Section 2

Question 1

What was Franklin Roosevelt known as?

Answer 1

FDR

Question 2

Was FDR wealthy or poor and who did he marry?

Answer 2

He married Anna Eleanor Roosevelt and came from a wealthy family.

Question 3

During World War I, FDR served as a what? What did he later become?

Answer 3

He served as an assistant secretary of the Navy and later became governor of New York.

Question 4

What was FDR stricken with?

Answer 4

Polio.

Question 5

What is polio?

Answer 5

a disease caused by a virus, FDR’s legs were totally paralyzed.

Question 6

In 1932, the Democrats made him their what?

Answer 6

Their presidential candidate.

Question 7

What did Roosevelt say he would do as president?

Answer 7

He said, I pledge myself to a new deal for the American people.

Question 8

Who did he promised to help in his campaign speeches?

Answer 8

The jobless, poor farmers, and the elderly.

Question 9

What did voters respond to?

Answer 9

His confident manner and personal charm.

Question 10

On his inauguration day, what did he speak with?

Answer 10

Optimism.

Question 11

What did the new president move forward on?

Answer 11

Many fronts.

Question 12

What he urge his staff to do?

Answer 12

To take a method and try it and if it fails admit it and try another. But above all try something.

Question 13

What did the new president do in his hundred days?

Answer 13

He sent many bills to Congress and passed 15 major new laws.

Question 14

What was Roosevelt’s first challenge?

Answer 14

The nations crumbling banking system.

Question 15

What did he declare on the second day of office? What did it do?

Answer 15

He declared a bank holiday which closed every bank in the country for four days.

Question 16

What is the emergency banking relief act?

Answer 16

Under this act, only banks with enough funds to meet depositors demands could reopen. the others had to stay closed.

Question 17

What did she speak to Americans by? What were these called?

Answer 17

Fireside chats by radios.

Question 18

What did the president say that influenced people to return their money to banks?

Answer 18

It is safer to keep your money in a reopened bank than under your mattress.

Question 19

How many radio speeches did Roosevelt make while in office?

Answer 19

30.

Question 20

Why were they called fireside chats?

Answer 20

He spoke from a chair near a fireplace in the White House.

Question 21

What was Roosevelts program for economic recovery?

Answer 21

New deal.

Question 22

What were the three main goals for the new deal programs?

Answer 22

Relief for the jobless, plans for economic recovery, and reforms to prevent another depression.

Question 23

What did the president’s new deal programs change?

Answer 23

The relationship between the government and the economy.

Question 24

From then on the president’s new deal programs, the federal government took an active role in what?

Answer 24

Managing the American economy.

Question 25

What is the CCC?

Answer 25

The civilian conservation corps.

Question 26

Who did the CCC hire?

Answer 26

They hired on employed single men between ages of 18 and 25.

Question 27

What were the men in the CCC hired to do?

Answer 27

Plant trees, build bridges, work on flood control, and develop new parks.

Question 28

What was the CCC's double purpose?

Answer 28

It conserved natural resources, and it gave jobs to young people.

Question 29

What is the FERA?

Answer 29

The Federal emergency relief administration.

Question 30

What did the FERA do?

Answer 30

Gave relief to the unemployed and the needy.

Question 31

What was the WPA?

Answer 31

The Works progress administration.

Question 32

What did the WPA do?

Answer 32

Put the jobless to work by making clothes, building hospitals, schools, parks, and airports. They also employed artists, writers, and musicians.

Question 33

What was a part of that WPA?

Answer 33

The federal theater, which put a new plays and classics for adults and children.

Question 34

What did WPA writers collect information about? What is one example?

Answer 34

Information about American life, one group of writers interviewed African Americans who had lived under slavery.

Question 35

What was the NRA?

Answer 35

The national recovery administration.

Question 36

What did Congress pass that created the NRA?

Answer 36

The national industry recovery act. (NIRA)

Question 37

Under the NIRA, each industry wrote a code for what?

Answer 37

Production, wages, prices, and working conditions.

Question 38

What did the NIRA try to end?

Answer 38

Price cutting and worker layoffs.

Question 39

The government encourage people to do business with companies that displayed what?

Answer 39

The NRA Eagle.

Question 40

Did many companies ignore the codes?

Answer 40

Yes.

Question 41

What did small businesses feel the codes favored?

Answer 41

The biggest firms.

Question 42

What was the PWA?

Answer 42

The Public Works administration.

Question 43

What did the NIRA also set up?

Answer 43

The PWA.

Question 44

What did the PWA hire workers to do?

Answer 44

Build ports, schools, and aircraft carriers.

Question 45

What was the AAA?

Answer 45

The agricultural adjustment act.

Question 46

Under the AAA, in order to discourage overproduction, what did the government do?

Answer 46

Paid farmers not to grow certain crops.

Question 47

What else did the government pay farmers to do?

Answer 47

To plow surplus crops under the soil and to destroy surplus cows and pigs.

Question 48

What was the REA?

Answer 48

The rural electrification administration.

Question 49

What was the REA created to help?

Answer 49

People in rural areas to get the same electrical service as people in urban areas.

Question 50

What did the percent of farms with electricity rise to?

Answer 50

10% to 25%.

Question 51

What did electricity save many farms from? What is one example?

Answer 51

Ruin. It brought refrigeration to daily farmers.

Question 52

What was the TVA?

Answer 52

The Tennessee Valley Authority.

Question 53

What was the boldest program of the hundred days?

Answer 53

The TVA.

Question 54

What was the TVA a daring experiment in?

Answer 54

Regional plannings.

Question 55

To control flooding, TVA engineers built how many dams in how many states?

Answer 55

49 dams in 7 states.

Question 56

Why did the TVA deepen river channels?

Answer 56

For shipping.

Question 57

What did the TVA do to improve farmland?

Answer 57

They planted new forests to conserve soil and developed new fertilizers.

Question 58

What did TVA set up?

Answer 58

Schools and health centers.

Question 59

What did critics say about the government?

Answer 59

That the government had no right to take business away from private companies in the region.

Question 60

Supporters of the TVA showed how the government could use its resources to do what?

Answer 60

Help private enterprise.

Question 61

TVA transformed a desperately poor region into a what?

Answer 61

A prosperous and productive area.

Question 62

What was the truth-in-securities act designed to end?

Answer 62

To end the risky buying and selling of stocks in hopes of making a quick profit.

Question 63

What was the FDIC?

Answer 63

The Federal deposit insurance Corporation.

Question 64

What did the FDIC insure?

Answer 64

It insured saving accounts in banks approved by the government.

Question 65

If a bank insured by the FDIC failed, the government would then what?

Answer 65

They would make sure depositors received their money.

Question 66

The new law that extended the pure food and drug act protected consumers by requiring manufactures to do what?

Answer 66

To list ingredients and made sure the new medicines passed test for their put on the market.