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New Deal

1. President Lyndon B. Johnson's Great Society is similar to President Franklin D.


Roosevelt's New Deal in that both programs
1. sought ratification of the Equal 3. supported federal funding of
Rights Amendment to guarantee programs for the poor
equality for women
2. advocated passage of civil rights 4. approved efforts by states to reduce
laws to help African Americans taxes for the middle class

13. A major result of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal was


1. a decline in the Federal deficit 3. a change in the voting rights of
women
2. an expansion of the power of the 4. a reinstitution of the gold standard
Federal Government for United States currency

14. During President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first term, what was the greatest obstacle
to his New Deal programs?
1. decisions of the United States 3. opposition of labor unions
Supreme Court, declaring some
legislation unconstitutional
2. lack of support from the American 4. refusal of Congress to pass most of
voters the bills favored by the President

15. During the New Deal, the federal government attempted to improve the farm
economy by
1. reducing the production of 3. raising tariffs to reduce foreign
agricultural goods competition
2. opening up more land for 4. lowering property taxes on
homesteaders farmland

16. What is one lasting effect of the New Deal?


1. Organized labor continues to grow 3. Women have finally attained equal
in size and influence economic status
2. Many government programs started 4. The Republican Party has
in the 1930s continue in the 1990s continued to control the national
government since the 1930s

17. The effectiveness of the New Deal in ending the Great Depression is difficult to
measure because
1. President Franklin D. Roosevelt 3. the Supreme Court declared most
died during his fourth term New Deal laws unconstitutional
2. United States involvement in 4. later Presidents failed to support
World War II rapidly accelerated most New Deal reforms
economic growth

18. Which groups were most helped by the Wagner Act and the Fair Labor Standards
Act, passed during the New Deal?
1. workers and labor unions 3. large businesses and corporations
2. stockbrokers and investors 4. farmers and landowners

19. During the New Deal, the main purpose of the Agricultural Adjustment Acts was
to
1. stimulate farm production to 3. produce a farm surplus for export
provide food for unemployed city to foreign countries
workers
2. assist farmers in relocating to 4. increase farm income by
towns and cities controlling production

20. During the New Deal, the Federal Government attempted to improve conditions
for farmers by
1. ending the practice of 3. raising tariffs on farm imports
sharecropping
2. supporting the formation of 4. paying farmers to take land out of
farmworker unions production

21. Most conservatives who opposed President Franklin D. Roosevelt's policies


believed that the New Deal was
1. endangering the free enterprise 3. ignoring problems faced by rural
system Americans
2. threatening national security 4. failing to enact needed social
welfare reforms

22. Which aspect of the New Deal programs was most clearly a continuation of
Progressive Era policies?
1. government regulation of business 3. free health care for all Americans
activities
2. restoration of the cultural and tribal 4. government purchase of surplus
traditions of Native American Indians farm products

23. The New Deal changed political thinking in the United States because it supported
the idea that the
1. rights of workers are less important 3. government should become more
than the interests of business involved in the social and economic
life of the people
2. Supreme Court should have an 4. president's foreign policy is more
important role to play in the economy important than his domestic policy

24. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's response to Supreme Court decisions that


declared several New Deal laws unconstitutional was to
1. ask Congress to limit the Court's 3. demand the resignation of several
jurisdiction justices
2. propose legislation to increase the 4. ignore the Court's rulings
size of the Court

25. Which statement best illustrates a basic idea of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's
New Deal?
1. Communism provides the only real 3. The United States reached its
solution to economic problems. economic peak in the 1920s and is
now a declining industrial power.
2. Unemployed workers should rely 4. The economy sometimes needs
on the states rather than on the federal public money to encourage business
government for help. activity.

26. Much of the domestic legislation of the New Deal period was based on the idea
that the federal government should
1. favor big business over labor and 3. own and operate the major
farming industries of the country
2. assume some responsibility for the 4. require local communities to be
welfare of people responsible for social welfare
programs

27. Base your answer on the accompanying cartoon and on your knowledge of social
studies.

The main idea of the cartoon is that the New Deal


1. threatens the Constitution and the 3. provides American citizens with
American people greater political freedom
2. threatens the two-party political 4. provides protection from foreign
system tyranny

28. One result of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal was that it
1. raised the national debt 3. deregulated the stock market
2. weakened labor unions 4. repealed federal antitrust laws

29. The power of labor unions increased during the New Deal mainly because
1. a new sprit of cooperation existed 3. management changed its attitude
between employers and government toward organized labor
2. a shortage of skilled and unskilled 4. Federal legislator guarded labor's
laborers developed right to organize and bargain
collectively

30. The decline of Progressivism during World War I and of the New Deal at the start
of World War II shows that
1. the problems these movements 3. balanced budgets are more
faced were effectively solved important to the public than social
reforms
2. domestic programs may be 4. Presidents Woodrow Wilson and
overshadowed by wartime priorities Franklin D. Roosevelt lacked the
leadership to continue these
movements

31. Many opponents of New Deal programs claimed that these programs violated the
American tradition of
1. welfare capitalism 3. collective bargaining
2. governmental regulation of 4. individual responsibility
business

32. A major long-term result of the New Deal was that


1. state governments increased their 3. the executive branch gave up much
powers of taxation of its decisionmaking power to
Congress
2. the government established a 4. Congress was required to balance
'safety net' to protect the poor the federal budget before instituting
new programs

33. Critics charged that New Deal policies favored socialism because the federal
government
1. took ownership of most major 3. increased its responsibility for the
industries welfare of the economy
2. favored farmers over workers and 4. declined to prosecute business
business owners monopolies

34. New Deal programs such as the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and the
Works Progress Administration (WPA) were primarily intended to help
1. farmers 3. businesses
2. homeowners 4. unemployed workers

35. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the Securities and
Exchange Commission (SEC), established during the New Deal, were important
because they
1. increased the supply of money in 3. attempted to restore public
the economy confidence in financialinstitutions
2. guaranteed loans to failing 4. provided grants to unemployed
businesses and banks workers

36. The New Deal programs of President Franklin D. Roosevelt changed the United
States economy by
1. restoring the principle of a 3. encouraging greater production of
balanced budget agricultural goods
2. expanding the trustbusting 4. increasing government involvement
practices of Progressive Era with both business and labor
presidents

37. "The age of Franklin D. Roosevelt set the agenda for the postwar era. Long after
Roosevelt was gone, New Deal ideas shaped policies."

Which statement best supports the idea expressed in this quotation?


1. The government continues to have 3. The Presidency has been controlled
a major role in economic affairs. by the Democratic party since the
New Deal.
2. The military has as many troops 4. The President continues to have
today as it did in World War II. limited powers in foreign affairs.

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