Chapter 21 Quiz

Question 1

The effort undertaken on the part of the federal government to build dams to supply cheap electrical power for homes and factories in a seven-state region and to prevent flooding was called the

Answer 1

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA).

Question 2

In March 1933, Congress established the federal government as a direct employer of the unemployed when it authorized the hiring of young men to work on projects to improve national parks, forests, and flood control, called the

Answer 2

Civilian Conservation Corps.

Question 3

The emphasis of the Second New Deal was on

Answer 3

economic security, in an effort to protect Americans against poverty and unemployment.

Question 4

Franklin Roosevelt appointed who, a prominent educator, as special adviser on minority affairs?

Answer 4

Mary McLeod Bethune

Question 5

Which of the following was not a contributing factor in the winding down of New Deal reform by the late 1930s?

Answer 5

a belief that the New Deal, having vanquished the Great Depression, was no longer necessary

Question 6

Which was not created by the Social Security Act of 1935, which launched the American welfare state?

Answer 6

a system of unemployment insurance

Question 7

Which of the following series of events is listed in proper sequence?

Answer 7

National Industrial Recovery Act; labor upheaval of 1934; Wagner Act; Flint sit-down strike

Question 8

Who was not a member of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s “brains trust” at the outset of his presidency?

Answer 8

Andrew Mellon

Question 9

The initial flurry of legislation during Roosevelt’s first three months in office is called the

Answer 9

“Hundred Days.”

Question 10

The Civil Works Administration (CWA), employed more than 4 million persons in

Answer 10

the construction of tunnels, highways, courthouses, and airports.

Question 11

Which of the following was not a significant motivation behind the New Deal?

Answer 11

reviving America’s commitment to family values at a time when they seemed to be in decline

Question 12

A major slogan of popular protest during the 1930s was

Answer 12

“Don’t buy where you can’t work.”

Question 13

Conservative critics of the New Deal regularly argued that

Answer 13

a. the expansion of federal power posed a threat to American liberty.
b. New Deal relief programs undermined individual self-reliance.
c. excessive spending and regulation by Washington hurt the nation’s economic prospects.

Question 14

Which of the following was not a key factor in Franklin Roosevelt’s landslide victory over Herbert Hoover in 1932?

Answer 14

Voters were impressed by the elaborate blueprints for Roosevelt’s New Deal program.

Question 15

Which of the following was not a key thrust of the Second New Deal?

Answer 15

guaranteed health care for every American citizen

Question 16

Which of the following was not a theme of Popular Front radicalism?

Answer 16

The denial of civil liberties must be challenged wherever it arises—from capitalist America to communist Russia.

Question 17

Which is not true of Franklin D. Roosevelt?

Answer 17

He served as governor of Massachusetts in the 1920s.

Question 18

At a time of widespread hunger in the United States, the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) did all of the following EXCEPT

Answer 18

ordered a vast expansion in the production of cotton, wheat, barley, and corn across the Midwest in an effort to stave off hunger and starvation.

Question 19

In the mid-1930s, unions of industrial workers, led by John L. Lewis, founded a new labor organization, called the

Answer 19

Congress of Industrial Organizations.

Question 20

Which was not one of the “voices of protest” heard in the United States during the mid-1930s?

Answer 20

Mary Lease’s “raise less corn, and more hell” movement

Question 21

Which was not created by the Social Security Act of 1935, which launched the American welfare state?

Answer 21

minimum wage and child labor laws

Question 22

Who was the author of The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, who asserted that large-scale government deficit-spending was appropriate during economic downturns?

Answer 22

John Maynard Keynes

Question 23

The House of Representatives’ Un-American Activities Committee, established in 1938, set out to investigate disloyalty with an expansive definition of “un-American” that included all of the following groups EXCEPT

Answer 23

the right wing of the Republican Party.