New Deal

When did the Stock Market Crash

• 1931

• 1929

• 1924

• 1936

Which action completes this cause-and-effect diagram?

• Banks lower interest rates

• Elected leaders lower tariff rates

• Companies lay off employees

• Labor unions demand higher wages

What was the biggest problem facing the United States when FDR took office?

• Record unemployment

• A crashing stock market

• The threat of invasion from Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan

• Starvation and disease

Which TWO answers best describe President Herbert Hoover's presidency during the Great Depression?

• A very hands-on government

• Mostly hands-off government

• Largely unable to better economic conditions

• Created many New Deal programs

President Hoover tried to deal with the Great Depression by

• Building dozens of dams and providing electricity to the South

• Establishing a minimum wage and minimum prices

• Encouraging volunteerism among wealthy Americans

• Shutting down the nation's banks for a week to prevent bank runs

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

When Roosevelt took office, what was the unemployment rate?

• 25%
• 50%
• 75%
• 100%

The New Deal was a set of programs to help the country created by which president?

• Franklin Delano Roosevelt

• Abraham Lincoln

• George Washington

• Hebert Hoover

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

What are the 3 R's of the New Deal?

• Relief, Rebuild, and Reform
• Recover, Rebuild, and Reform
• Relief, Recovery, and Reform
• Recover, Revive, and Reform