SSUSH18 Mini Assessment

Which New Deal program hired men to build a series of dams to prevent flooding and bring electricity to rural areas?

• The Agricultural Adjustment Act
• National Youth Administration
• Tennessee Valley Authority
• Federal Emergency Relief Act

What was the purpose of the Wagner Act?

• The act gave government the ability to regulate accounting practices
• The act gave labor unions government support and the ability to collectively bargain
• The act pumped money into the arts
• The act provided loans to farmers to help stop foreclosures

President Franklin D. Roosevelt tried to pack the United States Supreme Court, but Congress did not support him. This situation is an example of:

• Congress undermining the separation of powers
• The president using the unwritten constitution
• The use of the system of checks and balances
• How federalism was preserved by one branch of government

Passed in 1935, this act established retirement income for all workers once they reached the age of 65. It also provided benefits to certain unemployed workers. 

• Social Security Act
• Wagner Act
• National Labor Act
• Medicare Act

Eleanor Roosevelt as a symbol of social progress and women’s activism by:

• Advocating for human rights
• Serving on the Human Rights Committee of the newly formed United Nations after WWII
• Championing the rights of African Americans.
• All of these

Responsible for creating the Share Our Wealth program in 1934 with the motto "Every Man a King", proposing new wealth redistribution measures.

• Franklin Delano Roosevelt
• Huey Long
• Eleanor Roosevelt
• Harry S. Truman

A series of acts passed in 1935, 1936, 1937, and 1939 to limit U.S. involvement in possible future wars and that was created in response to the belief that U.S. involvement in World War I resulted from loans and trade with the Allies. 

• New Deal
• 2^nd New Deal
• Lend-Lease Acts
• Neutrality Acts

This political cartoon from 1933 is suggesting that President Roosevelt

• was a main cause of the Great Depression.
  
• cannot conquer the issues of the country.
  
• has many problems facing him as the new President.
  
• does not want to be the President of the United States.

What is the point of this cartoon from 1934?

• FDR's New Deal programs are unsuccessful.
• The New Deal programs are purely the creation of FDR.
• FDR has unwisely created the "Alphabet Soup" programs.
• FDR must end his "Alphabet Soup" programs immediately.

Our greatest primary task is to put people to work...It can be accomplished in part by direct recruiting by the Government itself, treating the task as we would treat the emergency of a war, but at the same time, through this employment, accomplishing greatly needed projects to stimulate and reorganize the use of our natural resources.
-Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, 1933
Four years after the stock market crash, FDR became the thirty-second president. This portion of his speech MOST LIKELY illustrates his belief that

• governments should go to war to increase the number of jobs in the military.
  
• governments should get actively involved in addressing unemployment.
  
• the natural resources of the U.S. were running out.
  
• the U.S. was on the brink of WWII.