APUSH - Ch. 23 Quiz, Part 1

A high tariff enacted by Congress in 1930, in hopes of stimulating American manufacturing by taxing imported goods. The tariff backfired, because it triggered retaliatory tariffs in other countries, which further hindered global trade and led to greater economic contraction.

• Smoot-Hawley Tariff
• McKinley Tariff
• Wilson Tariff
• Cleveland Tariff

A group of 15,000 unemployed WWI veterans who set up camps near the Capitol building in 1932 to demand immediate payment of pension awards due to be paid in 1945.

• Bonus Army
• Pension Army
• Poor Army
• Extra Army

A series of informal radio address FDR made to the nation in which he explained New Deal initiatives.

• Fireside Chats
• Radio Chats
• Weekly Chats
• Fireside Addresses

A legendary session during the first few months of FDR’s administration in which Congress enacted 15 major bills that focused primarily on four problems: banking failures, agricultural overproduction, the business slump, and soaring unemployment.

• Hundred Days
• Productive Days
• New Deal Days
• Problems Solved Days

A 1933 law that created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), which insured deposits up to $2,500 (and now up to $250,000). It also prohibited banks from making risky, unsecured investments with customers’ deposits.

• Glass-Steagall Act
• Social Security Act
• Wagner Act
• Bank Act

Established by Congress in 1934 to regular the stock market. They had broad powers to determine how stocks and bonds were sold to the public, to set rules for margin (credit) transactions, and to prevent stock sales by those with inside information about corporate plans.

• Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
• Stock Market Commission (SMC)
• Stock Regulation Committee (SRC)
• Stocks and Bonds Committee (SBC)

A 1935 act with three main provisions: old-age pensions for workers; a joint federal-state system of compensation for unemployed workers; and a program of payments to widowed mothers and the blind, deaf, and disabled.

• Social Security Act
• Glass-Steagall Act
• Wagner Act
• Pension Act

A plan proposed in 1933 that would give $200 a month (about $3,300 today) to citizens over the age of 60. 

• Townsend Plan
• Glass-Steagall Plan
• Wagner Plan
• Wagner Plan b.  Pension Plan

A 1935 act that upheld the right of industrial workers to join unions and established the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), a federal agency with the authority to protect workers from employer coercion and to guarantee collective bargaining.

• Wagner Act
• Social Security Act
• Glass-Steagall Act
• Labor Act

Which of the following was not a new agency created during the New Deal?

• ERA
• AAA
• CCC
• WPA