Deck 6: 1933-1941: Hard Times: Politics and Society

Question 1

The Townsend Old Age Revolving Pension Plan arose as part of the New Deal.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

The Share Our Wealth program arose as part of the New Deal.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Father Charles E. Coughlin spread erroneous stories about a Jewish conspiracy to take over the world.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

American communists followed the lead of Soviet Russia.

Question 5

Membership in the American Socialist party declined markedly from 1932 to 1936.

Question 6

For the most part, New Deal agencies treated African-Americans worse than they treated whites.

Question 7

FDR did little to promote civil rights in the 1930s.

Question 8

The birth rate in the United States increased in the early years of the Great Depression.

Question 9

Eleanor Roosevelt was active in spearheading social reform.

Question 10

The New Deal effected a significant redistribution of wealth.

Question 11

What characteristics are shared by the Old Folks' Crusade and the "Share Our Wealth" movement? How do they relate to the New Deal?

Question 12

Why did the business community oppose the New Deal?

Question 13

Why did the United States stay out of World War II for as long as it did?

Question 14

The "old-age crisis" hit which state the hardest?

A) Florida
B) Texas
C) California
D) Washington

Question 15

Support for the Townsend Plan was eroded by the passage of what bill through Congress?

A) The Social Security Act
B) The Wealth Tax Act
C) The Wagner Act
D) The Fair Labor Standards Act

Question 16

Huey Long served as the governor of what state?

A) New York
B) Alabama
C) California
D) Louisiana

Question 17

Who founded the National Union for Social Justice?

A) Sinclair Lewis
B) Francis E. Townsend
C) Charles E. Coughlin
D) Huey Long

Question 18

During the Great Depression, unemployment among African-Americans was what percent higher than among whites?

A) 10-20
B) 30-60
C) 50-70
D) 60-90

Question 19

Who was FDR's vice president in his first two terms?

A) Henry A. Wallace
B) John Nance Garner
C) Huey Long
D) Hugo Black

Question 20

W.E.B. DuBois broke with what organization in the 1930s?

A) The NAACP
B) The Fair Employment Practices Committee
C) The Socialist Party
D) The Communist Party

Question 21

In what year did federal courts make it legal for doctors to distribute contraceptives and information about contraceptives?

A) 1919
B) 1929
C) 1936
D) 1941

Question 22

The American Liberty League was founded to foment opposition against what?

A) Socialism
B) The New Deal
C) Labor unions
D) Civil rights

Question 23

Who among the following were conservative members of the Supreme Court in the 1930s?

A) Pierce Butler
B) George Sutherland
C) William Van Devanter
D) All of the above

Question 24

How many justices did FDR appoint to the U.S. Supreme Court in his third term?

A) 5
B) 4
C) 3
D) 2

Question 25

The Fair Labor Standards Act catered to what part of the country?

A) The North
B) The South
C) The Southwest
D) The West Coast

Question 26

The U.S. economy, having been in recovery since the early 1930s, collapsed again in what year?

A) 1937
B) 1938
C) 1929
D) 1940

Question 27

In what year did World War II break out?

A) 1937
B) 1939
C) 1941
D) 1942

Question 28

What prompted Roosevelt to seek a third term?

A) His desire to see the completion of New Deal reforms
B) His concern over the looming international crisis
C) The inability of Democrats to find a viable candidate
D) His unwillingness to step down

Question 29

Who was Hallie Flanagan?

A) Professor of Women's Studies at Vassar
B) Women's-rights activist
C) Antiwar activist
D) Head of the Federal Theater Project

Question 30

The Communist Party in the United States was not considered a domestic threat until what event took place?

A) The Nazi invasion of Poland
B) The Russian attack on Finland
C) The signing of the Nazi-Soviet Nonaggression Pact
D) The Party gained control of several large unions

Question 31

Eleanor Roosevelt did which of the following in the 1930s?

A) Wrote a newspaper column
B) Held weekly White House press conferences
C) Worked on the federal homestead program
D) All of the above

Question 32

The Supreme Court struck down which of the following New Deal programs?

A) The Social Security Act
B) The National Recovery Administration
C) The Wagner Act
D) All of the above

Question 33

Talk About:
-Adolf Hitler

Question 34

Talk About:
-Eleanor Roosevelt

Question 35

Talk About:
-fascism

Question 36

Talk About:
-Father Coughlin

Question 37

Talk About:
-Frances Perkins

Question 38

Talk About:
-Franklin D. Roosevelt

Question 39

Talk About:
-Huey Long

Question 40

Talk About:
-Joseph Stalin

Question 41

Talk About:
-"Making Do"

Question 42

Talk About:
-NAACP

Question 43

Talk About:
-National Labor Relations Board

Question 44

Talk About:
-New Deal

Question 45

Talk About:
-Popular Front

Question 46

Talk About:
-"Share Our Wealth"

Question 47

Talk About:
-Smith Act

Question 48

Talk About:
-Social Justice

Question 49

Talk About:
-Townsend plan

Question 50

Talk About:
-W.E.B. Du Bois

Question 51

Talk About:
-white primary

Question 52

How did the Great Depression affect families? Did it affect men differently from how it affected women? If so, why? If not, why not?

Question 53

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?