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SSUSH18a,b,c and d Option#3

Total questions: 21

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

  • 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)  

2.
  1. the 32nd President of the United States. He served four terms from 1933 to 1945, the longest of any president

a)
George Washington
b)
Abraham Lincoln
c)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
d)
Thomas Jefferson
3.

  • 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)  

4.
  1. a series of projects and laws put into place by President Roosevelt to help the United States recover from the Great Depression

a)
Manifest Destiny
b)
Square Deal
c)
Great Leap Forward
d)
New Deal
5.

  • 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)  

6.
  1. 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

a)

Federal Emergency Relief Program

(FERP)

b)

Federal Surplus Relief Corporation

(FSRC)

c)

Federal Emergency Relief Administration

(FERA)

d)

Federal Emergency Relief Act

(FERA)

7.

  • 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.

8.
  1. places where free food is offered to the homeless and the poor

a)
Homeless shelters
b)
Food pantries
c)

Soup kitchens,

d)
Homeless camps
9.

  • 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.


10.
  1. 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)
Public Works Administration (PWA)
b)
Social Security Administration (SSA)
c)
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
d)
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
11.
  1. 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)
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
b)
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
c)
Social Security Administration (SSA)
d)
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
12.
  1. 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)
Alabama Valley Initiative (AVI)
b)
Mississippi River Authority (MRA)
c)
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
d)
Kentucky River Project (KRP)
13.
  1. a New Deal program created to provide insurance on individual bank accounts up to $5,000

a)
Federal Reserve System (FRS)
b)
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
c)
Social Security Administration (SSA)
d)
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
14.
  1. a New Deal program created to regulate the stock market and prevent another crash

a)
National Recovery Administration (NRA)
b)
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
c)
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
d)
Federal Reserve System (FRS)
15.
  1. older adults, typically those aged 65 and above

a)
senior citizens
b)
retirees
c)
aged population
d)
elderly individuals
16.
  1. 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)

a)
Welfare
b)
Medicare
c)
Unemployment Insurance
d)

Social Security Act

17.
  1. a politician from Louisiana who was a critic of FDR

a)
Huey Long
b)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
c)
Harry S. Truman
d)
Dwight D. Eisenhower
18.
  1. 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

a)
Federal Reserve Act
b)
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
c)
Social Security Act
d)
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
19.
  1. someone who prefers traditional values and is cautious about change or innovation

a)
liberal
b)
progressive
c)
moderate
d)
conservative
20.
  1.  a large meeting where political parties choose their presidential candidate and set the party platform and goals

a)

national party convention

b)
federal summit
c)
regional assembly
d)
state convention
21.
  1. groups of people who differ from the majority of the population in a country based on race, religion, language, or other factors

a)
Outsider groups
b)
Majority groups
c)
Minority groups
d)
Differentiated groups