Question 1

Which tariff,passed in 1930,raised rates to an all-time high,further deepening the worldwide depression?

Accepted Answer

A)  Mellon-Hoover 
B)  Kellogg-Briand 
C)  Smoot-Hawley 
D)  National Recovery 
A)  Mellon-Hoover 
B)  Kellogg-Briand 
C)  Smoot-Hawley 
D)  National Recovery

Question 2

Which of the following groups greatly benefitted from the reforms of the New Deal?

Accepted Answer

A)  The unemployed 
B)  Tenant farmers 
C)  Domestic workers 
D)  Single mothers 
A)  The unemployed 
B)  Tenant farmers 
C)  Domestic workers 
D)  Single mothers

Question 3

Answer the following  questions :
-Roosevelt recession

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 4

Roosevelt heeded John Maynard Keynes's advice and

Accepted Answer

A)  balanced the budget. 
B)  created the Good Neighbor Policy. 
C)  practiced deficit spending. 
D)  improved the Federal Reserve. 
A)  balanced the budget. 
B)  created the Good Neighbor Policy. 
C)  practiced deficit spending. 
D)  improved the Federal Reserve.

Question 5

Which of the following rendered the international monetary supply inflexible in the Great Depression during the 1930s?

Accepted Answer

A)  The gold standard 
B)  The trade deficit 
C)  The outflow of capital 
D)  Rising prices 
A)  The gold standard 
B)  The trade deficit 
C)  The outflow of capital 
D)  Rising prices

Question 6

Answer the following  questions :
-National Association of Manufacturers

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

Deciding that Roosevelt had not done enough to alleviate suffering,Francis Townsend called for

Accepted Answer

A)  taking money from the rich and giving it to the poor. 
B)  public works programs. 
C)  bringing electricity to rural areas. 
D)  an old-age revolving pension plan. 
A)  taking money from the rich and giving it to the poor. 
B)  public works programs. 
C)  bringing electricity to rural areas. 
D)  an old-age revolving pension plan.

Question 8

Why did the New Deal reach a stalemate?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
- Reasons

Question 9

What was the significance of the New Deal?

Accepted Answer

A)  It saved the nation's institutions from extinction. 
B)  The programs expanded the federal government's presence both in the economy and in people's lives. 
C)  The policies made the United States the largest creditor nation in the world. 
D)  It ended the Jazz Age. 
A)  It saved the nation's institutions from extinction. 
B)  The programs expanded the federal government's presence both in the economy and in people's lives. 
C)  The policies made the United States the largest creditor nation in the world. 
D)  It ended the Jazz Age.

Question 10

In 1934,the American Liberty League was organized by

Accepted Answer

A)  business leaders and conservative Democrats who opposed New Deal reforms. 
B)  liberals and moderate Republicans who favored the rights of labor. 
C)  civil libertarians who wished to protect freedom of speech. 
D)  radicals who thought that the New Deal needed to be pushed further to the left. 
A)  business leaders and conservative Democrats who opposed New Deal reforms. 
B)  liberals and moderate Republicans who favored the rights of labor. 
C)  civil libertarians who wished to protect freedom of speech. 
D)  radicals who thought that the New Deal needed to be pushed further to the left.

Question 11

Who were the New Deal's major critics,and what were their alternative programs?

Accepted Answer

Answer should ideally include:
- Critics

Question 12

Hoover was hated during the Depression,partially because of the public perception that he

Accepted Answer

A)  was insensitive to people's suffering and was a do-nothing president. 
B)  had caused the stock market crash through his fiscal policies. 
C)  refused to give the federal government a role in stabilizing agriculture. 
D)  led the nation deeply into debt. 
A)  was insensitive to people's suffering and was a do-nothing president. 
B)  had caused the stock market crash through his fiscal policies. 
C)  refused to give the federal government a role in stabilizing agriculture. 
D)  led the nation deeply into debt.

Question 13

The Emergency Banking Act of 1933

Accepted Answer

A)  created a national banking system of savings and loan associations. 
B)  put U.S.banks under temporary federal control. 
C)  permitted banks with sufficient cash reserves to reopen. 
D)  forced all banks to join the Federal Reserve System. 
A)  created a national banking system of savings and loan associations. 
B)  put U.S.banks under temporary federal control. 
C)  permitted banks with sufficient cash reserves to reopen. 
D)  forced all banks to join the Federal Reserve System.

Question 14

What were the major differences between the approaches of Herbert Hoover and Franklin D.Roosevelt to the crisis of the Depression?

Accepted Answer

Answer would ideally include:
- Herbert

Question 15

Answer the following  questions :
-Keynesian economics

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

Which New Deal program offered tremendous encouragement and support to the labor union movement?

Accepted Answer

A)  Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation 
B)  Securities and Exchange Commission 
C)  National Industrial Recovery Act,especially Section 7(a) 
D)  Tennessee Valley Authority's hiring practices 
A)  Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation 
B)  Securities and Exchange Commission 
C)  National Industrial Recovery Act,especially Section 7(a) 
D)  Tennessee Valley Authority's hiring practices

Question 17

How did President Hoover respond to the economic emergency? Why did he choose the course of action that he did?

Accepted Answer

Answer should ideally include:
- Hoover'

Question 18

What problems in the economy and society of the United States were exposed by the Great Depression?

Accepted Answer

Answer should ideally include:
- Economi

Question 19

Answer the following  questions :
-Smoot-Hawley Tariff

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 20

Why did New Deal legislation pass scrutiny by the Supreme Court more easily in Roosevelt's second term?

Accepted Answer

A)  President Roosevelt succeeded in temporarily enlarging the Court to fifteen justices. 
B)  Conservatives on the Court altered their views of the Constitution. 
C)  Liberals replaced several elderly conservative justices who retired. 
D)  Congress and the states passed some important amendments to the Constitution. 
A)  President Roosevelt succeeded in temporarily enlarging the Court to fifteen justices. 
B)  Conservatives on the Court altered their views of the Constitution. 
C)  Liberals replaced several elderly conservative justices who retired. 
D)  Congress and the states passed some important amendments to the Constitution.

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

Which tariff,passed in 1930,raised rates to an all-time high,further deepening the worldwide depression?

Which of the following groups greatly benefitted from the reforms of the New Deal?

Answer the following questions : -Roosevelt recession

Roosevelt heeded John Maynard Keynes's advice and

Which of the following rendered the international monetary supply inflexible in the Great Depression during the 1930s?

Answer the following questions : -National Association of Manufacturers

Deciding that Roosevelt had not done enough to alleviate suffering,Francis Townsend called for

Why did the New Deal reach a stalemate?

What was the significance of the New Deal?

In 1934,the American Liberty League was organized by

Who were the New Deal's major critics,and what were their alternative programs?

Hoover was hated during the Depression,partially because of the public perception that he

The Emergency Banking Act of 1933

What were the major differences between the approaches of Herbert Hoover and Franklin D.Roosevelt to the crisis of the Depression?

Answer the following questions : -Keynesian economics

Which New Deal program offered tremendous encouragement and support to the labor union movement?

How did President Hoover respond to the economic emergency? Why did he choose the course of action that he did?

What problems in the economy and society of the United States were exposed by the Great Depression?

Answer the following questions : -Smoot-Hawley Tariff

Why did New Deal legislation pass scrutiny by the Supreme Court more easily in Roosevelt's second term?

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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