The Civilian Conservation Corps

1. A) put five million young men and women to work in camps across the country.
2. B) was a conservative political youth club.
3. C) employed jobless young men in rural projects such as reforestation, park maintenance, and erosion control.
4. D) brought together business leaders to draft codes of fair competition.
5. E) was the precursor to the National Guard.

C

What did Eleanor Roosevelt see as her primary role as First Lady?

1. A) She wanted to serve as an observer for her husband and promote social reform.
2. B) She wanted to be a gracious hostess for the many dignitaries who visited the White House.
3. C) She wanted to personally draft legislation and forge foreign policy.
4. D) She wanted to promote an appreciation of the arts.
5. E) She wanted to support her husband and be a light presence at social functions.

A

A growing anti-business attitude during the first Hundred Days of the New Deal could be detected in which of the following programs?

1. A) Reconstruction Finance Corporation
2. B) Federal Securities Act
3. C) National Industrial Recovery Act
4. D) Interstate Commerce Commission
5. E) All of these choices

B

Which of the following agencies was created during the Hoover administration to help failing financial institutions and continued to be active through the New Deal years?

1. A) Federal Emergency Relief Administration
2. B) Tennessee Valley Authority
3. C) Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
4. D) National Recovery Administration
5. E) Reconstruction Finance Corporation

E

How did the National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act) influence the labor movement?

1. A) It guaranteed collective-bargaining rights.
2. B) It permitted closed shops.
3. C) It outlawed the practice of blacklisting union leaders.
4. D) It created the National Labor Relations Board.
5. E) All of these choices

E

Which piece of New Deal legislation established the principle of federal responsibility for social welfare and created the basic framework for the welfare system?

1. A) Wagner Act
2. B) Revenue Act of 1935
3. C) Social Security Act
4. D) Hatch Act
5. E) Federal Securities Act

C

What was the purpose of the National Resources Planning Board?

1. A) It facilitated the federal government's programs to protect national forests.
2. B) It facilitated state and regional management of water, soil, timber, and minerals.
3. C) It facilitated the storage of supplies in case there was a world war.
4. D) It facilitated local construction of vital railways and roads.
5. E) It facilitated the development of federal, state, and local mining controls.

B

Which of the following is not a true statement about the Farm Security Administration?

1. A) It was designed to benefit tenant farmers and sharecroppers.
2. B) It often declined loan applications from the poorest farmers most in need of its help.
3. C) It provided medical services and shelter to migrant farm workers.
4. D) It organized programs to teach poor farmers new, more efficient agricultural techniques.
5. E) It commissioned photographers to record the lives of migrant workers, tenant farmers and those escaping the Dust Bowl.

D

Which of the following pieces of legislation was an attempt at campaign reform in the late 1930s?

1. A) Pendleton Act
2. B) McCain Act
3. C) Hatch Act
4. D) Kennedy Act
5. E) Eggleston Act

C

Which of the following examples of New Deal legislation is correctly paired with what its purpose?

1. A) National Youth Administration: Launched a federal-state program of workers' pensions, unemployment insurance, and other welfare benefits.
2. B) Fair Labor Standards Act: Banned child labor and set a national minimum wage.
3. C) Federal Securities Exchange Act: Raised taxes on corporations and the wealthy.
4. D) National Housing Act: Halted sale of tribal lands and enabled tribes to regain unallocated lands.
5. E) Public Utilities Holding Company Act: Guaranteed unions' collective-bargaining rights and outlawed anti-union practices.

B

Which group faced appalling labor conditions in California's agricultural regions?

1. A) Native Americans
2. B) African-Americans
3. C) Asian-Americans
4. D) Mexican-Americans
5. E) German Americans

D

What happened to Roosevelt's "court-packing" plan?

1. A) Congress, including New Deal supporters and many conservatives, approved of it because they felt it was time for a change.
2. B) The American people rejected it in a referendum.
3. C) He had to drop it but was able to replace four members of the Supreme Court who retired shortly thereafter.
4. D) It turned out to be one of Roosevelt's greatest triumphs.
5. E) It was the issue that enabled the Republicans to retake control of the Senate in the 1938 election.

C

What historic change took place during the 1936 presidential election?

1. A) Roosevelt was elected president for a third term.
2. B) African American voters switched party loyalty from Republican to Democrat.
3. C) Women voters became a key constituency, turning out in record numbers to assure Roosevelt's reelection.
4. D) Norman Thomas was the first Communist Party member on the ballot.
5. E) None of these choices

B

What feature of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 established the basic framework of federal agricultural policy for decades to come?

1. A) The government provided subsidies to producers of major farm commodities in return for cutting production.
2. B) In order to boost agricultural production the government made loans to farmers to invest in more land, machinery, and labor.
3. C) In years of big harvests and low prices, the government would make loans to farmers and store their surplus crops in government warehouses.
4. D) The government encouraged the survival of the family farm by withholding aid to agribusiness.
5. E) Farm workers were now covered by collective bargaining and minimum wage laws.

A

Which of the following statements is not true about the New Deal?

1. A) The New Deal brought about full economic recovery, and by 1939 unemployment was no longer a serious problem.
2. B) The New Deal vastly increased the power and prestige of the presidency.
3. C) The New Deal assumed a fundamental governmental responsibility to promote economic prosperity and the well-being of all citizens.
4. D) As the New Deal evolved, it acted as a broker for all organized interest groups-including agriculture and labor, not just business.
5. E) In the course of the New Deal, a fundamental political realignment took place.

A

Benny Goodman was noteworthy because he

1. A) ​created an integrated jazz orchestra that performed at Carnegie Hall.
2. B) ​developed be-bob and released the first million-seller record.
3. C) ​won a Pulitzer Prize for A Farewell to Arms.
4. D) ​was the lead engineer for building the Hoover Dam.
5. E) ​served as Franklin Delano Roosevelt's vice president for his first three terms.

A

Which of the following is an accurate statement about unemployment during the New Deal?

1. A) It never fell below 75 percent.
2. B) As late as 1939 more than 17 percent of the labor force remained jobless.
3. C) New Deal social and economic programs virtually eliminated unemployment for the first time in American history.
4. D) The jobless rate crept steadily upward from 1932 until 1945.
5. E) It never exceeded 7.5% even though politicians exaggerated the crisis for their own benefit.

B

Which statement best represents the economic status of farm families during the 1930s?

1. A) Because farm families were property owners, they suffered less than other segments of society during the depression.
2. B) Many farm families gave up because of debt and the drought.
3. C) In rural America, bankruptcies, foreclosures, and the abandonment of farms were rare because communities stuck together.
4. D) Three-fourths of the farms folded during the depression.
5. E) Because of the swift implementation of New Deal reforms, farm families prospered from 1933 onward.

B

The Committee for Industrial Organization was established

1. A) to organize skilled workers.
2. B) by industrialists to undermine the power of labor unions.
3. C) by President Roosevelt as one of his "alphabet agencies" to address economic problems.
4. D) to bring workers for "Little Steel" into the collective-bargaining cycle.
5. E) to organize all workers in a particular industry, regardless of race, gender, or degree of skill.

E

How did U.S. Steel in 1937 respond to the newly formed Steel Workers' Organizing Committee?

A) It lived up to its reputation as "the crouching lion in the pathway of labor" and crushed the new union.
B) It countered with the establishment of a company-sponsored employee association.
C) It recognized the union, granted a wage increase, and agreed to a forty-hour week.
D) It engaged in a protracted dispute with the union which included a major strike over union recognition.
E) It closed down the union and drove the socialists and agitators off the property.

C

Which statement best describes union membership in the 1930s?

1. A) Unions lost members because unemployed workers would accept low wages and poor working conditions to get a job.
2. B) Unions gained membership, growing from only 3 million in 1933 to over 8 million in 1941.
3. C) Union membership held steady at approximately 5 million members throughout the 1930s.
4. D) Unions gained members because a big effort was made to organize low-wage workers including agricultural laborers, and department-store clerks.
5. E) Union membership surged and soon 75% of American workers were unionized.

B

Which of the following companies bitterly resisted unionization in the 1930s?

1. A) General Motors
2. B) U.S. Steel
3. C) Ford Motor Company
4. D) Pennsylvania Railroad
5. E) Exxon

C

What vision of the future did the Futurama exhibit at the New York World's Fair of 1939 feature?

1. A) Space travel
2. B) An automated home
3. C) Air travel to even the smallest towns
4. D) A model city crisscrossed by light-rail mass transit lines
5. E) A complex interstate highway network of the future.

E

What was the radio adaptation of War of the Worlds about?

1. A) World War I
2. B) Spanish Civil War
3. C) Class warfare
4. D) An alien landing
5. E) A war between Christian Europe and the Islamic Middle East

D

Which of the following was not true concerning the election of 1936?

1. A) The Republicans candidate was an earnest but inept campaigner.
2. B) Roosevelt beat Alfred Landon in the most crushing victory since 1820.
3. C) Third-party candidates siphoned off an alarming number of Democratic votes.
4. D) The Democrats increased their majorities in the Senate and the House of Representatives.
5. E) Roosevelt won the support of farmers, union members, blacks, and women.

C

Which statement best expresses the mobility of African-Americans during the 1930s?

1. A) African-Americans poured into northern cities in a "great migration" in search of employment.
2. B) African-Americans poured into southern cities in record numbers in search of employment.
3. C) The depression slowed down the migration of African-Americans northward.
4. D) African-Americans reversed their previous migrations to northern cities, and returned to southern farms where there were greater opportunities for survival.
5. E) The depression made little difference because the majority of African-Americans had migrated to northern cities earlier in the century.

C