USH - The New Deal (CC)

What was the main goal of the National Recovery Administration?

• To promote gun rights

• To regulate industry standards

• To establish national parks

• To ban rodents

Which program of the New Deal aimed to fix the economy in the short run and put people back to work?

• Recovery programs

• Reform programs

• Relief programs

• Run DMC program

What was the purpose of the Civil Works Administration?

• To build national parks

• To pay young people to build national parks

• To employ 4 million people building bridges, schools, and airports

• To regulate the economy to prevent future depression

What was the purpose of the Wagner Act?

• To establish national parks

• To provide unemployment insurance

• To guarantee workers the right to unionize

• To regulate industry standards

What was the main goal of the Congress of Industrial Organizations?

• To regulate industry standards

• To establish national parks

• To unionize entire industries

• To provide unemployment insurance

What was the purpose of the sit-down strike launched by the United Auto Workers?

• To stop working and occupy the plant

• To negotiate with GM

• To build bridges, schools, and airports

• To regulate industry standards

What was the main goal of the Social Security Act of 1935?

• To guarantee workers the right to unionize

• To provide unemployment insurance

• To raise farm prices

• To provide retirement benefits

What did many economic historians believe brought the Depression to an end?

• The Supreme Court's decisions

• The New Deal

• Reduction in government subsidies

• Massive government spending program called World War II

What was the main effect of the New Deal on the relationship between the federal government and American citizens?

• Complete withdrawal of the government from citizens' lives

• Transformation in the relationship, with increased government presence

• No change in the government-citizen relationship

• Decreased government intervention in people's lives

What was the role of white southerners in the New Deal Coalition?

• They opposed the New Deal

• They were not part of the coalition

• They supported the New Deal and became important legislative leaders

• They were excluded from the New Deal programs