Great Depression/New Deal

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Who was president during the New Deal?

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Franklin Roosevelt

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Which of the following New Deal laws/agencies regulated the buying and selling of stocks? Options: Securities and Exchange Commission, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Emergency Banking Act, Home Owners Loan Corporation

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Securities and Exchange Commission

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Federal deposit insurance for banks stopped which of the following phenomena that was motivated by a lack of confidence in the financial industry? Options: buying stock on margin, robbing banks, runs on banks, selling short

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runs on banks

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What natural calamity coincided with the New Deal and caused intensified and increased poverty throughout Oklahoma, Arkansas, and other parts of the south?

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the dustbowl

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What was the culminating event that brought the country out of the Great Depression? Options: the Bonus Army, the building of the Hoover Dam, going off of the gold standard, World War II

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World War II

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What was the name of FDR's plans and programs designed to meet the needs and problems of the Great Depression?

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New Deal

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What were the major goals of the New Deal?

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relief, recovery, and reform

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What was the term President Hoover had referring to his beliefs to get the U.S. out of the depression?

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rugged individualism

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Why did FDR propose increasing the number of justices on the Supreme Court from 9 to 15?

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so he could name more liberal judges

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt believed that declaring a bank holiday and creating the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) would help the nation’s banking system by

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restoring public confidence in the banks