Opponents of the New Deal included business leaders and
some labor leaders.
In 1937, disgruntled workers at the General Motors plant in Flint, Michigan, acted on their grievances by
staging a sit-down strike.
Which of the following describes the overall impact of the New Deal?
It prevented the United States from turning toward authoritarian solutions to the nation's economic crisis.
The Wagner Act helped which of the following unions to mobilize organizing drives in major industries?
The Committee for Industrial Organization
The framers of Social Security agreed to fund the program
with tax contributions from workers and their employers.
What was the unifying basis of the New Deal coalition?
Members expressed faith that government would change things for the better.
Where did migrant workers seeking to escape the chronic drought of the Dust Bowl typically look for work in the 1930s?
California
By 1936, how did many American radicals—including Communists and socialists—respond to the New Deal?
They had begun to support the New Deal's relief programs and its encouragement of labor unions.
What was the outcome of the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act on Native Americans?
It restored Indians' right to own land communally and have greater control over their affairs.
Which of the following statements describes the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938?
It set standards for wages and hours.
In order to win the presidential election in 1932, Roosevelt had to
unite the warring factions of the Democratic party.
On what criteria were benefits provided through Social Security?
Benefits were based on workers' contributions and years of work.
What belief lay at the foundation of Roosevelt's New Deal?
Capitalism held the solution to the nation's economic crisis.
Which of the following describes the experiences of Mexican Americans during the 1930s?
Thousands were deported, many with their American-born children.
What was the purpose of the Tennessee Valley Authority program that began in 1933?
It helped supply jobs and power to impoverished rural communities.
The New Deal made significant improvements in the quality of life in rural America by
providing electricity to rural communities through the Rural Electrification Administration.
In 1935, when President Roosevelt had the congressional majorities to support him, he began to
enact major new social welfare programs.
Which of the following describes the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)?
It guaranteed bank customers that the federal government would reimburse them for deposits if their bank failed.
What made the election of 1932 particularly historic?
Roosevelt won 57 percent of the popular vote, and Democrats swept both houses of Congress.
What was the three-part goal of Roosevelt's New Deal?
Relief, recovery, and reform
Why didn't southern tenant farmers benefit from the programs developed by the Agricultural Adjustment Act, the Commodity Credit Corporation, and the Farm Credit Act?
The programs benefitted large farmers rather than tenant farmers who rented land.
How did President Roosevelt attempt to change the economy in 1937?
He decreased deficit spending.
Why did Roosevelt fail to push for more ambitious reforms for black Americans?
He could not afford to lose the support of southern Democrats for his New Deal agenda.
The economist John Maynard Keynes argued which of the following?
Government intervention is needed in bad economic times to pump enough money into the economy to revive production and increase consumption.
By the early 1930s, unemployed workers were responding to the Great Depression by
becoming increasingly outraged and turning toward militant forms of protest.
Who wrote the 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, an example of Harlem Renaissance literature?
Zora Neale Hurston
What impact did New Deal programs have on the average national unemployment rate during the 1930s?
They reduced the average unemployment rate, but it remained high, at about 17 percent, through the 1930s.
Which of the following statements describes the Sheppard-Towner Act of 1921, which gave federal assistance to states seeking to reduce high infant mortality rates?
It was women's only significant national legislative success in the 1920s.
Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association urged black Americans in the 1920s to
rediscover their African heritage and take pride in their culture and achievements.
Which industry formed the keystone of the American economy in the 1920s?
The automobile industry
In the United States, the flapper of the 1920s represented
a challenge to women's traditional gender roles.
What did the outcome of the Sacco and Vanzetti trial suggest about the United States in the 1920s?
Antiforeign hysteria was rampant in many areas of American life.
What was the central issue addressed by the highly publicized Scopes trial of 1925?
The legality of the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution in Tennessee\
What accounted for the reemergence of the Ku Klux Klan in the United States in 1915?
The widespread belief that blacks, immigrants, radicals, feminists, Catholics, and Jews threatened traditional American values
What factor diluted the influence of women in politics in the 1920s?
A lack of unity around the issues
How did the Great Depression affect the American family in the 1930s?
It created resentment among men, who lost their jobs more often than women did.
For which group of Americans did authors Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, and Sinclair Lewis speak?
Critics of American anti-intellectualism and materialism
One result of the loosening of the traditional bonds of community, religion, and family in the United States in the 1920s was
the emergence of youth as a distinct social class with their own culture.
Who was responsible for the creation of “welfare capitalism” in the 1920s, and why did they use it?
Businesses created welfare capitalism to encourage workers' loyalty to the company.
Which of the following describes the Ku Klux Klan of the mid-1920s?
It had a strong influence on politics in California, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Oregon, and Texas.
Which of the following statements describes professional baseball in the 1920s?
It attracted players and spectators from the working class.
Among the first signs of economic distress in the United States in the mid-1920s was
a slowdown in new construction and in automobile sales.
Which group sponsored a team of lawyers to defend the nine young black men in Scottsboro, Alabama, who were arrested on trumped-up rape charges in 1931?
The Communist party
In 1927, Charles Lindbergh became the first person to
fly nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean.
What was the purpose of the Dawes Plan, instituted in 1924?
It cut Germany's annual reparations payments in half and initiated fresh American loans to Germany.
What did popular culture and consumer goods have in common in the 1920s?
Both were mass-produced and mass-consumed.
What did President Hoover do to offer a solution to the human problems of the depression in 1929?
He instituted a voluntary recovery plan, protective tariffs, and some government intervention, including public works projects and small federal loans to states.
What was the purpose of the immigration laws of the 1920s, including the Johnson-Reed Act?
To place strict limits on immigration
What was the fundamental cause of the Great Depression in the United States?
Problems in the American and international economies
Which groups were hardest hit by the Great Depression?
The unemployed, tenant farmers, and sharecroppers
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