Chapter 24

Question 1

Agency provided funds to banks and insurance

Answer 1

Reconstruction finance Corporation

Question 2

Measures to provide short-term economic relief, industrial recovery, and agricultural recovery; unprecedented level of government intervention in the economy

Answer 2

The new deal

Question 3

First 100 days of roosevelt’s term, marked by swift actions

Answer 3

The Hundred Days

Question 4

New deal programs that put people to work on government- funded infrastructurwe projects

Answer 4

Civilian Conservation Corps(CCC), Public works Administration(PWA) & Tennesse Valley Authority (TVA)

Question 5

created pension programs and unemployment insurance

Answer 5

Social Secuirty Act

Question 6

Depression-era growth of democratic party base to include midwestern farmer and blacks

Answer 6

New Democratic Coalition

Question 7

Created minimum wage, 40 hour work week, banned child labor

Answer 7

Fair labor standard act

Question 8

Drought and dust storms that forced 3.5 million people off the great plains

Answer 8

Dust bowl

Question 9

Yankton Dakota Sioux leader on Native American policy reforms

Answer 9

Zitkala-sa

Question 10

1930s era of high-attendance at movies to find escape fromn depression- era realities; color films at the end of the 1930s.

Answer 10

Hollywood’s golden age

Question 11

Who did little to combat the deepening economic depression?

Answer 11

Hoover

Question 12

Roosevelt’s first hundred days focused on what?

Answer 12

Putting people back to work through large-scale infrastructure projects.

Question 13

What was largely popular and even drew some traditionally republican voters into a new democratic coalition?

Answer 13

New deal

Question 14

The new deal made who responsible for social welfare programs going forward.

Answer 14

Federal government

Question 15

True or false: the dust bowl forced millions to stay on the Great Plains, while Great Plains Indians advocated for new reforms.

Answer 15

False. Millions were forced off.