The New Deal

Question 1

What New Deal policy improved working conditions?

Answer 1

National Recovery Adminstration

Question 2

What did the National Recovery Administration outlaw?

Answer 2

Child labour

Question 3

What did the National Recovery Administration do to stop overproduction?

Answer 3

Fixed wages and sensible production levels

Question 4

How many employers joined the National Recovery Administration scheme?

Answer 4

2 million

Question 5

What were employers who joined the National Recovery Administration called?

Answer 5

Blue Eagle Badge

Question 6

What was the National Recovery Administration declared as?

Answer 6

Unconstitutional

Question 7

What did the Public Works Administration use government money to build?

Answer 7

Schools, dams, bridges and airports

Question 8

What dam did the Public Works Administration build?

Answer 8

Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River

Question 9

What did the Public Works Administration create?

Answer 9

Millions of short term jobs

Question 10

How much was spend on the Public Works Administration?

Answer 10

$3 billion

Question 11

Why did tax payers and Republicans not like the Public Works Administration?

Answer 11

Costly and too much help, anti rugged individualism

Question 12

What did the Emergency Banking Act do?

Answer 12

Closed down all banks until they and been checked by a government official

Question 13

How many trustworthy banks did the Emergency Banking Act reopen?

Answer 13

5000

Question 14

What did the Emergency Banking Act impose regulations to stop?

Answer 14

Reckless speculation

Question 15

What insured deposits for the Emergency Banking Act?

Answer 15

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Question 16

How much did the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation insure deposits up to?

Answer 16

$5000

Question 17

Who was the Civilian Conservation Corps aimed at?

Answer 17

Young, unmarried men between 18 and 25

Question 18

How long did the Civilian Conservation Corps workers sign up for?

Answer 18

6 months at a time

Question 19

What were some of the environmental projects done by the Civilian Conservation Corps?

Answer 19

National Parks-planting trees and maintaining beaches

Question 20

How much did Civilian Conservation Corps workers earn?

Answer 20

$30 a month and sent back $25 to families

Question 21

How many were helped by the Civilian Conservation Corps?

Answer 21

2.5 million

Question 22

What agency gave $500 million to individual states?

Answer 22

Federal Emergency Relief Administration

Question 23

What was the $500 million given to individual states used to pay for?

Answer 23

Soup kitchens, employment schemes and nurseries

Question 24

Who led the Federal Emergency Relief Administration?

Answer 24

Harry Hopkins

Question 25

How much did Harry Hopkins give out?

Answer 25

$5 million within 2 hours of setting up the Federal Emergency Relief Administration

Question 26

Why was the money sent home by Civilian Conservation Corps workers not spent?

Answer 26

Lack of confidence

Question 27

When did Roosevelt present to Congress the 2nd New Deal?

Answer 27

14th June 1953

Question 28

What did the Supreme Court rule on 14th June 1953?

Answer 28

PWA and AAA were unconstitutional

Question 29

What replaced the PWA?

Answer 29

Works Progress Administration

Question 30

How many jobs did the Works Progress Administration set up?

Answer 30

8 million in 8 years

Question 31

How many families were helped by the Resettlement Administration?

Answer 31

500,000

Question 32

What did the Resettlement Administration help families from?

Answer 32

Drought hit areas

Question 33

What replaced the Resettlement Administration?

Answer 33

The Farm Security Administration

Question 34

When was the Farm Security Administration set up?

Answer 34

1937

Question 35

How many photos did the Farm Security Administration’s photography project take of farm land?

Answer 35

80,000

Question 36

How much did the Farm Security Administration lend to farmers to help during the depression?

Answer 36

$1 billion

Question 37

Why was the Farm Security Administration opposed?

Answer 37

Republicans saw the jobs as boondoggles and a waste of money