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What does this quote refer to and who said it? “Only a foolish optimist can deny the dark realities of the moment”

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Great Depression/FDR

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What plan contributed to the reinvention of liberalism

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The New Deal

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Classical liberals believed that what?

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Government should be small and weak

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What caused many to support the new deal

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Many believed drastic action was needed

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Why did the gold standard lead to the Great Depression?

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The gold standard rendered nations unable to increase the supply of currency at precisely the moment when more was needed

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What party was President Herbert Hoover

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Republican

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What 2 traditional beliefs did Herbert Hoover and most Republicans believe in?

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Success went to those who earned it, business community could fight economic downturns without government assistance

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“Any lack of confidence in the economic future or the strength of business in the United States is foolish.”

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Herbert Hoover cutting taxes

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What blunder led to the depression being prolonged?

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Hover keeping the gold standard

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What did Herbert do that caused damaged the economy greatly

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Increased tarrifs

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What law further hindered global trade and worsened economic contraction throughout the industrialized world.

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Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act

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After his two blunders, what was Herbert’s next move.

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To increase federal spending in public works by $700 million

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What program of Hoover’s provided federal loans to railroads, banks, and other businesses.

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The Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)>

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Where did many evicted people move?

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Hoovervilles

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What group protested the falling commodity prices by cutting off supplies, barricading roads, and dumping milk vegetables, and other foodstuffs onto the roadways

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Farmer’s Holiday Association

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How did many unions end?

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in violence

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What group was a loose caravan of unemployed WWI veterans

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The Bonus Army

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What does this quote refer to: “We were heroes in 1917 but we’re bums now”

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The Bonus Army

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What did hoover do to the Bonus Army

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Forcefully evicted them

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Who was the republican nomination in the 1932 election?

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Herbert Hoover

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Who was the democratic nomination for the 1932 election?

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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T/F: Roosevelt’s ideas greatly differed from Hoover’s

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False

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What did FDR of to make him an intimate presence in home life

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Establish the fireside chats

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What was the hundred days

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Congress enacted fifteen major bills to fight the depression

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What 4 fronts were the bills of the hundred days passed
Banking failures, agricultural overproduction, the manufacturing slump, and soaring unemployment
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What was a bank holiday
when all the banks were closed an Congress would have a secret session
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What law permitted banks to reopen one a Treasury Department inspection showed they had sufficient cash reserves
Emergency Banking Act
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What law further restored public confidence by creating the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Glass-Steagall Act
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What government agency insured deposits up to $2,500
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
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When did Roosevelt remove the US Treasury from the gold standard
June 1933
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What law marked the first direct governmental regulation of farm economy
Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
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What did the AAA provide farmers with
cash subsidies to cut overproduction
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What law established the NRA
National Industrial Recovery Act
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What did the national Recovery Administration (NRA) do?
regulated wages, prices, and production quotas
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What government agency provided federal funds directly to state relief programs
Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)
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Who directed FERA
Harry Hopkins
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What was the nickname for government welfare payments
"the dole"
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What was the name of the large scale construction program that would construct the Boulder and Grand Coulee Dams
Public Works Administration (PWA)
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What government agency provided jobs for 4 million Americans and repaired bridges
The Civil Works Administration (CWA)
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Who headed the (CWA)
Harry Hopins
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What government agency annually mobilized 250,000 men to do reforestation and conservation work
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
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What organization refinanced home mortgages
Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC)
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What law extended the HOLC to the Federal Housing Administration
The Federal Housing Act of 1934
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What did critics of FDR call him
"That Man"
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What citizen group fought against the New Deal
The American Liberty Leauge
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What was a more permanent group that fought the new deal
National Association of Manufacturers (NAM)
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How did NAM promote their cause?
radio, movies, billboards
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In what Supreme Court case ruled that the National Industrial Recovery Act was unconstitutional
Schechter vs. United States
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Who spoke for the nation's elderly
Francis Townsend
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What plan did Townsed propose
Old Age Revolving Pension Plan
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What would the Townsend Plan do
Give $200 a month to retired citizens over the age of 60
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Who charged Roosevelt and Democrats with insufficient action to protect the welfare of citizens
Father Charles E. Coughlin
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Who proposed a 100% tax on all income over $1 million and inheritances over $5 milliion
Huey Long
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What was the name for Roosevelt's shift to the left
Second New Deal
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What law proposed a substantial tax increase on corporate profits and higher income and estate taxes on the wealthy
Revenue at of 1935
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What did the Second New Deal focus on
Social justice and the creation of a safety net
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What term describes government-guarenteed social-welfare programs
Welfare state
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What law guaranteed works the right to organize unions
National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)
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What law established the right of industrial workers to join unions
Wagner Act
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What government agency did the Wagner Act establish
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
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What did the NLRB do?
authority to protect workers from employer coercion and to guarantee collective bargaining
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What law created an old age pension system
Social Security Act
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What conteversial program assisted widows and children
Aid to Dependent Children (ADC)
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What was the ADCs? successor
Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC)
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What political ideology formed from the Second New Deal
"New Deal liberalism"
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Which of Roosevelts terms was more successful?
His first
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What agency employed others to construct roads, bridges, public buildings, parks, and airports
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
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Who was the 1936 Republican presidential candidate
Alfred Landon
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What was "the greatest revolution in our political history"
Roosevelts re-election for a 3rd term
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What did Roosevelt propose to do to the court?
Add one new justice for every member over the age of 70
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What did Roosevelt do to increase the unemployment rate?
Slashed New Deal Programs
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What was Keynesian economics?
That government intervention could Smoot out the highs and lows of the business cycle
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What law outlawed child labor
Fair Labor Standards Act
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What hit ballad captured democratic aspirations of the New Deal
Ballad for Americans
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Who wrote the Ballad for Americans
John La Touche, Earl robinson
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What does this quote refer to "The era of privilege and predatory individuals is over"
Increase in unions
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What party supported labor
Democratic party
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Who was the first woman to fill a cabinet post
Frances Perkins
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How many believed that wives should work outside the home when their husbands had jobs
18%
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Which African American women pushed for New Deal Programs to help African Americans
Mary McLeod Bethune
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What agency actively protected the rights of black tenant farmers
Resettlement Administration
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What government agency hurt African Americans because white landowners refused to distribute payments to tenants
AAA
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What organization was notable for its racial integration
Southern Tenant Farmers Union (STFU)
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What group of African Americans, accused of rape, inspired solidarity within African American communities
Scottsboro Boys
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Who headed the Bureau of Indian Affairs
John Collier
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What law reversed the breaking up of tribes with a system of individual land ownership
Indian Reorganization Act of 1934
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What is the other name for the Indian Reorganization Act
Indian New Deal
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fT/F: Roosevelts program fundamentally reformed the migrant farm labor system
False
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What Asian group was discriminated from farm jobs
Japanese
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Who were "aliens ineligible for citizenship"
Chinese Americans
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What law provided gradual independence for the Philippines
Tydings-McDuffie Act of 1934
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what was the dust bowl
an extreme drought
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What did the Soil Conservation Service do to help the effects of the dustbowl
Educated farmers
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What did the US Forest Service do to help the effects of the dustbowl
Planted 220 million trees in a wide "shelter belt"
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What did Roosevelt see as the first step in modernizing the agrarian South
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
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What did the TVA do?
Integrated environmental efforts under one government-owned corporation
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What agency was central to enhancing the quality of rural life
Rural Electrification Administration (REA)
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What region benefited the most from the New Deal's focus on the enviroment
the West
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What was the biggest environmental project in the West
The building of the Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River
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What does this quote from a song refer to: "Roll on, Columbia, Roll on"
The Columbia dam
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Wha project connected the Shenandoah National Park with the Smoky Mountains National Park
the Blue Ridge Parkway
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What 2 project employed musicians and writers
Federal Music Project, Federal Writer's Project (FWP)
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What project nurtured talented directors, actors, and playwrights
Federal Theatre Project (FTP)

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