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Many people lost their jobs during the Great Depression.  The national government responded with President Franklin Roosevelt's "New Deal," which

• provided programs to help people make money to provide for their needs. 
• helped reduce the national debt, providing more capital for businesses
• forced people to join the military forces to make money for their needs. 
• forced people to use charities to help them provide for their needs. 

Roosevelt's fireside chats used what technology to spread his message?

• Television
• Radio
• Newspaper
• Instragram

One difference between the administrations of President Roosevelt and President Hoover was that Roosevelt was-

• more willing to use government intervention to solve economic problems
• unwilling to allow government agencies to establish jobs
• able to ignore economic issues for most of his first term in office
• opposed to any type of government regulation of financial institutions

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

This was created to regulate the stock market and prevent a future stock market crash

• Securities and Exchange Committee
• Public Works Administration
• Works Progress Administration
• Agricultural Adjustment Act

A major reason for creating the Tennessee Valley Authority in 1933 was to-

• Provide health care benefits to southerners
• Encourage African-Americans to settle in the valley
• Improve economic conditions in a poor rural region
• Evacuate farmers from the impoverished region

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

• By ending the practice of sharecropping
• By encouraging farmers to grow more to increase profits
• By paying farmers to grow fewer crops
• By training farmers for jobs in a new field

Huey Long's "Share the Wealth" campaign was mostly supported by

• liberals
• conservatives

What was the primary reason that President Roosevelt attempted to increase the number of justices on the Supreme Court?

• to make the Court more supportive of New Deal Programs
• to force the Court to hear cases involving women’s rights
• to speed up the Court’s review of cases
• to increase the independence of the Court