Topic 5 Lesson 3

This New Deal program insured the public's deposits to make sure that the bank runs never happened again 

• PWA
• WPA
• SSA
• FDIC

The TVA helped transform the Tennessee River Valley from poverty to productivity by ...

• soil conservation and tree planting
• building highways, bridges, public buildings, public parks, and airports
• building hydroelectric dams throughout a seven-state region to control floods and generate electricity
• provide assistance to farmers

Even though the war ended in 1918, veterans were not set to receive bonus payment until this year?

• 1945

• 1944

• 2018

• 1956

Roosevelt's fireside chats used what technology to spread his message?

• Television

• Radio

• Newspaper

• Film Shorts

Louisana Senator who was a constant Critic of FDR

• Father Charles Coughlin
• Huey Long
• A. Philip Randolph
• Charles Towsend

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 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

What statement best describes why liberals such as Father Coughlin criticized the New Deal?

• The government should take a laissez-faire approach to the economy
• the federal government should not go into debt to pay for new programs
• The states, not the federal government, should take control of people's welfare
• The federal government should do more to help worker's and the middle class