Ch. 15 Multiple Choice

All of the following were achieved during the New Deal except...

a balanced budget

The Social Security program of 1935 provided which of the the following?

all of the choices are correct (old age pensions paid for by taxes on employers and workers, unemployment insurance by the federal government, federally administered assistance to the blind and disabled, & federally administered unemployment insurance)

The Wagner Act...

allowed labor unions to organize into labor unions and to act as the workers' sole bargaining agent in the workplace

During the years of the Great Depression and the New Deal, African Americans...

benefited from having a friends in the White House, Eleanor Roosevelt, who could speak and act independently in support of African American goals

How did the federal government make collective bargaining rights a permanent part of labor/management relations?

by passing the Wagner Act

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

declared a four-day "banking holiday"

Most of the rationale for conservative opposition to the New Deal came from the argument that the New Deal programs...

diminished the liberty of the individual

The most enduring change that occurred in U.S. banking during the administration of FDR was the

federal insurance of bank deposits

The Supreme Court declared the National Industrial Recovery Act unconstitutional partly because it...

gave legislation powers to the executive branch

The fundamental failure of the New Deal was its...

inability to end unemplyment

The farm policy of the New Deal was designed to...

increase prices of farm products by reducing farm output

What was the major reason that Roosevelt failed to launch the Third New Deal?

it would have required additional deficit spending

Which of the following was NOT a reason given to President Franklin Roosevelt in his attempt to "pack" the Supreme Court?

most Supreme Court justices were interpreting the Constitution too broadly

In addition to putting young men back to work, a principal purpose of the Civilian Conservation Corps was to...

promote reforestation and land conservation

During the period of the New Deal, the program of organized labor was most successful in...

removing obstacles to unionization

All of the following are true of Franklin Delano Roosevelt except that he...

supported federal laws against lynching and poll taxes

During the New Deal, African Americans became strong supporters of the Democratic Party because

the New Deal relief agencies included African Americans as recipients

The most profound and long-lasting effect of the New Deal on American politics was that...

the increasing power of the president lessened the power of Congress

Which of the following statements comes closest to FDR's meaning of the New Deal?

these times call for policies that will bring a decent standard of living to the forgotten people at the bottom of the economic pyramid

The primary purpose of the Public Works Administration and the Works Progress Administration was...

to provide employment through federal deficit spending

The Supreme Court declared the National Industrial Recovery Act unconstitutional because it...

used an over-broad definition of interstate commerce