The New Deal

Multiple Choice

One difference between the administrations of President Roosevelt and President Hoover was that Roosevelt was-

• more willing to use government intervention to solve economic problems
• unwilling to allow government agencies to establish jobs
• able to ignore economic issues for most of his first term in office
• opposed to any type of government regulation of financial institutions

Multiple Choice

What are the 3 R's of the New Deal?

• Relief, Rebuild, and Reform
• Recover, Rebuild, and Reform
• Relief, Recovery, and Reform
• Recover, Revive, and Reform

Match

Match the following

• Relief

• Recovery

• Reform

Quick help for those hurting the most.

Getting the economy to grow again.

Long-term changes to prevent future dep

• Quick help for those hurting the most.

• Getting the economy to grow again.

• Long-term changes to prevent future dep

Multiple Choice

Use the quotation from a "fireside chat" delivered by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1934 and your knowledge of challenges to New Deal programs to answer the question.

A few timid people, who fear progress, will try to give you new and strange names for what we are doing. Sometimes they will call it "Fascism", sometimes "Communism", sometimes "Regimentation", sometimes "Socialism". But, in so doing, they are trying to make very complex and theoretical something that is really very simple and very practical.

— President Franklin D. Roosevelt, "Fireside Chat," June 28, 1934

In the quotation, Roosevelt is discussing criticism of the New Deal. Why did critics of the programs equate them with these terms?

• because the programs represented an effort by the federal government to grant states greater control over public policy

• because the programs represented an effort by the federal government to prioritize the interests of the wealthy

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  because the programs represented an effort by the federal government to restrict freedom of speech and censor citizens

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  because the programs represented an effort by the federal government to exert greater control over the economy

Open Ended

What was a MAIN purpose of the Social Security Act of 1935?

Multiple Choice

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

• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
• Securities and Exchange Commission
• Tennessee Valley Authority
• Social Security Admistration