WorksheetsNew Deal Test Review
Total questions: 29
Worksheet time: 20mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Which government agency gives benefits to people when they are retired or unemployed?
a)
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
b)
Securities and Exchange Commission
c)
Tennessee Valley Authority
d)
Social Security Admistration
2.
What problem were both the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Works Progress Administration developed to address?
a)
Excessive stock market speculation
b)
High unemploment
c)
Increased use of credit
d)
Overproduction of goods
3.
What was Roosevelt’s goal in creating the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation?
a)
Restore the public’s faith in financial institutions
b)
Stimulate demand for manufactured goods
c)
Provide jobs for the unemployed
d)
Help farmers pay back their loans
4.
During the New Deal, how did the government attempt to improve conditions for farmers?
a)
By ending the practice of sharecropping
b)
By raising tariffs on farm imports
c)
By paying farmers to grow fewer crops
d)
By training farmers for jobs in a new field
5.
Which New Deal program employed young men to work on various projects to improve the country?
a)
Social Security Act
b)
Fair labor Standards Act
c)
Rural Electrification Act
d)
Civilian Conservation Corps
6.
The Wagner Act
a)
Paid farmers to limit their crop production
b)
Protected the rights of workers to organize into unions
c)
Provided jobs for single, young men
d)
Provided retirement benefits for the elderly
7.
How FDR reassured the public by radio
a)
Depression
b)
The New Deal
c)
Fireside Chats
d)
Court Packing Scheme
8.
During the Depression, newly homeless people put up communities of shacks they called....
a)
the projects
b)
Hoovervilles
c)
Bonus Armies
d)
Okie towns
9.
Central Great Plains had high winds carried the soil away in binding dust storms.
a)
Black Tuesday
b)
soup kitchens
c)
Dust Bowl
10.
What organization insures bank deposits?
a)
SEC
b)
FHA
c)
TVA
d)
FDIC
11.
What was the main goal of the New Deal?
a)
Increase control of state governemnts
b)
increase immigrant population
c)
reduce unemployment
d)
create a fourth branch of government
12.
Whose job is it to maintain economic stability after the New Deal?
a)
Federal Government
b)
State Government
13.
Franklin D. Roosevelt's plan for helping the country's economy was called:
a)
The Great Society
b)
The Constitution
c)
The Great Depression
d)
The New Deal
14.
What is spending that is greater than revenue?
a)
balanced
b)
surplus
c)
deficit
15.
What are cash payments or food given by the government straight to the poor?
a)
direct relief
b)
price supports
c)
fiat money
d)
rugged individualism
16.
What was the name given to President Roosevelt's plan to alter the Supreme Court to increase his power in having his New Deal legislation passed instead of having it struck down on constitutional grounds?
a)
The New Deal
b)
The Great Depression
c)
Court Packing
d)
Second New Deal
17.
These created jobs and provided people with direct assistance during the Great Depression
a)
Relief
b)
Recovery
c)
Reform
d)
Reduce
18.
This was created to regulate the stock market and prevent a future stock market crash
a)
Securities and Exchange Committee
b)
Public Works Administration
c)
Works Progress Administration
d)
Agricultural Adjustment Act
19.
What was the purpose of President Franklin Roosevelt’s “New Deal”?
a)
To create jobs and help the economy during the Great Depression.
b)
To help small farmers purchase new equipment.
c)
To end racial tensions in the South.
d)
To give the southern states a new image, and improve their relationship with the North.
20.
Which event marked the beginning of the Great Depression?
a)
The End of Prohibition
b)
The New Deal
c)
The Stock Market Crash
d)
The Election of Herbert Hoover
21.
What cause of the Great Depression did the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) attempt to solve?
a)
Stock market speculation
b)
Overproduction
c)
Weak banking system
d)
Unsafe loans
22.
"If jobs are not available, the government must create jobs for those who are unemployed."
Which Depression-Era President would have said this?
a)
b)
23.
One difference between the administrations of President Roosevelt and President Hoover was that Roosevelt was-
a)
more willing to use government intervention to solve economic problems
b)
unwilling to allow government agencies to establish jobs
c)
able to ignore economic issues for most of his first term in office
d)
opposed to any type of government regulation of financial institutions
24.
What was President Herbert Hoover's response to the Great Depression?
a)
He believed "rugged individualism" would solve the economy
b)
He created mass welfare
c)
He increased infrastructure to create jobs
d)
He violated his policy of laissez-faire
25.
What were the three aims of the New Deal?
a)
Relief, Recovery and Reform
b)
Reform, remember and recover
c)
Register, refund and recover
d)
relief, protect and recover
26.
________________ wrote The Grapes of Wrath, the story of a family of farmers forced to move in search of work
a)
Woody Guthrie
b)
John Steinbeck
c)
Herbert Hoover
d)
Bing Crosby
27.
Stock market crashes on-
a)
October 29, 1929
b)
November 29, 1929
c)
December 29, 1929
d)
September 29, 1929
28.
Law that sent people back to their home country to increase job availability for Americans.
a)
Mexican Repatriation Act
b)
Chinese Exclusion Act
c)
Executive Order 9066
d)
Immigration quotas
29.
A regional New Deal program tasked with providing electricity to the people through dams and other means.
a)
Works Progress Administration
b)
Tennessee Valley Authority
c)
Tennessee Valley Electrical Organization
d)
Civilian Conservation Corps
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