Unit 7 Part 2 Review

Why was the Fair Labor Standards Act important to workers?

• It established that labor unions had the right to use collective bargaining to negotiate with factory owners.
• The law was struck down by the conservative Supreme Court and caused FDR to nominate six more justices.
• It established a minimum wage for workers as well as a maximum number of hours. 
• The law limited the hours that children and women could work and forced business owners to make conditions safer.

How did the Works Progress Administration help people during the Great Depression?

• people in Tennessee were given work to record remaining slave stories

• writers, artists, and actors were provided work

• young men were put to work planting trees and helping with soil erosion on the east coast

• set a minimum wage and maximum hours

The purpose of the New Deal was all of the following except 

• relief

• reconstruction

• recovery

• reform

This law provided help in the future for the disabled, unemployed, elderly, and dependent children.

• Social Security

• Wagner Act

• National Recovery Act

• Civilian Conservation Corps

Why did FDR cut spending on New Deal programs?

• Rich people began to criticize the taxes they were having to pay to fund the New Deal.
• Congress refused to supply any more money for new programs. 
• The Supreme Court began to cut down laws that Roosevelt was getting passed.
• Conservatives began saying the Roosevelt was a socialist

Which of the following relied on deficit spending to address the effects of the Great Depression?

• Trickle down economics
• The collapse of the farm economy
• The Stock Market Crash
• The New Deal

What did FDR do when conservatives and liberals began to criticize the first New Deal?

• Nothing.  He didn't care what either side thought.

• He cut government programs.

• He responded to the left and continued creating programs to help people.

• He responded to the right and asked Congress to find new ways to pay for the New Deal.

What was the Black Cabinet?

• It was a cabinet in the oval office where FDR kept important papers regarding the New Deal.
• It was a group of African Americans who began protesting the bad treatment of young black men.
• It was a group of influential African Americans who advised the President on racial issues.
• It was a new political party that formed in response to the racially segregated CCC.

This was created to protect African American jobs in factories?

• Fair Employment Practices Commission

• Fair Labor Standards Act

• Securities and Exchange Commission

• The Wagner Act

This New Deal program put young men to work in the nation's parks and in the dust bowl.

• WPA
• NRA
• SEC
• CCC