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WorksheetsSSUSH18a,b,c and d Option#3
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 13mins
Franklin Roosevelt beat Herbert Hoover in the presidential election of 1932 by promising to create programs to give people help and end the Great Depression. Roosevelt used the name “___ ____ ” for these programs.
(a)
the 32nd President of the United States. He served four terms from 1933 to 1945, the longest of any president
When Roosevelt started his second term as President in 1936, he thought it was important to introduce a ______ ___ ____. He felt that the First New Deal hadn't helped everyone who needed it.
(a)
a series of projects and laws put into place by President Roosevelt to help the United States recover from the Great Depression
One group that didn't get much help from the first New Deal was ______ _______. Most older people had spent all of their savings because of the Great Depression, and weren’t able to do the types of jobs created by the New Deal.
(a)
a New Deal program created to provide federal money to state and local governments for operating soup kitchens and meeting the basic needs of the homeless
Federal Emergency Relief Program
(FERP)
Federal Surplus Relief Corporation
(FSRC)
Federal Emergency Relief Administration
(FERA)
Federal Emergency Relief Act
(FERA)
One of Roosevelt’s biggest critics was Senator (a) _. Long from Louisiana. He thought the New Deal didn't do enough to help people and suggested a "Share Our Wealth" program to take money from the rich through taxes and redistribute it to the poor.
places where free food is offered to the homeless and the poor
Soup kitchens,
The Supreme Court also challenged Roosevelt by declaring two parts of the first New Deal (a) because they thought the laws took too much control over private businesses. Roosevelt got really upset with the Supreme Court judges, who he thought were too conservative. He tried to change the court system to get more judges who thought like he did, but people accused him of trying to “pack the court” with people who would agree with him. Even some of his supporters didn't agree with him on this.
a New Deal program created to provide money to states for the construction of roads, bridges, and dams which would create jobs for the unemployed
a New Deal program created to create jobs for unemployed young men to work on public service projects, including erosion control, flood prevention, and public parks
a New Deal program created to provide jobs for thousands of workers in the very rural Tennessee Valley to build dams, power plants, and work to control flooding and erosion
a New Deal program created to provide insurance on individual bank accounts up to $5,000
a New Deal program created to regulate the stock market and prevent another crash
older adults, typically those aged 65 and above
a Second New Deal program to provide money in the form of monthly checks to senior citizens, some unemployed people, and people who are disabled (in other words, people who can’t work)
Social Security Act
a politician from Louisiana who was a critic of FDR
a New Deal program created to cause the price of agricultural products, like tobacco and cotton, to go up by paying farmers not to grow them
someone who prefers traditional values and is cautious about change or innovation
a large meeting where political parties choose their presidential candidate and set the party platform and goals
national party convention
groups of people who differ from the majority of the population in a country based on race, religion, language, or other factors
