New Deal Test Review

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

What problem were both the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Works Progress Administration developed to address?

• Excessive stock market speculation
• High unemploment
• Increased use of credit
• Overproduction of goods

What was Roosevelt’s goal in creating the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation?

• Restore the public’s faith in financial institutions
• Stimulate demand for manufactured goods
• Provide jobs for the unemployed
• Help farmers pay back their loans

During the New Deal, how did the government attempt to improve conditions for farmers?

• By ending the practice of sharecropping
• By raising tariffs on farm imports
• By paying farmers to grow fewer crops
• By training farmers for jobs in a new field

Which New Deal program employed young men to work on various projects to improve the country?

• Social Security Act
• Fair labor Standards Act
• Rural Electrification Act
• Civilian Conservation Corps

The Wagner Act

• Paid farmers to limit their crop production
• Protected the rights of workers to organize into unions
• Provided jobs for single, young men
• Provided retirement benefits for the elderly

How FDR reassured the public by radio

• Depression
• The New Deal
• Fireside Chats
• Court Packing Scheme

During the Depression, newly homeless people put up communities of shacks they called....

• the projects
• Hoovervilles
• Bonus Armies
• Okie towns

Central Great Plains had high winds carried the soil away in binding dust storms. 

• Black Tuesday
• soup kitchens
• Dust Bowl

What organization insures bank deposits?

• SEC
• FHA
• TVA
• FDIC