The New Deal

Which government agency gives benefits to people when they are retired or unemployed?

• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
• Securities and Exchange Commission
• Tennessee Valley Authority
• Social Security Admistration

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 problem were both the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and the Works Progress Administration (WPA) developed to address?

• Excessive stock market speculation

• High unemploment

• Increased use of credit

• Overproduction of goods

The ____ was an agency formed to insure bank deposits up to a certain amount.

• Social Security
• SEC
• FDIC
• Tennessee Valley Authority

When President Roosevelt talked to the American people directly over the radio, they called it ____ ____.

• Fireside Chats
• the President talking
• Chats with me
• Campfire chats

A major reason for creating the Tennessee Valley Authority in 1933 was to-

• Provide health care benefits to southerners
• Encourage African-Americans to settle in the valley
• Improve economic conditions in a poor rural region
• Evacuate farmers from the impoverished region

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

The stock market crash and the dollar’s rapid decline in value, resulted in many Americans to conduct “runs” on which of the following?

• banks
• movie theaters
• grocery stores
• brokerage offices

The Agricultural Adjustment Act tried to help farmers by

• helping them become more efficient

• paying them not to grow crops

• buying up their surpluses

• making land available for farming

The TVA provided ________ for rural citizens.

• Electricity

• new farm land

• new homes

• New Deal support