The New Deal

What was the New Deal?

• the name for Herbert Hoover's failed recovery efforts

• Franklin Roosevelt's policies aimed at dealing with the Great Depression

• Eleanor Roosevelt's name for her husband's bravery during his illness with polio

• the Republican plan to revitalize the economy by creating job agencies

Why was Roosevelt's view of the role of government so revolutionary when he won the election of 1932?

• He wanted the people to like the president more than they liked his policies.

• He wanted the president to serve as the chief executive officer of the country.

• He insisted that the government must break with tradition and do everything possible to help people.

• He believed that the government's primary concern should be defense against its enemies.

Roosevelt's time in office during which he sent 15 pieces of recovery legislation to Congress came to be known as

• the National Recovery Bills

• the Hundred Days

• the Brain Trust

• the Initial Recovery

What piece of legislation from the First New Deal created jobs for young men with the forestry department?

• the Federal Emergency Relief Administration

• the Civilian Conservation Corps

• the Public Works Administration

• the Civil Works Administration

What piece of New Deal legislation federally insured and protected the money Americans put in their banks?

• the Homeowners Loan Corporation

• the Lending in Agriculture Act

• the Farm Credit Administration

• the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

What rights did the Wagner Act of 1935 extend to workers?

• the right to sue an employer for unlawful termination

• the right to organize and bargain collectively

• the right to a sustained higher wage

• the right to a pension and vacation time

What was the enduring belief that the Social Security Act created for the first time in American society?

• that employers must pay pensions to workers who are injured on the job

• that high taxes are the price workers pay for the New Deal programs

• that the government must help African American farm and domestic workers

• that the government should be responsible for those who cannot work

What group of traditionally Republican voters abandoned that party to vote for Roosevelt in 1936?

• African Americans

• Women

• Wealthy business owners

• Poor farmers

What was the court-packing plan?

• Roosevelt's plan to appoint extra justices to the Supreme Court and force others into retirement

• Roosevelt's attempted appointment of several women as federal justices

• Roosevelt's refusal to follow the rulings of the Supreme Court and continue with the New Deal

• Congress's attempt to overhaul the structure and appointment process of the Supreme Court

What criticism of FDR and the New Deal does this cartoon depict?

• FDR's plan to pack the Supreme Court

• FDR being unwilling to shift wealth from the rich to the poor

• FDR refusing to address the crisis of famine

• FDR expanding federal and executive power