The New Deal

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 Administration

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 unemployment

• Increased use of credit

• Overproduction of goods

During the New Deal, how did the federal government attempt to improve conditions for farmers? (AAA)

• 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

What institution opposed parts of the New Deal because it believed it gave the federal government an unconstitutional amount of power over the states and economy?

• Congress
• Supreme Court
• Stock Market
• Executive Branch

The ____ was an agency formed to insure bank deposits up to a certain amount.

• Social Security
• SEC
• FDIC
• Tennessee Valley Authority

When President Roosevelt talked to the American people directly over the radio, they called it ____ ____.

• Fireside Chats

• Bedside Manner

• State of the Union

• Campfire chats

The New Deal was designed to end ___ ___ ___.

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

The Wagner Act

• Paid farmers to limit their crop production
• Protected the rights of workers to organize into unions
• Provided jobs for single, young men
• Provided retirement benefits for the elderly