Question 1

Roosevelt supported the repeal of Prohibition because

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Roosevelt supported the repeal of Prohibition primarily because it provided an opportunity to raise federal revenue through taxation of alcohol and create jobs during the Great Depression.

Question 2

All of the following are true statements about the men who joined the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) EXCEPT

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The statement that many of the men had criminal records is not true. The CCC primarily recruited young, unemployed men without criminal records to work on conservation projects.

Question 3

Probably the most radically economic New Deal program that provoked widespread charges of creeping socialism by Republican and conservative critics of President Roosevelt's administration was the

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The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) was considered radical because it involved the federal government in the direct production and distribution of electricity, which was seen as a step towards socialism by critics.

Question 4

The Glass-Steagall Act

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The Glass-Steagall Act, enacted in 1933, established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to insure individual bank deposits, thereby restoring trust in the American banking system.

Question 5

The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) proposed to solve the farm problem by

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The Agricultural Adjustment Act aimed to reduce agricultural production to raise crop prices by paying farmers to leave a portion of their land unplanted.

Question 6

Senator Huey P. Long of Louisiana gained a large national following by promising to

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Senator Huey P. Long gained popularity with his "Share Our Wealth" program, which proposed to redistribute wealth by heavily taxing the rich and providing every American family with a $5,000 grant.

Question 7

Match each New Deal critic below with the cause or slogan that he promoted.

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The answer of Match each New Deal critic below with...

Question 8

Match each New Dealer below with the federal agency or program with which he or she was closely identified.

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The answer of Match each New Dealer below with the...

Question 9

The most immediate emergency facing Franklin Roosevelt when he became president in March 1933 was

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When Franklin Roosevelt became president in March 1933, the most immediate emergency was the collapse of nearly the entire banking system, which led to the declaration of a national bank holiday to stabilize the financial system.

Question 10

All of the following contributed to the Dust Bowl of the 1930s EXCEPT

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Farmers' failure to use steam tractors and other modern equipment did not contribute to the Dust Bowl; rather, it was the overuse and mismanagement of land with available technology that contributed to the environmental disaster.

Question 11

The early New Deal experiments borrowed rather freely and randomly from

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The early New Deal experiments drew from U.S. wartime and pre-war agencies and European social reform models, as they sought to address the economic challenges of the Great Depression through a mix of government intervention and social welfare programs.

Question 12

President Roosevelt's chief "administrator of relief" and one of his closest advisors was

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Harry Hopkins was President Roosevelt's chief administrator of relief and one of his closest advisors, playing a significant role in the New Deal programs.

Question 13

Franklin Roosevelt took America off the gold standard and adopted a managed currency policy designed to

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Roosevelt's policy aimed to stimulate inflation to combat the Great Depression by increasing the money supply and raising prices.

Question 14

______ proved to be immensely popular among those Americans it served by putting thousands of people immediately to work at good-paying jobs and providing access to low-cost electricity to a region lacking cheap electrical power,.

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The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) was created to provide jobs and electricity to the rural Tennessee Valley, a region particularly affected by the Great Depression. It was successful in providing low-cost electricity and improving the quality of life in the area.

Question 15

Prominent female social scientists of the 1930s, like Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead, brought widespread contributions to the field of

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Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead were both influential anthropologists in the 1930s, known for their work in cultural anthropology.

Question 16

The New Deal program of the following agency represented the most economically complex, managerially ambitious, and unsuccessful New Deal effort to achieve recovery and reform the entire American economy.

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The National Recovery Administration (NRA) was the most economically complex and managerially ambitious New Deal program, aiming to regulate industry and stimulate economic recovery. However, it was largely unsuccessful and was declared unconstitutional in 1935.

Question 17

Both ratified in the 1930s, the Twentieth Amendment ____ and the Twenty-first Amendment ____.

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The Twentieth Amendment, ratified in 1933, shortened the time between the presidential election and inauguration. The Twenty-first Amendment, ratified in 1933, ended Prohibition by repealing the Eighteenth Amendment.

Question 18

The first Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) raised the money that it paid to farmers not to grow crops by

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The first Agricultural Adjustment Act raised funds to pay farmers not to grow crops by taxing processors of farm products, such as millers and meat packers. This was intended to reduce crop surplus and increase agricultural prices.

Question 19

The National Recovery Administration (NRA) failed largely because

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The NRA failed largely because it required too much self-sacrifice on the part of industry, labor, and the public, leading to widespread non-compliance and criticism.

Question 20

Immediately after taking office, President Roosevelt responded to the banking crisis by

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President Roosevelt declared a "bank holiday," closing all banks for a week to prevent further withdrawals and to reorganize them under the Emergency Banking Act, which aimed to restore public confidence.

Quiz 31: The Great Depression and the New Deal