| just before his election to the presidency in 1931, FDR was | governor of new york |
| The FERA | is correctly represented by all the above statements. |
| The social worker who directed the FERA and then headed the WPA at its creation in 1935 was: | Harry Hopkins |
| the fair practice codes of the NRA did all of the following except | break up large corporations |
| The Agricultural Adjustment Act was ruled unconstitutional: | after it had helped increase farm income by nearly 60 percent from 1932 to 1935. |
| The “sit-down strike” was used successfully in 1937 by: | automobile workers |
| among the objectives of the Tennessee Valley Authority were all the following except: | The development of air transportation |
| Huey Long | was from louisisana |
| In the case of Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States, the Supreme Court: | overturned the National Industrial Recovery Act. |
| The National Labor Relations Act: | was often called the wagner act |
| Which of the following statements about the Social Security Act is not true? | It was based on a progressive tax that took a larger percentage of higher incomes. |
| In the presidential election of 1936: | Republicans hoped that third party action might throw the election to them |
| which of the following groups would have been least likely to support roosevelt in the election of 1936? | wealthy buisinessmen |
| What made the dust storms worse than normal was the transition during the early twentieth century from: | widespread scattered subsistence farming to industrial agriculture. |
| the 1937 economic slump was caused in part by | a sharp decrease in government spending |
| the literary work that best captured the ordeal of the depression was The grapes of wrath by | john steinbeck |
| richard wright | wrote native son, a story of racial prejudice |
| charles e coughlin | was a radio priest and founder of the national union for social justice |
| the fair code practices of the NRA did all of the following except | break up large corporations |
| huey longs program to end the depression | was a plan to share the wealth |
| in early 1937, fdr proposed to reform the supreme court by | adding up to six additional members |
| the fair labor standards act of 1938 | set the minimum wage of forty cents an hour |
| By the end of 1937, which group had coalesced against the New Deal | a bipartisan conservative bloc |
| All of the following is true of the National Youth Administration EXCEPT: | it was the parent organization for the CCC |
| Codes of fair practice were part of: | NRA |
| One third of the “Okies”: | returned to their home states |
| Richard Wright: | wrote Native Son, a story of racial prejudice |
| In the presidential election of 1932: | radical Socialist and Communist party candidates won nearly 1 million votes |
| The Revenue Act of 1935 (sometimes called the Wealth-Tax Act): | raised taxes on incomes above $50,000 |
| The conservative Democratic opposition to the New Deal in the late 1930s: | was heaviest in the South |
| Just before his election to the presidency in 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt was serving as: | governor of New York |
| Huey Long: | developed a program called Share the Wealth |
| The literary work that best captured the ordeal of the Depression was The Grapes of Wrath by: | John Steinbeck |
| The 1937 economic slump was caused in part by: | a sharp decrease in government spending. |
| Charles E. Coughlin: | was the “radio priest” |
| Labor’s new direction in the late 1930s was toward: | industrial unions |
| In the elections of 1938: | Roosevelt’s attempts to purge the Democratic party were largely unsuccessful. |
| In the case of Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States, the Supreme Court: | overturned the National Industrial Recovery Act. |
| In the case of Norris v. Alabama, the Supreme Court: | ruled that the systematic exclusion of blacks from juries denied defendants the equal protection of the law. |
| The Marx Brothers: | produced plot less masterpieces of irreverent satire. |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt: | was permanently crippled after contracting polio. |
| Eleanor Roosevelt: | was especially supportive of women, blacks, and organized labor. |
| All of the following undercut President Roosevelt’s prestige going into the election of 1936 except: | his support of neutrality. |
| Among the objectives of the Tennessee Valley Authority were all the following except: | the development of air transportation. |
| The Dust Bowl can be associated with: | terrible dust storms that plagued a large region. |
| The Farm Security Administration: | offered loans to marginal farmers (so they could avoid falling into tenancy) and to tenant farmers (so they could purchase their own farms). |
| Huey Longs program to end the Depression: | was a plan to share our wealth. |
| In the presidential election of 1936: | Republicans hoped that third-party candidates might split the Democratic vote and throw the election to them. |
| The Indian Reorganization Act: | attempted to reinvigorate traditional Indian cultures. |
| The literary work that best captured the ordeal of the Depression was The Grapes of Wrath by: | John Steinbeck. |
| John Collier… | was the BIA commissioner |
| Whose campaign song was “Happy Days Are Here Again?” | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| The term New Deal comes from: | a speech FDR gave on the campaign trail |
| FDR said that “the only thing we have to fear is: | Fear itself |
| The social worker who headed the WPA at its creation in 1935 was: | Harry Hopkins |
| The goal of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 was to raise farm income mainly through | cutbacks in production. |
| The National Youth Administration provided part time employment to students, it was part of the WPA, it set up technical training programs, and provided Richard Nixon with a job EXCEPT: | it was the parent organization for the CCC. |
| To earn the federal payments for reducing crops: | many landowners took their leased lands out of production. |
| The fair practice codes of the NRA prohibited child labor, established minimum wages of $13 per week, set forty-hour workweek and established $12 per week in the South EXCEPT: | break up large corporations. |
| What organization sought to set workplace standards such as child labor restrictions? | NRA |
| All of the following were among the objectives, the production of cheap electric power, providing jobs, soil conservation and forestry, and opening rivers to boats and barges of TVA EXCEPT: | … |
| Because of the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Tennessee River became: | the “Great Lakes of the South.” |
| During the Depression the U.S. government deported 500,000 Mexican Americans and their American-born children because officials: | wanted to avoid the costs of providing them with public services. |
| He was the California doctor who called for old-age pensions from the government: | Francis Townsend. |
| The National Labor Relations Act: | was often called the Wagner Act. |
| Which of the following statement about the Social Security Act is NOT true? | it was based on a progressive tax that took a larger percentage of higher incomes. |
| The Revenue Act of 1935: | raised taxes on incomes above $50,000. |
| Roosevelt’s court-packing scheme became unnecessary when: | the Supreme Court began reversing previous judgments and upholding the New Deal. |
| The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938: | set a minimum wage of forty cents an hour |
| Who was the economist whose ideas provided a theoretical justification of the New Deal? | John Maynard Keynes |
| In early 1937, FDR proposed to reform the Supreme Court by: | adding up to six additional members |
| Although the New Deal initiatives produced mixed results, they halted the economic downturn and provided the foundation for a system of federal social welfare programs. | True |
| Early in his presidency, Roosevelt ended Prohibition. | True |
| By executive decree, Roosevelt organized all farm credit agencies into the Farm Credit Administration. | true |
| The CCC addressed the problem of overcharging by doctors and others in the medical and health professions. | false |
| The AAA required farmers to donate surplus crops and livestock to feed the poor. | FAlse |
| The American Liberty League opposed New Deal measures as violations of personal and property rights. | True |
| The Wagner Act helped dramatically boost union membership. | True |
| FDR called the Social Security Act the most significant achievement of the New Deal. | True |
| By the end of the 1930s, FDR’s New Deal had pushed the country a large way toward socialism. | FAlse |
| Despite the New Deal, full recovery from the Depression did not come until the crisis of World War II. | false |
| In 1932, what was the percentage of Americans unemployed? | 25 |
| In 1933, President Roosevelt confronted all the following major challenges EXCEPT: | defending the country against communism |
| On his second day in office, Franklin D. Roosevelt called upon Congress to meet in a special session on March 9 to pass the: | Emergency Banking Relief Act |
| The first large-scale experiment with federal work relief, which put people directly on the government payroll at competitive wages, came with the formation of the: | Civil Works Administration |
| The main purpose of the Civilian Conservation Corps was to: | provide work relief for young men |
| The goal of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 was to raise farm income mainly through: | cutbacks in production |
| The literary work that best captured the ordeal of the Depression was The Grapes of Wrath by: | John Steinbeck |
| The head the National Recovery Administration (NRA) was: | Hugh Johnson |
| What organization sought to set workplace standards, such as child labor restrictions? | NRA |
| Codes of fair practice were part of: | NRA |
| TVA as a multipurpose public corporation included all the following states EXCEPT: | Louisiana |
| The dust bowl can be associated with: | the blowing away of millions of acres of topsoil |
| Frequently lumped together as “Okies” or “Arkies”: | most of the dust bowl refugees were from cotton belt communities |
| During the Depression, the U.S. government deported five hundred thousand Mexican Americans and their American-born children because officials: | wanted to avoid the costs of providing them with public services |
| Who directed the Bureau of Indian Affairs during the New Deal? | John Collier |
| The Indian Reorganization Act: | attempted to reinvigorate traditional Indian cultures |
| Eleanor Roosevelt: | was especially supportive of women, blacks, and organized labor |
| Who is known as “Kingfish”? | Huey Long |
| Huey Long: | developed a program called Share the Wealth |
| Huey Long’s program to end the Depression: | was a plan to share the wealth |
| Charles E. Coughlin: | was the “radio priest” |
| The National Labor Relations Act: | was often called the Wagner Act |
| In the presidential election of 1936: | Republicans hoped that third-party candidates might split the Democratic vote and throw the election to them |
| In the 1936 election, Roosevelt wound up carrying every state except: | Maine and Vermont |
| Which is true of the 1936 presidential election? | FDR defeated Alfred M. Landon in a landslide. |
| Roosevelt’s court-packing scheme became unnecessary when: | the Supreme Court began reversing previous judgments and upholding the New Deal |
| Labor’s new direction in the late 1930s was toward: | industrial unions |
| The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938: | set a minimum wage of 40¢ an hour |
| By the end of 1937, which group had coalesced against the New Deal? | a bipartisan conservative bloc |
| The conservative Democratic opposition to the New Deal in the late 1930s: | was heaviest in the South |
| was the BIA commissioner | John Collier |
| as a law student found work through the WPA | Richard Nixon |
| was the Republican presidential candidate in 1932 | Herbert Hoover |
| cringed at the thought of Roosevelt running for a fourth term | Ellison D. “Cotton Ed” Smith |
| was director of an NYA program | Lyndon Johnson |
| was the Republican presidential candidate in 1936 | Alfred M. Landon |
| was a CIO leader | John L. Lewis |
| was a “radio priest” | Charles E. Coughlin |
| proposed the Share-the-Wealth program | Huey Long |
| proposed to pay $200 a month to those over sixty years old who retired and promised to spend the money | Francis E. Townsend |
| The first large-scale experiment with federal work relief, which put people directly on the government payroll at competitive wages, came with the formation of the | Civil Works Administration |
| The main purpose of the Civilian Conservation Corps was to | provide work relief for young men |
| In the case of Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States, the Supreme Court | overturned the National Industrial Recovery Act |
| The Revenue Act of 1935 (sometimes called the Wealth-Tax Act) | raised taxes on incomes above $50,000 |
| On March 12, in the first of his radio-broadcast “fireside chats,” the president | assured the 60 million Americans listening that it was safer to “keep your money in a reopened bank than under the mattress” |
| TVA as a multipurpose public corporation included all the following states EXCEPT | Louisiana |
| To earn the federal payments for reducing crops | many landowners took their leased lands out of production |
| In 1932, what was the percentage of Americans unemployed | 25 |
| Which of the following statements about the Social Security Act is NOT true | It was based on a progressive tax that took a larger percentage of higher incomes. |
| Because of the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Tennessee River became: | the “Great Lakes of the South” |
| Who was the California doctor who called for old-age pensions from the government? | Francis Townsend |
| In 1933, President Roosevelt confronted all the following major challenges EXCEPT | defending the country against communism |
| The National Labor Relations Act | was often called the Wagner Act |
| During the Depression, the U.S. government deported five hundred thousand Mexican Americans and their American-born children because officials: | wanted to avoid the costs of providing them with public services |
| In early 1937 FDR proposed to reform the Supreme Court by: | adding up to six additional members |
| The head the National Recovery Administration (NRA) was: | Hugh Johnson |
| All of the following statements are true of the National Youth Administration EXCEPT: | it was the parent organization for the CCC |
| Roosevelt’s court-packing scheme became unnecessary when: | the Supreme Court began reversing previous judgments and upholding the New Deal |
| Which of the following refused to apply for a Social Security card? | Herbert Hoover |
| The Indian Reorganization Act: | attempted to reinvigorate traditional Indian cultures |
| Overall, the New Deal’s record for improving conditions for African Americans was | D.mixed, because all the preceding statements are accurate. |
| During the 1932 presidential campaign, the Republican and Democratic candidates both promised generally to balanced the budget | TRUE |
| The Twentieth Amendment moved the presidential inauguration date from March to January | TRUE |
| The HGLC addressed the problem of overcharging by doctors and others in the medical and health professions | FALSe |
| The main idea of the cartoon is that the New Deal | A. Threatens the constitution and the American people |
| Keynesianism involves reducing government spending in times of severe unemployment | FALSE |
| In 1939, seventeen percent of the nations labor force was still out of work | TRUE |
| At the end of the Hoover administration, four out of every five american banks were closed | TRUE |
| Eleanor Roosevely helped the president by | C. taking political risks he could not take, as well as by being the conscience of administration |
| The goal of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 was to raise from income mainly through: | A. Cutbacks in production |
| Which effect accurately complete the flow chart? | C. Consumer demand falls because of there is less money to spend |
| “Okies” were people who traveled west to escape the effects of the Dust Bowl or because they had been driven off the land by New Deal benefit programs | TRUE |
| The fair Labor Standards Act forbade racial discrimination in hiring | FALSE |
| What was the most likely cause of the election results shown on the map | A. Most voters blamed Presedent Hoover for the Great Depression |
| The Federal Emergenct Relief Administration | D. is correctly represented by all the above statements |
| Roosevelt’s court-packing scheme became unnessary when: | the Supreme Court began reversing precious judgements and upholding the New Deal |
| Based upon your understanding of the New Deal, which of the following programs would have immediatly and directly aided the letter writer’s family spending power | WPA |
| Most allied countries defaulted on their war debts to the United States during the Great Depression | TRUE |
| American Isolationism reached its peak late in 1941 | FALSE |
| The photograph shows a female factory worker during WWII. It demonstrates the during the war, many women | C. achieved economic equality in the workplace |
| The united state’s declaration of war in 1941 passes the Congress unanimously | FALSE |
| The Lansing-Ishii Agreement | C. Acknowledged that Japan had “special interests” in China |
| The National Socialist party was | A. Led by Adolph Hitler |
| According to the passage above | D. Japan signed a mutual military pact in which it agreed to declare war on any country that attacked Italy, or Germany |
| In the presidential election of 1940, both candidated supported all-out aid to Great Britain | TRUE |
| The Neutrality Act of 1939 | C. Kept U.S. shops from war zones but approved cash-and-carry trade even for arms |
| Germany took priority in the fighting because | D. All the above |
| According to this exerpt from the New York TImes (03/24/1935) and your lecture notes Nye Committee, investigations seemed to prove that | C. The United States entered WWI to permit the munitions manufacturers to make greater profits. |
| In the 1938 agreement signed at Munich: | B. Britain and France agreed to let Hitler have Sudetenland |
| Both Britain and France went to war | C. when Hitler invaded Poland |
| Which conclusion can be reached about the scientists who signed the document | D. They thought having the atomic bomb would prevent future wars. |
| The date President Roosevelt refers to in this quote, the bombing of Pearl Harbor is | B. December 7, 1941 |
| The Atlantic Charter included all of the following principles except: | C.The elimination of communism |
| Black AMerican soldiers usually served in segregated units in WWII | TRUE |
| By the end of WWII, over six million women had entered the workforce | TRUE |
| The U.S military used Native Americans as “Code Talkers” during WWII | TRUE |
| Some six million Jews were killed in the Nazi Holocaust: | TRUE |
| Based on the exerpt above and your understanding of the WWII era, President Franklin Roosevelt argues that the United Stated needed to abandon its foreign policy of | D.Isolationism |
| The Battle of Midway | A. was the turning point of the war in the Pacific |
| The purpose of the War Production Board was to: | A. direct industrial conversion to war production |
| The Office of Price Administration | C. Rationed tires, sugar, coffee, gasoline, and other items |
| The bracero program | D. brought some 200,000 Mexican farm workers into the western United States |
| Operation “Overlord” was the | B. D-Day invasion at Normandy |
| The Battle of Okinawa | B. was most significant for wearing down the remaining Japanese defenses. |
| What Role did the American scientific community have in WWII | C. Scientists participated actively in developing new weapons, chemicals, medicines, and medical techniques that would advance the fight against the Axis powers |
| Which of the following is not true regarding the government’s management of public opinion during WWII | A. Publishers and broadcasts were allowed to say and report whatever they thought would be in the best interest of the public and the war effort |
| Which area designated on the map above shows where the United States military was attacked in December 7, 1941 | A. I |
| “Nisei” were Americans of Japanese descent | TRUE |
| Based on the chart, the camp with the largest peak population was | B. Tule Lake, California |
| At the Yalta Conference, Stalin agreed on all the following except | D. Withdrawal of all troops from Eastern Europe as soon as the war was over. |
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