APUSH-New Deal Questions

What campaign promise from 1928 did Herbert Hoover had a hard time delivering?

"A chicken in every pot, and a garage in every car" Because the stock market crashed about a year later sending America into the Great Depression

Why would FDR have a hard time getting elected?

Because he was ill and handicap

What great asset did FDR have as opposed to his political rivals?

The polio was also a political and national asset, because he was strong and courageous traits from his fight with polio were used in the Great Depression, and WW2

What did FDR's wife help to fight in the 50's-60's?

Civil Rights

What plight was FDR running for in the election of 1932?

Polio

What campaign phrase will FDR electrify the Democrat party delegates at their National Convention held in Chicago in 1932?

New Deal

What was the nickname for FDR's "kitchen cabinet"?

Brain Trust

What was the theme song of the Democrats in 1932?

"Happy Days are Here Again"

The election of 1932 marked a shift of black voters?

More Democratic Votes

When did FDR become President of the United States (month, date, year)?

Nov. 8, 1932

When did Hitler become Chancellor of Germany?

Jan 30, 1933

What were the three R's in FDR's New Deal?

Relief, recover, and reform

What will be the first thing on Roosevelt's agenda?

Bank Holiday

What famous statement does FDR make at his 1st inaugural speech to the people of America?

"The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself"

What precedent will FDR establish for future presidents concerning their early part of their 1st term?

22nd Amendment

This New Deal recovery government agency helped to end the dust bowl by employing many men who went out west and cultivated the soil?

Agricultural Adjustment Administration

17. This amendment will be passed in 1933 ending the "noble experiment".

21st Amendment

18. This New Deal Relief program helped homeowners with the paying off of their homes.

Home Owners' Loan Corporation

19. This New Deal recovery and relief agency was established to help farmers by giving them subsidies for their excess crops. It also paid farmers not to grow certain crops and to grow other crops.

Agricultural Adjustment Act

20. This New Deal recovery, relief and reform agency helped to creating cheap electric power by damning the Tennessee River

Tennessee Valley Authority

21. This triple R program established a maximum hours of labor, established codes of "fair competition", created a minimum wage, allowed labor unions to organize and bargain collectively, and outlawed "yellow-dog" contracts.

National Industrial Recovery Act

22. What did the Emergency Banking Relief Act do for the economy?

People put there money back into banks and the stock market trading started up again

23. What reform movement did the Glass-Steagall Banking Reform Act create?

Prohibits commercial banks from engaging in the investment business

24. Originally what amount of money did the Glass-Steagall Banking Reform Act protect depositors up to? Now?

5,000 now 250,000

25. This Recovery administration was established to provide purely temporary jobs during the cruel winter emergency

26. The National Housing Act in 1934 helped people get better loans with government help by creating this recovery agency.

Federal Housing Administration

27. This recovery administration helped to employment people on "useful" projects—such as arts, literature projects, public buildings, and bridges.

Works Progress Administration

28. This man will consider running against FDR in the 1936 Democrat primary promising to "Share Our Wealth" program and promised to make "Every Man a King"—SOCIALISTS!!! Why didn't he?

Huey Long, he was assassinated.

29. This act, which was part of the AAA will cause the Navajo's of Arizona to reduce their livestock reduction to help the soil

Navajo Livestock Reduction

30. This SCOTUS case will rule part of the NRA unconstitutional?

Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States

31. This SCOTUS cases will rule part of the AAA unconstitutional?

United States v. Butler

32. What will be FDR's reaction to the overturning of a few of his New Deal programs? This will damage his presidency until 1940.

Roosevelt was enraged and threatened to change the number of justices, to allow him to appoint new control over the judicial branch.

33. Who is Frances Perkins (1882 - 1965)?

She was the U.S. Secretary of Labor, the longest serving in that position, and the first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet.

34. What is the name of the old age insurance, which will be created in 1935?

Social Security

35. As part of this act this will be established to guarantee payment incase you lose your job.

Unemployment

36. This Dam will be build on the Columbia River which is the largest structure erected by humans since the Great Wall of China.

Grand Coulee Dam

37. This New Deal program is known as one of the real milestones on the rocky road of the US labor movement, because is allowed labor unions to self-organize and to bargain collectively.

Housing Authority

38. At what age did people start receiving Social Security benefits? What was the average age of death for Americans in the 1930s?

60 years old is when they received Social Security benefits. Average age of death was 60 years old.

39. This man will form a new labor union in 1935 for the semi-skilled and unskilled workers in to a powerful bloc of "big labor".

John L. Lewis

40. This book will describe the plight of the farmers who leave the dust bowl area and move their families to California looking for prosperity. Author?

American Exodus By: James N. Gregory

41. More than a million people left these four states during the Dust Bowl

Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, and Colorado

42. This act in 1934 will try and reverse the effects of the Dawes Act of 1887.

The Indian Reorganization Act of 1934

43. This agency was created to oversee the stock market and prevent the boom to bust periods.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

44. What was the name of the photographer, which FDR will send across the United States to document the Great Depression, especially the Dust Bowl?

Robert Geiger

45. Why did some Native American tribes refuse to organize under the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934?

They didn't like it because they didn't think it gave them their land back,

46. What two major problems faced the New Deal programs in the 1930s?

Some people thought they were going too far and some people thought they hadn't done enough.

47. Despite massive amounts of money spent in New Deal programs, what takes place in 1938 which shows that FDR's New Deal wasn't delivering on its promises?

Roosevelt and his liberal supporters lost control of Congress to the bipartisan Conservative Coalition

48. Which economics did the Roosevelt administration pattern themselves after?

The New Deal

49. What event will bring the United States out of the Great Depression?

WWII

50. What amendment will be passed in 1933 which shortened the length of time which the President and Congress take their oaths of office?

20th Amendment

What is the Platt Amendment

The withdrawal of United States troops remaining in Cuba at the end of the Spanish-American War, and an eighth condition that Cuba sign a treaty accepting these seven conditions.

What is Dollar Diplomacy?

the use of a country's financial power to extend its international influence.

What was the White Fleet?

United States Navy during WW1