26.4_The Effects of the New Deal

Father Charles Coughlin supported the idea of ____.

• pensions for the unemployed

• private citizens controlling the banks

• a welfare program for the needy

• high taxes on the wealthy

During the Depression, one of the reforms suggested for helping older, retired people was called _____.

• relief

• public works

• pensions

• benefit plans

Business leaders strongly supported Roosevelt's ideas and programs to help the economy during the Depression.

• True

• False

What name was given to the new set of economic plans that Roosevelt launched in 1935?

• Social Security Acts

• the Second New Deal

• the Hundred Days

• the New Deal

Congress created the Works Progress Administration (WPA) mainly to give people jobs

• True

• False

Which workers did the WPA especially help?

• railroad and shipping workers

• writers, artists, and musicians

• truck drivers and dockworkers

• food industry workers

In 1935 Congress passed the _____ in order to provide monthly pensions for workers who had retired.

• Fair Labor Standards Act

• National Labor Relations Act

• Social Security Act

• Welfare Act

Congress placed a tax on employers to fund _____.

• the Tennessee Valley Authority

• a minimum wage for all workers

• payments to unemployed workers

• public works programs

The National Labor Relations Act guaranteed workers the right to form unions and bargain as a group with their employers.

• TRUE

• FALSE

The United States Supreme Court became involved in Roosevelt's New Deal by _____.

• asking the president to appoint more justices

• offering to manage some New Deal agencies

• declaring some parts of the New Deal unconstitutional

• ruling that the government could not give people jobs