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Chapter 28
New Deal America
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07/29/2013
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John Collier...
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was the BIA commissioner.
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Richard Nixon...
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as a law student found work through the WPA.
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Herbert Hoover...
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was the Republican presidential candidate in 1932.
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Harry L. Hopkins...
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headed the FERA and the WPA.
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Lyndon Johnson...
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was director of an NYA program.
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Alfred M. Landon...
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was the Republican presidential candidate in 1936.
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John L. Lewis...
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was a CIO leader.
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Charles E. Coughlin...
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was a "radio priest"
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Huey Long...
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proposed the Share-the-Wealth program.
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Francis E. Townsend...
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proposed to pay $200 a month to those over 60 who retired and promised to spend the money.
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T/F: During the 1932 presidential campaign, the Republican and Democratic candidates both promised generally to balance the budget.
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True
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T/F:The Twentieth Amendment moved the presidential inauguration date from March to January.
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True
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T/F: Early in his presidency, Roosevelt carried through on his promise to end Prohibition.
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True
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T/F:The CCC addressed the problem of overcharging by doctors and others in the medical and health professions.
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False
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T/F:The AAA required farmers to donate surplus crops and livestock to feed the poor.
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False
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T/F: John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath told of Wall Street businessmen brought to their knees after Black Tuesday.
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False
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T/F: By 1935 the NRA had become unpopular.
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True
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T/F: FDR made black civil rights a major priority, ordering that New Deal programs not practice racial discrimination.
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False
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T/F: Eleanor Roosevelt was a shy person who shunned attention, but she did much work behind the scenes to raise support for her husband's New Deal.
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False
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T/F: The American Liberty League opposed New Deal measures as violations of personal and property rights.
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True
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T/F: The Wagner Act helped dramatically boost union membership.
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True
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T/F: FDR called the Social Security Act the most significant achievement of the New Deal.
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True
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T/F: The Fair Labor Standards Act forbade racial discrimination in hiring.
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False
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T/F: Despite the New Deal, full recovery from the Depression did not come until the crisis of World War II.
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True
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T/F: By the end of the 1930s, FDR's New Deal had pushed the country a large way toward socialism.
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False
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Franklin D. Roosevelt:
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was permanently disabled after contracting polio.
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Whose campaign song was "Happy Days Are Here Again?"
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Just before his election to the presidency in 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt was serving as:
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governor of New York
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The term New Deal comes from:
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a speech FDR gave on the campaign trail
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In the presidential election of 1932:
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radical Socialist and Communist party candidates won nearly 1 million votes.
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FDR said that "the only thing we have to fear is:
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fear itself"
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The social worker who headed the WPA at its creation in 1935 was:
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Harry Hopkins
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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:
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it was the parent organization for the CCC
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The goal of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 was to raise farm income mainly through:
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cutbacks in production.
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To earn the federal payments for reducing crops:
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many landowners took their leased lands out of production.
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What organization sought to set workplace standards such as child labor restrictions?
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NRA
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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:
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break up large corporations.
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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:
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the development of Smoky Mountain National Park.
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Because of the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Tennessee River became:
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the "Great Lakes of the South."
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The dust bowl can be associated with:
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the blowing away of millions of acres of topsoil.
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One third of the "Okies":
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returned to their home states.
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During the Depression the U.S. government deported 500,000 Mexican Americans and their American-born children because officials:
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wanted to avoid the costs of providing them with public services.
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The Indian Reorganization Act:
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attempted to reinvigorate traditional Indian cultures.
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The literary work that best captured the ordeal of the Depression was The Grapes of Wrath by:
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John Steinbeck
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Richard Wright:
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wrote Native Son, a story of racial prejudice.
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The Marx Brothers:
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produced plot less masterpieces of irreverent satire.
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Eleanor Roosevelt:
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was especially supportive of women, blacks, and organized labor.
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Huey Long:
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developed a program called Share the Wealth.
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Charles E. Coughlin:
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was the "radio priest'
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He was the California doctor who called for old-age pensions from the government:
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Francis Townsend.
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In the case of Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States, the Supreme Court:
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overturned the National Industrial Recovery Act.
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The National Labor Relations Act:
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was often called the Wagner Act.
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Which of the following statement about the Social Security Act is NOT true?
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it was based on a progressive tax that took a larger percentage of higher incomes.
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The Revenue Act of 1935:
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raised taxes on incomes above $50,000.
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In the presidential election of 1936:
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Republicans hoped that third-party candidates might split the Democratic vote and throw the election to them.
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Roosevelt's court-packing scheme became unnecessary when:
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the Supreme Court began reversing previous judgments and upholding the New Deal.
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The 1937 economic slump was caused in part by:
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a sharp decrease in government spending.
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Labor's new direction in the late 1930s toward:
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industrial unions
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The Farm Security Administration:
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offered loans to marginal farmers (so they could avoid failing into tenancy) and to tenant farmers (so they could purchase their own farms).
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The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938:
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set a minimum wage of forty cents an hour
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The conservative Democratic opposition to the New Deal in the late 1930s:
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was heaviest in the South
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In the elections of 1938:
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Roosevelt's attempts to "purge" the Democratic party were largely unsuccessful
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