Prominent female social scientists of the 1930s, like Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead, brought widespread contributions to the field of
anthropology
The Wagner Act of 1935 proved to be a trailblazing law that
gave labor the legal right to organize and bargain collectively
All of the following are true statements about the men who joined the CCC except
many of the men had criminal records
After Franklin Roosevelt's failed attempt to pack the Supreme Court
much New Deal legislation was ruled unconstitutional
The National Labor Relations Act proved most beneficial to
unskilled workers
As a result of the 1937 Roosevelt recession
Roosevelt adopted Keynesian economics
President Roosevelt's Court-packing scheme in 1937 reflected his desire to ensure that the Supreme Court
upheld the constitutionality of legally challenged New Deal programs
The most immediate emergency facing Franklin Roosevelt when he became president in March 1933 was
the collapse of nearly the entire banking system
Immediately after taking office, President Roosevelt responded to the banking crisis by
Closing all American banks for a week, while reorganizing them on a sounder basis
Some Native Americans denounced the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 because its provisions
ignored the increasing loss of Indian land to real estate and commercial development and environmental degradation
Franklin Roosevelt's ____ contributed the most to his development of compassion and strength of will
afflicton with infantile paralysis
The Democratic party platform on which Franklin Roosevelt campaigned for the presidency in 1932 called for
extensive social reforms and a balanced budget
By 1938, th eNew Deal
had lost most of its momentum
One striking new feature of the 1932 presidential election results was that
African Americans shifted from their Republican allegiance and became a vital element in the Democratic Party
Most Dust Bowl migrants headed to
California
Senator Huey P. Long of Louisiana gained a large national following by promising to
"share our wealth" by raising taxes on the rich and giving every family $5,000
Match each New Deal critic below with the cause or slogan that he promoted.
A. Father Coughlin 1. "social justice"
B. Huey Long 2. "every man a king"
C. Francis Townsend 3. "a holy crusade for liberty"
D. Herbert Hoover 4. "$200 a month for everyone over 60"
A-1, B-2, C-4, D-3
Both ratified in the 1930s, the 20th Amendment _______ and the 21st Amendment ________.
shortened the time between presidential election and inaguration; ended prohibition
THe National Recovery Administration failed largely because
it required too much self-scrifice on the part of industry, labor, and the public.
Eleanor Roosevelt had honed her own skills and developed a personal network of reform activists through
her experience in settlement houses and women's reform organizations
Franklin Roosevelt took America off the gold standard and adopted a managed currency policy designed to
stimulate inflation
During the 1930s
the national debt doubled
Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal was most notable for
Providing moderate social and economic reforms of the American capitalist system and giving necessary relief to millions of downtrodden without radical revolution or reactionary fascism
All of the following contributed to the Dust Bowl of the 1930s except
farmers' failure to use steam tractors and other modern equipment
The primary interest of the Congress of Insudtrial Organization was
the organization of all unskilled and semiskilled workers within an industry
In 1932, Franklin Roosevelt campaigned on the promise that as president he would attack the Great Depression by
experimenting with bold new programs for economic and social reform
While Franklin Roosevelt waited to assume the presidency in early 1933, Herbert Hoover unsuccessfully tried to get the president-elect to commit to
an anti-inflationary policy that would have made much of the New Deal impossible
Probably the mos radically economic New Deal program that provoked widespread charges fo creeping socialism by Republican and conservative critics of President Roosevelt's administration was the
Tennessee Valley Authority
The Glass-Steagall Banking Reform Act of 1933
created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to insure individual bank deposits
The first Agricultural Adjustment Act raised the money that it paid to farmers not to grow crops by
taxing processors of farm products
The Agricultural Adjustment Act proposed to solve the farm problem by
reducing agricultural production
The group that had experienced the worst suffering as a result of the Great Depression was
African Americans
President Roosevelt's chief "administrator of relief" and one of his closest advisors was
Harry Hopkins
In 1935, President Roosevelt set up the Resettlement Administration to
help farmers who were victims of the Dust Bowl move to better land
The Federal Securities Act and the Securities Exchange Commission aimed to
provide full disclosure of info and prevent insider trading and other fraudulent practices
The federally-owned Tennessee Valley Authority was seen as a particular threat to
The private electrical utility industry
Recently, some historians have argued that the New Deal had a more radical effect on men than women for all of the following reasons except
many men were required to assume significant child rearing responsibility because of the millions of women who went to work for New Deal agencies
The fate of most of the Okies and other Dust Bowl migrants who headed west to California was that they
found themselves mired in poverty, squalor , and lack of economic opportunity in the San Joaquin Valley
Roosevelt supported the repeal of prohibition because
he thought that it afforded the oppportunity to raise needed federal revenue and provide jobs
The most controversial aspect of the Tennessee Valley Authority was its effort to
Provide cheap electrical power in competition with private industry
The phrase Hundred Days refers to the
flood of legislation passed by Congress in the first months of Franklin Roosevelt's presidency
By putting thousand of people immediately to work at good-paying jobs and providing access to low-cost electricity to a region lacking cheap electrical power, the _____ proved to be immensely popular among those Americans it served
Tennessee Valley Authority
The Works Progress Administration was a major ____ program of the New Deal; the Public Works Administration was a long-range ____ program; and the Social Security Act was a major _____ program.
relief; recovery; reform
Match each New Dealer below with the federal agency or program with which he or she was closely identified.
A. Robert Wagner 1. Department of Labor
B. Harry Hopkins 2. Public Works Administration
C. Harold Ickes 3. Works Progress Administration
D. Frances Perkins 4. National Labor Relations Act
A-4, B-3, C-2, D-1
The New Deal program of the following agency represented the most economically complex, managerially ambitious, and unsuccessful New Deal effort to achieve recovery and reform the entire American economy
National Recovery Administration
When Franklin Roosevelt assumed the presidency in Marc 1933
he received unprecedented congressional support
The American Social Security System, established by the New Deal, differed from most Europan social welfare systems primarily because it
did not initially coverall categories of workers
The Social Security Act o 1935 proved all of the following except
health care for the poor
The Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 attempted to
Reverse the forces assimilation of Native Americans into white society by establishing tribal self-government
The early New Deal experiments borrowed rather freely and randomly from
US wartime and pre-war agencies and European social reform models