US TEST

WPA agencies also found part time occupations for actions, artists, musicians, and writers

Federal Arts Project

The idea that the business community can regulate itself

Volunteerism

It provided loans over 20-30 years with equal monthly payments with 10% to 20% down

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Federal Housing Administration

Shantytowns

Hoovervilles

Conservatives that believed that the New Deal was socialistic and allowed for reckless spending

Liberty League

The new law restored tribal ownership of lands, recognized tribal constitutions and government, and provided loans to tribes for economic development

Indian Reorganization Act

Government spending, in excess of revenue, of funds raised by borrowing money

Deficit Spending

A belief that when there is an economic downturn a government needs to spend money to revive the economy and when the it normalizes to balance the budget and cut government spending

Keynesian Economic Policy

Roosevelt’s “inner circle” who were experts in their field

Brain Trust

Roosevelt’s program that was outlined in his inaugural address

The New Deal

During the stock market crash of 1929…

**(B) Stock prices fell, causing billions of dollars to be lost**

As a result of the Dust Bowl, many Great Plains farmers migrated to

**(D)** **California**

Which of the following accurately describes how foreign policy contributed to the Great Depression

**(B) European factories produced automobiles, challenging American manufacturing**

According to President Roosevelt, the government should

**(D) Only engage in projects that will be profitable over time**

The Agricultural Adjustment Act paid farmers

**(D)** **To eliminate surpluses by paying growers to reduce their crop acreage**

Why did conservatives criticize President Roosevelt’s policy of deficit 

spending

**(B) Roosevelt borrowed money to pay for government programs**

Because of Supreme Court rulings against the New Deal, President Roosevelt proposed

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**(A) Expanding the size of the supreme court by adding judges who favored his policies**

The Tennessee Valley Authority was an important New Deal program that

**(C) Brought electricity to millions of people in rural areas**

The Civilian Conservation Corps..

**(A)** **Was open to young men;** **(B)** **Was declared unconstitutional**

The Hoover Dam..

**(A) Created a large artificial lake;** **(C) Helps provide power to millions of people**; **(D) Was a major project paid for by the government**

The Glass-Steagall Act regulated banks by

**(B) Creating the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation FDIC**

Increasing numbers of people invested in the stock market during the 1920’s because

**(C) People used margin buying which allowed them to purchase stocks on credit**

What New Deal law called for old-age pensions, a federal-state system of compensation for the unemployed, payments to widowed mothers, blind, deaf, and disabled

**(D) Social Security Act**

Which of the following are associated with the Dust Bowl

**(B) Dust Storms**

The Wagner Act proved to be a trailblazing law that

**(A) Gave labor the right to bargain collectively**

Which of the following American philosophies influence Herbert Hoover’s initial response to the economic downturn in the early 1930’s

**(C) The market is self - regulating and the government should not intervene during a downturn**

Which of the following organizations did President Hoover create in 1931 to stimulate the economy through federal loans to major businesses in 1931 and 1932

**(C) Reconstruction Finance Corporation**

Senator Huey Long from Louisiana became a major political threat to Roosevelt when he called for

**(B) A national Share Our Wealth movement to redistribute income fairly**

Which New Deal program offered tremendous encouragement and support to the labor union movement

**(C)** **National Industrial Recovery Act, especially Section 7(a)**

Which of the following caused the severe recession in 1937 and 1938

**(A)** **President Roosevelt cut spending and attempted to balance the budget**

Who was the first woman cabinet member, who served as Secretary of Labor

**(A)** **Frances Perkins**

What made the Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO) different from previous trade unions

**(C) It untied both skilled and unskilled workers in each industry**

Roosevelt’s “fireside chats” primarily helped the United States in the early 1930’s by increasing

**(C) Public Confidence**