Exam 9: The Great Depression and the New Deal 1929-1939

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Examine the characteristics,attitudes,and goals of the bureaucrats who worked in New Deal agencies.

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The first response of President Herbert Hoover to the Depression was to establish "associations" of business leaders and farmers that would regulate their own industries.

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Waiting for Lefty,Broadway's most popular play of 1935,was a raw drama about unionization efforts among taxi drivers.

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____________________ nationalized several U.S.owned oil companies.

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One of the major demands of women reformers during the New Deal years was for

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Eleanor Roosevelt

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President Roosevelt's policy for dealing with Latin American nations is known as the ____________________ Policy.

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In August 1928,____________________ declared that American was "nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land."

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The region that benefited most from the New Deal was

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Most of the relief money of the Second New Deal went to fund the ______________________________.

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Most popular critics of the New Deal focused on

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The ____________________ Act guaranteed the right of workers to join unions of their choosing.

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From 1929 to 1932,industrial production fell by

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Of the following groups,which benefited the least from New Deal policies?

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The union formed to organize the millions of nonunion employees into effective workers was the

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Herbert Hoover was anxious to engage the government in providing relief to the poor.

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The midterm elections of 1934 resulted in stronger Democratic control over both houses of Congress.

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Popular novels celebrated all of the following except

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Most worker demands in the early 1930s were very radical.

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The Great Plains ecological disaster caused by drought and destruction of native grasses was called ____________________.

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