who the gyat

In 1934, Dr. Francis Townsend attracted widespread national support for a plan that

helped pave the way for the Social Security system

The Social Security Act of 1935

did not begin making payments to participants for years

President Franklin Roosevelt’s proposal to expand the Supreme Court

was eventually defeated in Congress

The “Dust Bowl” in the 1930s

was a product of changing environmental conditions

One long-term consequence of the New Deal was

the national government assumed responsibility for the basic welfare of the people

To oversee activities in the stock market, in 1934 Congress established the

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Under the New Deal, African Americans

received more sympathy than under most previous administrations

President Herbert Hoover responded to the onset of the Great Depression by

urging a program of voluntary cooperation from business leaders

Franklin Roosevelt’s victory over Herbert Hoover in 1932

was a convincing mandate

In 1932, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation

lent funds only to financial institutions with sufficient collateral

In the 1930s, all of the following films offered social commentary on the United States and the Great epression, EXCEPT

It Happened One Night

The Civilian Conservation Corps

put the unemployed to work on rural and wilderness areas

The National Recovery Administration of 1933 did all of the following EXCEPT

increase competition between companies

The National Labor Relations Act of 1935

gave government the authority to force employers to accept labor unions

New Deals policy toward American Indians, as led by John Collier

was grounded in a commitment ot cultural relativism

The Works Progress Administration 1935

was much larger than previous programs of its kind

Much of Father Charles Coughlin’s outspoken criticism of the Roosevelt administration revolved around the issue of

changing the banking and currency system

The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938

established a national minimum wage

All the following factors contributed to the Great Depression EXCEPT

conservative banking policies that restricted the availability of leans

All of the following groups were part of the New Deal political coalition EXCEPT

big-business owners

In 1933, two days before he took office, President Franklin Roosevelt

closed all banks for a short period

During the recession of 1937

the economy was almost as bad as during the worst economic period of the Hoover administration

All of the following programs were part of the Second New Deal EXCEPT

the Federal Emergency Relief Administration

Beginning in 1933, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

protected the assets of banking depositors

Between the election of 1932 and the inauguration in 1933, Franklin Roosevelt

refused to make any agreements on the economic direction of the country with the outgoing president, Herbert Hoover

The severity of the Depression increased in 1931 when the Federal Reserve Board

raised interest rates

During the 1930s, southern rural blacks who moved to northern urban areas

generally experienced conditions that were in most respects little better than in the South

All of the following occurred as a result of the Tennessee Valley Authority EXCEPT

significant reduction in poverty rty in the region

All of the following statements regarding the 1932 “Bonus Army” are true EXCEPT that

the “Army” demanded Congress create relief programs for World War I veterans

In 1935, Senator Huey Long

had proposed a national welath-sharing plan that involved heavily taxing the wealthiest Americans