Great Depression/New Deal

Who was president during the New Deal?

• Theodore Rooesvelt
• Franklin Roosevelt
• Herbert Hoover
• Woodrow Wilson

Which of the following New Deal laws/agencies regulated the buying and selling of stocks?

• Securities and Exchange Commission
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
• Emergency Banking Act
• Home Owners Insurance Corporation

Federal deposit insurance for banks stopped which of the following phenomena that was motivated by a lack of confidence in the financial industry?

• buying stock on margin
• robbing banks
• runs on banks
• selling short

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

• the bank holiday
• the great flood of 1927
• the dustbowl
• increaded lynchings

What was the culminating event that brought the country out of the Great Depression?

• the Bonus Army
• the building of the Hoover Dam
• going off of the gold standard
• World War II

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

• New Deal
• Great Deal
• Social Security
• the New Liberalism

What were the major goals of the New Deal?

• no gold standard and free coinage of silver
• abolition and suffrage
• relief, recovery, and reform
• expanding the size and economic influence of the United States

Which of the following major events coincided with the New Deal?

• the Civil War
• the Great Depression
• the Stock Market Crash
• World War I

What Supreme Court decision declared the Agricultural Adjustment Act unconstitutional because of its funding mechanism, taxing one group of people to specifically give the money to another group of people?

• US v. Butler
• US v. Schechter Poultry
• En Re Gault
• US v. Debs

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

• restoring public confidence in the banks
• reducing government regulation of banks
• restricting foreign investments
• granting tax relief to individuals