Deck 5: 1929-1936: Depression and New Deal

Question 1

Herbert Hoover's policies failed to counteract the economic downturn of the early 1930s.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

The U.S. federal relief system as it existed in the early 1930s was incapable of handling the millions of newly unemployed.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

The Farm Holiday Association's attempt to pressure the government succeeded.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

One of Herbert Hoover's followers said that "'truth' is irrelevant as a test of an economic philosophy."

Question 5

The policies of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration improved the lives of sharecroppers.

Question 6

The Tennessee Valley Authority primarily served the interests of wealthy farmers.

Question 7

The 1920s saw an increase in membership among workers' unions.

Question 8

FDR did little to support unionization in the early 1930s.

Question 9

The Work Progress Administration was the first viable federal relief agency.

Question 10

The wealthy and the poor supported FDR's New Deal programs equally.

Question 11

Compare and contrast Herbert Hoover's and FDR's approaches to combating the Great Depression.

Question 12

Did FDR's New Deal policies unite the country or deepen its internal divisions?

Question 13

Who benefited most from the New Deal? Who benefited least? Explain.

Question 14

Which of the following were part of Herbert Hoover's plan to confront the economic downturn that followed the stock market crash?

A) Raise tariffs
B) Initiate building projects
C) Allow delays in payments received on war debts
D) All of the above

Question 15

Between 1929 and 1933, the U.S. gross national product dropped from $104 billion to what?

A) $93 billion
B) $74 billion
C) $61 billion
D) $55 billion

Question 16

Who were the Bonus Expeditionary Force?

A) U.S. Marines who fought at the Battle of Verdun in World War I
B) Soldiers who joined the military during the Great Depression for lack of gainful employment
C) World War I veterans who sought payment of funds promised them by Congress
D) The first regiment of volunteers to join the U.S. military at the outset of World War II

Question 17

FDR suffered from what disease?

A) Smallpox
B) Polio
C) Rheumatism
D) Tuberculosis

Question 18

Who was not among FDR's circle in 1933?

A) Rexford G. Tugwell
B) Henry A. Wallace
C) James A. Farley
D) None of the above

Question 19

Roosevelt created the NRA in June 1933. What does "NRA" stand for?

A) National Recovery Administration
B) National Reclamation Agency
C) National Rifle Association
D) National Response Administration

Question 20

The New Deal depended on the intervention of what group or organization to bring the United States out of the Great Depression?

A) Private business
B) Farmers
C) The government
D) The military

Question 21

The New Deal was opposed by members of which of the following groups?

A) Republicans
B) Socialists
C) Small-business owners
D) All of the above

Question 22

Which was not among the activities undertaken by the Civilian Conservation Corps?

A) Planting trees
B) Erecting dams
C) Constructing roads
D) Fighting forest fires

Question 23

Young men in the Civilian Conservation Corps kept how much of the $30 per week they earned (the rest going straight to their families)?

A) $5
B) $10
C) $15
D) $20

Question 24

Which was not mentioned in the text as being one of the techniques used by employers to block the organization of unions?

A) Recruiting professional strikebreakers
B) Establishing company union
C) Infiltrating union ranks
D) Stockpiling weapons in case of a strike

Question 25

Who ran against FDR in the 1936 presidential campaign?

A) Henry A. Wallace
B) Alf M. Landon
C) Charles Lindbergh
D) All of the above

Question 26

The Hawley-Smoot tariff was designed to do what?

A) Cushion U.S. business from foreign competition
B) Increase U.S. imports
C) Limit U.S. exports
D) All of the above

Question 27

In the early years of the Great Depression, farmers' income dropped by what percent?

A) 14
B) 32
C) 55
D) 61

Question 28

In 1932, how much per week did a family on relief in New York City receive?

A) $2.39
B) $4.23
C) $6.98
D) $8.12

Question 29

Before winning the 1932 presidential election, FDR served as governor of what state?

A) Illinois
B) California
C) New York
D) Massachusetts

Question 30

The blue eagle was the emblem of what New Deal agency?

A) The Work Progress Administration
B) The National Recovery Administration
C) The Public Works Administration
D) The Agricultural Adjustment Administration

Question 31

"We Shall Not Be Moved" was the slogan of what group?

A) Government propagandists
B) The Southern Tenant Farmers Union
C) The Agricultural Adjustment Administration
D) The Industrial Workers of the World

Question 32

The Civil Works Administration was created to replace what agency?

A) The National Recovery Administration
B) The Works Progress Administration
C) The Public Works Administration
D) The Federal Emergency Relief Administration

Question 33

In the 1936 presidential election, FDR won every state but which two?

A) New York and Maryland
B) Arkansas and South Dakota
C) Vermont and Maine
D) Oklahoma and Nebraska

Question 34

Talk About:
-Agricultural Adjustment Administration

Question 35

Talk About:
-American Federation of Labor

Question 36

Talk About:
-Bonus Army

Question 37

Talk About:
-Civilian Conservation Corps

Question 38

Talk About:
-Eleanor Roosevelt

Question 39

Talk About:
-Farm Holiday Association

Question 40

Talk About:
-Franklin D. Roosevelt

Question 41

Talk About:
-Harry Hopkins

Question 42

Talk About:
-Hawley-Smoot tariff

Question 43

Talk About:
-Herbert Hoover

Question 44

Talk About:
-National Labor Relations Board

Question 45

Talk About:
-National Recovery Administration

Question 46

Talk About:
-New Deal

Question 47

Talk About:
-sharecroppers

Question 48

Talk About:
-Social Security Act

Question 49

Talk About:
-TVA

Question 50

Talk About:
-Works Progress Administration

Question 51

Was the New Deal a success? Was it responsible for keeping the country together during the Great Depression? Was it responsible for lifting the country out of the Great Depression? Why or why not?

Question 52

Many historians have argued that the real success of the New Deal lay not in what it did out in the world, but what it did in people's minds. In other words, the New Deal -- so the argument goes -- benefited the nation because it engendered in the American people the sense that the government was trying to help them, that the government cared about their plight. Do you agree that the benefits of the New Deal were primarily psychological? Why or why not?