the new deal

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

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

Who are these people?

• hoboes
• immigrants
• tourists
• carpet baggers

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CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RI.9-10.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

What New Deal agency monitors the stock market?

• FBI
• CCC
• FDIC
• SEC

What New Deal program gives you a monthly pension when you turn 65?

• Social Security
• TVA
• Medicare
• FDIC

What were the villages full of shacks located in cities filled with unemployed Americans called?

• Hoovervilles
• Okies
• Bonus Army Bases
• Rooseveltowns

The Civilian Conservation Corp or CCC was an organization created during the Great Depression as part of the New Deal. It created jobs for people who didn't have work. What kind of work did people do as part of the CCC?

• building roads, bridges, and dams
• constructing schools and libraries
• creating cheap hydroelectricity
• maintaining state and national forests

This organization allowed the government to pay farmers to plant less in hopes of increasing crop prices

• Civilian Conservation Corps
• Works Progress Administration
• Agricultural Adjustment Act
• National Labor Relations Act

FDR gave a weekly talk on the radio to reassure Americans & inform them of the New Deal's progress. These were called

• weekly radio address
• fireside chats
• New Deal updates
• weekly updates

This law gave FDR the power to close all banks. He used it for the bank holiday & then reopened stable banks. It was the

• Federal Emergency Relief Act
• Emergency Banking Relief Act
• National Recovery Administration
• Civilian Conservation Corps