New Deal - Alphabet Soup Quiz

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

Which New Deal program was chiefly designed to correct abuses in the stock market?

• Civilian Conservation Corps
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
• Securities and Exchange Commission
• National Recovery Administration

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

What was Roosevelt’s goal in creating the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation?

• Restore the public’s faith in financial institutions
• Stimulate demand for manufactured goods
• Provide jobs for the unemployed
• Help farmers pay back their loans

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

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 was a guiding principle of New Deal economic policies?

• “Rugged individualism” will end social inequality
• Government must assume greater responsibility for helping the unfortunate
• Antitrust legislation could destroy the free enterprise system
• State governments should have more power over the economy than the national government

Which of the following was NOT one of FDR's "three R's"?

• Recovery

• Reform

• Revitalize

• Relief

Schecter Poultry Company vs. US was a court case in which the Supreme Court struck down

• the New Deal

• the authority of the NRA

• deficit spending

• the Glass Steagall Act

FDR believed that this was the most important thing to turn around the Depression

• Building the confidence of the people back up

• Going to war

• Pumping money into businesses

• A hands off approach