3-10, The New Deal

3-10, The New Deal

Use Power Point Slides to answer questions and create your own Cornell Notes

Multiple Choice

What did FDR 3 Rs stand for?

• Relief, Recovery, Reform

• Remote, Remove, Repeat

• Reorder, Replace, Renounce

Open Ended

Why do you think FDR's New Deal was supported by the vast majority of Americans in 1933?

Multiple Choice

This organization gave jobs to artist, writers, and musicians to create artwork

• Works Progress Administration

• Public Works Adminstration

• National Recovery Adminstration

• Agricultural Adjustment Act

Multiple Choice

What problem were both the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and the Works Progress Administration (WPA) developed to address?

• Excessive stock market speculation

• High unemploment

• Increased use of credit

• Overproduction of goods

Multiple Choice

The TVA helped supply which of these resources to farmers and residents of Alabama and other states in the Southeast?

• food

• cotton

• loans

• electricity

Multiple Choice

Which of the following were ways that the Tennessee Valley Authority helped people in rural Tennessee? Pick all that are correct.

• Provided electricity

• Built dams to control flooding

• Created jobs, which improved their way of life

• Taught farmers new methods for soil conservatioN

• All of the above

Multiple Choice

Which Alphabet Agency was introduced to provide loans for farmers who couldn’t pay their rent?

• Agricultural Adjustment Agency

• Farm Credit Administration

• Home Owners Loan Corporation

• Farm Ownership Administration

Multiple Choice

The Agricultural Adjustment Act tried to help farmers by

• helping them become more efficient

• paying them not to grow crops

• buying up their surpluses

• making land available for farming

Open Ended

Looking at the "Alphabet Soup" programs for the New Deal, which groups of people would these programs really help. Cite at least 4 different government agencies or programs.

Multiple Choice

The ____ was an agency formed to insure bank deposits up to a certain amount.

• Social Security
• SEC
• FDIC
• Tennessee Valley Authority

Multiple Choice

Today, banks are Insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).

• true

• false

Multiple Choice

________________ is a system that continues to provide income for retired or disabled workers

• Unemployment System

• Educational System

• Social Security System

Multiple Select

How did the Social Security Act help Americans? Pick all that are correct.

• By making sure that they saved money for retirement

• By hiring people to write novels

• By giving aid to retired workers, widows, and orphans of insured workers

• By encouraging them to stay positive during hard times

Multiple Choice

Which act protected workers by legally securing their right to form trade unions and campaign for improved pay and working conditions?

• Industrial Relations Act

• Wagner Act

• Worker Relations Act

• Fordney McCumber Act

Open Ended

What do the babies represent in this political cartoon?