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 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

The three major goals of FDR's New Deal., relief to tide people over until the economy recovered and reform aimed at making sure that a severe economic depression could never happen again, most of the important bills were submitted during FDR's first hundred days in office.

• Relief, Recovery and Reform
• Remove, Remodel and Revamp
• Resolve, Reconfigure and Restart

A group of talented people from leading universities assembled by FDR to develop new strategies and programs to deal with the crisis of the Great Depression.

• Brain Trust
• Bonus Army
• Liberty League

To stabilize the banking situation and restore consumer confident, FDR immediately closed all of the banks; each bank was permitted to reopen only after government inspectors found the back to be financially sound.

• Bank Holiday
• Bonus Army
• Brain Trust

All of the following still exist today but - - -?

• Social Security

• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

• Agricultural Adjustment Act

• Securities and Exchange Commission

Which of the following is not one of the three R's?

• Reform

• Relief

• Recovery

• Redistribution