Question 1

The largest New Deal project in the West was the construction of the

Accepted Answer

A)  Hoover Dam. 
B)  Blue Ridge Parkway. 
C)  Grand Coulee Dam. 
D)  canals of San Antonio. 
A)  Hoover Dam. 
B)  Blue Ridge Parkway. 
C)  Grand Coulee Dam. 
D)  canals of San Antonio.

Question 2

The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)

Accepted Answer

A)  required new,higher income taxes on wealthy businesspeople. 
B)  increased farm production to aid the hungry. 
C)  froze the prices of farm products. 
D)  provided federal subsidies to farmers who cut farm production. 
A)  required new,higher income taxes on wealthy businesspeople. 
B)  increased farm production to aid the hungry. 
C)  froze the prices of farm products. 
D)  provided federal subsidies to farmers who cut farm production.

Question 3

For the following question,refer to the following photograph of a United Auto Workers strike in Flint,Michigan,on January 9,1937.   The activities depicted in the photograph above best serve as evidence of

Accepted Answer

A)  the New Deal's inability to overcome the Depression. 
B)  the migrations of Americans during the Great Depression. 
C)  political and social organizations struggling to address the effects of industrialization and economic uncertainty. 
D)  the use of government power to provide relief to the poor and reform the American economy. 
A)  the New Deal's inability to overcome the Depression. 
B)  the migrations of Americans during the Great Depression. 
C)  political and social organizations struggling to address the effects of industrialization and economic uncertainty. 
D)  the use of government power to provide relief to the poor and reform the American economy.

Question 4

Answer the following  questions :
-Liberty League

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 5

Answer the following  questions :
-Hundred Days

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 6

Answer the following  questions :
-Civilian Conservation Corps

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

What was the impact of the New Deal on organized labor,women,and racial and ethnic minorities? How would you explain its success and failures in reaching these groups?

Accepted Answer

The New Deal implemented the Indian Reor

Question 8

Which of the following American philosophies influenced Herbert Hoover's initial response to the economic downturn in the early 1930s?

Accepted Answer

A)  Government should provide an economic safety net for the poorest of Americans. 
B)  Businesses have a responsibility to take care of the needs of their loyal workers. 
C)  The market is self-regulating and government should not intervene during a downturn. 
D)  The legislative branch,not the executive branch,should take responsibility for the economy. 
A)  Government should provide an economic safety net for the poorest of Americans. 
B)  Businesses have a responsibility to take care of the needs of their loyal workers. 
C)  The market is self-regulating and government should not intervene during a downturn. 
D)  The legislative branch,not the executive branch,should take responsibility for the economy.

Question 9

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Accepted Answer

A)  provided labor for the Tennessee Valley Authority's (TVA's)projects. 
B)  displaced as many as two hundred thousand black tenant farmers from their land. 
C)  hired 250,000 young men to perform reforestation and conservation work. 
D)  enlisted equal numbers of young men and young women for its projects. 
A)  provided labor for the Tennessee Valley Authority's (TVA's)projects. 
B)  displaced as many as two hundred thousand black tenant farmers from their land. 
C)  hired 250,000 young men to perform reforestation and conservation work. 
D)  enlisted equal numbers of young men and young women for its projects.

Question 10

Answer the following  questions :
-National Recovery 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 11

Which of the following was enacted by Democrats in order to disable Francis Townsend's support?

Accepted Answer

A)  Job creation programs 
B)  The Good Neighbor Policy 
C)  Creation of the Social Security Administration 
D)  Implementation of Keynesian economic policies 
A)  Job creation programs 
B)  The Good Neighbor Policy 
C)  Creation of the Social Security Administration 
D)  Implementation of Keynesian economic policies

Question 12

In the Bonus Army incident in Washington,D.C. ,in 1932,federal troops

Accepted Answer

A)  joined in sympathy with the gathered World War I veterans. 
B)  arrested the demonstrators who burned their bonus checks to protest Hoover's inaction. 
C)  beat the veterans who rioted and tried to march on the White House property. 
D)  forcefully evicted the assembled veterans and burned their encampment. 
A)  joined in sympathy with the gathered World War I veterans. 
B)  arrested the demonstrators who burned their bonus checks to protest Hoover's inaction. 
C)  beat the veterans who rioted and tried to march on the White House property. 
D)  forcefully evicted the assembled veterans and burned their encampment.

Question 13

President Roosevelt differed from President Hoover because of

Accepted Answer

A)  his commitment to maintaining the nation's basic institutions. 
B)  his belief in the basic morality of a balanced budget. 
C)  a belief in the value of hard work,cooperation,and sacrifice. 
D)  his personal charisma and willingness to experiment. 
A)  his commitment to maintaining the nation's basic institutions. 
B)  his belief in the basic morality of a balanced budget. 
C)  a belief in the value of hard work,cooperation,and sacrifice. 
D)  his personal charisma and willingness to experiment.

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

The largest New Deal project in the West was the construction of the

The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)

For the following question,refer to the following photograph of a United Auto Workers strike in Flint,Michigan,on January 9,1937. The activities depicted in the photograph above best serve as evidence of

Answer the following questions : -Liberty League

Answer the following questions : -Hundred Days

Answer the following questions : -Civilian Conservation Corps

What was the impact of the New Deal on organized labor,women,and racial and ethnic minorities? How would you explain its success and failures in reaching these groups?

Which of the following American philosophies influenced Herbert Hoover's initial response to the economic downturn in the early 1930s?

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Answer the following questions : -National Recovery Administration

Which of the following was enacted by Democrats in order to disable Francis Townsend's support?

In the Bonus Army incident in Washington,D.C. ,in 1932,federal troops

President Roosevelt differed from President Hoover because of

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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