The Great Depression and the New Deal: Chapter 24 AMSCO

"The farmers are being pauperized by the poverty of industrial populations and the industrial populations are being pauperized by the poverty of the farmers. Neither has the money to buy the product of the other, hence we have overproduction and under consumption at the same time and in the same country. "I have not come here to stir you in a recital of the necessity for relief for our suffering fellow citizens. However, unless something is done for them and

done soon, you will have a revolution on hand ...."There is a feeling among the masses that something is radically wrong

.... they say that this government is a conspiracy against the common people to enrich the already rich."

-Oscar Ameringer, editor of the Oklahoma Daily Leader, testimony to the House Committee on Labor, February, 1932.

Which of the following most directly supports the author's analysis?

• Gross national product fell from $104 billion in 1929 to $56 billion

  in 1932.

• Bank assets fell from $72 billion in 1929 to $51 billion in 1932.

• Farm income fell from $11.4 billion in 1929 to $6.3 billion in 1932.

• Government spending rose from $3.2 billion in 1929 to $4.6 billion

  in 1932.

Which of the following was most directly related to the phrase in the testimony "the necessity for relief for our suffering fellow citizens"?

• Twenty percent of the banks were closed.

• The Dawes Plan was suspended.

• The Federal Farm Board was created.

• Twenty-five percent of the workforce was unemployed.

Which of the following would most likely support a belief that the government was "against the common people"?

• Creation of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.

• Treatment of the Bonus Marchers.

• Efforts to stabilize farm prices.

• Passage of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff.

Which of the following groups would most likely oppose the philosophy of the New Deal as explained in this excerpt?

• Advocates of unregulated markets and balanced budgets.

• Many academics, especially in the fields of economics and social

  sciences.

• Critics who thought that the New Deal did not go far enough to

  address poverty and inequality.

• Consumers who depended on the banking system and the stock

  markets.

Which of the following New Deal policies most directly addressed "security for capitalists"?

• Roosevelt's "bank holiday" and examination of banks' records.

• Federal funding of construction projects that pumped money into the economy.

• The creation of the FDIC to insure individual bank deposits up to $5,000.

• Regulations to curtail fraud in investment banking and the stock markets.

Which of the following New Deal policies most clearly addressed "job security" for workers?

• Programs to construct roads, bridges, airports, and public buildings.

• Laws to guarantee worker rights to collective bargaining, minimum wage, and fair treatment.

• Federal programs to collect funds for retirement, unemployment, and injuries on the job.

• Government program to employ young men in conservation projects on federal lands.

"Though Franklin himself never tried to discourage me and was undisturbed by anything I wanted to say or do, other people were frequently less happy about my actions. I knew, for instance, that many of my racial beliefs and activities in the field of social work caused ... grave concern. They were afraid that I would hurt my husband politically and socially, and I imagine they thought I was doing many things without Franklin's knowledge and agreement. On occasion they blew up to him and to other people. I knew it at the time, but there was no use in my trying to explain, because our basic values were very different."

-Eleanor Roosevelt, This I Remember, 1949

Eleanor Roosevelt expressed the most independence from President Franklin Roosevelt and his advisers in her

• support for socialism

• support for American Indians

• opposition to racial discrimination

• opposition to social work

The excerpt suggests that Eleanor Roosevelt knew that her positions could most harm her husband's standing with which of the following groups?

• The Catholic Church

• White ethnic groups

• Wall Street capitalists

• Southern Democrats