Histroy 112R Ch. 22

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1
HErbert Hoover supported all of the following policies, EXCEPT
  • A. Private and small business intrests should assist individuals in time of need
  • B. Benefits to big business will "trickle down" to individuals
  • C. The federal government should maintain a balanced budget
  • D. The federal government should sponsor massive public works projects to "prime the pump" of the economy
2
All of the following are true of the New Deal,EXCEPT
  • A. It forged a new, permanent relationship between the federal government and the common people.
  • B. The New Deal ended the nation's finacial crisis.
  • C. It fashioned an insttitutional apparatus that streghend the capitalist marked structure and provided economic security to ordinary Americans.
  • D. It came to a halt after only five years of public policy initiatives, experiments and reforms.
3
All of the following are ture of the Fair Labor Standards Act, EXCEPT
  • A. It outlawed child labor
  • B. It was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.
  • C. It established a national minimum hourly wage and maximum hours for the work week.
  • D. it was supported by FDR
4
The Social Security Administration was established to
  • A. Ensure retired workers could revice and annual income of $22,000.
  • B. provide pensions to the elderly and icome to windows and disabled workers.
  • C. Renistate fired workers.
  • D. Provide financial aid to unewd mothers.
5
Which of the following statements about Congress during FDR's presidency is TRUE
  • A. In the 1930's, FDR always had a majority in both houses of Congress.
  • B. FDR inherited a one-sided Congress established in the Hoover presidency.
  • C. Once the New Deal was in place, Congress stoped supporting FDR
  • Sinc FDR was Repulican, he struggled to cooperate with the Democratic Congress
6
All of the following were contidions leading to the 2nd New Deal, EXCEPT
  • A. FDR's enormous popular support
  • B. Pressure from protest coming from the left
  • C. FDR's undying belief in a blananced budget
  • D. Acts of the 1st New Deal that needed continued support.
7
Which of the following acts of the FDR administation is criticized LEAST
  • A. The court-packing scheme
  • B. Expansion of the federal government
  • C. The Indian Reorganization Act
  • D. Causing the Roosevelt Recession
8
What was buying on margin?
  • A. Taking out a loan to invest the money in the stock market.
  • B. Moving to different location to find available goods.
  • C. Buying stocks low and selling high.
  • D. Buying housing while it was cheap in the Great Depression.
9
What was the result of Hoover's Hawley-Smoot Tariff?
  • A. It lowerd prices and eased the pereasure of the Great Drepression.
  • B. It encoraged more foreign nations nations to invest in the United States.
  • C. It sparked retaliation from other nations and higher prices.
  • D. In the midst of the Great Depression, its impact was negligible.
10
What welfare program was Dr. Francis Townsend most associated with?
  • A. Care for homeless children.
  • B. Care for immigrants.
  • C. Reproductive care for mothers.
  • D. Care for the elderly
11
Nickname applied to Huey Long's presidential campaign slogan.
Share our wealth
12
Name the popular raido minister of the 1930's who opposed FDR.
Father Charles Coughlin
13
This economic slide late in the New Deal is sometimes used as a point of criticism aganist FDR.
Rosevelt Recession
14
Who lead the Farmers Holiday Association
Milo Reno
15
what 1931 case higlighted the inequities in the justice system and resulted in nine Black boys serving many years in prison?
The Scottsboro Boys
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