chapter 21

(Q011) In addressing the sense of crisis in the nation, Franklin Delano Roosevelt sought to reassure the public in his inaugural address, declaring

"the only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

(Q021) Which of the following was one of the "voices of protest" heard in the United States during the mid-1930s?

Dr. Francis Townsend's Townsend Clubs that sought monthly payments of $200 to elderly Americans

(Q035) The Supreme Court rarely interfered with the policies of the New Deal.

False

(Q040) While the status of Mexican-Americans improved markedly under the New Deal, that of American Indians grew substantially worse.

False

(Q008) This New Deal program sought to improve the conditions of poor landowning farmers and sharecroppers.

Farm Security Administration

(Q009) Which of the following is true of Franklin D. Roosevelt?

He contracted polio and lost the use of his legs in 1921.

(Q030) What were the policy implications of the Filipino Repatriation Act of 1935?

It offered free transportation to those who were born in the Philippines and were willing to return there.

(Q003) What did the Twenty-first Amendment to the Constitution state?

It repealed the prohibition against alcohol.

(Q016) The effort undertaken on the part of the federal government to supply cheap electrical power for homes and factories in a seven-state region, preventing flooding, and putting the federal government in the business of selling electricity by building a series of dams was called

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

(Q036) The 1930s were a decade of dramatic social upheaval.

True

(Q039) The 1936 election saw the crystallizing of the "New Deal coalition."

True

(Q042) Russia and Germany suffered under the respective tyrants Stalin and Hitler during the 1930s.

True

(Q006) As part of the New Deal, which multifaceted agency was established in 1934 and hired some 3 million Americans, in virtually every walk of life, each year until it ended in 1943?

Works Progress Administration (WPA)

(Q023) Which of the following was created by the Social Security Act of 1935, launching the modern American welfare state?

a system of unemployment insurance

(Q015) The Civil Works Administration (CWA) employed more than 4 million people in

construction of tunnels, highways, courthouses, and airports.

(Q005) This person broadcasted sermons and traveled the country as a revivalist preacher from the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel, utilizing elaborate sets, costumes, and special effects borrowed from the movie industry.

d. Aimee Semple McPherson

(Q012) The initial flurry of legislation during Roosevelt's first three months in office is called

the "Hundred Days.

(Q020) In the mid-1930s, unions of industrial workers, led by John L. Lewis, founded a new labor organization, called

the Congress of Industrial Organizations.

(Q002) In the 1930s, unusually dry weather blew winds over much of the Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, and Colorado soils, creating

the Dust Bowl

(Q024) What 1935 law outlawed "unfair labor practices," and was known at the time as "Labor's Magna Carta"?

the Wagner Act