Exam 21: The New Deal, 1932-1940

A) Only a very few Americans actually needed government assistance during the Great Depression.
B) Black workers were relegated to the least generous assistance programs with discriminatory eligibility standards administered by states.
C) New Deal work programs helped restore economic prosperity relatively quickly, leaving only the least qualified long-term unemployed behind.
D) By the middle of the 1930s, more and more Americans came to associate New Deal assistance programs with similar government help offered in Nazi Germany.
E) Despite his successes, Roosevelt remained deeply unpopular with Americans, who hated themselves for depending on his programs.

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A) applied only to the American West.
B) put young men to work in national parks.
C) applied only to the state of Tennessee.
D) combined economic regional planning with relief.
E) was created during the "Second New Deal."

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A) By being less discriminatory in their hiring practices.
B) By investing less overseas.
C) By increasing their workers' wages.
D) By paying their taxes.
E) By letting go of their patents.

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A) It typified New Deal public-works programs designed to keep natural resources in public rather than private control
B) Its result, the Grand Coulee Dam, eventually produced the cheapest electricity in the nation.
C) It promoted economic growth and provided jobs.
D) It's consideration of environmental impact (such as accommodation for fish) became a model for future dam projects on western rivers.

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A) He feared the Supreme Court might invalidate the Wagner and Social Security acts.
B) He was worried about being able to run for a third term as president.
C) He needed the Court's support for upcoming war measures against Germany.
D) He feared that the Supreme Court might invalidate the National Recovery Act or the Agricultural Adjustment Act.
E) He feared that the Supreme Court might deem sit-down strikes unconstitutional.

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A) The Democratic governor used force against the workers.
B) The workers were disunited.
C) The workers failed to get General Motors to negotiate.
D) The workers stayed inside the plants and kept the machines in working order.
E) The UAW were the first to use sit-down tactics.

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A) end poverty in California
B) black educator
C) Secretary of the Interior
D) CIO
E) Commissioner of Indian Affairs
F) Secretary of Labor
G) Popular Front dancer
H) Republican presidential candidate
I) Court-packing plan
J) wrote about migrant workers
K) "Share Our Wealth" movement
L) organized a Marian Anderson concert

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A) It refused employment to professionals such as dentists.
B) It put 3 million Americans to work every year until 1943.
C) Its construction projects included airports, swimming pools, and stadiums.
D) It employed people to write state guidebooks and record stories of former slaves.

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A) investigated disloyalty
B) hydroelectric project
C) International Labor Defense
D) radio address
E) large and active government
F) drought-struck area around Oklahoma and Texas
G) Roosevelt's first action
H) recognized labor unions
I) communists
J) minimum retirement program
K) blue eagle
L) relief for young men

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A) end poverty in California
B) black educator
C) Secretary of the Interior
D) CIO
E) Commissioner of Indian Affairs
F) Secretary of Labor
G) Popular Front dancer
H) Republican presidential candidate
I) Court-packing plan
J) wrote about migrant workers
K) "Share Our Wealth" movement
L) organized a Marian Anderson concert

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A) end poverty in California
B) black educator
C) Secretary of the Interior
D) CIO
E) Commissioner of Indian Affairs
F) Secretary of Labor
G) Popular Front dancer
H) Republican presidential candidate
I) Court-packing plan
J) wrote about migrant workers
K) "Share Our Wealth" movement
L) organized a Marian Anderson concert

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A) Huey Long and Upton Sinclair generated movements of popular protest that helped spark the Second New Deal.
B) The popular followings of Upton Sinclair, Huey Long, and Dr. Francis Townsend reflected the unhappiness of many Americans over the slowness of economic recovery.
C) Dr. Francis Townsend's idea to have the elderly receive monthly government payments was uniformly rejected and died very quickly.
D) Huey Long met his death in 1935 from an assassin's bullet.

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A) the "Brain Trust" saw big corporations as an inevitable part of the modern economy.
B) the "Brain Trust" believed that large corporations needed to be directed by the government.
C) the "Brain Trust" included university professors.
D) their economic views defined the "First New Deal."
E) the "Brain Trust" believed that large corporations needed to be dismantled.

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A) The Wagner Act excluded African-Americans.
B) The Federal Housing Administration refused to ensure mortgages in integrated neighborhoods.
C) The abolition of the gold standard penalized more traditional family savings in bullion.
D) The Security and Exchange Commission was staffed entirely by Anglo-Americans.
E) Franklin D. Roosevelt introduced segregation to Washington D.C., and eliminated blacks from all positions of responsibility in the federal government.

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A) was originally vetoed by President Roosevelt.
B) was adopted from the British welfare system.
C) provided federal funding for the poor and needy.
D) included pensions and unemployment relief.
E) covered all workers in industry and agriculture.

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