New Deal Policies

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Which government agency gives benefits to people when they are retired or unemployed?

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Social Security Administration

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Which was a guiding principle of New Deal economic policies? Options: “Rugged individualism” will end social inequality, Antitrust legislation could destroy the free enterprise system, State governments should have more power over the economy than the national government

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Government must assume greater responsibility for helping the unfortunate

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The Agricultural Adjustment Act tried to help farmers by

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paying them not to grow crops

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The _______________________ was FDR's plan to help get the economy going again and help the unemployed find jobs.

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The New Deal

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This put hundreds of thousands of young, single men to work building roads, developing parks, planting trees, and helping in soil-erosion & flood-control projects

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Civilian Conservation Corps

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Established large-scale national works program to create jobs. Employed men and women to build hospitals, schools, parks, and airport; gave work to artists, writers, and musicians (1935)

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Work Progress Administration (WPA)

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Established a federal minimum wage, guaranteed overtime pay, set standards for record keeping, and prohibited most employment of minors in "Oppressive child labor." (1938)

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Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)

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Which New Deal program was chiefly designed to correct abuses in the stock market?

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Securities and Exchange Commission

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When President Roosevelt talked to the American people directly over the radio, they called it ____ ____.

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Fireside Chats

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A major reason for creating the Tennessee Valley Authority in 1933 was to-

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Improve economic conditions in a poor rural region