Benchmark Quiz #3

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

• The SEC

• FDIC

• Social Security

• Medicare/Medicaid

What New Deal agency provided jobs/income for young men and worked on public services in particular?

• AAA

• NIRA

• CCC

• TVA

What is the New Deal?

• an insurance system to help support disabled people

  and retired people

• the programs that Franklin D. Roosevelt set up to end

  the Depression

• a time when Franklin D. Roosevelt worked with

  Congress to pass many new laws

What is the New Deal?

• an insurance system to help support disabled people

  and retired people

• the programs that Franklin D. Roosevelt set up to end

  the Depression

• a time when Franklin D. Roosevelt worked with

  Congress to pass many new laws

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 

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 of the following was NOT a role of women during WWII? 

• soldiers
• mechanics
• nurses
• pilots 

What event led to the US joining WWII? 

• Germany invaded Poland. 
• Germany sent Mexico a secret telegram. 
• Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.
• Germany bombed Pearl Harbor.