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It provided a pension for retired workers and their spouses and the unemployed. 

• Social Security Administration 
• Wagner Act 
• Public Works Administration 
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation 

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

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

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt took many actions during his “First Hundred Days” in the White House in 1933, but what was the FIRST thing he did?

• close all of the nation’s banks and order inspections of those banks

• end slavery

• borrow money from China

• desegregate the Military

Why did President Franklin D. Roosevelt attempt to “pack” the U.S. Supreme Court in 1937?

• he was angry that the court had ruled some of his New Deal programs unconstitutional

• he wanted to appoint a number of his friends to the court

• he felt that having so many older men on the court was dangerous for the nation

• he was having a bad week

This senator was against FDR's New Deal policies and wanted to tax the rich heavily - using that money to give everyone a house, a car and a decent income

• Charles Finney

• Huey Long

• Francis Townsend

• John Hinch

Government spending more than it is taking in, is called...

• Negative Spending

• Pensions

• Collective Bargaining

• Deficit Spending

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