Oh No I Have To Take The Test Again!!!

Question 1

When did Hitler come into power?

Answer 1

1932

Question 2

When did the Great Depression start?

Answer 2

1929

Question 3

Who was blamed for the Depression?

Answer 3

Herbert Hoover

Question 4

Who were the “brain trust”?

Answer 4

A group of advisers from the University of Colombia who helped FDR on the New Deal.

Question 5

Who was Francis Perkins?

Answer 5

Secretary of labor, first woman cabinet officer

Question 6

Who was FDR’s most trusted adviser?

Answer 6

Eleanor Roosevelt

Question 7

Why was Roosevelt in a wheelchair?

Answer 7

Polio

Question 8

What were fireside chats?

Answer 8

When FDR reached out to public through the radio on informal talks

Question 9

What was the Glass Stegall Act?

Answer 9

Prohibited banks from investing in the stock market

Question 10

When was Roosevelt elected?

Answer 10

1932

Question 11

FDIC

Answer 11

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation insured depositors’ savings

Question 12

Federal Securities Act

Answer 12

Requires companies to provide complete and truthful information to purchasers

Question 13

SEC

Answer 13

Securities and Exchange Commission, regulated stock market

Question 14

FERA

Answer 14

Federal Emergency Relief Administration, gave grants to states to distribute as they chose

Question 15

PWA

Answer 15

Public Works Administration, offered jobs instead of handouts, improving highways, building dams, sewer systems, waterworks, schools and other government buildings

Question 16

CWA

Answer 16

Civil Works Administration, built/improved 1,000 airports, 500,000 miles of roads, 40,000 school buildings, and 3,500 parks, playgrounds and playing fields

Question 17

TVA

Answer 17

Tennessee Valley Authority combined emergency relief and pump priming with long term economic and social planning

Question 18

Pump priming

Answer 18

When gov puts money into system to stimulate economic growth?

Question 19

CCC

Answer 19

Civilian Conservation Corps, offered out door work to unemployed single men, 18-25 years old, $30 per month, $22 sent home

Question 20

AAA

Answer 20

Agricultural Adjustment Act, government paid farmers who refused production of basic crops. Funds came from a tax levied on businesses that processes food

Question 21

NIRA

Answer 21

National Industrial Recovery Act, set prices of products, shortened workers hours, established minimum wage

Question 22

NRA

Answer 22

National Recovery Administration, helped direct NIRA, used power of public opinion

Question 23

Charles E. Coughlin

Answer 23

Radio priest whose broadcasts reached 40 million listeners, bitterly attached Roosevelt

Question 24

Huey Long

Answer 24

Senator from Louisiana who proposed on confiscating property of rich and giving every family a home

Question 25

Francis Townsend

Answer 25

Former public health official, proposed plan to provide relief for elderly to pay all Americans over 60 of $200 a month

Question 26

WPA

Answer 26

Works Progress Administration, set up under Harry Hopkins to provide a chance for all people to use their skills to earn an income

Question 27

Social Security Act

Answer 27

Federal government financed state through payroll taxes paid by employers

Question 28

National Labor Relations Board (Wagner Act)

Answer 28

Stimulated burst of labor union activity

Question 29

Fair Labor Standards Act

Answer 29

Abolished child labor, placed ceiling on hours and a floor under wages for workers classified as interstate commerce

Question 30

What did FDR promise to do as president?

Answer 30

Abolish useless offices, eliminate unnecessary functions of government, and restoration of the trade of the world