Depression and New Deal

During the 1930s Black voters overwhelmingly switched from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party because

• Black Americans benefited from some New Deal economic policies

• the Ku Klux Klan was gaining power within the Republican Party

• President Roosevelt actively pursued race reform

• the Democrats promised to end Prohibition

The purpose of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 was to

• ease the economic difficulties of sharecroppers and tenant farmers

• provide for the distribution of surplus meat and produce to the poor

• raise farm prices by limiting agricultural production

• expand agricultural production by subsidizing farmers

The establishment of a stronger economic regulatory system during the Great Depression most closely reflected a continuity with which of the following?

• Efforts to fund internal improvements during the Early Republic

• Efforts to expand the influence of unionized labor during the Gilded Age

• Efforts to restrict the excesses of corporations during the Progressive Era

• Efforts to encourage women to enter the workforce during the Second World War

In the 1930’s, the movement led by Dr. Francis Townsend contributed to congressional approval of a law

• insuring the bank deposits of consumers

• securing federal protection of labor union organizers

• providing larger federal subsidies to farmers

• implementing a federal program of old-age benefits

In 1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover disagreed most strongly about the desirability of

• a balanced federal budget

• farm price supports

• federal aid to corporations

• federal relief to individuals

The policies passed in response to the Great Depression contributed to a change in which of the following earlier popular beliefs?

• Big business should have significant influence over federal legislation.

• Labor unions should have the sole power to negotiate with corporations.

• Government should be noninterventionist during economic downturns.

• Federal programs should contribute to the welfare of older Americans.

The impact of the Great Depression on agriculture in the United States continued which of the following trends?

• The demand for food resources from abroad grew.

• The farm labor force diminished in size as the economy industrialized.

• The need for immigrant farmworkers increased.

• Support for conservation policies in rural areas declined.

One means by which President Hoover attempted to fight the Great Depression was

• the establishment of the Tennessee Valley Authority

• the establishment of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation

• a lowering of barriers for free trade

• the early payments of bonuses to veterans

The years 1930–1980 have been described by one historian as a period that saw the “rise and fall of the New Deal Order.” What is meant here by the phrase “New Deal Order”?

• An arrangement in which the United States government took an active role in regulating the economy and in mediating disputes between labor and management

• A plan to allow increased free trade between the United States and Europe

• An agenda pushed by congressional Republicans intent on encouraging family values and moral behavior

• A program intended by congressional Democrats to promote the growth of small businesses at the expense of major corporations

which of the following was most significant in influencing organized labor to support the Democratic Party?

• Herbert Hoover’s signing of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act

• Harry Truman’s use of the Taft-Hartley Act

• The passage of the National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act)

• he establishment of welfare capitalism in the 1920s