Great Depression and New Deal

Statement A: "The best way to economic recovery is to subsidize industry so that it will hire more workers and expand production."

Statement B: "If jobs are not available, the government must create jobs for those who are unemployed."

Statement C: "According to human nature, the most talented people will always come out on top."

Statement D: "Our government is responsible for the nation’s economic well-being."

Which statements most strongly support  President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s decision to create the Works Progress Administration?

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  statement A and statement C

• statement C and statement D

• statement B and statement C

• statement B and statement D

Which phrase best completes the diagram above?

• War in Europe

• Agricultural Drought

• Overproduction of Goods

• Introduction of New Technologies

During the early 1930s,  what was the main goal of the Bonus Expeditionary Force better known as the "Bonus Army"?

• strengthen the nation’s defenses

• support the early payment of money promised to veterans

• bring American troops home from overseas

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  end the military draft

Why did many United States farmers fail to benefit from the economic prosperity of the 1920s?

• Agricultural goods were overproduced.

• Farm exports were heavily taxed.

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  No technological advances were made in agriculture.

• Levels of farm production declined.

Why was the Social Security Act (1935) considered an important program?

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  It provided employment for those in need of a job.

• It extended support to elderly citizens.

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  It brought about a quick end to the Great Depression.

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  It established a progressive income tax.

Based on the cartoon, how did President Roosevelt want to ease the Great Depression?

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  By restricting the spending by the government on domestic projects.

• By expanding the authority of legislative representatives.

• By regulating the stock purchases by individual investors.

• By expanding the role of the government in citizens' lives.

“This Second New Deal Act gives ‘contributors a legal, moral, and political rights to collect their pensions and unemployment benefits.’” - President Roosevelt, 1941

Based on this quote, to which Second New Deal Act is FDR referring?

• Social Security Act

• Volstead Act

• Agricultural Adjustment Act

• Fordney-McCumber Act

What was a major difference between the programs of the presidential administrations of the 1920s and the programs of the New Deal?

• The New Deal eliminated job discrimination for women and minorities.

• The New Deal emphasized federal government involvement in the economy.

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  The New Deal encouraged rugged individualism.

• The New Deal promoted supply-side economics.

1. One difference between the administrations of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and President Herbert Hoover is that Roosevelt was

• unwilling to allow government agencies to establish jobs programs

• unable to win congressional support for his economic program

• able to ignore economic issues for most of his first term in office

• more willing to use government intervention to provide direct relief for citizens

The WPA created about 40,000 jobs for unemployed artists, musicians, writers, researchers, and teachers. Artists created colorful paintings for libraries, post offices, and other public buildings. Writers interviewed and recorded local people to collect history and stories. One writer, Zora Neale Hurston, was an anthropologist, folklorist, and novelist, traveling the South collecting stories and writing about its rural areas and the impact of the Great Depression.

What did Zora Neale Hurston do in Florida while working for the WPA?

• She worked as Personal Assistant of Florida's Governor Rick Scott

• She collected stories and wrote about Florida's rural areas and the impact of the Great Depression

• She worked as Assistant to the Regional Manager for the WPA Florida branch

• Like Ella Fitzgerald and Mary McLeod Bethune, she was hired by the WPA as a music teacher in the state of Florida