Question 1

Answer the following  questions :
-Tennessee Valley Authority

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 2

Ratified in 1933,the Twentieth Amendment

Accepted Answer

A)  ended Prohibition. 
B)  allowed for the direct election of senators. 
C)  created Social Security. 
D)  set subsequent inaugurations for January 20. 
A)  ended Prohibition. 
B)  allowed for the direct election of senators. 
C)  created Social Security. 
D)  set subsequent inaugurations for January 20.

Question 3

For southern black sharecroppers,the New Deal's AAA often meant that

Accepted Answer

A)  they received more land to farm. 
B)  more were able to farm. 
C)  they received significant federal support. 
D)  they were pushed off their land. 
A)  they received more land to farm. 
B)  more were able to farm. 
C)  they received significant federal support. 
D)  they were pushed off their land.

Question 4

By the 1960s,what part of Social Security had become the most controversial?

Accepted Answer

A)  Aid to Families with Dependent Children 
B)  Compensation for unemployed workers 
C)  Payments to widowed mothers 
D)  Financial assistance for the blind,deaf,and disabled 
A)  Aid to Families with Dependent Children 
B)  Compensation for unemployed workers 
C)  Payments to widowed mothers 
D)  Financial assistance for the blind,deaf,and disabled

Question 5

Which of the following caused the severe recession in 1937 and 1938?

Accepted Answer

A)  Roosevelt,Congress,and the Federal Reserve cut spending and attempted to balance the budget. 
B)  Roosevelt embraced deficit spending. 
C)  Congress increased funds for the WPA. 
D)  The Federal Reserve made it easier for Americans to borrow money. 
A)  Roosevelt,Congress,and the Federal Reserve cut spending and attempted to balance the budget. 
B)  Roosevelt embraced deficit spending. 
C)  Congress increased funds for the WPA. 
D)  The Federal Reserve made it easier for Americans to borrow money.

Question 6

Answer the following  questions :
-Works Progress 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 7

Between 1935 and 1943,the Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Accepted Answer

A)  paid civilians to build bridges,public buildings,parks,and airports. 
B)  reached 90 percent of the unemployed,easing their suffering. 
C)  supplied federal grants to hundreds of relief programs run by the states. 
D)  spent more than $100 billion on extravagant luxuries for political insiders. 
A)  paid civilians to build bridges,public buildings,parks,and airports. 
B)  reached 90 percent of the unemployed,easing their suffering. 
C)  supplied federal grants to hundreds of relief programs run by the states. 
D)  spent more than $100 billion on extravagant luxuries for political insiders.

Question 8

Herbert Hoover asked Americans to do which of the following in response to the economic downtown in 1929?

Accepted Answer

A)  Live a moral and righteous life. 
B)  Tighten their belts and work hard. 
C)  Fear nothing but fear itself. 
D)  Ask not what their country could do for them,but what they could do for their country. 
A)  Live a moral and righteous life. 
B)  Tighten their belts and work hard. 
C)  Fear nothing but fear itself. 
D)  Ask not what their country could do for them,but what they could do for their country.

Question 9

Answer the following  questions :
-dust bowl

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 10

Describe Keynesian economic policies.How important were they to the New Deal?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
- Summary

Question 11

What were the main programs of the New Deal's "Hundred Days"? What were their goals? How were they different from reforms in the early decades of the century?

Accepted Answer

Answer should ideally include:
- New Dea

Question 12

Answer the following  questions :
-Fair Labor Standards 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 13

The Tydings-McDuffie Act of 1934

Accepted Answer

A)  granted independence to the Philippines. 
B)  granted citizenship to all legal Filipino residents in the United States prior to 1934. 
C)  limited immigration from the Philippines to fifty thousand per year. 
D)  rescinded the Chinese Exclusion Act. 
A)  granted independence to the Philippines. 
B)  granted citizenship to all legal Filipino residents in the United States prior to 1934. 
C)  limited immigration from the Philippines to fifty thousand per year. 
D)  rescinded the Chinese Exclusion Act.

Question 14

During the 1932 presidential campaign,Franklin Roosevelt promised

Accepted Answer

A)  the firing of all radicals in government. 
B)  bold,persistent experimentation. 
C)  "a chicken in every pot." 
D)  a government takeover of the banks. 
A)  the firing of all radicals in government. 
B)  bold,persistent experimentation. 
C)  "a chicken in every pot." 
D)  a government takeover of the banks.

Question 15

Between 1929 and 1932,U.S.gross domestic production fell by

Accepted Answer

A)  one-quarter. 
B)  one-third. 
C)  two-thirds. 
D)  one-half. 
A)  one-quarter. 
B)  one-third. 
C)  two-thirds. 
D)  one-half.

Question 16

Answer the following  questions :
-Bonus Army

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

In what ways did the New Deal coalition and the social programs it developed change the character of American politics? Why did Republicans oppose the Democrats' initiatives?
Answer Key

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
- New Deal

Question 18

Answer the following  questions :
-classical liberalism

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

What was Franklin Roosevelt's attitude toward the federal government's provision of welfare payments to the unemployed?

Accepted Answer

A)  He welcomed it as an opportunity to help those in need and to ensure their votes for the Democratic Party. 
B)  He was indifferent to the means by which those who needed it received help,whether by cash subsidies or by work relief. 
C)  He had strong reservations about it,preferring to provide federally funded jobs over cash subsidies. 
D)  He opposed it vigorously and saw to it that New Deal programs never involved direct cash subsidies. 
A)  He welcomed it as an opportunity to help those in need and to ensure their votes for the Democratic Party. 
B)  He was indifferent to the means by which those who needed it received help,whether by cash subsidies or by work relief. 
C)  He had strong reservations about it,preferring to provide federally funded jobs over cash subsidies. 
D)  He opposed it vigorously and saw to it that New Deal programs never involved direct cash subsidies.

Question 20

Which of the following organizations did President Hoover create in 1931 to stimulate the economy through federal loans to major businesses in 1931 and 1932?

Accepted Answer

A)  Works Progress Administration 
B)  The Economic Recovery Association 
C)  Reconstruction Finance Corporation 
D)  National Industrial Recovery Act 
A)  Works Progress Administration 
B)  The Economic Recovery Association 
C)  Reconstruction Finance Corporation 
D)  National Industrial Recovery Act

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

Answer the following questions : -Tennessee Valley Authority

Ratified in 1933,the Twentieth Amendment

For southern black sharecroppers,the New Deal's AAA often meant that

By the 1960s,what part of Social Security had become the most controversial?

Which of the following caused the severe recession in 1937 and 1938?

Answer the following questions : -Works Progress Administration

Between 1935 and 1943,the Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Herbert Hoover asked Americans to do which of the following in response to the economic downtown in 1929?

Answer the following questions : -dust bowl

Describe Keynesian economic policies.How important were they to the New Deal?

What were the main programs of the New Deal's "Hundred Days"? What were their goals? How were they different from reforms in the early decades of the century?

Answer the following questions : -Fair Labor Standards Act

The Tydings-McDuffie Act of 1934

During the 1932 presidential campaign,Franklin Roosevelt promised

Between 1929 and 1932,U.S.gross domestic production fell by

Answer the following questions : -Bonus Army

In what ways did the New Deal coalition and the social programs it developed change the character of American politics? Why did Republicans oppose the Democrats' initiatives? Answer Key

Answer the following questions : -classical liberalism

What was Franklin Roosevelt's attitude toward the federal government's provision of welfare payments to the unemployed?

Which of the following organizations did President Hoover create in 1931 to stimulate the economy through federal loans to major businesses in 1931 and 1932?

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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