Test

Question 1

What paralyzing disease did Roosevelt catch?

Answer 1

Polio

Question 2

One ounce of gold is equal to a set number of dollars

Answer 2

Gold Standard

Question 3

act of closing the remaining banks before bank runs could put them out of business

Answer 3

Bank Holiday

Question 4

The programs Roosevelt came up with in his First Hundred Days were called what?

Answer 4

The First New Deal

Question 5

law required federal examiners to survey the nation’s banks and issue Treasury Department licenses to those that were financially sound

Answer 5

Emergency Banking Relief Act

Question 6

Roosevelt addressed the nation on the radio with what?

Answer 6

Fireside chats

Question 7

provides government insurance for bank deposits

Answer 7

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Question 8

bought the mortgages of homeowners who were behind in their payments

Answer 8

Home Owners’ Loan Corporation

Question 9

helped farmers refinance their mortgages

Answer 9

Farm Credit Administration

Question 10

Under this act, the gov’t would pay farmers not to raise certain livestock, grow certain crops, and produce dairy products

Answer 10

Agricultural Adjustment Act

Question 11

built dams to control floods, conserve forestlands, and bring electricity to rural areas

Answer 11

Tennessee Valley Authority

Question 12

suspended antitrust laws and allowed business, labor, and government to cooperate with rules, or codes of fair competition, for each industry

Answer 12

National Recovery Act

Question 13

offered unemployed young men 18-25 years old the opportunity to work under the direction of the forestry service planting trees, fighting forest fires, and building reservoirs

Answer 13

Civilian Conservation Corps

Question 14

gave money to state and local agencies to fund their relief projects

Answer 14

FERA

Question 15

Who ran the FERA?

Answer 15

Henry Hopkins

Question 16

began building highways, dams, schools, and other facilities

Answer 16

Public Works Administration

Question 17

built or improved 1000 airports, 500000 miles of roads, 40000 school buildings, and 3500 playgrounds and parks

Answer 17

Civil Works Administration

Question 18

governmental practice of spending borrowed money rather than raising taxes, usually in an attempt to boost the economy

Answer 18

Deficit Spending

Question 19

governor of Louisiana, championed the poor

Answer 19

Huey Long

Question 20

In 1934, Huey Long established what?

Answer 20

Share Our Wealth

Question 21

FDR also faced a challenged from a Catholic priest and radio host

Answer 21

Father Charles Coughlin

Question 22

In 1934 Huey Long created what that some Democrats feared would become a new third party

Answer 22

National Union for Social Justice

Question 23

Another challenge came from California man….

Answer 23

Francis Townsend

Question 24

was the largest public works program of the Great Depression

Answer 24

Works Progress Administration

Question 25

The most controversial program of the New Deal was nested inside of the WPA and was known as

Answer 25

The Federal Number One

Question 26

This act guaranteed workers the right to unionize and bargain collectively

Answer 26

National Labor Relations Act or Wagner Act

Question 27

provided financial security for older Americans, unemployed workers and others

Answer 27

Social Security Act

Question 28

process in which a neutral party hears arguments from two opposing side and makes a decision that both must accept

Answer 28

Binding Arbitration

Question 29

method of boycotting work by sitting down and refusing to leave the establishment

Answer 29

Sit down strikes

Question 30

In 1938 the CIO changed its name from the Committee of Industrial Organizations to what?

Answer 30

Congress of Industrial Organizations

Question 31

Republican challenger in 1936 and governor of Kansas

Answer 31

Alfred Landon

Question 32

held that government should spend heavily in a recession to jumpstart the economy

Answer 32

Keynesian Economics

Question 33

What Act established the US Housing Authority

Answer 33

National Housing Act

Question 34

What did Congress create to give loans to tenants so they could purchase farms

Answer 34

Farm Security Administration

Question 35

abolished child labor, limited the workweek to 44 hours for most workers, and set the first minimum wage at 25 cent an hour

Answer 35

Fair Labor Standards Act

Question 36

where the role of government is to work out conflicts among competing interest groups

Answer 36

Broker State

Question 37

Roosevelt’s programs succeeded in creating what, including safeguards and relief programs that protected people against economic disaster

Answer 37

Safety net