Great Depression and New Deal

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and the Works Progress Administration (WPA) were both New Deal programs developed to address the problem of

• excessive stock market speculation

• high unemployment

• increased use of credit

• limited income of senior citizens

Passage of the Social Security Act (1935) helped American workers by

• creating jobs for the unemployed

• guaranteeing a minimum wage

• legalizing the right to join labor unions

• providing financial assistance after retirement

A major result of the New Deal was that it

• eliminated poverty in the US

• extended the merit system in the civil service

• destroyed the private enterprise system

• greatly increased the size and power of the Federal Government

During the early 1930s, the main goal of the Bonus Army was to pressure the Hoover administration to

• strengthen the nation’s defenses

• end the military draft

• bring American troops home from overseas

• support the early payment of money promised to veterans

An advocate of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s farm policy would have likely supported which economic strategy?

• Reducing agricultural output to increase product values

• Utilizing minimum wage laws to stimulate farm productivity

• Allowing market forces to operate freely to achieve stabilization

• Increasing agricultural production to ensure an affordable food supply

What is one way the New Deal was supposed to help the economy out of the Great Depression?

• by eliminating trading on the stock market
• by encouraging war with Germany and Japan
• by creating jobs through various new programs
• by giving people money through new bank laws

Why was the Tennessee Valley Authority significant to the Southeast during the Great Depression?

• it brought the stock market to the Southeast
• it gave people jobs doing public work projects
• it replaced the old and outdated soup kitchens
• it made people want to move out of the Southeast

Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington were both 

• Poets of the Harlem Renaissance
• Inventors/Entrepreneurs
• African-American Athletes
• Jazz Musicians

This ideology is associated with government's responsibility to intervene in the economy

• liberal
• conservative
• radical
• laissez faire

This ideology & president is associated with the belief that the economy would correct itself.  He did not support direct relief.

• Conservative;F.D.Roosevelt
• Liberal;Hoover
• Conservative;Hoover
• Radical;FDR