American History: A Survey (Brinkley), 13th Edition

Chapter 24: THE NEW DEAL

True or False Quiz

1
President Franklin D. Roosevelt held frequent informal press conferences and won the respect and admiration of most reporters.
A)True
B)False
2
The area of the economy that President Roosevelt first concentrated on was banking.
A)True
B)False
3
The principal feature of New Deal agricultural policy was that it provided direct income supplements to farmers rather than trying to increase prices and thereby indirectly raise farm income.
A)True
B)False
4
The Agricultural Adjustment Act turned out to be more beneficial to sharecroppers and tenant farmers than it was to landowning farmers.
A)True
B)False
5
The basic idea of the National Recovery Administration (NRA) was that in exchange for the federal government's relaxing of antitrust laws, corporations would make concessions such as recognizing the right of workers to organize unions and establishing a minimum wage.
A)True
B)False
6
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled the legislation creating the NRA void because Congress had unconstitutionally delegated legislative power to the president.
A)True
B)False
7
The series of dams and related facilities built by the Tennessee Valley Authority virtually eliminated flooding in the region and brought electricity to thousands of people who had not had it before.
A)True
B)False
8
The New Deal tried to revive the lagging stock market by removing the regulatory restrictions that had hampered brokers in the 1920s.
A)True
B)False
9
The Civilian Conservation Corps, which housed young men in semimilitary camps and put them to work on such projects as tree planting and park development, was President Roosevelt's favorite relief program.
A)True
B)False
10
President Roosevelt's supporters organized the "Liberty League" to counter those who argued that Roosevelt was moving the nation toward socialism.
A)True
B)False
11
Senator Huey P. Long of Louisiana gathered a national following by arguing that a massive, across-the-board tax cut would rapidly stimulate the economy and end the Depression faster than the spending programs that Roosevelt advocated.
A)True
B)False
12
In the so-called Second New Deal beginning in 1935, President Roosevelt's proposals were generally more conservative than earlier in the New Deal in an attempt to placate big business.
A)True
B)False
13
The concept of "industrial unionism" is that all the workers in a particular industry (e.g. automobiles) should belong to one union rather than joining specific craft unions (e.g. welders).
A)True
B)False
14
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) not only provided work for traditional manual laborers, it also provided government-supported jobs for intellectual and creative workers such as writers, artists, musicians, and actors.
A)True
B)False
15
As a consequence of the New Deal, the allegiance of most African American voters switched from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party.
A)True
B)False
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