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WorksheetsNew Deal Agencies & Actions
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 16mins
Who won the election of 1932?
Herbert Hoover
Calvin Coolidge
Al Capone
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
In his auguration address FDR told the American people that they had "Nothing left to fear but..."
high unemployment
higher taxes
fear itself
bad time ahead
FDR began a tradition amongst US Presidents to focus minds on urgent action he called it the:
100 actions
100 days
100 dollars
100 wishes
What did FDR call his special chats to the US public?
" (a) chats"
What unpopulaw law did FDR repeal which immediately brought the government more tax revenue?
The Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act
Prohibition
The Immigration Acts
The Hays Code
FDR didn't act alone - he assembled a top team of advisors and he called them the...
Brains Trust
Eggheads
Boffins
Nerds
Which New Deal action led to the closure of the banks before re-opening in good order?
SEC
EBA
AAA
TVA
How much did the Emergency Banking Act insure deposits up to?
$100
$1,000
$2,500
$20,000
How do we know the EBA was successful?
FDR said so
Few banks collapsed in 1933
Stockmarket prices rose sharply
$1bn was invested in banks in April 1933
Which New Deal Agency focused on preventing fraudulent stock-market trading?
SEC
NIRA
PWA
AAA
What did FERA provide?
Reform
Relief
Recovery
What kind of relief was provided by FERA?
Soup kitchens, blankets, food parcels
Job creation schemes
Cash bundles
FERA was not enough to fill the $100 per month gap needed by the average destitute family. It is estimated they got ______ instead.
$10
$25
$50
$75
Which organisation helped young men find work on rural / environmental projects for a minimum of 6 months?
The PWA
The AAA
The CCC
Who employed people in PWA and CCC projects?
Private Industry
Rich landowners
Charities
The government
The AAA was controversial as it paid farmers to do what to their crops and animals?
Eat them
Sell them at a higher price
Destroy them
Store them for the future
How do we know the AAA was successful?
Famers looked less grumpy
Farm incomes rose for the first time in many years
The USA began to export more wheat
The PWA employed people on Public Works. If the CCC was famous for tree-planting and telephone wires, what did the PWA do?
Build schools, roads and public buildings
Build factories and office blocks for business
Build skyscrapers in New York and LA
Build the facilities for NASA's space exploaraton programme
Which New Deal scheme did this image relate to?
The AAA
The TVA
The NRA
The CCC
What did the NRA blue-eagle scheme hope to achieve through agreements with employers and employees?
Low wages and low prices
High prices and low wages
High wages and low prices
Higher wages and Higher prices
The NRA scheme sadly did not really get spending levels up. But how many businesses joined the scheme?
2,000
200,000
2,000,000
200,000,000
Henry Ford was cheeky with the NRA scheme (and so were other employers.) He did raise wages, but to save the money back he would have lost he also....
Raised prices
Sacked workers
Increased hours
Took away overtime pay
What did the TVA stand for?
Tampa Valley Awayday
Tenessee Valley Authority
Texas Valley Agency
Tallahasse Vehicular Agency
The major dams on the Tennessee River helped many things. Which of following did they NOT do?
Helped irrigation
Helped navigation
Heped power generation
Helped fossil fuel exploitation
Who disliked the TVA project - especially the power generation for rural farms?
Private Electricity Companies
Teneessee Valley Farmers
The US Postal Service
The Democratic Party
If there was a criticism of the TVA it was that...
It was too regional
It should have been replicated elsehwere
It gave lots of people in the PWA work to do
It didn't work or help at all
FDR used an analogy to explain the actions of the First New Deal in his fireside chats. He called it...
Let's get ready to rumble!
Priming the Pump
Practice makes perfect
Parking the problem
In the pump analogy, it had run dry and it would take money to make it work again. Who would provide the effort/ investment?
Big Business
Foreign governments
The US government
The Banks
In order to afford spending money on the agencies and programmes, FDR had to break with government protocols and...
Spend more than arrived in taxes
Spend less than arrvied in taxes
In order to ensure that the Federal Government deficit (borrowing/overspend) did not get out of control. FDR had to raise some taxes for:
Poor farmers and industrial workers
Bankers and the middle class
The rich and wealthy coporations
The unemployed
