Crash Course: New Deal

Who was the opponent of Herbert Hoover in the presidential election of 1932?

• George Washington

• John F. Kennedy

• Abraham Lincoln

• Franklin Delano Roosevelt

What was the purpose of the National Recovery Administration?

• To promote rodent control

• To coordinate industry standards for production, prices, and working conditions

• To regulate the sale of firearms

• To manage national parks

Which program was designed to provide cheap electric power to people in rural counties in seven southern states?

• Civil Works Administration

• Federal Emergency Relief Administration

• Tennessee Valley Authority

• National Labor Relations Act

What was the purpose of the Agricultural Adjustment Act?

• To increase farm prices by setting production quotas and paying farmers to plant less food

• To build national parks

• To regulate the banking industry

• To provide welfare payments to people in need

Which act invalidated the National Industrial Recovery Act and why?

• Wagner Act, for violating workers' rights

• U.S. v. Butler, for attempting to regulate local businesses that did not engage in interstate commerce

• Schechter Poultry case, for delegating legislative powers to the president

• Social Security Act, for failing to provide adequate retirement benefits

What was the purpose of the Wagner Act?

• To regulate the banking industry

• To provide unemployment insurance and aid to the disabled

• To build national parks

• To guarantee workers the right to unionize and create a National Labor Relations Board

What was the main goal of the Congress of Industrial Organizations?

• To promote underconsumption as the cause of the economic downturn

• To unionize entire industries and raise workers' wages

• To stabilize the employment situation for white southerners

• To exclude African American farmers from New Deal programs

What was the crowning achievement of the Second New Deal?

• The Agricultural Adjustment Act

• The Civil Works Administration

• The National Recovery Administration

• The Social Security Act

What was the impact of reducing government subsidies to farms and the WPA in 1937?

• Unemployment gradually decreased over time

• Unemployment immediately jumped back up

• Unemployment remained the same

• Unemployment immediately decreased

According to many economic historians, what brought the Depression to an end?

• The New Deal programs

• The rise of labor unions

• Massive government spending program called World War II

• The Supreme Court's decisions