Section 3

Question 1

What did Senator Huey Long of Louisiana believe about the new deal?

Answer 1

It had not gone far enough to help the poor.

Question 2

What did Long call for? To provide what?

Answer 2

Heavy taxes on the rich to provide every American family with a house, a car, and a decent annual income.

Question 3

What did Huey use to win political power?

Answer 3

Bribery and threats.

Question 4

What was Dr. Francis Townsend’s plan?

Answer 4

To give everyone over the age of 60 a pension of $200 a month.

Question 5

What is a pension?

Answer 5

A sum of money paid to people on a regular basis after they retire.

Question 6

What were people receiving the pension required to do?

Answer 6

Free up a job for someone else and spend the pension money at once to boost the economy.

Question 7

What did the liberty league complain about the new deal?

Answer 7

It interfered too much with business and peoples lives, and the government was taking away basic freedoms.

Question 8

Why did the Supreme Court rule that the NIRA was unconstitutional?

Answer 8

The court said it gave too much power to the president.

Question 9

What other acts did the Supreme Court rule unconstitutional?

Answer 9

AAA and eight others

Question 10

After Roosevelt’s inauguration, what did he put forth a plan to?

Answer 10

Enlarge the federal courts.

Question 11

What did Roosevelt want to raise the number Supreme Court justices to? Why?

Answer 11

9 to 15. It would make it possible for him to appoint six new justices who supported his programs.

Question 12

Who accused Roosevelt of trying to pack the Court with justices who supported his views?

Answer 12

Supporters and critics of the new deal.

Question 13

Supporters and critics of the new deal said his move threatened the principle of what?

Answer 13

Separation of powers.

Question 14

Did Roosevelts plan for the court ever succeed? How many months did he fight for this plan?

Answer 14

No. 6 months.

Question 15

In 1935, Congress passed the national Labor relations act, or also known as the..?

Answer 15

Wagner Act.

Question 16

Who sponsored the Wagner act?

Answer 16

Senator Robert Wagner of New York.

Question 17

What did the Wagner act do?

Answer 17

Protected workers from unfair management practices.

Question 18

What did the Wagner act guarantee workers the right to do?

Answer 18

Collective bargaining.

Question 19

What was collective bargaining?

Answer 19

The process by which a union negotiates with management on behalf of a group of workers.

Question 20

What did the Wagner act help grow?

Answer 20

Union membership.

Question 21

Union membership got a further boost when John L. Lewis set up what?

Answer 21

The Congress of industrial organizations or the CIO.

Question 22

What did the CIO do?

Answer 22

Represented workers in whole industries.

Question 23

What’s employers try to stop workers from joining?

Answer 23

Unions.

Question 24

What often resulted when employers tried to stop workers from joining unions?

Answer 24

Violence.

Question 25

What strategy workers at the Goodyear tire factory in Ohio use?

Answer 25

Sit-down strike.

Question 26

What did they do at the sit down strike?

Answer 26

Stopped all machines and refused to leave the factory until Goodyear recognize their union.

Question 27

United States was the only major industrial nation that didn’t have a formal _______________ to help the elderly.

Answer 27

Pension program.

Question 28

Who pushed to enact an old-age pension?

Answer 28

Roosevelt and secretary of labor Frances Perkins.

Question 29

How many parts did the Social Security act have?

Answer 29

Three.

Question 30

What did the Social Security act do?

Answer 30

It’s set up a system of pensions for older people.

Question 31

What did the Social Security act set up the nation’s first system of?

Answer 31

Unemployment insurance.

Question 32

The Social Security act gave states money to support who?

Answer 32

Dependent children and people with disabilities.

Question 33

Why did some liberals criticize the Social Security act?

Answer 33

It did not include farmworkers, domestic servants, or the self-employed.

Question 34

Some conservatives criticize Social Security as another way for the government to do what?

Answer 34

Take away money from working people.

Question 35

The federal government grew in size and power. What did many people complain about that the government did?

Answer 35

That the government was intruding peoples lives, and threatening individual freedoms and private property.

Question 36

Critics who are against the new deal called for a return to the policy of what?

Answer 36

Laissez faire.

Question 37

What were the critics alarmed about?

Answer 37

The government was spending more than it took in.

Question 38

What is deficit spending and what did it create?

Answer 38

To spend more than you taken, and it created a huge increase in the national debt.

Question 39

When did full recovery of the depression come?

Answer 39

1941, when United States was about to fight in World War 2.

Question 40

What did supporters note about FDR?

Answer 40

He had steered the nation through the worst parts of the depression.

Question 41

What did the new deal legislation do?

Answer 41

It ended the banking crisis, projected farmers, and found work for the jobless.

Question 42

Supporters also argued that the government had a responsibility to use its power to help who?

Answer 42

All of its citizens, not just business and the wealthy.

Question 43

Most important, supporters argued that the new deal had saved the nations what?

Answer 43

Democratic system.

Question 44

Elsewhere in the world, people tend to dictators to lead them out of hard times. Roosevelt restored the nation’s economic wealth while doing what?

Answer 44

Preserving its liberties.