Government Involvement: New Deal to Civil Rights Movement

Identify the strategies that the Hoover Administration used to combat the Great Depression.

(There are 3 correct options to select.)

• Reduce Taxes

• Loans to Businesses and Banks

• Local & State Control

• Deficit Spending

• Increased Federal Control

Answer explanation

At the start of the economic downturn, President Hoover followed a hands-off policy.

Like most economists of the day, Hoover viewed the upswings and downswings of business cycles as natural occurrences.

Which of the following is the BEST summary of the decision in Brown v. Board.

• The Supreme Court overturned the notion of “separate but equal”.

• The Supreme Court decided that it violated civil rights to stop Mexican Americans from serving on juries.

• The Supreme Court declared it constitutional to investigate the causes of race riots in American cities in the 1960s.

Based on this data chart, identify the two conclusions we CAN make about the consequences of the Title IX legislation.

• Women still make less money, on average, than men.

• In 1970, most women in the workforce had a high school diploma.

• Women who graduate college are declining in the workforce.

In 1929 the Great Depression started in the United States. In 1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president and he promised a "New Deal" to the American people. Which of the following BEST describes the role of the government during the New Deal?

• The government wanted people to take care of themselves and not use the government.
• The New Deal led to the government being more involved in the economy of the country.
• The government wanted people to let the government provide everything they needed.
• The New Deal led to the government being less involved in the economy of the country.

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

Which was a guiding principle of New Deal economic policies?

• “Rugged individualism” will end social inequality
• Government must assume greater responsibility for helping the unfortunate
• Antitrust legislation could destroy the free enterprise system
• State governments should have more power over the economy than the national government

Act that eliminated the so-called literacy tests that had disqualified many voters.

• Voting Rights Act of 1965
• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Brown vs. the Board of Education
• Roe Vs. Wade

Literacy tests & poll taxes were used in the South to keep African Americans from doing what?

• voting
• serving in the military
• moving north
• getting an education

In the 1954 trial of Brown v Board of Education, the US Supreme Court ruled that

• private schools should be controlled by the federal government

• issues of racial segregation should be decided by the states.

• racially segregated public schools are unconstitutional

• the "separate but equal" doctrine should be continued

After the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed, it was no longer legal to

• let African Americans ride the bus.
• deny someone of a job because of their race.
• fire someone for not doing their job.
• kick someone out of the military.