New Deal - Topic 13B

Which government agency gives benefits to people when they are retired or unemployed?

• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

• Securities and Exchange Commission

• Tennessee Valley Authority

• Social Security Admistration

Which New Deal program was chiefly designed to correct abuses in the stock market?

• Civilian Conservation Corps

• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

• Securities and Exchange Commission

• National Recovery Administration

What problem were both the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and the Works Progress Administration (WPA) developed to address?

• Excessive stock market speculation

• High unemploment

• Increased use of credit

• Overproduction of goods

The ____ was an agency formed to insure bank deposits up to a certain amount.

• Social Security

• SEC

• FDIC

• Tennessee Valley Authority

When President Roosevelt talked to the American people directly over the radio, they called it ____ ____.

• Fireside Chats

• the President talking

• Chats with me

• Campfire chats

A major reason for creating the Tennessee Valley Authority in 1933 was to-

• Provide health care benefits to southerners

• Encourage African-Americans to settle in the valley

• Improve economic conditions in a poor rural region

• Evacuate farmers from the impoverished region

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

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 New Deal program employed young men to work on various projects to improve the country?

• Social Security Act

• Fair labor Standards Act

• Rural Electrification Act

• Civilian Conservation Corps

The Agricultural Adjustment Act tried to help farmers by

• helping them become more efficient

• paying them not to grow crops

• buying up their surpluses

• making land available for farming