Chapter 23 History of Our Nation

A radio talk by President Roosevelt

• fireside chat

• payroll tax

• deficit spending

• bonus

First Lady who championed women's rights

• Marian Anderson

• Eleanor Roosevelt

• Martha Washington

• Jackie Kennedy

Money taken directly from a worker's paycheck

• bonus

• deficit spending

• payroll tax

• minimum wage

A Catholic priest who opposed Roosevelt's economic policies

• John Adams

• Herbert Hoover

• John Collier

• Edward Jones

October 29, 1929, is known as Black Tuesday because it was the day of a

• destructive dust storm

• stock market crash

• collapse of the banking system

• full solar eclipse

During the Great Depression, most women who worked outside the home

• competed for jobs with unemployed men

• received salary increased

• were limited to careers as factory workers

What did Roosevelt do the day after he was inaugurated?

• He instituted Prohibition

• He instituted minimum wage

• He closed America's banks for four days

• He proposed raising taxes on the wealthy in order to aid the poor

In response to the Great Depression, African American in the South were most likely to

• buy a farm

• be hired by a local factory

• move north

• move to Africa

In 1932, Hoover formed the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to

• pay each World War 1 veteran $1,000

• build damns and bridges

• fund critical businesses and public-works projects

• provide direct unemployment relief

Which of these was NOT part of the New Deal program

• Old-Age Insurance

• minimum wage laws

• Medicare

• Aid to Dependent Children