New Deal Programs

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

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

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

Which "R" does NOT belong?

• Relief
• Recovery
• Reform
• Redemption

This organization gave jobs to artist, writers, and musicians to create artwork

• Works Progress Administration
• Public Works Adminstration
• National Recovery Adminstration
• Agricultural Adjustment Act

National Labor Relations Act: Often called the Wagner Act, this gave workers the right to form unions, to bargain collectively, and to submit grievances to a National Labor Relations Board

• Relief

• Recovery

• Reform

This program gave federal money to states in order to provide relief for their people.

• NRA

• Wagner Act

• FERA

• HOLC