Question 1

What have been the long-term legacies of the New Deal? What major historical assessments have been made of it?

Accepted Answer

The New Deal, implemented by President F

Question 2

The principal government aid to women was not work relief,but cash assistance.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

The Economy Act of 1933

Accepted Answer

A)  proposed to balance the federal budget and cut government workers' salaries. 
B)  ordered all federal agencies to cut their workforce by ten percent. 
C)  gave immediate pensions to retired war veterans. 
D)  provided an infusion of cash into the economy. 
E)  gave the government authority to curb irresponsible speculation by banks. 
A)  proposed to balance the federal budget and cut government workers' salaries. 
B)  ordered all federal agencies to cut their workforce by ten percent. 
C)  gave immediate pensions to retired war veterans. 
D)  provided an infusion of cash into the economy. 
E)  gave the government authority to curb irresponsible speculation by banks.

Question 4

The New Deal was not hostile to black Americans,but it did not give the issue of race a high priority.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

In 1933,two days after he took office,President Franklin Roosevelt

Accepted Answer

A)  took the country off the gold standard. 
B)  ended prohibition. 
C)  sent the National Industrial Recovery Act to Congress. 
D)  presented to Congress a relief plan for the unemployed. 
E)  closed all banks for a short period. 
A)  took the country off the gold standard. 
B)  ended prohibition. 
C)  sent the National Industrial Recovery Act to Congress. 
D)  presented to Congress a relief plan for the unemployed. 
E)  closed all banks for a short period.

Question 6

The most influential advocate for African Americans in the Roosevelt administration was

Accepted Answer

A)  Frances Perkins. 
B)  Harold Ickes. 
C)  Harry Hopkins. 
D)  Eleanor Roosevelt. 
E)  Mary McLeod Bethune. 
A)  Frances Perkins. 
B)  Harold Ickes. 
C)  Harry Hopkins. 
D)  Eleanor Roosevelt. 
E)  Mary McLeod Bethune.

What have been the long-term legacies of the New Deal? What major historical assessments have been made of it?

The principal government aid to women was not work relief,but cash assistance.

The Economy Act of 1933

The New Deal was not hostile to black Americans,but it did not give the issue of race a high priority.

In 1933,two days after he took office,President Franklin Roosevelt

The most influential advocate for African Americans in the Roosevelt administration was

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Exam 24: The New Deal

What have been the long-term legacies of the New Deal? What major historical assessments have been made of it?

The principal government aid to women was not work relief,but cash assistance.

The Economy Act of 1933

The New Deal was not hostile to black Americans,but it did not give the issue of race a high priority.

In 1933,two days after he took office,President Franklin Roosevelt

The most influential advocate for African Americans in the Roosevelt administration was

The Collision of Cultures

Transplantations and Borderlands

Society and Culture in Provincial America

The Empire in Transition

The American Revolution

The Constitution and the New Republic

The Jeffersonian Era

Varieties of American Nationalism

Jacksonian America

America’s Economic Revolution

Cotton, Slavery, and the Old South

Antebellum Culture and Reform

The Impending Crisis

The Civil War

Reconstruction and the New South

The Conquest of the Far West

Industrial Supremacy

The Age of the City

From Crisis to Empire

The Progressives

America and the Great War

The “New Era”

The Great Depression

The Global Crisis, 1921–1941

America in a World at War

The Cold War

The Affluent Society

Civil Rights, Vietnam, and the Ordeal of Liberalism

The Crisis of Authority

From the “Age of Limits” to the Age of Reagan

The Age of Globalization

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