FDR & the New Deal

FDR addressed the American public in weekly broadcasts known as:

• FDR Hour
• Hangin' With Franklin
• Fireside Chats
• Around the Fire

What protects one's money in the bank?

• CCC
• NRA
• FDIC
• FBLA

This Program helped retirees

• Social Security Act
• Social Service Act
• Stock Market Advice
• CCC

Which New Deal agency was responsible for building forest trails and roads, planting trees, and improving national parks?

• AAA
• CCC
• FERA
• WPA

Agency that protected the price of crops. 

• AAA
• CCC
• CWA
• FDIC

The New Deal program which primarily employed single, young men and worked to preserve parks and forests

• Works Progress Administration
• Tennessee Valley Authority
• Civilian Conservation Corps
• Bureau of Land Management

Which New Deal law restricted crop production to reduce crop surplus and was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court?

• The Agricultural Adjustment Act
• The Glass-Steagall Act
• The Pure Food and Drug Act
• The Truth-in-Labelling Act

The New Deal pulled America out of its economic mess!  Several New Deal agencies, such as the CCC, WPA, and the TVA, were important because ____________________.

• they built bridges, dams, and other useful projects
• they helped create jobs and put Americans back to work
• they offered assistance to farmers
• they provided electricity to a poor region

What natural calamity coincided with the New Deal and caused intensified and increased poverty throughout Oklahoma, Arkansas, and other parts of the south?

• the bank holiday
• the great flood of 1927
• the dustbowl
• increaded lynchings

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.