Chapter 19 Test

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While going to school at Harvard, FDR met his distant cousin and niece of Teddy Roosevelt. FDR would eventually marry her. Her name was ___________?

• Frances Perkins

• Lucy Mercer

• Margaret Schiff

• Eleanor Roosevelt

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In 1922, FDR caught __________, a crippling disease. From then on, FDR would use leg braces and a wheel chair to get around.

• Leukemia

• Hodgkin's

• Polio

• Parkinson's

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FDR belonged to the _________ Party?

• Democratic

• Republican

• Independent

• Dixiecrat

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In 1928, FDR ran for, and won the office of governor from the state of _____?

• New Jersey

• Massachusetts

• Pennsylvania

• New York

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In 1932, the Democrats held their convention in Chicago and nominated FDR for their ticket. What tradition did FDR break when accepting the nomination from his party?

• He gave his acceptance speech over the telephone while someone held a microphone to the receiver.

• He flew to Chicago and accepted the nomination in person.

• He sent his acceptance speech in the mail ahead of time and someone at the convention read the speech on the evening he won the nomination.

• He sent his wife to accept the nomination in person.

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FDR’s policies for ending the Great Depression became known as the _______?

• Square Deal

• Fair Deal

• New Deal

• Regulated Deal

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On election day in November 1932, FDR beat ________?

• Harry Truman

• Herbert Hoover

• Wendell Willke

• Thomas E. Dewey

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After the election, many feared FDR would take the U.S. off the _______?

• League of Nations

• Federal Reserve System

• Gold Standard

• Free Market System

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In 38 states, governors declared _______ to get people to stop withdrawing their savings out of the remaining banks that were still solvent.

• Bank Holidays

• President’s Holiday

• Federal Government Shutdown

• Working Man’s Holiday

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FDR’s famous words in his 1^st Inaugural Address on March 4, 1933, were “_______”?

• “I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people.”

• “When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”

• “Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”

• “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.”