EOC Review #10: The New Deal

EOC Review #10: The New Deal

1) The statement below was made leading up to the presidential election in 1932. Use your knowledge of history and clues from the excerpt to identify who made this statement.

Multiple Choice

1) The statement below was made leading up to the presidential election in 1932. Use your knowledge of history and clues from the excerpt to identify who made this statement.

• Herbert Hoover

• Franklin Roosevelt

• Francis Townsend

• Alfred Smith

Multiple Choice

2) What did Roosevelt believe was a common cause of both bank runs and the Great Depression?

• corruption in federal bureaucracies

• a crisis of confidence

• high tariffs

• overproduction

3) Select the statement that best reflects the main idea of this speech made in 1936.

Multiple Choice

3) Select the statement that best reflects the main idea of this speech made in 1936.

• President Hoover has not done enough to help America recover from the Depression.

• Roosevelt’s New Deal reforms have not done enough because unemployment and poverty remain at historic levels in America.

• The rise of Communist countries in Europe poses a much larger threat to the United States than the Depression.

• Roosevelt’s New Deal policies broke campaign promises and caused too much government involvement in the American economy.

Multiple Choice

4) What was the primary goal of creating the Civil Works Administration (CWA)?

• to improve natural resource management in the United States

• to get people to deposit money into banks

• to lessen hardships for the unemployed during the winter of 1934

• to increase prices for farm products by decreasing production

Multiple Choice

5) Which answer choice best summarizes this statement from Franklin Roosevelt’s second Inaugural Address?

“I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished. . . . The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”

• America has recovered from the Depression and now needs to work on reducing government programs to eliminate deficit spending.

• Government assistance for industrialists and big corporations will improve life for poor Americans.

• Despite progress made recovering from the Depression too many Americans remain in poverty.

• America is not keeping up with the industrial growth seen in Europe.

Multiple Choice

6) How would you summarize the results of the court-packing plan?

• It strengthened President Roosevelt’s ability to pass New Deal measures in Congress.

• It fractured Roosevelt’s New Deal coalition.

• It shifted the liberal-conservative balance on the Supreme Court by adding three justices.

• It influenced Supreme Court decisions by having groups of New Deal supporters protest outside of the Court.

7) Which event caused the changes seen on this graphic in the last quarter of 1937?

Multiple Choice

7) Which event caused the changes seen on this graphic in the last quarter of 1937?

• end of bank holidays

• court-packing plan

• United Auto Workers sit-down strike at General Motors

• recession of 1937

Multiple Choice

8) What event led Congress to pass the National Labor Relations Act or Wagner Act?

• Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States decision

• recession of 1937

• United Auto Workers sit-down strike at General Motors

• political movement led by Francis Townsend

Multiple Choice

9) What is Franklin Roosevelt expressing in this passage?

“We put those payroll contributions there so as to give the contributors a legal, moral, and political right to collect their pensions and their unemployment benefits. With those taxes in there, no . . . politician can ever scrap my social security program.”

• I believe future opposition to the Social Security program will be strong.

• Democratic politicians will support this Social Security because it will be popular among Americans.

• This program is key to ending segregation in the South.

• Support for Social Security by big business will grow over time.

Multiple Choice

10) Which statement best describes how Roosevelt’s New Deal policies were formed?

• He relied mostly on the opinions of his wife Eleanor.

• He decided among options provided by a diverse group of advisers.

• He often met with leaders of big business to discuss policy options.

• He used a strong belief in socialism to guide his policy choices.