Question 1

What was the Works Progress Administration? What did it accomplish, and for whom?

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Works Prog...

Question 2

President Roosevelt's plan for enlarging the Supreme Court

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A)   became unnecessary when four conservative judges retired.
B)   faced great opposition but was ultimately successful.
C)   was ruled unconstitutional by the sitting Supreme Court justices.
D)   was ratified by Congress but not by the required number of states.

Question 3

Compare the provisions of the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933 with those of the National Labor Relations Act of 1935. What effect did each act have on industry and on the rights of workers?

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Answer would ideally include:
National R...

Question 4

Why did Roosevelt fail to push for more ambitious reforms for black Americans?

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A)   He was too busy with programs for workers and farmers.
B)   He could not afford to lose the support of southern Democrats for his New Deal agenda.
C)   He was unmoved by African Americans' circumstances and not concerned about civil rights.
D)   He was afraid of creating disorder in the South by disturbing the balance of power between blacks and white landowners.

Question 5

"Long ago, I wanted to join the AFL union, the Amalgamated Butchers and Meat Cutters, they called it and wouldn't take me. Wouldn't let me in the union. Never said it to my face, but reason of it was plain. Negro. That's it. Just didn't want a Negro man to have what he should. That's wrong. You know that's wrong. Long about 1937 the CIO come. Well, I tell you, we Negroes was glad to see it come. Well, you know, sometimes the bosses, or either the company stooges try to keep the white boys from joining the union. They say, 'you don't want to belong to a black man's organization. That's all the CIO is.' Don't fool nobody, but they got to lie, spread lyin' words around." What organization did Jim Cole accuse of racism?

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A)   The AFL
B)   The CIO
C)   The WPA
D)   The NRA

Question 6

What was Franklin Delano Roosevelt's personal and political background when he ran for the presidency in 1932?

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Personal B...

Question 7

What was the name of President Roosevelt's signature program?

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A)   The New Freedom
B)   The Square Deal
C)   The Works Progress Program
D)   The New Deal

Question 8

What was the purpose of Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps?

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A)   It provided work for young women so that they could help their families.
B)   It gave young men government jobs conserving natural resources.
C)   It made use of surplus food donated by farmers to pay the working poor.
D)   It established federally funded recycling programs to conserve natural resources.

Question 9

To what extent did racial and ethnic minorities benefit from New Deal programs?

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Many African Americans, particularly in ...

Question 10

Match the term with the definition.
-Coalition of mostly unskilled workers formed in 1935 that mobilized massive union organizing drives in major industries. By 1941, through the affiliated United Auto Workers, organizers had overcome violent resistance to unionize the entire automobile industry.

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A)  Agricultural Adjustment Act (AA
A)  
B)  Committee for Industrial Organization
C)  Civilian Conservation Corps (CC
C)  
D)  court-packing plan
E)  Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDI
C)  F) fireside chatsG) National Recovery Administration (NR
A)  H) New Deal coalitionI) Social SecurityJ) underconsumptionK) Wagner ActL) Works Progress Administration (WP
A)

Question 11

What was the outcome of the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act on Native Americans?

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A)   It provided economic aid and other forms of assistance to help Indians in poverty.
B)   It forced Native Americans back onto the reservations they had left after passage of the Dawes Act in 1887.
C)   It restored Indians' right to own land communally and have greater control over their affairs.
D)   It strengthened the federal government's policy of assimilation by dispersing concentrated populations of Indians.

Question 12

Match the term with the definition.
-New Dealers' belief that the root cause of the country's economic paralysis was that factories and farms produced more than they could sell, causing factories to lay off workers and farmers to lose money. The only way to increase consumption, they believed, was to provide jobs that put wages in consumers' pockets.

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A)  Agricultural Adjustment Act (AA
A)  
B)  Committee for Industrial Organization
C)  Civilian Conservation Corps (CC
C)  
D)  court-packing plan
E)  Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDI
C)  F) fireside chatsG) National Recovery Administration (NR
A)  H) New Deal coalitionI) Social SecurityJ) underconsumptionK) Wagner ActL) Works Progress Administration (WP
A)

Question 13

To what was President Roosevelt referring when he said, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself"?

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A)   Fascist aggression in Germany
B)   Nationalist expansion in Japan
C)   His paralysis from polio
D)   The terror caused by the Depression

Question 14

The New Deal made significant improvements in the quality of life in rural America by

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A)   expanding railroad lines to make travel and trade easier for rural Americans.
B)   establishing programs to facilitate the opening of new overseas markets for farmers' surplus crops.
C)   initiating federal oversight to ensure that sharecroppers and tenant farmers received a fair share of government benefits.
D)   providing electricity to rural communities through the Rural Electrification Administration.

Question 15

In running for his second term in office, President Roosevelt said, "I should like to have it said of my first Administration that in it the forces of selfishness and of lust for power met their match. I should like to have it said of my second Administration that in it these forces met their master." To what extent did the president achieve his objective for his second term? In your answer, pay careful attention to the political, economic, and social actions taken by the president.

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Roosevelt made some limited efforts to c...

Question 16

Match the term with the definition.
-New Deal program established in 1935 that provided government-funded public works jobs to millions of unemployed Americans during the Depression, in areas ranging from construction to the arts.

Accepted Answer

A)  Agricultural Adjustment Act (AA
A)  
B)  Committee for Industrial Organization
C)  Civilian Conservation Corps (CC
C)  
D)  court-packing plan
E)  Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDI
C)  F) fireside chatsG) National Recovery Administration (NR
A)  H) New Deal coalitionI) Social SecurityJ) underconsumptionK) Wagner ActL) Works Progress Administration (WP
A)

Question 17

Why didn't southern tenant farmers benefit from the programs developed by the Agricultural Adjustment Act, the Commodity Credit Corporation, and the Farm Credit Act?

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A)   The farmers' loan applications were not processed correctly.
B)   Southern states did not participate in these New Deal programs.
C)   The programs benefitted large farmers rather than tenant farmers who rented land.
D)   Tenant farmers did not qualify for these assistance programs because they didn't own the land they farmed.

Question 18

Which of the following describes the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) ?

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A)   It was one of Herbert Hoover's only effective responses to bank failures.
B)   It guaranteed bank customers that the federal government would reimburse them for deposits if their bank failed.
C)   It was an emergency measure Roosevelt passed to close the nation's banks until they were solvent again.
D)   It was a system through which the federal government would deposit money into regional banks to strengthen them.

Question 19

The New Deal established the basis of the American welfare state, but many Americans remained outside its reach. Which groups of Americans benefited least from the New Deal and why?

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During the 1930s, the majority of Africa...

Question 20

On what criteria were benefits provided through Social Security?

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A)   Benefits were based on workers' contributions and years of work.
B)   Workers took a means test to prove they were needy.
C)   All workers in all occupations received Social Security benefits.
D)   Domestic and agricultural workers received extra benefits.

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