The New Deal

What New Deal Agency provided insurance / partial pensions for people ages 65+?

• The SEC

• FDIC

• Social Security

• Medicare/Medicaid

FDR connected to the people in a way previous presidents weren't able to through his

• Television press conferences

• Letters to the editor

• Roadside discussions

• Fireside chats

What cause of the Great Depression did the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) attempt to solve?

• Stock market speculation
• Overproduction
• Weak banking system
• Unsafe loans

The New Deal was designed to end ___ ___ ___.

• The world
• World War  2
• Our classroom
• the Great Depression

Who did people say caused the Great Depression?

• President Roosevelt
• President Hoover
• President Johnson
• President Washington

President Roosevelt survived ____, but he was never able to walk again without help.

• asthma
• pimples
• polio
• chicken pox 

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

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