The National Labor Relations Act proved most beneficial to

unskilled workers

As a result of the 1937 Roosevelt recession

Roosevelt adopted Keynesian economics

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

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

Some Native Americans denounced the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 because its provisions

ignored the increasing loss of Indian land to real estate and commercial development and environmental degradation

Franklin Roosevelt's ____ contributed the most to his development of compassion and strength of will

afflicton with infantile paralysis

The Democratic party platform on which Franklin Roosevelt campaigned for the presidency in 1932 called for

extensive social reforms and a balanced budget

By 1938, th eNew Deal

had lost most of its momentum

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

Most Dust Bowl migrants headed to

California

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

Match each New Deal critic below with the cause or slogan that he promoted.

A. Father Coughlin 1. "social justice"

B. Huey Long 2. "every man a king"

C. Francis Townsend 3. "a holy crusade for liberty"

D. Herbert Hoover 4. "$200 a month for everyone over 60"

A-1, B-2, C-4, D-3

Both ratified in the 1930s, the 20th Amendment _______ and the 21st Amendment ________.

shortened the time between presidential election and inaguration; ended prohibition

THe National Recovery Administration failed largely because

it required too much self-scrifice on the part of industry, labor, and the public.

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

Franklin Roosevelt took America off the gold standard and adopted a managed currency policy designed to

stimulate inflation

During the 1930s

the national debt doubled

Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal was most notable for

Providing moderate social and economic reforms of the American capitalist system and giving necessary relief to millions of downtrodden without radical revolution or reactionary fascism

All of the following contributed to the Dust Bowl of the 1930s except

farmers' failure to use steam tractors and other modern equipment

The primary interest of the Congress of Insudtrial Organization was

the organization of all unskilled and semiskilled workers within an industry

In 1932, Franklin Roosevelt campaigned on the promise that as president he would attack the Great Depression by

experimenting with bold new programs for economic and social reform

While Franklin Roosevelt waited to assume the presidency in early 1933, Herbert Hoover unsuccessfully tried to get the president-elect to commit to

an anti-inflationary policy that would have made much of the New Deal impossible

Probably the mos radically economic New Deal program that provoked widespread charges fo creeping socialism by Republican and conservative critics of President Roosevelt's administration was the

Tennessee Valley Authority

The Glass-Steagall Banking Reform Act of 1933

created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to insure individual bank deposits

The first Agricultural Adjustment Act raised the money that it paid to farmers not to grow crops by

taxing processors of farm products

The Agricultural Adjustment Act proposed to solve the farm problem by

reducing agricultural production

The group that had experienced the worst suffering as a result of the Great Depression was

African Americans

President Roosevelt's chief "administrator of relief" and one of his closest advisors was

Harry Hopkins

In 1935, President Roosevelt set up the Resettlement Administration to

help farmers who were victims of the Dust Bowl move to better land

The Federal Securities Act and the Securities Exchange Commission aimed to

provide full disclosure of info and prevent insider trading and other fraudulent practices

The federally-owned Tennessee Valley Authority was seen as a particular threat to

The private electrical utility industry

Recently, some historians have argued that the New Deal had a more radical effect on men than women for all of the following reasons except

many men were required to assume significant child rearing responsibility because of the millions of women who went to work for New Deal agencies

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

Roosevelt supported the repeal of prohibition because

he thought that it afforded the oppportunity to raise needed federal revenue and provide jobs

The most controversial aspect of the Tennessee Valley Authority was its effort to

Provide cheap electrical power in competition with private industry

The phrase Hundred Days refers to the

flood of legislation passed by Congress in the first months of Franklin Roosevelt's presidency

By putting thousand of people immediately to work at good-paying jobs and providing access to low-cost electricity to a region lacking cheap electrical power, the _____ proved to be immensely popular among those Americans it served

Tennessee Valley Authority

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

Match each New Dealer below with the federal agency or program with which he or she was closely identified.

A. Robert Wagner 1. Department of Labor

B. Harry Hopkins 2. Public Works Administration

C. Harold Ickes 3. Works Progress Administration

D. Frances Perkins 4. National Labor Relations Act

A-4, B-3, C-2, D-1

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

When Franklin Roosevelt assumed the presidency in Marc 1933

he received unprecedented congressional support

The American Social Security System, established by the New Deal, differed from most Europan social welfare systems primarily because it

did not initially coverall categories of workers

The Social Security Act o 1935 proved all of the following except

health care for the poor

The Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 attempted to

Reverse the forces assimilation of Native Americans into white society by establishing tribal self-government

The early New Deal experiments borrowed rather freely and randomly from

US wartime and pre-war agencies and European social reform models