An Assessment of the New Deal (9)

Question 1

What is a recession?

Answer 1

A temporary downturn during which trade and industrial activity are reduced; not as serious as a depression because it lasts for a shorter period.

Question 2

How did the New Deal restore the economy? (4)

Answer 2

• Confidence returned
• Prices stabilized
• The banking system was reformed
• Unemployment was reduced

Question 3

What happened in 1937?

Answer 3

A recession and unemployment rose again.

Question 4

Why did the recession happen?

Answer 4

The government cut back spending on projects because it thought that the problems of the economy had been solved.

Question 5

How was the unemployment problem solved?

Answer 5

However, the economy remained fragile and the unemployment problem was only solved by the outbreak of WW2.

Question 6

What did the success of the New Deal strengthen?

Answer 6

Confidence in democracy, at a time when democracy was under threat in other parts of the world as a result of the Depression.

Question 7

Give an example of one of the long term benefits of the New Deal.

Answer 7

The building of dams

Question 8

What goverment principle overturned the Republican belief that the government had no role to play in rpoviding for the unemployed the old or sick?

Answer 8

The principle of the government’s responsibility for the welfare of its citizens was accepted for the first time in America.

Question 9

The implementation of the New Deal strengthened the position of the ____ and gave increased powers to the Federal (_____) Government. Some were critical of this, saying that it undermined the_____.

Answer 9

President
National
Constitution

Question 10

Which groups did not really benefit much from the New deal? (6)

Answer 10

• Tenant farmers
• Sharecroppers
• Migrant workers
• African Americans
• Native Americans
• Status of Women