front 1 The Federal Securities Act and the Securities Exchange Commission aimed to | back 1 provide full disclosure of information and prevent insider trading and other fraudulent practices. |
front 2 All of the following contributed to the Dust Bowl of the 1930s except | back 2 farmers' failure to use steam tractors and other modern equipment. |
front 3 Native Americans responded to the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 a. with some thrilled by its efforts to stop the loss of Indian lands. b. with many Indians rejecting its provisions to organize tribes and tribal governments. c. by denouncing it as a "back to the blanket" measure. d. All of these | back 3 d. ALL OF THESE |
front 4 In 1932, Franklin Roosevelt campaigned on the promise that as president he would attack the Great Depression by | back 4 experimenting with bold new programs for economic and social reform |
front 5 Most Dust Bowl migrants headed to | back 5 california |
front 6 The phrase Hundred Days refers to the | back 6 flood of legislation passed by Congress in the first months of Roosevelt's presidency. |
front 7 President Roosevelt's chief "administrator of relief" and one of his closest advisors was | back 7 harry hopkins |
front 8 The early New Deal experiments borrowed rather freely and randomly from | back 8 U.S. wartime and pre-war agencies and European social reform models. |
front 9 Franklin Roosevelt's ____ contributed the most to his development of compassion and strength of will. | back 9 affliction with infantile paralysis |
front 10 Roosevelt supported the repeal of prohibition because | back 10 he thought that it afforded the opportunity to raise needed federal revenue and provide jobs. |
front 11 The most complex and ambitious New Deal effort to achieve recovery and reform the entire American economy was the | back 11 National Recovery Administration. |
front 12 The single most popular New Deal program was probably the | back 12 Civilian Conservation Corps. |
front 13 The Democratic party platform on which Franklin Roosevelt campaigned for the presidency in 1932 called for | back 13 extensive social reforms and a blanced budge |
front 14 Franklin Roosevelt took America off the gold standard and adopted a managed currency policy designed to | back 14 stimulate inflation. |
front 15 The group that had experienced the worst suffering as a result of the Great Depression was | back 15 African Americans. |
front 16 Both ratified in the 1930s, the Twentieth Amendment ____ and the Twenty-first Amendment | back 16 shortened the time between presidential election and inauguration; ended prohibition |
front 17 he Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) proposed to solve the farm problem by | back 17 reducing agricultural production. |
front 18 While Franklin Roosevelt waited to assume the presidency in early 1933, Herbert Hoover tried to get the president-elect to commit to | back 18 an anti-inflationary policy that would have made much of the New Deal impossible. |
front 19 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 | back 19 relief; recovery; reform |
front 20 The Glass-Steagall Act | back 20 created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to insure individual bank deposits |
front 21 Franklin Roosevelt new deal was mostly notable for | back 21 providing modern social reform without revolution or fascism |
front 22 after franklin roosevelts failed attempt to pack the supreme court | back 22 the court began to rule the new deal programs were constitutional |
front 23 as a result of the 1937 roosevelt reccesion | back 23 FDR adopted Keynesian economics |
front 24 the wagner act of 1935 proved to be a trailblazing law that | back 24 gave labor the right to bargain collectively |
front 25 the social security act of 1935 provided everything except | back 25 health care of the poor |
front 26 the federally owned tennese valley authority was seen as a particular threat to | back 26 the private electrical utility industry |
front 27 the fate of most okies and other dust bowl immigrants who headed to west california was that they | back 27 still struggled for food, shelter and work in the san joaquin valley |
front 28 in 1935 president roosevelt set up the resstlement administartion to | back 28 help farmers who were victims of the dust bowl move to a better land |
front 29 by 1938 the new deal | back 29 had lost most of its momentum |
front 30 during the 1930's | back 30 the national debt doubled |
front 31 FDR's court packing scheme in 1937 reflected his desire to make supreme court | back 31 more sympathetic to new deal programs |
front 32 the primary interest of the congress of industrial organizations was | back 32 the organization of all worker within a industry |
front 33 the national labors relation act proved most beneficial to | back 33 unskilled workers |