WorksheetsThe Great Depression & The New Deal
Total questions: 26
Worksheet time: 19mins
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.
Which New Deal program was chiefly designed to correct abuses in the stock market?
a)
Civilian Conservation Corps
b)
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
c)
Securities and Exchange Commission
d)
National Recovery Administration
3.
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
4.
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
5.
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
6.
A major reason for creating the Tennessee Valley Authority in 1933 was to-
a)
Provide health care benefits to
southerners
b)
Encourage African-Americans to settle in
the valley
c)
Improve economic conditions in a poor
rural region
d)
Evacuate farmers from the impoverished region
7.
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
8.
What statement best describes why liberals such as Father Coughlin criticized the New Deal?
a)
The government should take a laissez-faire approach to the economy
b)
the federal government should not go into debt to pay for new programs
c)
The states, not the federal government, should take control of people's welfare
d)
The federal government should do more to help worker's and the middle class
9.
Which was a guiding principle of New Deal economic policies?
a)
“Rugged individualism” will end social inequality
b)
Government must assume greater responsibility for helping the unfortunate
c)
Antitrust legislation could destroy the free enterprise system
d)
State governments should have more power over the economy than the national government
10.
What institution opposed parts of the New Deal because it believed it gave the federal government an unconstitutional amount of power over the states and economy?
a)
Congress
b)
Supreme Court
c)
Stock Market
d)
Executive Branch
11.
Roosevelt's fireside chats used what technology to spread his message?
a)
Television
b)
Radio
c)
Newspaper
d)
Instragram
12.
What was the primary reason that President Roosevelt attempted to increase the number of justices on the Supreme Court?
a)
to make the Court more supportive of New Deal Programs
b)
to force the Court to hear cases involving women’s rights
c)
to speed up the Court’s review of cases
d)
to increase the independence of the Court
13.
What was a major result of FDR’s New Deal programs?
a)
The national deficit declined for most U.S. citizens
b)
The suffrage rights for women changed
c)
The power of the federal government was expanded
d)
The federal government lowered taxes for most Americans
14.
The ____ was an agency formed to insure bank deposits up to a certain amount.
a)
Social Security
b)
SEC
c)
FDIC
d)
Tennessee Valley Authority
15.
The New Deal was designed to end ___ ___ ___.
a)
The world
b)
World War 2
c)
Our classroom
d)
the Great Depression
16.
What were the people called who left the Dust Bowl area and went to other places?
a)
migrants
b)
travelers
c)
Okies
d)
loners
17.
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
18.
To fight the Depression, the first thing Roosevelt did was set out to
a)
Restore confidence in the Banks
b)
Set up Public Works Programs
c)
Provide relief for farmers
d)
Provide direct relief for people
19.
When the government uses _______ it is spending more money than it has revenue.
a)
Malthusian economics
b)
deficit spending
c)
Laissez Faire
d)
New Deal economics
20.
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
21.
What were stock brokers doing that inflated the stock prices?
a)
giving out loans they knew would not be paid back
b)
speculating stocks to be worth more than they actually were
c)
buying stocks on credit
d)
not insuring the customers' money
22.
■subsidized farmers
a)
TVA
b)
CCC
c)
AAA
d)
WPA
23.
What was the first order of business by FDR when he got into office?
a)
End the depression
b)
closed the stock market for a week
c)
4 day bank holiday
d)
close hoovervilles
24.
Which New Deal program employed artists, writers, and actors during the Depression?
a)
PWA
b)
TVA
c)
NIRA
d)
WPA
25.
Which "R" does NOT belong?
a)
Relief
b)
Recovery
c)
Reform
d)
Redemption
26.
Which program hired city dwellers to work in America's National Parks, Forest and wilderness areas?
a)
Federal Emergency Relief Administration
b)
Civilian Conservation Corps
c)
Works Progress Administration
d)
Tennessee Valley Authority
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