Question 1

Identify and state the historical significance of the Glass-Steagall Act.

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Question 2

The American Social Security System, established by the New Deal, differed from most European social welfare systems primarily because it

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A)  was opposed by large sectors of the public. 
B)  did not permit the Social Security number to be used for identification and security purposes. 
C)  did not address the issue of single mothers in the home with dependent children. 
D)  linked unemployment and disability insurance to old age pensions. 
E)  did not initially cover all categories of workers.

Question 3

How revolutionary and radical was the New Deal? Did the New Deal reform free market capitalism in substantial ways? Evaluate the significant changes that it wrought, and determine how different the nation became politically, economically, and socially because of it.

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Question 4

The New Deal program of the following agency represented the most economically complex, managerially ambitious, and unsuccessful New Deal effort to achieve recovery and reform the entire American economy.

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A)  Public Works Administration 
B)  National Recovery Administration 
C)  Tennessee Valley Authority 
D)  National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act) 
E)  Social Security Administration

Question 5

What role did women play in the government and intellectual life of the 1930s? How did the interests and concerns of women in this period differ from those of the 1920s (see Chapter 30, American Life in the "Roaring Twenties," 1920-1929)?

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Question 6

What was the greatest threat to the stability of American society in the 1930s? Was there ever any serious threat that the United States could have turned away from democracy as many other nations did during the Depression?

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Question 7

Had you lived at the time, do you think you would have been pro- or anti-Roosevelt? Why? Cite specific actions of President Roosevelt and the New Dealers to illustrate your position.

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Question 8

The Wagner Act of 1935 proved to be a trailblazing law that

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A)  gave labor the legal right to organize and bargain collectively. 
B)  established the NRA. 
C)  established the Social Security system. 
D)  authorized the Public Works Administration (PW
A) . 
E)  established a national minimum wage law.

Question 9

The phrase Hundred Days refers to the

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A)  worst months of the Great Depression. 
B)  time it took for Congress to begin acting on President Roosevelt's plans for combating the Great Depression. 
C)  flood of legislation passed by Congress in the first months of Franklin Roosevelt's presidency. 
D)  "lame-duck" period between Franklin Roosevelt's election and his inauguration. 
E)  time that all banks were closed by FDR.

Question 10

Identify and state the historical significance of the Brain Trust.

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Question 11

While Franklin Roosevelt waited to assume the presidency in early 1933, Herbert Hoover unsuccessfully tried to get the President-elect to commit to

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A)  maintaining a balanced federal budget. 
B)  renewal of the extremely high Hawley-Smoot Tariff. 
C)  an anti-inflationary policy that would have made much of the New Deal impossible. 
D)  appointing some Republicans to his cabinet. 
E)  a policy of not offering direct welfare to the unemployed.

Question 12

When Franklin Roosevelt assumed the presidency in March 1933

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A)  Congress refused to grant him any legislative authority. 
B)  he knew exactly what he wanted to do. 
C)  he received unprecedented congressional support. 
D)  he rejected a pragmatic approach to governing the country. 
E)  he at first proceeded cautiously.

Question 13

Identify and state the historical significance of the Works Progress Administration.

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Question 14

The early New Deal experiments borrowed rather freely and randomly from

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A)  Marxism, Leninism, and European socialism. 
B)  the principles of early 20th-century laissez-faire economists such as Freidrich Hayek. 
C)  Mussolini's fascism and Hitler's Nazism. 
D)  U.S. wartime and pre-war agencies and European social reform models. 
E)  the late nineteenth-century utopian literature of Henry George, Edward Bellamy, and Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

Question 15

Identify and state the historical significance of George W. Norris.

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Question 16

____ contributed the most to Franklin Roosevelt's development of compassion and strength of will.

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A)  Education 
B)  Domestic conflicts with Eleanor Roosevelt 
C)  Family ties with Teddy Roosevelt 
D)  Affliction with infantile paralysis 
E)  Service in World War I

Question 17

Probably the most radically economic New Deal program that provoked widespread charges of creeping socialism by Republican and conservative critics of President Roosevelt's administration was the

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A)  Indian Reorganization Act. 
B)  Social Security Act. 
C)  Agricultural Adjustment Act. 
D)  Federal Housing Administration. 
E)  Tennessee Valley Authority.

Question 18

Eleanor Roosevelt had honed her own skills and developed a personal network of reform activists through

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A)  running for local offices in New York State. 
B)  her experience in settlement houses and women's reform organizations. 
C)  her long resistance to Franklin Roosevelt's personal infidelities. 
D)  her personal association with women's colleges and sororities. 
E)  sitting in on Franklin Roosevelt's cabinet meetings when he was governor of New York.

Question 19

Identify and state the historical significance of the Public Works Administration.

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Question 20

The Social Security Act of 1935 provided all of the following EXCEPT

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A)  unemployment insurance. 
B)  old-age pensions. 
C)  economic provisions for the blind and disabled. 
D)  support for the blind and physically handicapped. 
E)  health care for the poor.

Exam 31: The Great Depression and the New Deal

Identify and state the historical significance of the Glass-Steagall Act.

The American Social Security System, established by the New Deal, differed from most European social welfare systems primarily because it

How revolutionary and radical was the New Deal? Did the New Deal reform free market capitalism in substantial ways? Evaluate the significant changes that it wrought, and determine how different the nation became politically, economically, and socially because of it.

The New Deal program of the following agency represented the most economically complex, managerially ambitious, and unsuccessful New Deal effort to achieve recovery and reform the entire American economy.

What role did women play in the government and intellectual life of the 1930s? How did the interests and concerns of women in this period differ from those of the 1920s (see Chapter 30, American Life in the "Roaring Twenties," 1920-1929)?

What was the greatest threat to the stability of American society in the 1930s? Was there ever any serious threat that the United States could have turned away from democracy as many other nations did during the Depression?

Had you lived at the time, do you think you would have been pro- or anti-Roosevelt? Why? Cite specific actions of President Roosevelt and the New Dealers to illustrate your position.

The Wagner Act of 1935 proved to be a trailblazing law that

The phrase Hundred Days refers to the

Identify and state the historical significance of the Brain Trust.

While Franklin Roosevelt waited to assume the presidency in early 1933, Herbert Hoover unsuccessfully tried to get the President-elect to commit to

When Franklin Roosevelt assumed the presidency in March 1933

Identify and state the historical significance of the Works Progress Administration.

The early New Deal experiments borrowed rather freely and randomly from

Identify and state the historical significance of George W. Norris.

____ contributed the most to Franklin Roosevelt's development of compassion and strength of will.

Probably the most radically economic New Deal program that provoked widespread charges of creeping socialism by Republican and conservative critics of President Roosevelt's administration was the

Eleanor Roosevelt had honed her own skills and developed a personal network of reform activists through

Identify and state the historical significance of the Public Works Administration.

The Social Security Act of 1935 provided all of the following EXCEPT