Chapter 24

Why did Florence Owens and her children travel through California in the 1930s?

What was Franklin D. Roosevelt's political experience before he won the presidential election of 1932?

In order to win the presidential election in 1932, Roosevelt had to

What was the name of President Roosevelt's signature program?

What made the election of 1932 particularly historic?

What was the unifying basis of the New Deal coalition?

To what was President Roosevelt referring when he said, "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself"?

What was the three-part goal of Roosevelt's New Deal?

Which woman became the New Deal's unofficial ambassador in 1933?

What belief lay at the foundation of Roosevelt's New Deal?

The Emergency Banking Act of 1933 strengthened American banks by

Which of the following describes the federal deposit insurance corporation (FDIC)?

What strategy did President Roosevelt use to restore America's confidence in government and the private banking system?

What was the name of the agency President Roosevelt established in 1933 to provide direct relief to more than four million households?

What was the purpose of Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps?

What was the purpose of the Tennessee Valley Authority program that began in 1933?

The New Deal made significant improvements in the quality of life in rural America by

How did the Agricultural Adjustment and Farm Credit acts of 1935 aim to help American farmers?

What made it impossible for the National Recovery Administration (NRA) to regulate business effectively?

Opponents of the New Deal included business leaders and

What event dealt the final blow to the NRA in May 1935?

Why didn't southern tenant farmers benefit from the programs developed by the Agricultural Adjustment Act, the Commodity Credit Corporation, and the Farm Credit Act?

Where did migrant workers seeking to escape the chronic drought of the Dust Bowl typically look for work in the 1930s?

On what grounds did Upton Sinclair challenge Roosevelt and the New Deal?

Father Charles Coughlin, an opponent of the New Deal, placed the blame for the nation's economic crisis on

Who championed the "Share Our Wealth" plan of income redistribution?

In 1935, when President Roosevelt had the congressional majorities to support him, he began to

Which New Deal agency employed artists, musicians, actors, journalists, academics, poets, and novelists?

The purpose of the National Labor Relations Act, or Wagner Act, when it was enacted in 1934, was to

The Wagner Act helped which of the following unions to mobilize organizing drives in major industries?

In 1937, disgruntled workers at the General Motors plant in Flint, Michigan, acted on their grievances by

The framers of Social Security agreed to fund the program

What impact did New Deal programs have on the average national unemployment rate during the 1930s?

Why did Roosevelt fail to push for more ambitious reforms for black Americans?

Which of the following describes the experiences of Mexican Americans during the 1930s?

What was the outcome of the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act on Native Americans?

By 1936, how did many American radicals-including Communists and socialists- respond to the New Deal?

President Roosevelt's plan to remove judicial obstacles to New deal reforms in his second term of office

President Roosevelt's plan for enlarging the Supreme Court?

How did President Roosevelt attempt to change the economy in 1937?

What was the outcome of President Roosevelt's fiscal decisions in 1937?

The goal of the New Deal's Farm security Administration, created in 1937, was to

Which of the following statements describes the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938?

What occurrence proved that opposition to the New Deal had increased by the end of 1938?

Which of the following describes the overall impact of the New Deal?