New Deal Exam

1. President Franklin D. Roosevelt sought to reassure the American public during uncertain economic times by —

• publishing a weekly news editorial titled “The Road to Prosperity and Peace”

• a. holding weekly town-hall meetings with average citizens

• a. making short appearances in a variety of Hollywood films

• a. delivering a series of evening radio speeches known as fireside chats

The Roosevelt government paid farmers subsidies for all of the following reasons except to

• reduce production

• improve soil conservation

• increase production

• improve farming methods

It took a depression to dramatize the appalling insecurity of the great mass of the population, and to stimulate interest in social insurance in the United States. The majority of our citizens must have protection against the loss of income due to unemployment resulting from old age death of the breadwinners and disabling accidents and illnesses.

Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor

Francis Perkins quote focuses on what would become the

• Social Security Act

• Glass- Stegall Act

• Wagner Act

• Fair Labor Standards Act

During the Great Depression, which of the following programs hired only young men, paid them $30 a month, and created conservation projects?

a. NIRA

• NIRA

• WPA

• CCC

• TVA

In 1933 Franklin Roosevelt declared a four-day holiday for all

• federal employees

• workers

• businesses

• banks

Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal was based on the theory that during an economic downturn the government should

• spend more money and increase taxes

• spend more money and decrease taxes

• spend less money and increase taxes

• spend less money and decrease taxes

The purpose of the FDIC is to

• ensure customers’ deposits in credit unions in the United States

• ensure customers’ deposits in member banks in the United States

• ensure customers’ stocks in companies

• ensure customers’ home mortgages

Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal program attempted or achieved all of the following EXCEPT

• raised farm prices by paying farmers not to plant.

• encouraged cooperation within industries so as to raise prices generally.

• supported the creation of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.

• restored confidence in the banking system.

Read the quote below for question #9

“I do not believe that the power and duty of the General Government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering. . . The lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people should support the Government the Government should not support the people.”

-- Herbert Hoover, 1930

According to the quote above, to which of these U.S. government actions would President Hoover most likely have objected?

• The Dawes Act

• The Pendleton Act

• Social Security Act

• The Interstate Highway Act

In order to deal with the crisis in banking at the time of his inauguration, Franklin Roosevelt

• drastically cut government spending and increased taxes.

• declared a 4 day “banking holiday” and sent Treasury agents to check the banks.

• announced a multibillion-dollar federal bailout package.

• announced the nationalization of all banks to restore consumer confidence.