Question 1

Roosevelt's Democratic coalition included

Accepted Answer

A)  business and organized labor. 
B)  black and white voters in the South. 
C)  black northerners and white southerners. 
D)  the National Association of Manufacturers and American communists. 
A)  business and organized labor. 
B)  black and white voters in the South. 
C)  black northerners and white southerners. 
D)  the National Association of Manufacturers and American communists.

Question 2

Which of the following was Roosevelt's initial response to the Supreme Court's declaration that the NRA,the AAA,and other New Deal legislation were unconstitutional?

Accepted Answer

A)  He asked Congress to impeach several justices. 
B)  Roosevelt attempted to pack the Court with his own nominees. 
C)  He attempted to change those parts of the legislation the Court found objectionable. 
D)  He ignored it and moved on,making sure subsequent laws were worded more carefully. 
A)  He asked Congress to impeach several justices. 
B)  Roosevelt attempted to pack the Court with his own nominees. 
C)  He attempted to change those parts of the legislation the Court found objectionable. 
D)  He ignored it and moved on,making sure subsequent laws were worded more carefully.

Question 3

Who was the first woman cabinet member,who served as secretary of labor?

Accepted Answer

A)  Frances Perkins 
B)  Mary McLeod Bethune 
C)  Jane Addams 
D)  Marian Anderson 
A)  Frances Perkins 
B)  Mary McLeod Bethune 
C)  Jane Addams 
D)  Marian Anderson

Question 4

Who were Harold Ickes and Bernard Baruch?

Accepted Answer

A)  Photographers who chronicled the faces of the Depression 
B)  Union activists who lobbied Congress for reform 
C)  Two of Franklin Roosevelt's chief Brains Trust advisors 
D)  New Deal congressional representatives who worked diligently with Roosevelt 
A)  Photographers who chronicled the faces of the Depression 
B)  Union activists who lobbied Congress for reform 
C)  Two of Franklin Roosevelt's chief Brains Trust advisors 
D)  New Deal congressional representatives who worked diligently with Roosevelt

Question 5

To avert further banking panics,during which account holders raced to withdraw funds,the New Deal

Accepted Answer

A)  created the Home Owners Loan Corporation in 1933. 
B)  passed the Glass-Steagall Act in 1933. 
C)  declared a bank holiday in 1933. 
D)  created the Securities and Exchange Commission in 1934. 
A)  created the Home Owners Loan Corporation in 1933. 
B)  passed the Glass-Steagall Act in 1933. 
C)  declared a bank holiday in 1933. 
D)  created the Securities and Exchange Commission in 1934.

Question 6

Answer the following  questions :
-Tydings-McDuffie Act

Accepted Answer

A) A high tariff enacted in 1930 during the Great Depression.By taxing imported goods,Congress hoped to stimulate American manufacturing,but the tariff triggered retaliatory tariffs in other countries,which further hindered global trade and led to greater economic contraction. 
B) A group of 15,000 unemployed World War I veterans who set up camps near the Capitol building in 1932 to demand immediate payment of pension awards due to be paid in 1945. 
C) A series of informal radio addresses Franklin Roosevelt made to the nation in which he explained New Deal initiatives. 
D) A legendary session during the first few months of Franklin Roosevelt's administration in which Congress enacted fifteen major bills that focused primarily on four problems: banking failures,agricultural overproduction,the business slump,and soaring unemployment. 
E) A 1933 law that created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDI
C) ,which insured deposits up to $2,500 (and now up to $250,000).The act also prohibited banks from making risky,unsecured investments with customers' deposits.
F)New Deal legislation passed in May 1933 that aimed at cutting agricultural production to raise crop prices and thus farmers' income.
G)Federal agency established in June,1933 to promote industrial recovery during the Great Depression.It encouraged industrialists to voluntarily adopt codes that defined fair working conditions,set prices,and minimized competition.
H)A New Deal construction program established by Congress in 1933.Designed to put people back to work,the PWA built the Boulder Dam (renamed Hoover Dam)and Grand Coulee Dam,among other large public works projects.
I)Federal relief program that provided jobs to millions of unemployed young men who built thousands of bridges,roads,trails,and other structures in state and national parks,bolstering the national infrastructure.
J)An agency established by the Federal Housing Act of 1934 that refinanced home mortgages for mortgage holders facing possible foreclosure.
K)A commission established by Congress in 1934 to regulate the stock market.The commission had broad powers to determine how stocks and bonds were sold to the public,to set rules for margin (credit)transactions,and to prevent stock sales by those with inside information about corporate plans.
L)A group of Republican business leaders and conservative Democrats who banded together to fight what they called the "reckless spending" and "socialist" reforms of the New Deal.
M)An association of industrialists and business leaders opposed to government regulation.In the era of the New Deal,the group promoted free enterprise and capitalism through a publicity campaign of radio programs,motion pictures,billboards,and direct mail.
N)A plan proposed by Francis Townsend in 1933 that would give $200 a month (about $3,300 today)to citizens over the age of sixty.Townsend Clubs sprang up across the country in support of the plan,mobilizing mass support for old-age pensions.
O)A term applied to industrial democracies that adopt various government-guaranteed social programs.The creation of Social Security and other measures of the Second New Deal fundamentally changed American society and established a national system for these governmental social programs for the first time.
P)A 1935 act that upheld the right of industrial workers to join unions and established the National Labor Relations Board (NLR
B) ,a federal agency with the authority to protect workers from employer coercion and to guarantee collective bargaining.
Q)A 1935 act with three main provisions: old-age pensions for workers;a joint federal-state system of compensation for unemployed workers;and a program of payments to widowed mothers and the blind,deaf,and disabled.
R)The political ideology of individual liberty,private property,a competitive market economy,free trade,and limited government.The ideal is a laissez faire or "let alone" policy,in which government does the least possible,particularly in reference to economic policies such as tariffs and incentives for industrial development.Attacking corruption and defending private property,late-nineteenth-century liberals generally called for elite governance and questioned the advisability of full democratic participation.
S)Federal New Deal program established in 1935 that provided government-funded public works jobs to millions of unemployed Americans during the Great Depression in areas ranging from construction to the arts.
T)A recession from 1937 to 1938 that occurred after President Roosevelt cut the federal budget.
U)The theory,developed by British economist John Maynard Keynes in the 1930s,that purposeful government intervention in the economy (through lowering or raising taxes,interest rates,and government spending)can affect the level of overall economic activity and thereby prevent severe depressions and runaway inflation.
V)One of the final major laws of the New Deal,it outlawed child labor,made the 40-hour workweek standard (and mandated overtime pay),and established a national minimum wage.
W)A 1934 law that reversed the Dawes Act of 1887.Through the law,Indians won a greater degree of religious freedom,and tribal governments regained their status as semisovereign dependent nations.
X)A 1934 law that provided for the independence of the Philippines,after a ten-year transition period.Though it granted Philippine independence,its origins were nativist,because the law's proponents wished to classify Filipinos as "alien" and reduce their immigration to the United States.
Y)A series of dust storms from 1930 to 1941 during which a severe drought afflicted the semiarid states of Oklahoma,Texas,New Mexico,Colorado,Arkansas,and Kansas.
Z)An agency funded by Congress in 1933 that integrated flood control,reforestation,electricity generation,and agricultural and industrial development in the Tennessee Valley area.
A
A) An agency established in 1935 to promote nonprofit farm cooperatives that offered loans to farmers to install power lines.
B
B) A program under the Works Progress Administration (WP
A) from 1935 to 1939 in which historians,teachers,editors,novelists,poets,and playrights were employed by the federal government to produce a variety of materials-this included,for example,interviews with hundreds of former slaves;a major survey of American foodways;and state-by-state guidebooks to history,geography,and culture. 
A) A high tariff enacted in 1930 during the Great Depression.By taxing imported goods,Congress hoped to stimulate American manufacturing,but the tariff triggered retaliatory tariffs in other countries,which further hindered global trade and led to greater economic contraction. 
B) A group of 15,000 unemployed World War I veterans who set up camps near the Capitol building in 1932 to demand immediate payment of pension awards due to be paid in 1945. 
C) A series of informal radio addresses Franklin Roosevelt made to the nation in which he explained New Deal initiatives. 
D) A legendary session during the first few months of Franklin Roosevelt's administration in which Congress enacted fifteen major bills that focused primarily on four problems: banking failures,agricultural overproduction,the business slump,and soaring unemployment. 
E) A 1933 law that created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDI
C) ,which insured deposits up to $2,500 (and now up to $250,000).The act also prohibited banks from making risky,unsecured investments with customers' deposits.
F)New Deal legislation passed in May 1933 that aimed at cutting agricultural production to raise crop prices and thus farmers' income.
G)Federal agency established in June,1933 to promote industrial recovery during the Great Depression.It encouraged industrialists to voluntarily adopt codes that defined fair working conditions,set prices,and minimized competition.
H)A New Deal construction program established by Congress in 1933.Designed to put people back to work,the PWA built the Boulder Dam (renamed Hoover Dam)and Grand Coulee Dam,among other large public works projects.
I)Federal relief program that provided jobs to millions of unemployed young men who built thousands of bridges,roads,trails,and other structures in state and national parks,bolstering the national infrastructure.
J)An agency established by the Federal Housing Act of 1934 that refinanced home mortgages for mortgage holders facing possible foreclosure.
K)A commission established by Congress in 1934 to regulate the stock market.The commission had broad powers to determine how stocks and bonds were sold to the public,to set rules for margin (credit)transactions,and to prevent stock sales by those with inside information about corporate plans.
L)A group of Republican business leaders and conservative Democrats who banded together to fight what they called the "reckless spending" and "socialist" reforms of the New Deal.
M)An association of industrialists and business leaders opposed to government regulation.In the era of the New Deal,the group promoted free enterprise and capitalism through a publicity campaign of radio programs,motion pictures,billboards,and direct mail.
N)A plan proposed by Francis Townsend in 1933 that would give $200 a month (about $3,300 today)to citizens over the age of sixty.Townsend Clubs sprang up across the country in support of the plan,mobilizing mass support for old-age pensions.
O)A term applied to industrial democracies that adopt various government-guaranteed social programs.The creation of Social Security and other measures of the Second New Deal fundamentally changed American society and established a national system for these governmental social programs for the first time.
P)A 1935 act that upheld the right of industrial workers to join unions and established the National Labor Relations Board (NLR
B) ,a federal agency with the authority to protect workers from employer coercion and to guarantee collective bargaining.
Q)A 1935 act with three main provisions: old-age pensions for workers;a joint federal-state system of compensation for unemployed workers;and a program of payments to widowed mothers and the blind,deaf,and disabled.
R)The political ideology of individual liberty,private property,a competitive market economy,free trade,and limited government.The ideal is a laissez faire or "let alone" policy,in which government does the least possible,particularly in reference to economic policies such as tariffs and incentives for industrial development.Attacking corruption and defending private property,late-nineteenth-century liberals generally called for elite governance and questioned the advisability of full democratic participation.
S)Federal New Deal program established in 1935 that provided government-funded public works jobs to millions of unemployed Americans during the Great Depression in areas ranging from construction to the arts.
T)A recession from 1937 to 1938 that occurred after President Roosevelt cut the federal budget.
U)The theory,developed by British economist John Maynard Keynes in the 1930s,that purposeful government intervention in the economy (through lowering or raising taxes,interest rates,and government spending)can affect the level of overall economic activity and thereby prevent severe depressions and runaway inflation.
V)One of the final major laws of the New Deal,it outlawed child labor,made the 40-hour workweek standard (and mandated overtime pay),and established a national minimum wage.
W)A 1934 law that reversed the Dawes Act of 1887.Through the law,Indians won a greater degree of religious freedom,and tribal governments regained their status as semisovereign dependent nations.
X)A 1934 law that provided for the independence of the Philippines,after a ten-year transition period.Though it granted Philippine independence,its origins were nativist,because the law's proponents wished to classify Filipinos as "alien" and reduce their immigration to the United States.
Y)A series of dust storms from 1930 to 1941 during which a severe drought afflicted the semiarid states of Oklahoma,Texas,New Mexico,Colorado,Arkansas,and Kansas.
Z)An agency funded by Congress in 1933 that integrated flood control,reforestation,electricity generation,and agricultural and industrial development in the Tennessee Valley area.
A
A) An agency established in 1935 to promote nonprofit farm cooperatives that offered loans to farmers to install power lines.
B
B) A program under the Works Progress Administration (WP
A) from 1935 to 1939 in which historians,teachers,editors,novelists,poets,and playrights were employed by the federal government to produce a variety of materials-this included,for example,interviews with hundreds of former slaves;a major survey of American foodways;and state-by-state guidebooks to history,geography,and culture.

Question 7

Which of the following was true of minorities during the New Deal?

Accepted Answer

A)  New Deal programs treated women and men equally. 
B)  Discrimination was not allowed in New Deal programs. 
C)  African Americans outside the South shifted their voting to the Democrats. 
D)  Mexican Americans increasingly clung to their heritage and refused to Americanize. 
A)  New Deal programs treated women and men equally. 
B)  Discrimination was not allowed in New Deal programs. 
C)  African Americans outside the South shifted their voting to the Democrats. 
D)  Mexican Americans increasingly clung to their heritage and refused to Americanize.

Question 8

How did the Second New Deal differ from the first? What were Roosevelt's reasons for changing course?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
- The Seco

Question 9

Some historians have seen the New Deal as an evolution of the reform initiated by progressives earlier in the century,but others have argued that it represented a revolution in social values and government institutions.What do you think? Provide evidence for your argument.

Accepted Answer

Populists,for example,argued for federal

Question 10

Under the New Deal,the government's involvement in the environment and in the arts was unprecedented.What were the major components of this new involvement?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
- Environm

Question 11

In what ways did Roosevelt's personality,values,and political style affect the policies and programs of the New Deal?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
- Roosevel

Question 12

What percentage of the U.S.labor force was unemployed by 1933?

Accepted Answer

A)  Five percent 
B)  Ten percent 
C)  Twenty-five percent 
D)  Fifty percent 
A)  Five percent 
B)  Ten percent 
C)  Twenty-five percent 
D)  Fifty percent

Question 13

Answer the following  questions :
-Wagner Act

Accepted Answer

A) A high tariff enacted in 1930 during the Great Depression.By taxing imported goods,Congress hoped to stimulate American manufacturing,but the tariff triggered retaliatory tariffs in other countries,which further hindered global trade and led to greater economic contraction. 
B) A group of 15,000 unemployed World War I veterans who set up camps near the Capitol building in 1932 to demand immediate payment of pension awards due to be paid in 1945. 
C) A series of informal radio addresses Franklin Roosevelt made to the nation in which he explained New Deal initiatives. 
D) A legendary session during the first few months of Franklin Roosevelt's administration in which Congress enacted fifteen major bills that focused primarily on four problems: banking failures,agricultural overproduction,the business slump,and soaring unemployment. 
E) A 1933 law that created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDI
C) ,which insured deposits up to $2,500 (and now up to $250,000).The act also prohibited banks from making risky,unsecured investments with customers' deposits.
F)New Deal legislation passed in May 1933 that aimed at cutting agricultural production to raise crop prices and thus farmers' income.
G)Federal agency established in June,1933 to promote industrial recovery during the Great Depression.It encouraged industrialists to voluntarily adopt codes that defined fair working conditions,set prices,and minimized competition.
H)A New Deal construction program established by Congress in 1933.Designed to put people back to work,the PWA built the Boulder Dam (renamed Hoover Dam)and Grand Coulee Dam,among other large public works projects.
I)Federal relief program that provided jobs to millions of unemployed young men who built thousands of bridges,roads,trails,and other structures in state and national parks,bolstering the national infrastructure.
J)An agency established by the Federal Housing Act of 1934 that refinanced home mortgages for mortgage holders facing possible foreclosure.
K)A commission established by Congress in 1934 to regulate the stock market.The commission had broad powers to determine how stocks and bonds were sold to the public,to set rules for margin (credit)transactions,and to prevent stock sales by those with inside information about corporate plans.
L)A group of Republican business leaders and conservative Democrats who banded together to fight what they called the "reckless spending" and "socialist" reforms of the New Deal.
M)An association of industrialists and business leaders opposed to government regulation.In the era of the New Deal,the group promoted free enterprise and capitalism through a publicity campaign of radio programs,motion pictures,billboards,and direct mail.
N)A plan proposed by Francis Townsend in 1933 that would give $200 a month (about $3,300 today)to citizens over the age of sixty.Townsend Clubs sprang up across the country in support of the plan,mobilizing mass support for old-age pensions.
O)A term applied to industrial democracies that adopt various government-guaranteed social programs.The creation of Social Security and other measures of the Second New Deal fundamentally changed American society and established a national system for these governmental social programs for the first time.
P)A 1935 act that upheld the right of industrial workers to join unions and established the National Labor Relations Board (NLR
B) ,a federal agency with the authority to protect workers from employer coercion and to guarantee collective bargaining.
Q)A 1935 act with three main provisions: old-age pensions for workers;a joint federal-state system of compensation for unemployed workers;and a program of payments to widowed mothers and the blind,deaf,and disabled.
R)The political ideology of individual liberty,private property,a competitive market economy,free trade,and limited government.The ideal is a laissez faire or "let alone" policy,in which government does the least possible,particularly in reference to economic policies such as tariffs and incentives for industrial development.Attacking corruption and defending private property,late-nineteenth-century liberals generally called for elite governance and questioned the advisability of full democratic participation.
S)Federal New Deal program established in 1935 that provided government-funded public works jobs to millions of unemployed Americans during the Great Depression in areas ranging from construction to the arts.
T)A recession from 1937 to 1938 that occurred after President Roosevelt cut the federal budget.
U)The theory,developed by British economist John Maynard Keynes in the 1930s,that purposeful government intervention in the economy (through lowering or raising taxes,interest rates,and government spending)can affect the level of overall economic activity and thereby prevent severe depressions and runaway inflation.
V)One of the final major laws of the New Deal,it outlawed child labor,made the 40-hour workweek standard (and mandated overtime pay),and established a national minimum wage.
W)A 1934 law that reversed the Dawes Act of 1887.Through the law,Indians won a greater degree of religious freedom,and tribal governments regained their status as semisovereign dependent nations.
X)A 1934 law that provided for the independence of the Philippines,after a ten-year transition period.Though it granted Philippine independence,its origins were nativist,because the law's proponents wished to classify Filipinos as "alien" and reduce their immigration to the United States.
Y)A series of dust storms from 1930 to 1941 during which a severe drought afflicted the semiarid states of Oklahoma,Texas,New Mexico,Colorado,Arkansas,and Kansas.
Z)An agency funded by Congress in 1933 that integrated flood control,reforestation,electricity generation,and agricultural and industrial development in the Tennessee Valley area.
A
A) An agency established in 1935 to promote nonprofit farm cooperatives that offered loans to farmers to install power lines.
B
B) A program under the Works Progress Administration (WP
A) from 1935 to 1939 in which historians,teachers,editors,novelists,poets,and playrights were employed by the federal government to produce a variety of materials-this included,for example,interviews with hundreds of former slaves;a major survey of American foodways;and state-by-state guidebooks to history,geography,and culture. 
A) A high tariff enacted in 1930 during the Great Depression.By taxing imported goods,Congress hoped to stimulate American manufacturing,but the tariff triggered retaliatory tariffs in other countries,which further hindered global trade and led to greater economic contraction. 
B) A group of 15,000 unemployed World War I veterans who set up camps near the Capitol building in 1932 to demand immediate payment of pension awards due to be paid in 1945. 
C) A series of informal radio addresses Franklin Roosevelt made to the nation in which he explained New Deal initiatives. 
D) A legendary session during the first few months of Franklin Roosevelt's administration in which Congress enacted fifteen major bills that focused primarily on four problems: banking failures,agricultural overproduction,the business slump,and soaring unemployment. 
E) A 1933 law that created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDI
C) ,which insured deposits up to $2,500 (and now up to $250,000).The act also prohibited banks from making risky,unsecured investments with customers' deposits.
F)New Deal legislation passed in May 1933 that aimed at cutting agricultural production to raise crop prices and thus farmers' income.
G)Federal agency established in June,1933 to promote industrial recovery during the Great Depression.It encouraged industrialists to voluntarily adopt codes that defined fair working conditions,set prices,and minimized competition.
H)A New Deal construction program established by Congress in 1933.Designed to put people back to work,the PWA built the Boulder Dam (renamed Hoover Dam)and Grand Coulee Dam,among other large public works projects.
I)Federal relief program that provided jobs to millions of unemployed young men who built thousands of bridges,roads,trails,and other structures in state and national parks,bolstering the national infrastructure.
J)An agency established by the Federal Housing Act of 1934 that refinanced home mortgages for mortgage holders facing possible foreclosure.
K)A commission established by Congress in 1934 to regulate the stock market.The commission had broad powers to determine how stocks and bonds were sold to the public,to set rules for margin (credit)transactions,and to prevent stock sales by those with inside information about corporate plans.
L)A group of Republican business leaders and conservative Democrats who banded together to fight what they called the "reckless spending" and "socialist" reforms of the New Deal.
M)An association of industrialists and business leaders opposed to government regulation.In the era of the New Deal,the group promoted free enterprise and capitalism through a publicity campaign of radio programs,motion pictures,billboards,and direct mail.
N)A plan proposed by Francis Townsend in 1933 that would give $200 a month (about $3,300 today)to citizens over the age of sixty.Townsend Clubs sprang up across the country in support of the plan,mobilizing mass support for old-age pensions.
O)A term applied to industrial democracies that adopt various government-guaranteed social programs.The creation of Social Security and other measures of the Second New Deal fundamentally changed American society and established a national system for these governmental social programs for the first time.
P)A 1935 act that upheld the right of industrial workers to join unions and established the National Labor Relations Board (NLR
B) ,a federal agency with the authority to protect workers from employer coercion and to guarantee collective bargaining.
Q)A 1935 act with three main provisions: old-age pensions for workers;a joint federal-state system of compensation for unemployed workers;and a program of payments to widowed mothers and the blind,deaf,and disabled.
R)The political ideology of individual liberty,private property,a competitive market economy,free trade,and limited government.The ideal is a laissez faire or "let alone" policy,in which government does the least possible,particularly in reference to economic policies such as tariffs and incentives for industrial development.Attacking corruption and defending private property,late-nineteenth-century liberals generally called for elite governance and questioned the advisability of full democratic participation.
S)Federal New Deal program established in 1935 that provided government-funded public works jobs to millions of unemployed Americans during the Great Depression in areas ranging from construction to the arts.
T)A recession from 1937 to 1938 that occurred after President Roosevelt cut the federal budget.
U)The theory,developed by British economist John Maynard Keynes in the 1930s,that purposeful government intervention in the economy (through lowering or raising taxes,interest rates,and government spending)can affect the level of overall economic activity and thereby prevent severe depressions and runaway inflation.
V)One of the final major laws of the New Deal,it outlawed child labor,made the 40-hour workweek standard (and mandated overtime pay),and established a national minimum wage.
W)A 1934 law that reversed the Dawes Act of 1887.Through the law,Indians won a greater degree of religious freedom,and tribal governments regained their status as semisovereign dependent nations.
X)A 1934 law that provided for the independence of the Philippines,after a ten-year transition period.Though it granted Philippine independence,its origins were nativist,because the law's proponents wished to classify Filipinos as "alien" and reduce their immigration to the United States.
Y)A series of dust storms from 1930 to 1941 during which a severe drought afflicted the semiarid states of Oklahoma,Texas,New Mexico,Colorado,Arkansas,and Kansas.
Z)An agency funded by Congress in 1933 that integrated flood control,reforestation,electricity generation,and agricultural and industrial development in the Tennessee Valley area.
A
A) An agency established in 1935 to promote nonprofit farm cooperatives that offered loans to farmers to install power lines.
B
B) A program under the Works Progress Administration (WP
A) from 1935 to 1939 in which historians,teachers,editors,novelists,poets,and playrights were employed by the federal government to produce a variety of materials-this included,for example,interviews with hundreds of former slaves;a major survey of American foodways;and state-by-state guidebooks to history,geography,and culture.

Question 14

Answer the following  questions :
-welfare state

Accepted Answer

A) A high tariff enacted in 1930 during the Great Depression.By taxing imported goods,Congress hoped to stimulate American manufacturing,but the tariff triggered retaliatory tariffs in other countries,which further hindered global trade and led to greater economic contraction. 
B) A group of 15,000 unemployed World War I veterans who set up camps near the Capitol building in 1932 to demand immediate payment of pension awards due to be paid in 1945. 
C) A series of informal radio addresses Franklin Roosevelt made to the nation in which he explained New Deal initiatives. 
D) A legendary session during the first few months of Franklin Roosevelt's administration in which Congress enacted fifteen major bills that focused primarily on four problems: banking failures,agricultural overproduction,the business slump,and soaring unemployment. 
E) A 1933 law that created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDI
C) ,which insured deposits up to $2,500 (and now up to $250,000).The act also prohibited banks from making risky,unsecured investments with customers' deposits.
F)New Deal legislation passed in May 1933 that aimed at cutting agricultural production to raise crop prices and thus farmers' income.
G)Federal agency established in June,1933 to promote industrial recovery during the Great Depression.It encouraged industrialists to voluntarily adopt codes that defined fair working conditions,set prices,and minimized competition.
H)A New Deal construction program established by Congress in 1933.Designed to put people back to work,the PWA built the Boulder Dam (renamed Hoover Dam)and Grand Coulee Dam,among other large public works projects.
I)Federal relief program that provided jobs to millions of unemployed young men who built thousands of bridges,roads,trails,and other structures in state and national parks,bolstering the national infrastructure.
J)An agency established by the Federal Housing Act of 1934 that refinanced home mortgages for mortgage holders facing possible foreclosure.
K)A commission established by Congress in 1934 to regulate the stock market.The commission had broad powers to determine how stocks and bonds were sold to the public,to set rules for margin (credit)transactions,and to prevent stock sales by those with inside information about corporate plans.
L)A group of Republican business leaders and conservative Democrats who banded together to fight what they called the "reckless spending" and "socialist" reforms of the New Deal.
M)An association of industrialists and business leaders opposed to government regulation.In the era of the New Deal,the group promoted free enterprise and capitalism through a publicity campaign of radio programs,motion pictures,billboards,and direct mail.
N)A plan proposed by Francis Townsend in 1933 that would give $200 a month (about $3,300 today)to citizens over the age of sixty.Townsend Clubs sprang up across the country in support of the plan,mobilizing mass support for old-age pensions.
O)A term applied to industrial democracies that adopt various government-guaranteed social programs.The creation of Social Security and other measures of the Second New Deal fundamentally changed American society and established a national system for these governmental social programs for the first time.
P)A 1935 act that upheld the right of industrial workers to join unions and established the National Labor Relations Board (NLR
B) ,a federal agency with the authority to protect workers from employer coercion and to guarantee collective bargaining.
Q)A 1935 act with three main provisions: old-age pensions for workers;a joint federal-state system of compensation for unemployed workers;and a program of payments to widowed mothers and the blind,deaf,and disabled.
R)The political ideology of individual liberty,private property,a competitive market economy,free trade,and limited government.The ideal is a laissez faire or "let alone" policy,in which government does the least possible,particularly in reference to economic policies such as tariffs and incentives for industrial development.Attacking corruption and defending private property,late-nineteenth-century liberals generally called for elite governance and questioned the advisability of full democratic participation.
S)Federal New Deal program established in 1935 that provided government-funded public works jobs to millions of unemployed Americans during the Great Depression in areas ranging from construction to the arts.
T)A recession from 1937 to 1938 that occurred after President Roosevelt cut the federal budget.
U)The theory,developed by British economist John Maynard Keynes in the 1930s,that purposeful government intervention in the economy (through lowering or raising taxes,interest rates,and government spending)can affect the level of overall economic activity and thereby prevent severe depressions and runaway inflation.
V)One of the final major laws of the New Deal,it outlawed child labor,made the 40-hour workweek standard (and mandated overtime pay),and established a national minimum wage.
W)A 1934 law that reversed the Dawes Act of 1887.Through the law,Indians won a greater degree of religious freedom,and tribal governments regained their status as semisovereign dependent nations.
X)A 1934 law that provided for the independence of the Philippines,after a ten-year transition period.Though it granted Philippine independence,its origins were nativist,because the law's proponents wished to classify Filipinos as "alien" and reduce their immigration to the United States.
Y)A series of dust storms from 1930 to 1941 during which a severe drought afflicted the semiarid states of Oklahoma,Texas,New Mexico,Colorado,Arkansas,and Kansas.
Z)An agency funded by Congress in 1933 that integrated flood control,reforestation,electricity generation,and agricultural and industrial development in the Tennessee Valley area.
A
A) An agency established in 1935 to promote nonprofit farm cooperatives that offered loans to farmers to install power lines.
B
B) A program under the Works Progress Administration (WP
A) from 1935 to 1939 in which historians,teachers,editors,novelists,poets,and playrights were employed by the federal government to produce a variety of materials-this included,for example,interviews with hundreds of former slaves;a major survey of American foodways;and state-by-state guidebooks to history,geography,and culture. 
A) A high tariff enacted in 1930 during the Great Depression.By taxing imported goods,Congress hoped to stimulate American manufacturing,but the tariff triggered retaliatory tariffs in other countries,which further hindered global trade and led to greater economic contraction. 
B) A group of 15,000 unemployed World War I veterans who set up camps near the Capitol building in 1932 to demand immediate payment of pension awards due to be paid in 1945. 
C) A series of informal radio addresses Franklin Roosevelt made to the nation in which he explained New Deal initiatives. 
D) A legendary session during the first few months of Franklin Roosevelt's administration in which Congress enacted fifteen major bills that focused primarily on four problems: banking failures,agricultural overproduction,the business slump,and soaring unemployment. 
E) A 1933 law that created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDI
C) ,which insured deposits up to $2,500 (and now up to $250,000).The act also prohibited banks from making risky,unsecured investments with customers' deposits.
F)New Deal legislation passed in May 1933 that aimed at cutting agricultural production to raise crop prices and thus farmers' income.
G)Federal agency established in June,1933 to promote industrial recovery during the Great Depression.It encouraged industrialists to voluntarily adopt codes that defined fair working conditions,set prices,and minimized competition.
H)A New Deal construction program established by Congress in 1933.Designed to put people back to work,the PWA built the Boulder Dam (renamed Hoover Dam)and Grand Coulee Dam,among other large public works projects.
I)Federal relief program that provided jobs to millions of unemployed young men who built thousands of bridges,roads,trails,and other structures in state and national parks,bolstering the national infrastructure.
J)An agency established by the Federal Housing Act of 1934 that refinanced home mortgages for mortgage holders facing possible foreclosure.
K)A commission established by Congress in 1934 to regulate the stock market.The commission had broad powers to determine how stocks and bonds were sold to the public,to set rules for margin (credit)transactions,and to prevent stock sales by those with inside information about corporate plans.
L)A group of Republican business leaders and conservative Democrats who banded together to fight what they called the "reckless spending" and "socialist" reforms of the New Deal.
M)An association of industrialists and business leaders opposed to government regulation.In the era of the New Deal,the group promoted free enterprise and capitalism through a publicity campaign of radio programs,motion pictures,billboards,and direct mail.
N)A plan proposed by Francis Townsend in 1933 that would give $200 a month (about $3,300 today)to citizens over the age of sixty.Townsend Clubs sprang up across the country in support of the plan,mobilizing mass support for old-age pensions.
O)A term applied to industrial democracies that adopt various government-guaranteed social programs.The creation of Social Security and other measures of the Second New Deal fundamentally changed American society and established a national system for these governmental social programs for the first time.
P)A 1935 act that upheld the right of industrial workers to join unions and established the National Labor Relations Board (NLR
B) ,a federal agency with the authority to protect workers from employer coercion and to guarantee collective bargaining.
Q)A 1935 act with three main provisions: old-age pensions for workers;a joint federal-state system of compensation for unemployed workers;and a program of payments to widowed mothers and the blind,deaf,and disabled.
R)The political ideology of individual liberty,private property,a competitive market economy,free trade,and limited government.The ideal is a laissez faire or "let alone" policy,in which government does the least possible,particularly in reference to economic policies such as tariffs and incentives for industrial development.Attacking corruption and defending private property,late-nineteenth-century liberals generally called for elite governance and questioned the advisability of full democratic participation.
S)Federal New Deal program established in 1935 that provided government-funded public works jobs to millions of unemployed Americans during the Great Depression in areas ranging from construction to the arts.
T)A recession from 1937 to 1938 that occurred after President Roosevelt cut the federal budget.
U)The theory,developed by British economist John Maynard Keynes in the 1930s,that purposeful government intervention in the economy (through lowering or raising taxes,interest rates,and government spending)can affect the level of overall economic activity and thereby prevent severe depressions and runaway inflation.
V)One of the final major laws of the New Deal,it outlawed child labor,made the 40-hour workweek standard (and mandated overtime pay),and established a national minimum wage.
W)A 1934 law that reversed the Dawes Act of 1887.Through the law,Indians won a greater degree of religious freedom,and tribal governments regained their status as semisovereign dependent nations.
X)A 1934 law that provided for the independence of the Philippines,after a ten-year transition period.Though it granted Philippine independence,its origins were nativist,because the law's proponents wished to classify Filipinos as "alien" and reduce their immigration to the United States.
Y)A series of dust storms from 1930 to 1941 during which a severe drought afflicted the semiarid states of Oklahoma,Texas,New Mexico,Colorado,Arkansas,and Kansas.
Z)An agency funded by Congress in 1933 that integrated flood control,reforestation,electricity generation,and agricultural and industrial development in the Tennessee Valley area.
A
A) An agency established in 1935 to promote nonprofit farm cooperatives that offered loans to farmers to install power lines.
B
B) A program under the Works Progress Administration (WP
A) from 1935 to 1939 in which historians,teachers,editors,novelists,poets,and playrights were employed by the federal government to produce a variety of materials-this included,for example,interviews with hundreds of former slaves;a major survey of American foodways;and state-by-state guidebooks to history,geography,and culture.

Question 15

Answer the following  questions :
-Social Security Act

Accepted Answer

A) A high tariff enacted in 1930 during the Great Depression.By taxing imported goods,Congress hoped to stimulate American manufacturing,but the tariff triggered retaliatory tariffs in other countries,which further hindered global trade and led to greater economic contraction. 
B) A group of 15,000 unemployed World War I veterans who set up camps near the Capitol building in 1932 to demand immediate payment of pension awards due to be paid in 1945. 
C) A series of informal radio addresses Franklin Roosevelt made to the nation in which he explained New Deal initiatives. 
D) A legendary session during the first few months of Franklin Roosevelt's administration in which Congress enacted fifteen major bills that focused primarily on four problems: banking failures,agricultural overproduction,the business slump,and soaring unemployment. 
E) A 1933 law that created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDI
C) ,which insured deposits up to $2,500 (and now up to $250,000).The act also prohibited banks from making risky,unsecured investments with customers' deposits.
F)New Deal legislation passed in May 1933 that aimed at cutting agricultural production to raise crop prices and thus farmers' income.
G)Federal agency established in June,1933 to promote industrial recovery during the Great Depression.It encouraged industrialists to voluntarily adopt codes that defined fair working conditions,set prices,and minimized competition.
H)A New Deal construction program established by Congress in 1933.Designed to put people back to work,the PWA built the Boulder Dam (renamed Hoover Dam)and Grand Coulee Dam,among other large public works projects.
I)Federal relief program that provided jobs to millions of unemployed young men who built thousands of bridges,roads,trails,and other structures in state and national parks,bolstering the national infrastructure.
J)An agency established by the Federal Housing Act of 1934 that refinanced home mortgages for mortgage holders facing possible foreclosure.
K)A commission established by Congress in 1934 to regulate the stock market.The commission had broad powers to determine how stocks and bonds were sold to the public,to set rules for margin (credit)transactions,and to prevent stock sales by those with inside information about corporate plans.
L)A group of Republican business leaders and conservative Democrats who banded together to fight what they called the "reckless spending" and "socialist" reforms of the New Deal.
M)An association of industrialists and business leaders opposed to government regulation.In the era of the New Deal,the group promoted free enterprise and capitalism through a publicity campaign of radio programs,motion pictures,billboards,and direct mail.
N)A plan proposed by Francis Townsend in 1933 that would give $200 a month (about $3,300 today)to citizens over the age of sixty.Townsend Clubs sprang up across the country in support of the plan,mobilizing mass support for old-age pensions.
O)A term applied to industrial democracies that adopt various government-guaranteed social programs.The creation of Social Security and other measures of the Second New Deal fundamentally changed American society and established a national system for these governmental social programs for the first time.
P)A 1935 act that upheld the right of industrial workers to join unions and established the National Labor Relations Board (NLR
B) ,a federal agency with the authority to protect workers from employer coercion and to guarantee collective bargaining.
Q)A 1935 act with three main provisions: old-age pensions for workers;a joint federal-state system of compensation for unemployed workers;and a program of payments to widowed mothers and the blind,deaf,and disabled.
R)The political ideology of individual liberty,private property,a competitive market economy,free trade,and limited government.The ideal is a laissez faire or "let alone" policy,in which government does the least possible,particularly in reference to economic policies such as tariffs and incentives for industrial development.Attacking corruption and defending private property,late-nineteenth-century liberals generally called for elite governance and questioned the advisability of full democratic participation.
S)Federal New Deal program established in 1935 that provided government-funded public works jobs to millions of unemployed Americans during the Great Depression in areas ranging from construction to the arts.
T)A recession from 1937 to 1938 that occurred after President Roosevelt cut the federal budget.
U)The theory,developed by British economist John Maynard Keynes in the 1930s,that purposeful government intervention in the economy (through lowering or raising taxes,interest rates,and government spending)can affect the level of overall economic activity and thereby prevent severe depressions and runaway inflation.
V)One of the final major laws of the New Deal,it outlawed child labor,made the 40-hour workweek standard (and mandated overtime pay),and established a national minimum wage.
W)A 1934 law that reversed the Dawes Act of 1887.Through the law,Indians won a greater degree of religious freedom,and tribal governments regained their status as semisovereign dependent nations.
X)A 1934 law that provided for the independence of the Philippines,after a ten-year transition period.Though it granted Philippine independence,its origins were nativist,because the law's proponents wished to classify Filipinos as "alien" and reduce their immigration to the United States.
Y)A series of dust storms from 1930 to 1941 during which a severe drought afflicted the semiarid states of Oklahoma,Texas,New Mexico,Colorado,Arkansas,and Kansas.
Z)An agency funded by Congress in 1933 that integrated flood control,reforestation,electricity generation,and agricultural and industrial development in the Tennessee Valley area.
A
A) An agency established in 1935 to promote nonprofit farm cooperatives that offered loans to farmers to install power lines.
B
B) A program under the Works Progress Administration (WP
A) from 1935 to 1939 in which historians,teachers,editors,novelists,poets,and playrights were employed by the federal government to produce a variety of materials-this included,for example,interviews with hundreds of former slaves;a major survey of American foodways;and state-by-state guidebooks to history,geography,and culture. 
A) A high tariff enacted in 1930 during the Great Depression.By taxing imported goods,Congress hoped to stimulate American manufacturing,but the tariff triggered retaliatory tariffs in other countries,which further hindered global trade and led to greater economic contraction. 
B) A group of 15,000 unemployed World War I veterans who set up camps near the Capitol building in 1932 to demand immediate payment of pension awards due to be paid in 1945. 
C) A series of informal radio addresses Franklin Roosevelt made to the nation in which he explained New Deal initiatives. 
D) A legendary session during the first few months of Franklin Roosevelt's administration in which Congress enacted fifteen major bills that focused primarily on four problems: banking failures,agricultural overproduction,the business slump,and soaring unemployment. 
E) A 1933 law that created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDI
C) ,which insured deposits up to $2,500 (and now up to $250,000).The act also prohibited banks from making risky,unsecured investments with customers' deposits.
F)New Deal legislation passed in May 1933 that aimed at cutting agricultural production to raise crop prices and thus farmers' income.
G)Federal agency established in June,1933 to promote industrial recovery during the Great Depression.It encouraged industrialists to voluntarily adopt codes that defined fair working conditions,set prices,and minimized competition.
H)A New Deal construction program established by Congress in 1933.Designed to put people back to work,the PWA built the Boulder Dam (renamed Hoover Dam)and Grand Coulee Dam,among other large public works projects.
I)Federal relief program that provided jobs to millions of unemployed young men who built thousands of bridges,roads,trails,and other structures in state and national parks,bolstering the national infrastructure.
J)An agency established by the Federal Housing Act of 1934 that refinanced home mortgages for mortgage holders facing possible foreclosure.
K)A commission established by Congress in 1934 to regulate the stock market.The commission had broad powers to determine how stocks and bonds were sold to the public,to set rules for margin (credit)transactions,and to prevent stock sales by those with inside information about corporate plans.
L)A group of Republican business leaders and conservative Democrats who banded together to fight what they called the "reckless spending" and "socialist" reforms of the New Deal.
M)An association of industrialists and business leaders opposed to government regulation.In the era of the New Deal,the group promoted free enterprise and capitalism through a publicity campaign of radio programs,motion pictures,billboards,and direct mail.
N)A plan proposed by Francis Townsend in 1933 that would give $200 a month (about $3,300 today)to citizens over the age of sixty.Townsend Clubs sprang up across the country in support of the plan,mobilizing mass support for old-age pensions.
O)A term applied to industrial democracies that adopt various government-guaranteed social programs.The creation of Social Security and other measures of the Second New Deal fundamentally changed American society and established a national system for these governmental social programs for the first time.
P)A 1935 act that upheld the right of industrial workers to join unions and established the National Labor Relations Board (NLR
B) ,a federal agency with the authority to protect workers from employer coercion and to guarantee collective bargaining.
Q)A 1935 act with three main provisions: old-age pensions for workers;a joint federal-state system of compensation for unemployed workers;and a program of payments to widowed mothers and the blind,deaf,and disabled.
R)The political ideology of individual liberty,private property,a competitive market economy,free trade,and limited government.The ideal is a laissez faire or "let alone" policy,in which government does the least possible,particularly in reference to economic policies such as tariffs and incentives for industrial development.Attacking corruption and defending private property,late-nineteenth-century liberals generally called for elite governance and questioned the advisability of full democratic participation.
S)Federal New Deal program established in 1935 that provided government-funded public works jobs to millions of unemployed Americans during the Great Depression in areas ranging from construction to the arts.
T)A recession from 1937 to 1938 that occurred after President Roosevelt cut the federal budget.
U)The theory,developed by British economist John Maynard Keynes in the 1930s,that purposeful government intervention in the economy (through lowering or raising taxes,interest rates,and government spending)can affect the level of overall economic activity and thereby prevent severe depressions and runaway inflation.
V)One of the final major laws of the New Deal,it outlawed child labor,made the 40-hour workweek standard (and mandated overtime pay),and established a national minimum wage.
W)A 1934 law that reversed the Dawes Act of 1887.Through the law,Indians won a greater degree of religious freedom,and tribal governments regained their status as semisovereign dependent nations.
X)A 1934 law that provided for the independence of the Philippines,after a ten-year transition period.Though it granted Philippine independence,its origins were nativist,because the law's proponents wished to classify Filipinos as "alien" and reduce their immigration to the United States.
Y)A series of dust storms from 1930 to 1941 during which a severe drought afflicted the semiarid states of Oklahoma,Texas,New Mexico,Colorado,Arkansas,and Kansas.
Z)An agency funded by Congress in 1933 that integrated flood control,reforestation,electricity generation,and agricultural and industrial development in the Tennessee Valley area.
A
A) An agency established in 1935 to promote nonprofit farm cooperatives that offered loans to farmers to install power lines.
B
B) A program under the Works Progress Administration (WP
A) from 1935 to 1939 in which historians,teachers,editors,novelists,poets,and playrights were employed by the federal government to produce a variety of materials-this included,for example,interviews with hundreds of former slaves;a major survey of American foodways;and state-by-state guidebooks to history,geography,and culture.

Question 16

Answer the following  questions :
-Federal Writers' Project

Accepted Answer

A) A high tariff enacted in 1930 during the Great Depression.By taxing imported goods,Congress hoped to stimulate American manufacturing,but the tariff triggered retaliatory tariffs in other countries,which further hindered global trade and led to greater economic contraction. 
B) A group of 15,000 unemployed World War I veterans who set up camps near the Capitol building in 1932 to demand immediate payment of pension awards due to be paid in 1945. 
C) A series of informal radio addresses Franklin Roosevelt made to the nation in which he explained New Deal initiatives. 
D) A legendary session during the first few months of Franklin Roosevelt's administration in which Congress enacted fifteen major bills that focused primarily on four problems: banking failures,agricultural overproduction,the business slump,and soaring unemployment. 
E) A 1933 law that created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDI
C) ,which insured deposits up to $2,500 (and now up to $250,000).The act also prohibited banks from making risky,unsecured investments with customers' deposits.
F)New Deal legislation passed in May 1933 that aimed at cutting agricultural production to raise crop prices and thus farmers' income.
G)Federal agency established in June,1933 to promote industrial recovery during the Great Depression.It encouraged industrialists to voluntarily adopt codes that defined fair working conditions,set prices,and minimized competition.
H)A New Deal construction program established by Congress in 1933.Designed to put people back to work,the PWA built the Boulder Dam (renamed Hoover Dam)and Grand Coulee Dam,among other large public works projects.
I)Federal relief program that provided jobs to millions of unemployed young men who built thousands of bridges,roads,trails,and other structures in state and national parks,bolstering the national infrastructure.
J)An agency established by the Federal Housing Act of 1934 that refinanced home mortgages for mortgage holders facing possible foreclosure.
K)A commission established by Congress in 1934 to regulate the stock market.The commission had broad powers to determine how stocks and bonds were sold to the public,to set rules for margin (credit)transactions,and to prevent stock sales by those with inside information about corporate plans.
L)A group of Republican business leaders and conservative Democrats who banded together to fight what they called the "reckless spending" and "socialist" reforms of the New Deal.
M)An association of industrialists and business leaders opposed to government regulation.In the era of the New Deal,the group promoted free enterprise and capitalism through a publicity campaign of radio programs,motion pictures,billboards,and direct mail.
N)A plan proposed by Francis Townsend in 1933 that would give $200 a month (about $3,300 today)to citizens over the age of sixty.Townsend Clubs sprang up across the country in support of the plan,mobilizing mass support for old-age pensions.
O)A term applied to industrial democracies that adopt various government-guaranteed social programs.The creation of Social Security and other measures of the Second New Deal fundamentally changed American society and established a national system for these governmental social programs for the first time.
P)A 1935 act that upheld the right of industrial workers to join unions and established the National Labor Relations Board (NLR
B) ,a federal agency with the authority to protect workers from employer coercion and to guarantee collective bargaining.
Q)A 1935 act with three main provisions: old-age pensions for workers;a joint federal-state system of compensation for unemployed workers;and a program of payments to widowed mothers and the blind,deaf,and disabled.
R)The political ideology of individual liberty,private property,a competitive market economy,free trade,and limited government.The ideal is a laissez faire or "let alone" policy,in which government does the least possible,particularly in reference to economic policies such as tariffs and incentives for industrial development.Attacking corruption and defending private property,late-nineteenth-century liberals generally called for elite governance and questioned the advisability of full democratic participation.
S)Federal New Deal program established in 1935 that provided government-funded public works jobs to millions of unemployed Americans during the Great Depression in areas ranging from construction to the arts.
T)A recession from 1937 to 1938 that occurred after President Roosevelt cut the federal budget.
U)The theory,developed by British economist John Maynard Keynes in the 1930s,that purposeful government intervention in the economy (through lowering or raising taxes,interest rates,and government spending)can affect the level of overall economic activity and thereby prevent severe depressions and runaway inflation.
V)One of the final major laws of the New Deal,it outlawed child labor,made the 40-hour workweek standard (and mandated overtime pay),and established a national minimum wage.
W)A 1934 law that reversed the Dawes Act of 1887.Through the law,Indians won a greater degree of religious freedom,and tribal governments regained their status as semisovereign dependent nations.
X)A 1934 law that provided for the independence of the Philippines,after a ten-year transition period.Though it granted Philippine independence,its origins were nativist,because the law's proponents wished to classify Filipinos as "alien" and reduce their immigration to the United States.
Y)A series of dust storms from 1930 to 1941 during which a severe drought afflicted the semiarid states of Oklahoma,Texas,New Mexico,Colorado,Arkansas,and Kansas.
Z)An agency funded by Congress in 1933 that integrated flood control,reforestation,electricity generation,and agricultural and industrial development in the Tennessee Valley area.
A
A) An agency established in 1935 to promote nonprofit farm cooperatives that offered loans to farmers to install power lines.
B
B) A program under the Works Progress Administration (WP
A) from 1935 to 1939 in which historians,teachers,editors,novelists,poets,and playrights were employed by the federal government to produce a variety of materials-this included,for example,interviews with hundreds of former slaves;a major survey of American foodways;and state-by-state guidebooks to history,geography,and culture. 
A) A high tariff enacted in 1930 during the Great Depression.By taxing imported goods,Congress hoped to stimulate American manufacturing,but the tariff triggered retaliatory tariffs in other countries,which further hindered global trade and led to greater economic contraction. 
B) A group of 15,000 unemployed World War I veterans who set up camps near the Capitol building in 1932 to demand immediate payment of pension awards due to be paid in 1945. 
C) A series of informal radio addresses Franklin Roosevelt made to the nation in which he explained New Deal initiatives. 
D) A legendary session during the first few months of Franklin Roosevelt's administration in which Congress enacted fifteen major bills that focused primarily on four problems: banking failures,agricultural overproduction,the business slump,and soaring unemployment. 
E) A 1933 law that created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDI
C) ,which insured deposits up to $2,500 (and now up to $250,000).The act also prohibited banks from making risky,unsecured investments with customers' deposits.
F)New Deal legislation passed in May 1933 that aimed at cutting agricultural production to raise crop prices and thus farmers' income.
G)Federal agency established in June,1933 to promote industrial recovery during the Great Depression.It encouraged industrialists to voluntarily adopt codes that defined fair working conditions,set prices,and minimized competition.
H)A New Deal construction program established by Congress in 1933.Designed to put people back to work,the PWA built the Boulder Dam (renamed Hoover Dam)and Grand Coulee Dam,among other large public works projects.
I)Federal relief program that provided jobs to millions of unemployed young men who built thousands of bridges,roads,trails,and other structures in state and national parks,bolstering the national infrastructure.
J)An agency established by the Federal Housing Act of 1934 that refinanced home mortgages for mortgage holders facing possible foreclosure.
K)A commission established by Congress in 1934 to regulate the stock market.The commission had broad powers to determine how stocks and bonds were sold to the public,to set rules for margin (credit)transactions,and to prevent stock sales by those with inside information about corporate plans.
L)A group of Republican business leaders and conservative Democrats who banded together to fight what they called the "reckless spending" and "socialist" reforms of the New Deal.
M)An association of industrialists and business leaders opposed to government regulation.In the era of the New Deal,the group promoted free enterprise and capitalism through a publicity campaign of radio programs,motion pictures,billboards,and direct mail.
N)A plan proposed by Francis Townsend in 1933 that would give $200 a month (about $3,300 today)to citizens over the age of sixty.Townsend Clubs sprang up across the country in support of the plan,mobilizing mass support for old-age pensions.
O)A term applied to industrial democracies that adopt various government-guaranteed social programs.The creation of Social Security and other measures of the Second New Deal fundamentally changed American society and established a national system for these governmental social programs for the first time.
P)A 1935 act that upheld the right of industrial workers to join unions and established the National Labor Relations Board (NLR
B) ,a federal agency with the authority to protect workers from employer coercion and to guarantee collective bargaining.
Q)A 1935 act with three main provisions: old-age pensions for workers;a joint federal-state system of compensation for unemployed workers;and a program of payments to widowed mothers and the blind,deaf,and disabled.
R)The political ideology of individual liberty,private property,a competitive market economy,free trade,and limited government.The ideal is a laissez faire or "let alone" policy,in which government does the least possible,particularly in reference to economic policies such as tariffs and incentives for industrial development.Attacking corruption and defending private property,late-nineteenth-century liberals generally called for elite governance and questioned the advisability of full democratic participation.
S)Federal New Deal program established in 1935 that provided government-funded public works jobs to millions of unemployed Americans during the Great Depression in areas ranging from construction to the arts.
T)A recession from 1937 to 1938 that occurred after President Roosevelt cut the federal budget.
U)The theory,developed by British economist John Maynard Keynes in the 1930s,that purposeful government intervention in the economy (through lowering or raising taxes,interest rates,and government spending)can affect the level of overall economic activity and thereby prevent severe depressions and runaway inflation.
V)One of the final major laws of the New Deal,it outlawed child labor,made the 40-hour workweek standard (and mandated overtime pay),and established a national minimum wage.
W)A 1934 law that reversed the Dawes Act of 1887.Through the law,Indians won a greater degree of religious freedom,and tribal governments regained their status as semisovereign dependent nations.
X)A 1934 law that provided for the independence of the Philippines,after a ten-year transition period.Though it granted Philippine independence,its origins were nativist,because the law's proponents wished to classify Filipinos as "alien" and reduce their immigration to the United States.
Y)A series of dust storms from 1930 to 1941 during which a severe drought afflicted the semiarid states of Oklahoma,Texas,New Mexico,Colorado,Arkansas,and Kansas.
Z)An agency funded by Congress in 1933 that integrated flood control,reforestation,electricity generation,and agricultural and industrial development in the Tennessee Valley area.
A
A) An agency established in 1935 to promote nonprofit farm cooperatives that offered loans to farmers to install power lines.
B
B) A program under the Works Progress Administration (WP
A) from 1935 to 1939 in which historians,teachers,editors,novelists,poets,and playrights were employed by the federal government to produce a variety of materials-this included,for example,interviews with hundreds of former slaves;a major survey of American foodways;and state-by-state guidebooks to history,geography,and culture.

Question 17

Answer the following  questions :
-Rural Electrification Administration

Accepted Answer

A) A high tariff enacted in 1930 during the Great Depression.By taxing imported goods,Congress hoped to stimulate American manufacturing,but the tariff triggered retaliatory tariffs in other countries,which further hindered global trade and led to greater economic contraction. 
B) A group of 15,000 unemployed World War I veterans who set up camps near the Capitol building in 1932 to demand immediate payment of pension awards due to be paid in 1945. 
C) A series of informal radio addresses Franklin Roosevelt made to the nation in which he explained New Deal initiatives. 
D) A legendary session during the first few months of Franklin Roosevelt's administration in which Congress enacted fifteen major bills that focused primarily on four problems: banking failures,agricultural overproduction,the business slump,and soaring unemployment. 
E) A 1933 law that created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDI
C) ,which insured deposits up to $2,500 (and now up to $250,000).The act also prohibited banks from making risky,unsecured investments with customers' deposits.
F)New Deal legislation passed in May 1933 that aimed at cutting agricultural production to raise crop prices and thus farmers' income.
G)Federal agency established in June,1933 to promote industrial recovery during the Great Depression.It encouraged industrialists to voluntarily adopt codes that defined fair working conditions,set prices,and minimized competition.
H)A New Deal construction program established by Congress in 1933.Designed to put people back to work,the PWA built the Boulder Dam (renamed Hoover Dam)and Grand Coulee Dam,among other large public works projects.
I)Federal relief program that provided jobs to millions of unemployed young men who built thousands of bridges,roads,trails,and other structures in state and national parks,bolstering the national infrastructure.
J)An agency established by the Federal Housing Act of 1934 that refinanced home mortgages for mortgage holders facing possible foreclosure.
K)A commission established by Congress in 1934 to regulate the stock market.The commission had broad powers to determine how stocks and bonds were sold to the public,to set rules for margin (credit)transactions,and to prevent stock sales by those with inside information about corporate plans.
L)A group of Republican business leaders and conservative Democrats who banded together to fight what they called the "reckless spending" and "socialist" reforms of the New Deal.
M)An association of industrialists and business leaders opposed to government regulation.In the era of the New Deal,the group promoted free enterprise and capitalism through a publicity campaign of radio programs,motion pictures,billboards,and direct mail.
N)A plan proposed by Francis Townsend in 1933 that would give $200 a month (about $3,300 today)to citizens over the age of sixty.Townsend Clubs sprang up across the country in support of the plan,mobilizing mass support for old-age pensions.
O)A term applied to industrial democracies that adopt various government-guaranteed social programs.The creation of Social Security and other measures of the Second New Deal fundamentally changed American society and established a national system for these governmental social programs for the first time.
P)A 1935 act that upheld the right of industrial workers to join unions and established the National Labor Relations Board (NLR
B) ,a federal agency with the authority to protect workers from employer coercion and to guarantee collective bargaining.
Q)A 1935 act with three main provisions: old-age pensions for workers;a joint federal-state system of compensation for unemployed workers;and a program of payments to widowed mothers and the blind,deaf,and disabled.
R)The political ideology of individual liberty,private property,a competitive market economy,free trade,and limited government.The ideal is a laissez faire or "let alone" policy,in which government does the least possible,particularly in reference to economic policies such as tariffs and incentives for industrial development.Attacking corruption and defending private property,late-nineteenth-century liberals generally called for elite governance and questioned the advisability of full democratic participation.
S)Federal New Deal program established in 1935 that provided government-funded public works jobs to millions of unemployed Americans during the Great Depression in areas ranging from construction to the arts.
T)A recession from 1937 to 1938 that occurred after President Roosevelt cut the federal budget.
U)The theory,developed by British economist John Maynard Keynes in the 1930s,that purposeful government intervention in the economy (through lowering or raising taxes,interest rates,and government spending)can affect the level of overall economic activity and thereby prevent severe depressions and runaway inflation.
V)One of the final major laws of the New Deal,it outlawed child labor,made the 40-hour workweek standard (and mandated overtime pay),and established a national minimum wage.
W)A 1934 law that reversed the Dawes Act of 1887.Through the law,Indians won a greater degree of religious freedom,and tribal governments regained their status as semisovereign dependent nations.
X)A 1934 law that provided for the independence of the Philippines,after a ten-year transition period.Though it granted Philippine independence,its origins were nativist,because the law's proponents wished to classify Filipinos as "alien" and reduce their immigration to the United States.
Y)A series of dust storms from 1930 to 1941 during which a severe drought afflicted the semiarid states of Oklahoma,Texas,New Mexico,Colorado,Arkansas,and Kansas.
Z)An agency funded by Congress in 1933 that integrated flood control,reforestation,electricity generation,and agricultural and industrial development in the Tennessee Valley area.
A
A) An agency established in 1935 to promote nonprofit farm cooperatives that offered loans to farmers to install power lines.
B
B) A program under the Works Progress Administration (WP
A) from 1935 to 1939 in which historians,teachers,editors,novelists,poets,and playrights were employed by the federal government to produce a variety of materials-this included,for example,interviews with hundreds of former slaves;a major survey of American foodways;and state-by-state guidebooks to history,geography,and culture. 
A) A high tariff enacted in 1930 during the Great Depression.By taxing imported goods,Congress hoped to stimulate American manufacturing,but the tariff triggered retaliatory tariffs in other countries,which further hindered global trade and led to greater economic contraction. 
B) A group of 15,000 unemployed World War I veterans who set up camps near the Capitol building in 1932 to demand immediate payment of pension awards due to be paid in 1945. 
C) A series of informal radio addresses Franklin Roosevelt made to the nation in which he explained New Deal initiatives. 
D) A legendary session during the first few months of Franklin Roosevelt's administration in which Congress enacted fifteen major bills that focused primarily on four problems: banking failures,agricultural overproduction,the business slump,and soaring unemployment. 
E) A 1933 law that created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDI
C) ,which insured deposits up to $2,500 (and now up to $250,000).The act also prohibited banks from making risky,unsecured investments with customers' deposits.
F)New Deal legislation passed in May 1933 that aimed at cutting agricultural production to raise crop prices and thus farmers' income.
G)Federal agency established in June,1933 to promote industrial recovery during the Great Depression.It encouraged industrialists to voluntarily adopt codes that defined fair working conditions,set prices,and minimized competition.
H)A New Deal construction program established by Congress in 1933.Designed to put people back to work,the PWA built the Boulder Dam (renamed Hoover Dam)and Grand Coulee Dam,among other large public works projects.
I)Federal relief program that provided jobs to millions of unemployed young men who built thousands of bridges,roads,trails,and other structures in state and national parks,bolstering the national infrastructure.
J)An agency established by the Federal Housing Act of 1934 that refinanced home mortgages for mortgage holders facing possible foreclosure.
K)A commission established by Congress in 1934 to regulate the stock market.The commission had broad powers to determine how stocks and bonds were sold to the public,to set rules for margin (credit)transactions,and to prevent stock sales by those with inside information about corporate plans.
L)A group of Republican business leaders and conservative Democrats who banded together to fight what they called the "reckless spending" and "socialist" reforms of the New Deal.
M)An association of industrialists and business leaders opposed to government regulation.In the era of the New Deal,the group promoted free enterprise and capitalism through a publicity campaign of radio programs,motion pictures,billboards,and direct mail.
N)A plan proposed by Francis Townsend in 1933 that would give $200 a month (about $3,300 today)to citizens over the age of sixty.Townsend Clubs sprang up across the country in support of the plan,mobilizing mass support for old-age pensions.
O)A term applied to industrial democracies that adopt various government-guaranteed social programs.The creation of Social Security and other measures of the Second New Deal fundamentally changed American society and established a national system for these governmental social programs for the first time.
P)A 1935 act that upheld the right of industrial workers to join unions and established the National Labor Relations Board (NLR
B) ,a federal agency with the authority to protect workers from employer coercion and to guarantee collective bargaining.
Q)A 1935 act with three main provisions: old-age pensions for workers;a joint federal-state system of compensation for unemployed workers;and a program of payments to widowed mothers and the blind,deaf,and disabled.
R)The political ideology of individual liberty,private property,a competitive market economy,free trade,and limited government.The ideal is a laissez faire or "let alone" policy,in which government does the least possible,particularly in reference to economic policies such as tariffs and incentives for industrial development.Attacking corruption and defending private property,late-nineteenth-century liberals generally called for elite governance and questioned the advisability of full democratic participation.
S)Federal New Deal program established in 1935 that provided government-funded public works jobs to millions of unemployed Americans during the Great Depression in areas ranging from construction to the arts.
T)A recession from 1937 to 1938 that occurred after President Roosevelt cut the federal budget.
U)The theory,developed by British economist John Maynard Keynes in the 1930s,that purposeful government intervention in the economy (through lowering or raising taxes,interest rates,and government spending)can affect the level of overall economic activity and thereby prevent severe depressions and runaway inflation.
V)One of the final major laws of the New Deal,it outlawed child labor,made the 40-hour workweek standard (and mandated overtime pay),and established a national minimum wage.
W)A 1934 law that reversed the Dawes Act of 1887.Through the law,Indians won a greater degree of religious freedom,and tribal governments regained their status as semisovereign dependent nations.
X)A 1934 law that provided for the independence of the Philippines,after a ten-year transition period.Though it granted Philippine independence,its origins were nativist,because the law's proponents wished to classify Filipinos as "alien" and reduce their immigration to the United States.
Y)A series of dust storms from 1930 to 1941 during which a severe drought afflicted the semiarid states of Oklahoma,Texas,New Mexico,Colorado,Arkansas,and Kansas.
Z)An agency funded by Congress in 1933 that integrated flood control,reforestation,electricity generation,and agricultural and industrial development in the Tennessee Valley area.
A
A) An agency established in 1935 to promote nonprofit farm cooperatives that offered loans to farmers to install power lines.
B
B) A program under the Works Progress Administration (WP
A) from 1935 to 1939 in which historians,teachers,editors,novelists,poets,and playrights were employed by the federal government to produce a variety of materials-this included,for example,interviews with hundreds of former slaves;a major survey of American foodways;and state-by-state guidebooks to history,geography,and culture.

Question 18

Answer the following  questions :
-Townsend Plan

Accepted Answer

A) A high tariff enacted in 1930 during the Great Depression.By taxing imported goods,Congress hoped to stimulate American manufacturing,but the tariff triggered retaliatory tariffs in other countries,which further hindered global trade and led to greater economic contraction. 
B) A group of 15,000 unemployed World War I veterans who set up camps near the Capitol building in 1932 to demand immediate payment of pension awards due to be paid in 1945. 
C) A series of informal radio addresses Franklin Roosevelt made to the nation in which he explained New Deal initiatives. 
D) A legendary session during the first few months of Franklin Roosevelt's administration in which Congress enacted fifteen major bills that focused primarily on four problems: banking failures,agricultural overproduction,the business slump,and soaring unemployment. 
E) A 1933 law that created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDI
C) ,which insured deposits up to $2,500 (and now up to $250,000).The act also prohibited banks from making risky,unsecured investments with customers' deposits.
F)New Deal legislation passed in May 1933 that aimed at cutting agricultural production to raise crop prices and thus farmers' income.
G)Federal agency established in June,1933 to promote industrial recovery during the Great Depression.It encouraged industrialists to voluntarily adopt codes that defined fair working conditions,set prices,and minimized competition.
H)A New Deal construction program established by Congress in 1933.Designed to put people back to work,the PWA built the Boulder Dam (renamed Hoover Dam)and Grand Coulee Dam,among other large public works projects.
I)Federal relief program that provided jobs to millions of unemployed young men who built thousands of bridges,roads,trails,and other structures in state and national parks,bolstering the national infrastructure.
J)An agency established by the Federal Housing Act of 1934 that refinanced home mortgages for mortgage holders facing possible foreclosure.
K)A commission established by Congress in 1934 to regulate the stock market.The commission had broad powers to determine how stocks and bonds were sold to the public,to set rules for margin (credit)transactions,and to prevent stock sales by those with inside information about corporate plans.
L)A group of Republican business leaders and conservative Democrats who banded together to fight what they called the "reckless spending" and "socialist" reforms of the New Deal.
M)An association of industrialists and business leaders opposed to government regulation.In the era of the New Deal,the group promoted free enterprise and capitalism through a publicity campaign of radio programs,motion pictures,billboards,and direct mail.
N)A plan proposed by Francis Townsend in 1933 that would give $200 a month (about $3,300 today)to citizens over the age of sixty.Townsend Clubs sprang up across the country in support of the plan,mobilizing mass support for old-age pensions.
O)A term applied to industrial democracies that adopt various government-guaranteed social programs.The creation of Social Security and other measures of the Second New Deal fundamentally changed American society and established a national system for these governmental social programs for the first time.
P)A 1935 act that upheld the right of industrial workers to join unions and established the National Labor Relations Board (NLR
B) ,a federal agency with the authority to protect workers from employer coercion and to guarantee collective bargaining.
Q)A 1935 act with three main provisions: old-age pensions for workers;a joint federal-state system of compensation for unemployed workers;and a program of payments to widowed mothers and the blind,deaf,and disabled.
R)The political ideology of individual liberty,private property,a competitive market economy,free trade,and limited government.The ideal is a laissez faire or "let alone" policy,in which government does the least possible,particularly in reference to economic policies such as tariffs and incentives for industrial development.Attacking corruption and defending private property,late-nineteenth-century liberals generally called for elite governance and questioned the advisability of full democratic participation.
S)Federal New Deal program established in 1935 that provided government-funded public works jobs to millions of unemployed Americans during the Great Depression in areas ranging from construction to the arts.
T)A recession from 1937 to 1938 that occurred after President Roosevelt cut the federal budget.
U)The theory,developed by British economist John Maynard Keynes in the 1930s,that purposeful government intervention in the economy (through lowering or raising taxes,interest rates,and government spending)can affect the level of overall economic activity and thereby prevent severe depressions and runaway inflation.
V)One of the final major laws of the New Deal,it outlawed child labor,made the 40-hour workweek standard (and mandated overtime pay),and established a national minimum wage.
W)A 1934 law that reversed the Dawes Act of 1887.Through the law,Indians won a greater degree of religious freedom,and tribal governments regained their status as semisovereign dependent nations.
X)A 1934 law that provided for the independence of the Philippines,after a ten-year transition period.Though it granted Philippine independence,its origins were nativist,because the law's proponents wished to classify Filipinos as "alien" and reduce their immigration to the United States.
Y)A series of dust storms from 1930 to 1941 during which a severe drought afflicted the semiarid states of Oklahoma,Texas,New Mexico,Colorado,Arkansas,and Kansas.
Z)An agency funded by Congress in 1933 that integrated flood control,reforestation,electricity generation,and agricultural and industrial development in the Tennessee Valley area.
A
A) An agency established in 1935 to promote nonprofit farm cooperatives that offered loans to farmers to install power lines.
B
B) A program under the Works Progress Administration (WP
A) from 1935 to 1939 in which historians,teachers,editors,novelists,poets,and playrights were employed by the federal government to produce a variety of materials-this included,for example,interviews with hundreds of former slaves;a major survey of American foodways;and state-by-state guidebooks to history,geography,and culture. 
A) A high tariff enacted in 1930 during the Great Depression.By taxing imported goods,Congress hoped to stimulate American manufacturing,but the tariff triggered retaliatory tariffs in other countries,which further hindered global trade and led to greater economic contraction. 
B) A group of 15,000 unemployed World War I veterans who set up camps near the Capitol building in 1932 to demand immediate payment of pension awards due to be paid in 1945. 
C) A series of informal radio addresses Franklin Roosevelt made to the nation in which he explained New Deal initiatives. 
D) A legendary session during the first few months of Franklin Roosevelt's administration in which Congress enacted fifteen major bills that focused primarily on four problems: banking failures,agricultural overproduction,the business slump,and soaring unemployment. 
E) A 1933 law that created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDI
C) ,which insured deposits up to $2,500 (and now up to $250,000).The act also prohibited banks from making risky,unsecured investments with customers' deposits.
F)New Deal legislation passed in May 1933 that aimed at cutting agricultural production to raise crop prices and thus farmers' income.
G)Federal agency established in June,1933 to promote industrial recovery during the Great Depression.It encouraged industrialists to voluntarily adopt codes that defined fair working conditions,set prices,and minimized competition.
H)A New Deal construction program established by Congress in 1933.Designed to put people back to work,the PWA built the Boulder Dam (renamed Hoover Dam)and Grand Coulee Dam,among other large public works projects.
I)Federal relief program that provided jobs to millions of unemployed young men who built thousands of bridges,roads,trails,and other structures in state and national parks,bolstering the national infrastructure.
J)An agency established by the Federal Housing Act of 1934 that refinanced home mortgages for mortgage holders facing possible foreclosure.
K)A commission established by Congress in 1934 to regulate the stock market.The commission had broad powers to determine how stocks and bonds were sold to the public,to set rules for margin (credit)transactions,and to prevent stock sales by those with inside information about corporate plans.
L)A group of Republican business leaders and conservative Democrats who banded together to fight what they called the "reckless spending" and "socialist" reforms of the New Deal.
M)An association of industrialists and business leaders opposed to government regulation.In the era of the New Deal,the group promoted free enterprise and capitalism through a publicity campaign of radio programs,motion pictures,billboards,and direct mail.
N)A plan proposed by Francis Townsend in 1933 that would give $200 a month (about $3,300 today)to citizens over the age of sixty.Townsend Clubs sprang up across the country in support of the plan,mobilizing mass support for old-age pensions.
O)A term applied to industrial democracies that adopt various government-guaranteed social programs.The creation of Social Security and other measures of the Second New Deal fundamentally changed American society and established a national system for these governmental social programs for the first time.
P)A 1935 act that upheld the right of industrial workers to join unions and established the National Labor Relations Board (NLR
B) ,a federal agency with the authority to protect workers from employer coercion and to guarantee collective bargaining.
Q)A 1935 act with three main provisions: old-age pensions for workers;a joint federal-state system of compensation for unemployed workers;and a program of payments to widowed mothers and the blind,deaf,and disabled.
R)The political ideology of individual liberty,private property,a competitive market economy,free trade,and limited government.The ideal is a laissez faire or "let alone" policy,in which government does the least possible,particularly in reference to economic policies such as tariffs and incentives for industrial development.Attacking corruption and defending private property,late-nineteenth-century liberals generally called for elite governance and questioned the advisability of full democratic participation.
S)Federal New Deal program established in 1935 that provided government-funded public works jobs to millions of unemployed Americans during the Great Depression in areas ranging from construction to the arts.
T)A recession from 1937 to 1938 that occurred after President Roosevelt cut the federal budget.
U)The theory,developed by British economist John Maynard Keynes in the 1930s,that purposeful government intervention in the economy (through lowering or raising taxes,interest rates,and government spending)can affect the level of overall economic activity and thereby prevent severe depressions and runaway inflation.
V)One of the final major laws of the New Deal,it outlawed child labor,made the 40-hour workweek standard (and mandated overtime pay),and established a national minimum wage.
W)A 1934 law that reversed the Dawes Act of 1887.Through the law,Indians won a greater degree of religious freedom,and tribal governments regained their status as semisovereign dependent nations.
X)A 1934 law that provided for the independence of the Philippines,after a ten-year transition period.Though it granted Philippine independence,its origins were nativist,because the law's proponents wished to classify Filipinos as "alien" and reduce their immigration to the United States.
Y)A series of dust storms from 1930 to 1941 during which a severe drought afflicted the semiarid states of Oklahoma,Texas,New Mexico,Colorado,Arkansas,and Kansas.
Z)An agency funded by Congress in 1933 that integrated flood control,reforestation,electricity generation,and agricultural and industrial development in the Tennessee Valley area.
A
A) An agency established in 1935 to promote nonprofit farm cooperatives that offered loans to farmers to install power lines.
B
B) A program under the Works Progress Administration (WP
A) from 1935 to 1939 in which historians,teachers,editors,novelists,poets,and playrights were employed by the federal government to produce a variety of materials-this included,for example,interviews with hundreds of former slaves;a major survey of American foodways;and state-by-state guidebooks to history,geography,and culture.

Question 19

The Indian Reorganization Act of 1934

Accepted Answer

A)  intensified efforts to persuade Native Americans to assimilate into white society. 
B)  reversed the Dawes Severalty Act and promoted tribal self-government. 
C)  significantly improved the economic status of Native Americans. 
D)  dismantled reservations and forced Native Americans to assimilate. 
A)  intensified efforts to persuade Native Americans to assimilate into white society. 
B)  reversed the Dawes Severalty Act and promoted tribal self-government. 
C)  significantly improved the economic status of Native Americans. 
D)  dismantled reservations and forced Native Americans to assimilate.

Question 20

Answer the following  questions :
-Securities and Exchange Commission

Accepted Answer

A) A high tariff enacted in 1930 during the Great Depression.By taxing imported goods,Congress hoped to stimulate American manufacturing,but the tariff triggered retaliatory tariffs in other countries,which further hindered global trade and led to greater economic contraction. 
B) A group of 15,000 unemployed World War I veterans who set up camps near the Capitol building in 1932 to demand immediate payment of pension awards due to be paid in 1945. 
C) A series of informal radio addresses Franklin Roosevelt made to the nation in which he explained New Deal initiatives. 
D) A legendary session during the first few months of Franklin Roosevelt's administration in which Congress enacted fifteen major bills that focused primarily on four problems: banking failures,agricultural overproduction,the business slump,and soaring unemployment. 
E) A 1933 law that created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDI
C) ,which insured deposits up to $2,500 (and now up to $250,000).The act also prohibited banks from making risky,unsecured investments with customers' deposits.
F)New Deal legislation passed in May 1933 that aimed at cutting agricultural production to raise crop prices and thus farmers' income.
G)Federal agency established in June,1933 to promote industrial recovery during the Great Depression.It encouraged industrialists to voluntarily adopt codes that defined fair working conditions,set prices,and minimized competition.
H)A New Deal construction program established by Congress in 1933.Designed to put people back to work,the PWA built the Boulder Dam (renamed Hoover Dam)and Grand Coulee Dam,among other large public works projects.
I)Federal relief program that provided jobs to millions of unemployed young men who built thousands of bridges,roads,trails,and other structures in state and national parks,bolstering the national infrastructure.
J)An agency established by the Federal Housing Act of 1934 that refinanced home mortgages for mortgage holders facing possible foreclosure.
K)A commission established by Congress in 1934 to regulate the stock market.The commission had broad powers to determine how stocks and bonds were sold to the public,to set rules for margin (credit)transactions,and to prevent stock sales by those with inside information about corporate plans.
L)A group of Republican business leaders and conservative Democrats who banded together to fight what they called the "reckless spending" and "socialist" reforms of the New Deal.
M)An association of industrialists and business leaders opposed to government regulation.In the era of the New Deal,the group promoted free enterprise and capitalism through a publicity campaign of radio programs,motion pictures,billboards,and direct mail.
N)A plan proposed by Francis Townsend in 1933 that would give $200 a month (about $3,300 today)to citizens over the age of sixty.Townsend Clubs sprang up across the country in support of the plan,mobilizing mass support for old-age pensions.
O)A term applied to industrial democracies that adopt various government-guaranteed social programs.The creation of Social Security and other measures of the Second New Deal fundamentally changed American society and established a national system for these governmental social programs for the first time.
P)A 1935 act that upheld the right of industrial workers to join unions and established the National Labor Relations Board (NLR
B) ,a federal agency with the authority to protect workers from employer coercion and to guarantee collective bargaining.
Q)A 1935 act with three main provisions: old-age pensions for workers;a joint federal-state system of compensation for unemployed workers;and a program of payments to widowed mothers and the blind,deaf,and disabled.
R)The political ideology of individual liberty,private property,a competitive market economy,free trade,and limited government.The ideal is a laissez faire or "let alone" policy,in which government does the least possible,particularly in reference to economic policies such as tariffs and incentives for industrial development.Attacking corruption and defending private property,late-nineteenth-century liberals generally called for elite governance and questioned the advisability of full democratic participation.
S)Federal New Deal program established in 1935 that provided government-funded public works jobs to millions of unemployed Americans during the Great Depression in areas ranging from construction to the arts.
T)A recession from 1937 to 1938 that occurred after President Roosevelt cut the federal budget.
U)The theory,developed by British economist John Maynard Keynes in the 1930s,that purposeful government intervention in the economy (through lowering or raising taxes,interest rates,and government spending)can affect the level of overall economic activity and thereby prevent severe depressions and runaway inflation.
V)One of the final major laws of the New Deal,it outlawed child labor,made the 40-hour workweek standard (and mandated overtime pay),and established a national minimum wage.
W)A 1934 law that reversed the Dawes Act of 1887.Through the law,Indians won a greater degree of religious freedom,and tribal governments regained their status as semisovereign dependent nations.
X)A 1934 law that provided for the independence of the Philippines,after a ten-year transition period.Though it granted Philippine independence,its origins were nativist,because the law's proponents wished to classify Filipinos as "alien" and reduce their immigration to the United States.
Y)A series of dust storms from 1930 to 1941 during which a severe drought afflicted the semiarid states of Oklahoma,Texas,New Mexico,Colorado,Arkansas,and Kansas.
Z)An agency funded by Congress in 1933 that integrated flood control,reforestation,electricity generation,and agricultural and industrial development in the Tennessee Valley area.
A
A) An agency established in 1935 to promote nonprofit farm cooperatives that offered loans to farmers to install power lines.
B
B) A program under the Works Progress Administration (WP
A) from 1935 to 1939 in which historians,teachers,editors,novelists,poets,and playrights were employed by the federal government to produce a variety of materials-this included,for example,interviews with hundreds of former slaves;a major survey of American foodways;and state-by-state guidebooks to history,geography,and culture. 
A) A high tariff enacted in 1930 during the Great Depression.By taxing imported goods,Congress hoped to stimulate American manufacturing,but the tariff triggered retaliatory tariffs in other countries,which further hindered global trade and led to greater economic contraction. 
B) A group of 15,000 unemployed World War I veterans who set up camps near the Capitol building in 1932 to demand immediate payment of pension awards due to be paid in 1945. 
C) A series of informal radio addresses Franklin Roosevelt made to the nation in which he explained New Deal initiatives. 
D) A legendary session during the first few months of Franklin Roosevelt's administration in which Congress enacted fifteen major bills that focused primarily on four problems: banking failures,agricultural overproduction,the business slump,and soaring unemployment. 
E) A 1933 law that created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDI
C) ,which insured deposits up to $2,500 (and now up to $250,000).The act also prohibited banks from making risky,unsecured investments with customers' deposits.
F)New Deal legislation passed in May 1933 that aimed at cutting agricultural production to raise crop prices and thus farmers' income.
G)Federal agency established in June,1933 to promote industrial recovery during the Great Depression.It encouraged industrialists to voluntarily adopt codes that defined fair working conditions,set prices,and minimized competition.
H)A New Deal construction program established by Congress in 1933.Designed to put people back to work,the PWA built the Boulder Dam (renamed Hoover Dam)and Grand Coulee Dam,among other large public works projects.
I)Federal relief program that provided jobs to millions of unemployed young men who built thousands of bridges,roads,trails,and other structures in state and national parks,bolstering the national infrastructure.
J)An agency established by the Federal Housing Act of 1934 that refinanced home mortgages for mortgage holders facing possible foreclosure.
K)A commission established by Congress in 1934 to regulate the stock market.The commission had broad powers to determine how stocks and bonds were sold to the public,to set rules for margin (credit)transactions,and to prevent stock sales by those with inside information about corporate plans.
L)A group of Republican business leaders and conservative Democrats who banded together to fight what they called the "reckless spending" and "socialist" reforms of the New Deal.
M)An association of industrialists and business leaders opposed to government regulation.In the era of the New Deal,the group promoted free enterprise and capitalism through a publicity campaign of radio programs,motion pictures,billboards,and direct mail.
N)A plan proposed by Francis Townsend in 1933 that would give $200 a month (about $3,300 today)to citizens over the age of sixty.Townsend Clubs sprang up across the country in support of the plan,mobilizing mass support for old-age pensions.
O)A term applied to industrial democracies that adopt various government-guaranteed social programs.The creation of Social Security and other measures of the Second New Deal fundamentally changed American society and established a national system for these governmental social programs for the first time.
P)A 1935 act that upheld the right of industrial workers to join unions and established the National Labor Relations Board (NLR
B) ,a federal agency with the authority to protect workers from employer coercion and to guarantee collective bargaining.
Q)A 1935 act with three main provisions: old-age pensions for workers;a joint federal-state system of compensation for unemployed workers;and a program of payments to widowed mothers and the blind,deaf,and disabled.
R)The political ideology of individual liberty,private property,a competitive market economy,free trade,and limited government.The ideal is a laissez faire or "let alone" policy,in which government does the least possible,particularly in reference to economic policies such as tariffs and incentives for industrial development.Attacking corruption and defending private property,late-nineteenth-century liberals generally called for elite governance and questioned the advisability of full democratic participation.
S)Federal New Deal program established in 1935 that provided government-funded public works jobs to millions of unemployed Americans during the Great Depression in areas ranging from construction to the arts.
T)A recession from 1937 to 1938 that occurred after President Roosevelt cut the federal budget.
U)The theory,developed by British economist John Maynard Keynes in the 1930s,that purposeful government intervention in the economy (through lowering or raising taxes,interest rates,and government spending)can affect the level of overall economic activity and thereby prevent severe depressions and runaway inflation.
V)One of the final major laws of the New Deal,it outlawed child labor,made the 40-hour workweek standard (and mandated overtime pay),and established a national minimum wage.
W)A 1934 law that reversed the Dawes Act of 1887.Through the law,Indians won a greater degree of religious freedom,and tribal governments regained their status as semisovereign dependent nations.
X)A 1934 law that provided for the independence of the Philippines,after a ten-year transition period.Though it granted Philippine independence,its origins were nativist,because the law's proponents wished to classify Filipinos as "alien" and reduce their immigration to the United States.
Y)A series of dust storms from 1930 to 1941 during which a severe drought afflicted the semiarid states of Oklahoma,Texas,New Mexico,Colorado,Arkansas,and Kansas.
Z)An agency funded by Congress in 1933 that integrated flood control,reforestation,electricity generation,and agricultural and industrial development in the Tennessee Valley area.
A
A) An agency established in 1935 to promote nonprofit farm cooperatives that offered loans to farmers to install power lines.
B
B) A program under the Works Progress Administration (WP
A) from 1935 to 1939 in which historians,teachers,editors,novelists,poets,and playrights were employed by the federal government to produce a variety of materials-this included,for example,interviews with hundreds of former slaves;a major survey of American foodways;and state-by-state guidebooks to history,geography,and culture.

Exam 22: Managing the Great Depression, Forging the New Deal, 1929-1938

Roosevelt's Democratic coalition included

Which of the following was Roosevelt's initial response to the Supreme Court's declaration that the NRA,the AAA,and other New Deal legislation were unconstitutional?

Who was the first woman cabinet member,who served as secretary of labor?

Who were Harold Ickes and Bernard Baruch?

To avert further banking panics,during which account holders raced to withdraw funds,the New Deal

Answer the following questions : -Tydings-McDuffie Act

Which of the following was true of minorities during the New Deal?

How did the Second New Deal differ from the first? What were Roosevelt's reasons for changing course?

Some historians have seen the New Deal as an evolution of the reform initiated by progressives earlier in the century,but others have argued that it represented a revolution in social values and government institutions.What do you think? Provide evidence for your argument.

Under the New Deal,the government's involvement in the environment and in the arts was unprecedented.What were the major components of this new involvement?

In what ways did Roosevelt's personality,values,and political style affect the policies and programs of the New Deal?

What percentage of the U.S.labor force was unemployed by 1933?

Answer the following questions : -Wagner Act

Answer the following questions : -welfare state

Answer the following questions : -Social Security Act

Answer the following questions : -Federal Writers' Project

Answer the following questions : -Rural Electrification Administration

Answer the following questions : -Townsend Plan

The Indian Reorganization Act of 1934

Answer the following questions : -Securities and Exchange Commission

Colliding Worlds, 1491-1600

American Experiments, 1521-1700

The British Atlantic World, 1607-1750

Growth, Diversity, and Conflict, 1720-1763

The Problem of Empire, 1754-1776

Making War and Republican Governments, 1776-1789

Hammering Out a Federal Republic, 1787-1820

Economic Transformations, 1800-1848

A Democratic Revolution, 1800-1848

Religion, Reform, and Culture, 1820-1848

Imperial Ambitions, 1820-1848

Sectional Conflict and Crisis, 1844-1860

Bloody Ground: the Civil War, 1861-1865

Reconstruction, 1865-1877

Conquering a Continent, 1860-1890

Industrial America: Corporations and Conflicts, 1877-1910

Making Modern American Culture, 1880-1917

Civilizations Inferno: the Rise and Reform of Industrial Cities, 1880-1917

Whose Government Politics, Populists, and Progressives, 1880-1917

An Emerging World Power, 1890-1918

Unsettled Prosperity: From War to Depression, 1919-1932

The World at War, 1937-1945

Cold War America, 1945-1963

Triumph of the Middle Class, 1945-1963

Walking Into Freedom Land: the Civil Rights Movement, 1941-1973

Uncivil Wars:liberal Crisis and Conservative Rebirth, 1961-1972

The Search for Order in an Era of Limits, 1973-1980

Conservative America in the Ascent, 1980-1991

Confronting Global and National Dilemmas, 1989 to the Present

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