Ch. 21

(Q001) A major slogan of popular protest during the 1930s was

"Don't Buy Where You Can't Work."

(Q007) By the mid-1930s, more than two-thirds of American families owned radios. Many families tuned in to hear Roosevelt's radio addresses, known as

"fireside chats."

(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."

(Q033) How many Mexican-American children, born in the United States and therefore citizens, were forcibly deported by local authorities in the United States during the 1930s?

200,000

(Q031) What was the annual immigration quota for Filipinos allowed to enter the United States during the 1930s?

50

(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.

Aimee Semple McPherson

(Q018) In anticipation of the repeal of Prohibition, one of Roosevelt's first acts on taking office was to sign this legislation.

Beer and Wine Revenue Act

(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

(Q041) The New Deal continued to expand throughout Roosevelt's second term; only with the coming of World War II would its momentum expire.

False

(Q043) Franklin Delano Roosevelt entered the presidency in 1933 with a complex, detailed blueprint for dealing with the Great Depression.

False

(Q050) In the 1930s, good rain and weather resulted in bountiful crops in Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, and Colorado.

False

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

Farm Security Administration

(Q028) This federal agency dispatched collectors with tape recorders to help preserve American folk music.

Federal Music Project

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

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

(Q004) This person started the Share Our Wealth movement in 1934 with the slogan "Every Man a King."

Huey Long

(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.

(Q026) The commissioner of Indian Affairs who launched an "Indian New Deal" that ended a policy of forced assimilation and allowed Indians unprecedented cultural autonomy, and who secured the passage of the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, was

John Collier.

(Q025) Who authored The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money and asserted that large-scale government deficit spending was appropriate during economic downturns?

John Maynard Keynes

(Q027) Franklin Roosevelt appointed this person, a prominent educator, as special adviser on minority affairs.

Mary McLeod Bethune

(Q019) This region of the country had a huge impact on national policy, altering and molding the New Deal welfare state.

South

(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

TVA

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

True

(Q037) The Tennessee Valley Authority put the federal government, for the first time, in the business of selling electricity in competition with private companies.

True

(Q038) Franklin D. Roosevelt's inauguration unleashed a flood of poignant letters to the federal government describing the current labor force in such words as "terrible and inhuman condition," "slaves of the depression," and "wage slavery."

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

(Q044) After a decade of Republican domination, Democrats won both the presidency and both houses of Congress in the 1932 election.

True

(Q045) Between 1929 and 1933, about 5,000 banks (one-third of the nation's total) failed.

True

(Q046) Roosevelt's declaration of a four-day "bank holiday," along with emergency banking legislation, shored up citizens' confidence in the nation's banks, and in 1936 no bank failures were recorded.

True

(Q047) The National Industrial Recovery Act was modeled on the government-business partnership of the War Industries Board of World War I.

True

(Q048) The National Recovery Administration (NRA) exempted businesses from antitrust laws.

True

(Q049) Section 7a of the National Recovery Administration recognized the rights of workers to organize unions.

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.

(Q034) What group benefited enormously in California from New Deal dam construction?

corporate farm owners

(Q022) The emphasis of the Second New Deal was on

economic security, to protect Americans against poverty and unemployment.

(Q017) At a time of widespread hunger in the United States, the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) did which of the following?

set production quotas for major crops and paid farmers not to plant some crops

(Q032) What did the 1939 book, Factory in the Fields, by Carrie McWilliams demonstrate?

that migrant workers suffered from low wages in the United States

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

the "Hundred Days."

(Q013) The National Recovery Administration (NRA), headed by Hugh S. Johnson, set codes of fair practices and set prices and wages in many American industries; the NRA's symbol, which stores and factories that abided by the code displayed, was

the Blue Eagle.

(Q014) What was the name of the organization that Congress created in March 1933 that established the federal government as a direct employer of the unemployed in hiring young men to work on projects to improve national parks, forests, and flood control?

the Civilian Conservation Corps.

(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.

(Q029) The period during the mid-1930s when the Communist Party sought to ally itself with socialists and New Dealers in movements for social change and urged reform of the capitalist system was called

the Popular Front.

(Q010) In 1938, Roosevelt referred to this region as "the nation's No. 1 economic problem."

the South

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

the Wagner Act