Multiple Choice
Identify the letter of the choice that
best completes the statement or answers the question.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the _____ President of the United
States.
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Franklin Roosevelt's program to end the depression was called the
_____ a. | Square Deal | c. | Raw Deal | b. | New Deal | d. | Recovery Administration | | | | |
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Glass-Stengall Banking Act of 1933 a. | Law that created insurance for bank
deposits. | c. | Law that raised tariffs on foreign imports,
thereby preserving American jobs | b. | Law that FDR used to close the
banks | d. | Law that forbade banks from foreclosing on
farmers land. | | | | |
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Federal Securities Act a. | Law to provide security for farm
loans | c. | Law to regulate stock
information | b. | Law to provide better job security for American
workers | d. | Law to regulate bank
deposits | | | | |
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Agricultural Adjustment Act a. | Program to help railroads | c. | Program to help framers | b. | Program to help farm
banks | d. | Program to help inner city agricultural
workers. | | | | |
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Civilian Conservation Corps a. | Program to employ young men in work
projects | c. | Program to help veterans find
jobs | b. | Program to employ
young men and women in work projects | d. | Program to help preserve family life by distributing
food. | | | | |
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National Industrial Recovery Act a. | Program to help farmers | c. | Program to help small business | b. | Program to help labor union
members | d. | Program to help
industry | | | | |
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Political leader fro Louisiana who criticized FDR and his programs. Was later
murdered. a. | George
Wallace | c. | Thomas Dewy | b. | Hubert
Humphry | d. | Huey Long | | | | |
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Wife
of FDR a. | Elaine
Roosevelt | c. | Eleanor Roosevelt | b. | Mary
Roosevelt | d. | Marian Anderson
Roosevelt | | | | |
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Works
Progress Administration WPA a. | New Deal Food Program | c. | Herbert Hoover Dam Project | b. | New Deal tax reduction
program | d. | New Deal jobs
program | | | | |
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National Youth Administration a. | Program to get young inner-city hoods off the street and
into detention | c. | Program to end child
labor | b. | Program to protect young people from child
abuse | d. | Program to provide aid and jobs to young
people. | | | | |
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Wagner
Act a. | Law to provide jobs for
artists | c. | Law to provide money to small
business | b. | Law to protect workers | d. | Law to provide jobs for young
actors. | | | | |
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Program to provided aid to people with disabilities and pensions for retired
workers. a. | Welfare | c. | Medicare | b. | Social Security
Act | d. | Medicaid | | | | |
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Frances Perkins a. | Secretary of Labor | c. | Female big business owner | b. | Secretary of Health and Human
Services | d. | Critic of FDR
(Republican) | | | | |
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Head
of the Office of Minority Affairs in the NYA a. | Mary McLeod Bethune | c. | Daisy Buchannin | b. | Marianne
Anderson | d. | Eleanor Roosevelt | | | | |
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Voters
from different groups that supported the Democratic Party because of the New Deal a. | NAACP | c. | New Deal Coalition | b. | AFL-CIO | d. | Square Deal Coalition | | | | |
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Congress of Industrial Organization CIO a. | Business
organization | c. | Small Business
Organization | b. | Labor Union | d. | Railroad Trust | | | | |
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Famous
1939 movie about the civil war. a. | Triumph of Will | c. | The Sun Also Rises | b. | Gone With The
Wind | d. | Citizen Kane | | | | |
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Actor,
director and film maker a. | Orson Welles | c. | Richard Wright | b. | Grant Wood | d. | John Steinback | | | | |
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Artist
of the 30's a. | Orson
Wells | c. | Richard Wright | b. | Grant Wood | d. | John Steinbeck | | | | |
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1930's
Author a. | Richard
Wright | c. | Frances Perkins | b. | Richard
Wagner | d. | Huey Long | | | | |
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Author
of "The Grapes of Wrath" a. | Richard Wright | c. | Earnest Hemingway | b. | John
Steinbeck | d. | F. Scott Fitzgerald | | | | |
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Spending more money than comes in a. | Expenditures | c. | deficits | b. | Costs | d. | taxation | | | | |
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An
equal or fair amount a. | deficits | c. | parity | b. | surplus | d. | filibuster | | | | |
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Agency
to regulate stock markets a. | Federal Trade Commission | c. | Securities and Exchange
Commission | b. | Federal Deposit Insurance
Commission | d. | Stock Market
Commission | | | | |
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Organization the built dams and brought electricity to poor rural
areas. a. | Tennessee Valley
Authority | c. | Mississippi
commission | b. | Deleware River Commission | d. | General Electric Corporation | | | | |
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27.
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation a. | Health Insurance
Company | c. | Insurance for bank
savings | b. | Life Insurance Company | d. | Unemployment Insurance | | | | |
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