Quiz 24: The New Deal
History
Q 1Q 1
In response to President Franklin Roosevelt's first days in office,the American people
A)believed the Depression was largely over.
B)felt a mixture of relief and hope.
C)concluded the economy was not as bad off as they once had believed.
D)felt the Hoover administration must be held accountable for the economic crisis.
E)began to believe they had made a mistake in voting for Roosevelt.
Free
Multiple Choice
B
Q 2Q 2
In 1933,two days after he took office,President Franklin Roosevelt
A)took the country off the gold standard.
B)ended prohibition.
C)sent the National Industrial Recovery Act to Congress.
D)presented to Congress a relief plan for the unemployed.
E)closed all banks.
Free
Multiple Choice
E
Q 3Q 3
The Economy Act of 1933
A)proposed to balance the federal budget and cut government workers' salaries.
B)ordered all federal agencies to cut their workforce by ten percent.
C)gave immediate pensions to retired war veterans.
D)provided an infusion of cash into the economy.
E)gave the government authority to curb irresponsible speculation by banks.
Free
Multiple Choice
A
Q 4Q 4
The Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 established
A)the Federal Reserve Board in Washington.
B)the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
C)the Securities and Exchange Commission.
D)both the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
E)None of these answers is correct.
Free
Multiple Choice
Q 5Q 5
In 1933,the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
A)offered financial protection for stock investors.
B)gave the government authority to transfer the funds of failing banks to strong banks.
C)protected the assets of small bank depositors.
D)protected banks from failing.
E)prevented banks from speculating irresponsibly.
Free
Multiple Choice
Q 6Q 6
To oversee activities in the stock market,in 1934,Congress established the
A)Securities and Exchange Commission.
B)Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
C)Federal Reserve Board.
D)Glass-Steagall Act.
E)Federal Emergency Relief Association.
Free
Multiple Choice
Q 7Q 7
The Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933
A)sought to raise crop prices by paying farmers not to plant.
B)set minimum prices for retailers purchasing farm products.
C)provided farmers with free seed and fertilizer.
D)offered financial incentives to farmers who improved their production yields.
E)created government warehouses where farmers could store their crops and use them as collateral.
Free
Multiple Choice
Q 8Q 8
The Agricultural Adjustment Act
A)favored small farm operations over large ones.
B)fostered further instability in the agricultural economy.
C)protected tenant farmers.
D)failed to improve farm prices.
E)was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
Free
Multiple Choice
Q 9Q 9
The New Deal program that created utility cooperatives for rural Americans was the
A)Resettlement Administration.
B)Farm Security Administration.
C)Rural Electrification Administration.
D)Civilian Conservation Corps.
E)Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act.
Free
Multiple Choice
Q 10Q 10
The National Recovery Administration of 1933 did all of the following EXCEPT
A)establish a minimum wage for labor.
B)make child industrial labor illegal.
C)set a standard for the maximum hours one could work in a week.
D)increase competition between companies.
E)set floors under prices.
Free
Multiple Choice
Q 11Q 11
During the first year of the National Recovery Administration,
A)industry saw prices rise.
B)industrial production declined.
C)large producers consistently dominated the code-writing process.
D)both of these occurred: industry saw prices rise,and industrial production declined.
E)All these answers are correct.
Free
Multiple Choice
Q 12Q 12
The Tennessee Valley Authority of 1933
A)saw private farmers and business leaders dominate its planning process.
B)was the most controversial program of the early New Deal.
C)was one of the costliest failures of the Roosevelt administration.
D)was headed by former electricity magnate Samuel Insull.
E)was an experiment in regional planning by the federal government.
Free
Multiple Choice
Q 13Q 13
Which of the following did NOT occur as a result of the Tennessee Valley Authority?
A)Flooding was almost entirely eliminated in the affected region.
B)The cost of power from private companies declined.
C)Poverty in the region was significantly reduced.
D)Water transportation was improved.
E)Electricity was provided to thousands of new users.
Free
Multiple Choice
Q 14Q 14
During its first year,the Civil Works Administration
A)put four million people to work.
B)provided relief funds but not relief work.
C)planned for major building projects such as dams,airports,and power plants.
D)made little progress in helping the jobless.
E)was soon replaced by the Federal Emergency Relief Administration.
Free
Multiple Choice
Q 15Q 15
The Civilian Conservation Corps
A)was racially integrated.
B)put the unemployed to work on rural and wilderness areas.
C)included women.
D)mostly employed the jobless rural poor.
E)passed Congress despite Roosevelt's ambivalence about the project.
Free
Multiple Choice
Q 16Q 16
In 1934,strong criticism of the New Deal came from
A)the political far right.
B)the political far left.
C)dissident populists such as Huey Long.
D)both the political far right and the political far left.
E)All these answers are correct.
Free
Multiple Choice
Q 17Q 17
In 1934,the American Liberty League was formed
A)to help win public support for the more controversial New Deal programs.
B)by western business leaders who felt ignored by the New Deal.
C)to unite southerners who opposed the New Deal's support of unions.
D)by a coalition of radical and semi-radical organizations,including the Socialist Party.
E)by wealthy conservatives who strongly opposed the New Deal.
Free
Multiple Choice
Q 18Q 18
In 1934,Dr.Francis Townsend attracted widespread national support for a plan that
A)offered medical insurance for the poor and elderly.
B)was strongly supported by Congress.
C)helped pave the way for the Social Security system.
D)guaranteed all able-bodied Americans over age twenty-one a full-time job.
E)provided below-cost health care to children and pregnant women.
Free
Multiple Choice
Q 19Q 19
Much of Father Charles Coughlin's outspoken criticism of the Roosevelt administration revolved around the issue of
A)the right of labor to organize in unions.
B)giving public relief jobs to women with children.
C)the repeal of prohibition.
D)changing the banking and currency system.
E)taxing excess corporate profits and surplus riches.
Free
Multiple Choice
Q 20Q 20
In 1935,Senator Huey Long
A)advocated a "flat tax" plan.
B)had a strong record of progressive accomplishments.
C)had as much popular support as Franklin Roosevelt,according to opinion polls.
D)declared he would seek the Democratic nomination for president in 1936.
E)advocated a $200 monthly pension for all Americans over the age of sixty.
Free
Multiple Choice
Q 21Q 21
The "Second New Deal" was launched in response to
A)the growth of popular protests across the nation.
B)the persistence of the Great Depression.
C)growing political pressures.
D)both the persistence of the Great Depression and growing political pressures.
E)All these answers are correct.
Free
Multiple Choice
Q 22Q 22
All of the following programs were part of the "Second New Deal" EXCEPT
A)the Federal Emergency Relief Administration.
B)the Wagner Act.
C)the Holding Company Act.
D)the Social Security Act.
E)the National Labor Relations Act.
Free
Multiple Choice
Q 23Q 23
During the "Second New Deal," President Franklin Roosevelt
A)moved away from altering the income tax.
B)called for greater civil rights for American minority groups.
C)introduced government-funded unemployment checks.
D)rejected legislative attempts by Senator Robert Wagner to strengthen labor.
E)became more willing to attack corporate interests openly.
Free
Multiple Choice
Q 24Q 24
The National Labor Relations Act of 1935
A)ended the labor practice of a "closed shop."
B)gave government the authority to force employers to accept labor unions.
C)enforced the labor practice of an "open shop."
D)resulted in the Supreme Court's striking down of the Wagner Act.
E)invalidated Section 7(a)of the National Industrial Recovery Act.
Free
Multiple Choice
Q 25Q 25
In the 1930s,industrial unionism was
A)considerably strengthened by New Deal legislation.
B)supported by the American Federation of Labor.
C)opposed by labor leaders such as John L.Lewis.
D)generally hostile to blacks and women.
E)losing support among unskilled laborers.
Free
Multiple Choice
Q 26Q 26
In the 1930s,the industrial union movement
A)was most interested in attracting skilled laborers.
B)decided it was better to organize by companies than by entire industries.
C)grew more militant and powerful.
D)saw many of its leaders take top executive jobs in major companies.
E)became the dominant force in the American Federation of Labor.
Free
Multiple Choice
Q 27Q 27
In the 1930s,the Congress of Industrial Organization
A)grew out of a dispute within the American Federation of Labor.
B)was less militant than the American Federation of Labor.
C)would not accept women or blacks as members.
D)confined its organizing to the steel and coal industries.
E)refused to get involved in organizing the automobile industry.
Free
Multiple Choice
Q 28Q 28
During the 1930s,the sit-down strike
A)was first used in the steel industry.
B)was a new and controversial labor tactic.
C)was upheld by the courts and state governments.
D)was eventually broken by the Michigan National Guard.
E)All these answers are correct.
Free
Multiple Choice
Q 29Q 29
During the 1937 sit-down strike of General Motors,the federal government
A)actively sided with the strikers.
B)actively sided with the company.
C)assumed control of the plant.
D)negotiated a settlement through federal arbitration.
E)refused to intervene in the dispute.
Free
Multiple Choice
Q 30Q 30
In 1937,regarding the organizing of industrial labor,
A)small steel companies more quickly unionized than did large steel companies.
B)the effort to organize the steel industry proved easier than in the auto industry.
C)the "Memorial Day Massacre" saw striking U.S.Steel employees killed by police.
D)the great majority of strikes were settled in favor of the unions.
E)a key strike against Republic Steel of Chicago succeeded in winning union recognition.
Free
Multiple Choice
Q 31Q 31
The Social Security Act of 1935
A)initially only offered a pension for retired workers.
B)did not begin making payments to participants for years.
C)covered all full-time working American citizens.
D)was opposed by President Franklin Roosevelt as being too costly.
E)originally included a program for universal health care.
Free
Multiple Choice
Q 32Q 32
The Works Progress Administration of 1935
A)gave federal relief money to those deemed "unemployable."
B)displayed very little flexibility or imagination.
C)provided mostly "make-work" jobs to the unemployed.
D)was under the direction of Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins.
E)was much larger than previous programs of its kind.
Free
Multiple Choice
Q 33Q 33
The Works Progress Administration provided federal assistance to
A)artists and sculptors.
B)actors and directors.
C)writers and musicians.
D)all of these: artists,sculptors,writers,and musicians.
E)All these answers are correct.
Free
Multiple Choice
Q 34Q 34
In the 1930s,the New Deal generally gave
A)work relief to both men and women.
B)cash assistance to both men and women.
C)work relief to women and cash assistance to men.
D)work relief to men and cash assistance to women.
E)both work relief and cash assistance to men and women.
Free
Multiple Choice
Q 35Q 35
The election of 1936
A)saw Franklin Roosevelt opposed by the Republican,William Lemke.
B)was considered "too close to call" by opinion polls in the weeks prior to the vote.
C)produced a new and enduring coalition of voters for the Democratic Party.
D)saw third-party challengers play a major role in the outcome.
E)saw the Republican challenger pick up considerable gains in the formerly "Solid South."
Free
Multiple Choice
Q 36Q 36
All of the following groups were part of the New Deal political coalition EXCEPT
A)big business owners.
B)the working class.
C)urban blacks.
D)western and southern farmers.
E)liberals and progressives.
Free
Multiple Choice
Q 37Q 37
In 1937,President Franklin Roosevelt's call to expand the Supreme Court came from
A)complaints by several justices that they were being overworked.
B)a desire not to have to choose between two different popular candidates for Chief Justice.
C)a Democratic plan to gain for the party permanent control of the federal government.
D)his opinion that the Court needed to review a larger number of cases.
E)his desire to change the ideological balance of the Court.
Free
Multiple Choice
Q 38Q 38
President Franklin Roosevelt's proposal to expand the Supreme Court
A)had little effect on future rulings by the Court.
B)did little political damage to his administration.
C)drew significant support from conservatives.
D)was eventually defeated in Congress.
E)gained Roosevelt the support of southern Democrats.
Free
Multiple Choice
Q 39Q 39
In response to economic indices in the summer of 1937,Franklin Roosevelt decided
A)that there should be a sharp increase in New Deal spending.
B)the federal government would never be able to end the Depression.
C)the federal work programs would have to be continued indefinitely.
D)that he should try to balance the federal budget.
E)that Social Security should be expanded to include agricultural and domestic laborers.
Free
Multiple Choice
Q 40Q 40
During the recession of 1937,
A)Congressional Republicans took most of the blame.
B)the economy was as bad as during the worst period of the Hoover administration.
C)industrial production faltered but employment remained steady.
D)it became apparent that New Deal programs made little impact on economic conditions.
E)Roosevelt tried to mitigate the damage by reducing spending.
Free
Multiple Choice
Q 41Q 41
The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938
A)signified the start of a new round of New Deal legislation.
B)sought to eliminate hiring discrimination based on race,but not gender.
C)did not include a provision regarding working hours.
D)established a national minimum wage.
E)created an enforcement mechanism to protect unions' right to organize.
Free
Multiple Choice
Q 42Q 42
By the end of 1938,
A)the nation had largely emerged from the Depression.
B)President Roosevelt began what became known as the "Third New Deal."
C)Congress had come to accept the need for further reforms.
D)the American public had come to strongly oppose the New Deal.
E)the New Deal had largely come to an end.
Free
Multiple Choice
Q 43Q 43
Under the New Deal,African Americans
A)were generally treated equally with other races.
B)received no significant appointments in the Roosevelt White House.
C)received more sympathy than under most previous administrations.
D)were able to challenge many patterns of race discrimination effectively.
E)found the government hostile to black aspirations.
Free
Multiple Choice
Q 44Q 44
The most influential advocate for African Americans in the Roosevelt administration was
A)Frances Perkins.
B)Harold Ickes.
C)Harry Hopkins.
D)Eleanor Roosevelt.
E)Mary McLeod Bethune.
Free
Multiple Choice
Q 45Q 45
African Americans employed by New Deal relief programs
A)were paid the same wages as whites doing the same jobs.
B)were among the first to be released when funds ran out.
C)saw existing patterns of discrimination dismantled.
D)were both paid the same wages as whites doing the same jobs,and among the first to be released when funds ran out.
E)All these answers are correct.
Free
Multiple Choice
Q 46Q 46
New Deal policy toward American Indians
A)continued past government policies.
B)favored Indian assimilation into the larger white culture.
C)was grounded in a commitment to cultural relativism.
D)encouraged Indians to own land as individuals,rather than collectively.
E)led to a considerable decrease in tribal lands.
Free
Multiple Choice
Q 47Q 47
John Collier is associated with New Deal
A)Indian policies.
B)programs for African Americans.
C)health programs for children.
D)initiatives for the working class.
E)administration of public works.
Free
Multiple Choice
Q 48Q 48
Frances Perkins,the first female cabinet member in American history,was secretary of
A)commerce.
B)agriculture.
C)labor.
D)health and human services.
E)education.
Free
Multiple Choice
Q 49Q 49
Which of the following statements regarding the New Deal and women is NOT true?
A)The New Deal sanctioned sexually discriminatory wage rates.
B)New Deal relief agencies offered relatively little employment for women.
C)Women were encouraged to leave the workplace to help men get jobs.
D)Many occupations dominated by women were excluded from Social Security.
E)In general,women were major critics of the New Deal.
Free
Multiple Choice
Q 50Q 50
In the American West,New Deal programs
A)were limited and had a minimal impact on life.
B)focused on the few large cities.
C)led to a change in existing racial relations.
D)disproportionately benefited the region in funding.
E)drew considerable opposition for their environmentalism.
Free
Multiple Choice
Q 51Q 51
One of the major effects the New Deal had on the United States was how it
A)fostered stronger and more varied interest groups.
B)created a unified,government-controlled economy.
C)created a harmonious,ordered economy.
D)created laws that provided equal economic opportunity for all American workers.
E)ended the Depression.
Free
Multiple Choice
Q 52Q 52
One long-term consequence of the New Deal was in how
A)the government effectively redistributed the wealth among the American people.
B)it demonstrated that sufficient government spending could resolve economic emergencies.
C)the national government assumed a responsibility for the basic welfare of the people.
D)the influence of the government on the economy became greater than that of private businesses.
E)the government substantially transformed the distribution of power within American capitalism.
Free
Multiple Choice
Free
True False
Q 54Q 54
During his first 100 days in office,President Roosevelt let it be known that balancing the federal budget was a high priority of his administration.
Free
True False
Q 55Q 55
The Agricultural Adjustment Act did not bring about a rise in farm prices in the years immediately following its passage in 1933.
Free
True False
Q 56Q 56
The Supreme Court declared both the National Industrial Recovery Act and the Agricultural Adjustment Act to be unconstitutional.
Free
True False
Q 57Q 57
The Rural Electrification Administration was more effective and affected more people than did the Resettlement Administration.
Free
True False
Q 58Q 58
The National Industrial Recovery Act sought to tighten antitrust provisions and make important concessions to labor.
Free
True False
Q 59Q 59
The industrial codes set up under the National Recovery Administration set floors below which no company could lower prices or wages.
Free
True False
Q 60Q 60
The provisions of the National Industrial Recovery Act included a promise to workers that they could participate in collective bargaining,but there were no enforcement mechanisms in the legislation.
Free
True False
Free
True False
Q 62Q 62
During his first term,President Roosevelt considered relief to the unemployed to be the most important task.
Free
True False
Free
True False
Free
True False
Q 65Q 65
By the end of President Roosevelt's first term,much of the corporate world had come to realize that the New Deal was attempting to save capitalism and was not its enemy.
Free
True False
Free
True False
Free
True False
Free
True False
Q 69Q 69
During his first term,President Roosevelt grew increasingly willing to openly attack corporate interests.
Free
True False
Free
True False
Q 71Q 71
President Roosevelt was dissatisfied with the National Labor Relations Act,but he did sign it.
Free
True False
Q 72Q 72
The Congress of Industrial Organizations was more receptive to women and blacks than the American Federation of Labor had been.
Free
True False
Free
True False
Free
True False
Free
True False
Q 76Q 76
During the 1930s,the smaller steel companies were more willing to accommodate unions than were the large steel companies.
Free
True False
Free
True False
Q 78Q 78
The New Deal had moved far enough to the left by 1935 that the poorest of workers,including domestic servants and agricultural laborers,were covered by the Social Security Act.
Free
True False
Q 79Q 79
New Deal programs tried to make a distinction between those who had earned social protection and those who needed it.
Free
True False
Free
True False
Q 81Q 81
President Roosevelt's 1936 reelection was the greatest landslide victory to that point in the history of American presidential elections.
Free
True False
Q 82Q 82
Roosevelt's "Court-packing plan" called for replacing conservative justices with liberal ones.
Free
True False
Q 83Q 83
Roosevelt's Court-packing plan became unnecessary once the Supreme Court began supporting New Deal legislation.
Free
True False
Q 84Q 84
The recession of 1937 seemed to be the result of reductions in federal spending by the Roosevelt administration.
Free
True False
Free
True False
Q 86Q 86
The New Deal was not hostile to black Americans,but it did not give the issue of race a high priority.
Free
True False
Q 87Q 87
On the prompting of Eleanor Roosevelt,New Deal agencies tried to eliminate racial segregation in their programs.
Free
True False
Q 88Q 88
Theories of cultural relativism fed into New Deal plans to assimilate the American Indian into the larger white society.
Free
True False
Q 89Q 89
The New Deal generally supported the notion that in hard economic times women should leave the workplace in order to open up jobs for men.
Free
True False
Q 90Q 90
During the New Deal,the federal government maintained a much greater and more visible bureaucratic presence in the West than in any other region of the country.
Free
True False
Q 91Q 91
A primary reason the New Deal failed to end the Depression was that its programs were inadequately funded to resolve the economic challenges of the 1930s.
Free
True False
Q 92Q 92
Largely as the result of the New Deal,many Americans in the 1930s became convinced that the government should regulate various aspects of the economy.
Free
True False
Free
Short Answer
Q 94Q 94
The Eighteenth Amendment ban on the sale of alcohol was repealed with the ratification of the ________ Amendment in 1933.
Free
Short Answer
Free
Short Answer
Q 96Q 96
The primary new federal agency for industrial recovery during the early New Deal was the ________.
Free
Short Answer
Q 97Q 97
The creation of the ________ represented an unprecedented New Deal experiment in regional planning.
Free
Short Answer
Free
Short Answer
Q 99Q 99
Conservatives and corporate leaders organized the ________ League to arouse public opposition to the New Deal.
Free
Short Answer
Q 100Q 100
The ________ Plan represented a pre-Social Security Act scheme to provide for federal pensions for senior citizens.
Free
Short Answer
Q 101Q 101
By 1935,President Roosevelt was most alarmed by the growing popularity of Senator ________.
Free
Short Answer
Q 102Q 102
The National Labor Relations Act,popularly known as the ________ Act,provided workers with greater assurance that their collective bargaining rights would be honored.
Free
Short Answer
Free
Short Answer
Q 104Q 104
The United Auto Workers pioneered the use of the sit-down strike in its dealings with the ________ company.
Free
Short Answer
Free
Short Answer
Q 106Q 106
The ________ Act of 1935 was arguably the single most important piece of social welfare legislation,to date,in American history.
Free
Short Answer
Q 107Q 107
The Works ________ Administration under Harry Hopkins was notable in terms of both dollars spent and new ideas generated.
Free
Short Answer
Free
Short Answer
Q 109Q 109
In 1937,the Supreme Court declared both the Wagner Act and the ________ Act to be constitutional.
Free
Short Answer
Free
Short Answer
Free
Short Answer
Free
Short Answer
Q 113Q 113
How was Franklin Roosevelt able to quickly restore the public's confidence in government and the economy in 1933?
Free
Not Answered
There is no answer for this question
Q 114Q 114
How have historians assessed the efforts of both Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt in fighting the Depression? Where do they praise and criticize these two men?
Free
Not Answered
There is no answer for this question
Q 115Q 115
Was Franklin Roosevelt a progressive president in the tradition of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson? What similarities and differences did he share with these two men?
Free
Not Answered
There is no answer for this question
Free
Not Answered
There is no answer for this question
Q 117Q 117
What evidence supports the argument that Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal were liberal?
Free
Not Answered
There is no answer for this question
Q 118Q 118
What evidence supports the argument that Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal were conservative?
Free
Not Answered
There is no answer for this question
Free
Not Answered
There is no answer for this question
Q 120Q 120
Who were the major critics of the New Deal and what were their complaints? What effect did these complaints have on the New Deal?
Free
Not Answered
There is no answer for this question
Q 121Q 121
Why were there critics of the New Deal from both the political left and the political right?
Free
Not Answered
There is no answer for this question
Free
Not Answered
There is no answer for this question
Q 123Q 123
Why was the New Deal in disarray by 1937-1938? Why were there no new New Deal programs after 1938?
Free
Not Answered
There is no answer for this question
Free
Not Answered
There is no answer for this question
Q 125Q 125
What did the New Deal accomplish in the 1930s? What did it not accomplish? Why did it fail to end the Depression?
Free
Not Answered
There is no answer for this question
Free
Not Answered
There is no answer for this question
Q 127Q 127
What have been the long-term legacies of the New Deal? What major historical assessments have been made of it?
Free
Not Answered
There is no answer for this question
Q 128Q 128
Discuss the fundamental shift that took place in the 1930s regarding the role of the federal government to help people in economic hardship.How would you assess this shift? Has it been useful or not? How does it relate to you personally today?
Free
Not Answered
There is no answer for this question