New Deal Quiz

What was the purpose of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)?

• Created over 3 million jobs for young American men
• Guaranteed depositors money in the bank
• Gave banks the power to increase interest rates
• Provided depositors with interest free loans

This New Deal program paid farmers to destroy their crops and livestock: 

• Civilian Conservation Corp
• Agricultural Adjustment Act
• Social Security Act
• Tennesse Agricultural Corp 

Who used the "Black Cabinet"?

• President Wilson

• Herbert Hoover

• Billy Ray Cyrus

• Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt revolutionized the position of the _________________________ 

• White House Lady
• Lady of the White House
• Supreme Court
• First-Lady

This 1937 cartoon is criticizing President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s plan to

• reduce the number of federal courts.
• impeach current Supreme Court justices
• give states the power to appoint Supreme Court justices
• increase the number of justices on the Supreme Court

Many people lost their jobs during the Great Depression.  The national government responded with President Franklin Roosevelt's "New Deal," which

• provided programs to help people make money to provide for their needs. 
• helped reduce the national debt, providing more capital for businesses
• forced people to join the military forces to make money for their needs. 
• forced people to use charities to help them provide for their needs. 

Which program built roads, schools, buildings, libraries, etc?

• Social Security

• FDIC

• Civilian Conservation Corps

• Works Progress Administration

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

True (A) or false (B)? - Welfare programs decreased during the New deal years.

• True

• False

One long term effect of the Great Depression was that many people

• Became risk takers in the stock market

• Developed habits of saving and thriftiness

• Came to believe in small government

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