New Deal Policies

Which government agency gives benefits to people when they are retired or unemployed?

• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
• Securities and Exchange Commission
• Tennessee Valley Authority
• Social Security Admistration

Which was a guiding principle of New Deal economic policies?

• “Rugged individualism” will end social inequality
• Government must assume greater responsibility for helping the unfortunate
• Antitrust legislation could destroy the free enterprise system
• State governments should have more power over the economy than the national government

The Agricultural Adjustment Act tried to help farmers by

• helping them become more efficient

• paying them not to grow crops

• buying up their surpluses

• making land available for farming

Match the following

• Securities and Exchange Commission

• This organization was founded to distribute $500 million in relief aid to state and local agencies

• Federal Deposit Insurance Corp

• This law established the first minimum wage and a maximum work week of 40 hours

• Fair Labor and Standards

  Act

• This law closed every bank in the U.S. for a few days.

• Federal Emergency Relief Act

• This federal organization regulates companies that sell stocks and bonds, and outlawed investing on credit

• Emergency Banking Relief Act

• This organization insured each bank deposit in qualifying banks up to 5,000 dollars.

The _______________________ was FDR's plan to help get the economy going again and help the unemployed find jobs.

• Hoovervilles
• German race
• The New Deal
• Pearl Harbor

This put hundreds of thousands of young, single men to work building roads, developing parks, planting trees, and helping in soil-erosion & flood-control projects

• Civilian Conservation Corps

• Works Progress Administration

• Federal Emergency Relief Administration

• Federal Art Project

Established large-scale national works program to create jobs. Employed men and women to build hospitals, schools, parks, and airport; gave work to artists, writers, and musicians (1935)

• Work Progress Administration (WPA)

• Fairl albor Standards Act (FLSA)

• Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

• Tennesse Valley Authority (TVA)

Established a federal minimum wage, guaranteed overtime pay, set standards for record keeping, and prohibited most employment of minors in "Oppressive child labor." (1938)

• Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)

• National Recovery Act (NRA)

• National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)

• Work Progress Administration (WPA)

Which New Deal program was chiefly designed to correct abuses in the stock market?

• Civilian Conservation Corps
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
• Securities and Exchange Commission
• National Recovery Administration

When President Roosevelt talked to the American people directly over the radio, they called it ____ ____.

• Fireside Chats
• the President talking
• Chats with me
• Campfire chats