. Jobs for writers to collect materials on folklore and regional culture. e. Jobs for veterans to help train new draftees in the army.

Jobs for veterans to help train new draftees in the army.

Which of the following was designed to provide long term "job security" for workers? a. Civilian Conservation Corps. b. Civil Works Administration. c. National Labor Relations Act. d. Works Progress Administration.

National Labor Relations Act.

Which of the following most directly addressed "security for capitalists?" a. Federal Emergency Relief Act. b. National Recovery Administration. c. Social Security Act. d. Security and Exchange Commission.

National Recovery Administration.

FDR's "Court-packing plan" called for _____.

The addition of up to six new justices if present justices over the age of 70 did not retire.

Which of the following was most directly related to the phrase in the testimony, "the necessity for relief for our suffering fellow citizens"? a. Twenty percent of the banks were closed. b. The Dawes Plan was suspended. c. The Federal Farm Board was created. d. Twenty-five percent of the workforce was unemployed.

Twenty-five percent of the work force was unemployed.

The conservative Democratic opposition to the New Deal in the late 1930's ____.

Was Strongest in the south.

Who among the following individuals or groups would most directly oppose the philosophy of the New Deal as explained in this excerpt? a. American Liberty League. b. Brain Trust. c. Huey Long. d. Dr. Francis Townsend

American Liberty League

During the first Hundred Days, Franklin Roosevelt did all of the following EXCEPT: a. Close the banks b. Put the stock market under government supervision. c. Call for Social Security Act. d. Establish the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. e. Pass the Agricultural Adjustment Act.

Call for a Social Security Act.

Which of the following would most likely support a belief that the government was "against the common people"? a. Creation of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. b. Treatment of the Bonus Marchers. c. Efforts to stabilize farm prices. d. Passage of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff.

Creation of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.

In order to deal with the crisis in banking at the time of his inauguration, FDR _____.

Declared a four-day "banking holiday" and prohibited the export of money.

The genesis of Roosevelt's social security program may well have been the plan of _____.

Dr. Francis Townsend.

The philosophy behind the New Deal was primarily to _____.

Expand the role of federal government in providing jobs, relief for the unemployed, better wages, and regulation of industry to control the abuses of the past which had led to the current depression.

Which of the following most directly supports the author's analysis? a. Gross national product fell from $104 billion in 1929 to $56 billion in 1932. b. Bank assets fell from $72 billion in 1929 to $51 billion in 1932. c. Farm income fell from $11.4 billion in 1929 to $6.3 billion in 1932. d. Government spending rose from $3.2 billion in 1929 to $4.6 billion in 1932.

Farm income fell from $11.4 billion in 1929 to $6.3 billion in 1932.

When WWI veterans marched in the Bonus Expeditionary Force in 1932 they were trying to ____.

Get congress to release a promised payment to the soldiers who had fought in the war.

Which of the following was NOT true of Hoover's responses to the Great Depression? a. He at first stressed the desirability of localism and private initiative rather than government intervention. b. He saw the depression akin to an act of nature, about which nothing could be done except ride it out. c. He urged the nation's business leaders to maintain wages and full employment. d. His strategy for ending the Depression was a failure. e. He was not able to avoid increasing unpopularity.

He saw the Depression as akin to an act of nature, about which nothing could be done except to ride.

The Hawley-Smoot Tariff ____.

Led foreign nations to increase tariff duties.

Eleanor Roosevelt expressed the most independence from President Franklin Roosevelt and his advisers in her _____.

Opposition to racial discrimination.

All of the following were root causes of the Great Depression EXCEPT: a. Falling crop prices for farmers. b. Overly generous wage increases in US factories. c. A growing imbalance between rising productivity and purchasing power. d. Tax reductions that led to over saving. e. Unsound banking practices.

Overly generous wage increases in US factories.

Unlike during the Progressive period, labor under the New Deal received _____.

Positive government support.

The recession of 1937 was primarily caused by _____.

Premature tightening of credit and cutbacks in spending for New Deal programs.

The Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 sought to ______.

Prohibit the division of tribal lands into allotments and allow Indians to resume using their own tribal languages and rituals on their lands.

In his inaugural address, FDR said that if Congress did not pass the laws he believed it should, he would _____.

Seek wartime emergency powers to carry out the measures himself.

The excerpt suggests that Eleanor Roosevelt knew that her positions could most harm her husband's standing with which of the following groups? a. The Catholic Church. b. White ethnic groups. c. Wall Street capitalists. d. Southern Democrats.

Southern Democrats.

FDR's New Deal program attempted or achieved all of the following EXCEPT: a. Raised farm prices by paying farmers not to plant. b. Encouraged cooperation within industries so as to raise prices generally. c. Supported the creation of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. d. Invigorated the economy by lowering tariff barriers. e. Restored confidence in the banking system.

Supported the creation of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.