Eleanor Roosevelt had honed her own skills and developed a personal network of reform activists through
Her experience in settlement houses and women's reform organizations.
The Democratic party platform on which Franklin Roosevelt campaigned for the presidency in 1932 called for
Extensive social reforms and a balanced budget.
In 1932, Franklin Roosevelt campaigned on the promise that as President he would attack the Great Depression
Experimenting with bold new programs for economic and social reform.
The phrase Hundred Days refers to the
Flood of legislation passed by Congress in the first months of Franklin Roosevelt's presidency.
One striking new feature of the 1932 presidential election results was that
African Americans shifted from their Republican allegiance and became a vital element in the Democratic party.
The group that had experienced the worst suffering as a result of the Great Depression was
African Americans.
The Works Progress Administration was a major ____ program of the New Deal; the Public Works Administration was a long-range ____ program; and the Social Security Act was a major ____ program.
Relief; Recovery; Reform
The Glass-Steagall Act
Created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to insure individual bank deposits.
The most immediate emergency facing Franklin Roosevelt when he became president in March 1933 was
The collapse of nearly the entire banking system.
Immediately after taking office, President Roosevelt responded to the banking crisis by
Closing all American banks for a week, while reorganizing them on a sounder basis.
______ proved to be immensely popular among those Americans it served by putting thousands of people immediately to work at good-paying jobs and providing access to low-cost electricity to a region lacking cheap electrical power.
The Tennessee Valley Authority
The New Deal program of the following agency represented the most economically complex, managerially ambitious, and unsuccessful New Deal effort to achieve recovery and reform the entire American economy.
National Recovery Administration
President Roosevelt's chief "administrator of relief" and one of his closest advisors was
Harry Hopkins.
Senator Huey P. Long of Louisiana gained a large national following by promising to
"Share our wealth" by raising taxes on the rich and giving every family $5,000.
The National Recovery Administration (NRA) failed largely because
It required too much self-sacrifice on the part of industry, labor, and the public.
Roosevelt supported the repeal of Prohibition because
He thought that it afforded the opportunity to raise needed federal revenue and provide jobs.
The first Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) raised the money that it paid to farmers not to grow crops by
Taxing processors of farm products.
The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) proposed to solve the farm problem by
Reducing agricultural production.
Both ratified in the 1930s, the Twentieth Amendment ____ and the Twenty-first Amendment ____.
Shortened the time between the presidential election and inauguration; ended Prohibition
In 1935, President Roosevelt set up the Resettlement Administration to
Help farmers who were victims of the Dust Bowl move to better land.
The Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 attempted to
Reverse the forced assimilation of Native Americans into white society by establishing tribal self-government
Most Dust Bowl migrants headed to
California.
The fate of most of the Okies and other Dust Bowl migrants who headed west to California was that they
Found themselves mired in poverty, squalor, and lack of economic opportunity in the San Joaquin Valley.
The Federal Securities Act and the Securities Exchange Commission aimed to
Provide full disclosure of information and prevent insider trading and other fraudulent practices.
Some Native Americans denounced the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 because its provisions
Ignored the increasing loss of Native American lands to real estate and commercial development and environmental degradation.
The National Labor Relations Act proved most beneficial to
Unskilled workers.
The Wagner Act of 1935 proved to be a trailblazing law that
Gave labor the legal right to organize and bargain collectively.
The primary interest of the Congress of Industrial Organization was
The organization of all unskilled and semiskilled workers within an industry.
President Roosevelt's Court-packing scheme in 1937 reflected his desire to ensure that the Supreme Court
Upheld the constitutionality of legally challenged New Deal programs.
By 1938, the New Deal
Had lost most of its momentum.