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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

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

This president thought the federal government should not get involved in the economy. As a result, many Americans blamed him for the Great Depression. This caused him to lose the election in 1932.

• Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• Theodore Rooselvelt
• Herbert Hoover
• Calvin Coolidge

The REA lent money to farmers to

• reduce crop production
• build their own power plants
• get electricity from cities
• subsidize tenant farmers

This program hired young men ages 18-26 who were unemployed and paid them to work mostly on outdoor projects such as national parks and planting trees (helped to prevent erosion which was prevalent because of over farming).

• CCC
• TVA
• WPA

Who coined the term “New South”?  

• Henry Grady
• Joseph Colquitt
• Booker T. Washington
• John Gordon

 What group of three men supported the New South movement and dominated Georgia politics in the late 1800’s?  

• Bourbon Triumvirate
• Atlanta Triumvirate
• Populist Party
• Farmers Alliance

What was the Rural Free Delivery Bill? 

• Provide free mail delivery to rural areas (farmers)
• Provided Farmers with free equipment. 
• Provided Rural counties with more votes in elections.