New Deal & World War II

The Great Depression caused problems like...

(choose all that apply)

• Mass unemployement

• Mass deportation and repatriation of Mexicans

• Mass bank failures

• Mass farm and business failures

The president who did little to help people during the Great Depresion was President ___________________.

• Herbert Hoover

• Harry Truman

• Franklin Delano Roosevelt

• Lyndon B. Johnson

True or False? Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated Herbert Hoover in a landslide in the 1932 election.

• True

• False

Some critics accused Franklin Roosevelt and his New Deal programs of going too far. They excused him of taking too much power as president and leader of the...

• legislative branch

• executive branch

• judicial branch

• state legislature

Which New Deal program created jobs and brought electricity to the South, improving the standard of living for many?

• Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

• National Recovery Administration (NRA)

• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

• Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Which New Deal program, represented in this image, planted trees, improved national parks, and created millions of jobs for young men during the Great Depression?

• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

• National Recovery Administration (NRA)

• Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

• Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

How were the programs in Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal and Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society in the 1960s similar?

• Both created programs that made the government more accountable for people's welfare

• Both set aside more money for military production to win the war

• Both had major laws that advanced the efforts of the civil rights movement

• Both were very inexpensive.

Before New Deal programs offered government jobs to help solve the problem, the unemployment rate rose as high as _______.

• 10%

• 25%

• 50%

• 100%

True or False? When the Supreme Court ruled some New Deal programs unconstitutional, Franklin Roosevelt tried to pack the court with new justices that would agree with him.

• True

• False

• A

• B

• C

• D