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A.P.U.S.H. Ch. 28
New Deal America
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What political philosophies were on the rise during the Great Depression? | Communism, Fascism, and Totalitarianism |
| Who was Norman Thomas? | The Socialist party candidate in the 1932 election |
| What were the three major challenges President Franklin Delano Roosevelt faced because of the Great Depression? | Reviving the economy, relieving human misery, and rescuing the agricultural sector |
| What was President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's main strategy to tackle the three major problems of the nation? | Remedy the bank crisis, relieve the unemployed, increase federal spending, recover industry, and raise depressed commodity prices |
| What was the Bank Holiday? | The four-day time period starting on March 9th, during which all banks were closed to calm the panic and allow Congress time to take action. |
| What was the Emergency Banking Relief Act? | The Congressional legislature, which allowed sound banks to reopen and provided managers for banks that were still in trouble. |
| What was the Economy Act? | The Congressional legislature, which allowed the executive branch the power to cut government salaries, reduce payments to military veterans not injured in war, and reorganize federal agencies to reduce federal expenses. |
| What was the Beer-Wine Revenue Act? | The Congressional legislature that amended the Volstead Act to permit the sale of alcoholic beverages with an alcohol content of 3.2 percent. |
| What was the Twenty-First Amendment? | The Constitutional Amendment that ended prohibition. |
| What were the Hundred Days? | The Congressional session from March 9th to June 16th, during which Congress enacted fifteen major proposals from FDR. |
| What was the Federal Credit Administration? | The reorganized unit containing all the federal farm credit agencies. |
| What was the Emergency Farm Mortgage Act? | The Congressional legislature that refinanced farm mortgages at lower interest rates to stem the tide of foreclosures. |
| What was the Farm Credit Act? | The Congressional legislature that reorganized federal agricultural subsidies at lower interest rates to stem the tide of foreclosures. |
| What was the Home Owners' Loan Act? | The Congressional legislature that set up the Home Owners' Loan Corporation to refinance home mortgages at lower interest rates to stem the tide of foreclosures. |
| What was the Banking Act? | The Congressional legislature that separated commercial and investment banking, extended the Federal Reserve Board's regulatory power over credit, and established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which insured personal bank deposits up to $5000. |
| What was the Federal Securities Act? | The Congressional legislature that required the full disclosure of information about new stock and bond issues. |
| What was the Securities and Exchange Commission? | The institution designed to replace the Federal Trade Commission in the regulation of stock and bond markets, as well as oversee the maintenance of the Federal Securities Act. |
| What did President Franklin Delano Roosevelt do with the currency during the Great Depression? | FDR abandoned the gold standard, increasing the prices by devaluing the dollar, and ease the debt burden on investors and farmers. |
| What was the Civilian Conservation Corps? | The institution designed to employ and educate unmarried men between 18 and 25 to build community projects. |
| What was the Federal Emergency Relief Administration? | The institution, led by Harry L. Hopkins, designed to address the problems of human distress by assisting the unemployed with federal grants. |
| What was the Civil Works Administration? | The institution that provided federal work relief and put individuals under government payroll, but it was too inefficient and was dissolved. |
| What was the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act? | The Congressional legislature that provided work relief for the jobless. |
| What was the Works Progress Administration? | The institution, headed by Harry L. Hopkins, that provided millions of jobs through the Federal Theatre Project, Federal Writers' Project, Federal Art Project, Federal Music Project, and the National Youth Administration. |
| How was President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's "brain trust" progressive? | The "brain trust" believed the trend to economic concentration was inevitable, and the government needed to regulate the economy. |
| What was the Agricultural Adjustment Act? | The Congressional legislature that created the Agricultural Adjustment Administration to |
| What political philosophies were on the rise during the Great Depression? | Communism, Fascism, and Totalitarianism |
| Who was Norman Thomas? | The Socialist party candidate in the 1932 election |
| What were the three major challenges President Franklin Delano Roosevelt faced because of the Great Depression? | Reviving the economy, relieving human misery, and rescuing the agricultural sector |
| What was President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's main strategy to tackle the three major problems of the nation? | Remedy the bank crisis, relieve the unemployed, increase federal spending, recover industry, and raise depressed commodity prices |
| What was the Bank Holiday? | The four-day time period starting on March 9th, during which all banks were closed to calm the panic and allow Congress time to take action. |
| What was the Emergency Banking Relief Act? | The Congressional legislature, which allowed sound banks to reopen and provided managers for banks that were still in trouble. |
| What was the Economy Act? | The Congressional legislature, which allowed the executive branch the power to cut government salaries, reduce payments to military veterans not injured in war, and reorganize federal agencies to reduce federal expenses. |
| What was the Beer-Wine Revenue Act? | The Congressional legislature that amended the Volstead Act to permit the sale of alcoholic beverages with an alcohol content of 3.2 percent. |
| What was the Twenty-First Amendment? | The Constitutional Amendment that ended prohibition. |
| What were the Hundred Days? | The Congressional session from March 9th to June 16th, during which Congress enacted fifteen major proposals from FDR. |
| What was the Federal Credit Administration? | The reorganized unit containing all the federal farm credit agencies. |
| What was the Emergency Farm Mortgage Act? | The Congressional legislature that refinanced farm mortgages at lower interest rates to stem the tide of foreclosures. |
| What was the Farm Credit Act? | The Congressional legislature that reorganized federal agricultural subsidies at lower interest rates to stem the tide of foreclosures. |
| What was the Home Owners' Loan Act? | The Congressional legislature that set up the Home Owners' Loan Corporation to refinance home mortgages at lower interest rates to stem the tide of foreclosures. |
| What was the Banking Act? | The Congressional legislature that separated commercial and investment banking, extended the Federal Reserve Board's regulatory power over credit, and established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which insured personal bank deposits up to $5000. |
| What was the Federal Securities Act? | The Congressional legislature that required the full disclosure of information about new stock and bond issues. |
| What was the Securities and Exchange Commission? | The institution designed to replace the Federal Trade Commission in the regulation of stock and bond markets, as well as oversee the maintenance of the Federal Securities Act. |
| What did President Franklin Delano Roosevelt do with the currency during the Great Depression? | FDR abandoned the gold standard, increasing the prices by devaluing the dollar, and ease the debt burden on investors and farmers. |
| What was the Civilian Conservation Corps? | The institution designed to employ and educate unmarried men between 18 and 25 to build community projects. |
| What was the Federal Emergency Relief Administration? | The institution, led by Harry L. Hopkins, designed to address the problems of human distress by assisting the unemployed with federal grants. |
| What was the Civil Works Administration? | The institution that provided federal work relief and put individuals under government payroll, but it was too inefficient and was dissolved. |
| What was the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act? | The Congressional legislature that provided work relief for the jobless. |
| What was the Works Progress Administration? | The institution, headed by Harry L. Hopkins, that provided millions of jobs through the Federal Theatre Project, Federal Writers' Project, Federal Art Project, Federal Music Project, and the National Youth Administration. |
| How was President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's "brain trust" progressive? | The "brain trust" believed the trend to economic concentration was inevitable, and the government needed to regulate the economy. |
| What was the Agricultural Adjustment Act? | The Congressional legislature that created the Agricultural Adjustment Administration to control farm production by compensating farmers for voluntary cutbacks through tax levies in production, thus the demand would increase as the supply went down. |
| What was United States v. Butler? | The Supreme Court case that declared the AAA's tax on food processors unconstitutional. |
| What was the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act? | The Congressional legislature in direct response to US v. Butler, which omitted processing taxes and acreage quotas, but provided benefits for soil-conservation practices that took land out of soil-depleting staple crops, to indirectly reduce crops. |
| What was the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938? | The Congressional legislature that the Supreme Court approved, which retained the original AAA, except the processing taxes, and made benefit payments in the form of general federal funds. |
| What was the National Industrial Recovery Act? | The Congressional legislature that dealt with economic recovery and public-works projects, as well as the creation of the Public Works Administration and National Recovery Administration. |
| What was the Public Works Administration? | The institution, headed by Harold L. Ickes, that provided work relief by employing private contractors. |
| What was the National Recovery Administration? | The institution, headed by Hugh S. Johnson, that stabilized business by reducing competition through industrial standardization and generated more purchasing power for consumers. |
| How did the National Recovery Administration impact labor? | The NRA set labor standards for duration and children, as well as guaranteed the rights of workers to organize unions. |
| What happened to the National Recovery Administration? | The NRA did not help agricultural or domestic workers, so African-Americans were not assisted, it conflicted with the interests of the large corporations, so the Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional. |
| What was the Tennessee Valley Authority? |
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