Chapter 22 Test Review

1. What was created to regulate the stock market?

2. What act allowed the organization of unions and the right to collective bargaining?

3. What was the main problem that conservatives had with the New Deal?

4. What gave part-time jobs to high school and college-aged people?

5. What program oversaw the planting of trees and creation of park trails?

6. What was issued by FDR to stop massive withdrawals?

7. What was the economic policy idea that involved taxing the wealthy heavily so it can be used to pay the poor a minimum income and guarantee them a house?

8. What provided pensions to workers aged 65 and older?

9. What economist influenced many New Deal recovery programs?

10. Which region of the US was called the Dust Bowl?

11. Who produced the famous photograph Migrant Mother?

12. The Share-Our-Wealth program was proposed by whom?

13. Name 3 things that the TVA did for the region.

14. What did FDR propose to help change the Supreme Court? Why?

15. What famous line did FDR state in his inaugural address?

16. What was the name of FDR’s radio broadcasts?

17. What illness did FDR suffer from?

18. How many days did it take FDR pass most of his New Deal legislation? How many measures?

19. What did the FDIC do?

20. Name 3 things the CCC did.

21. What initially caused the Dust Bowl?

22. What program helped employ artists, authors, and writers?

23. What was the responsibility of the FHA?

24. What famous novel/book debuted in the 1930s and uttered a famous curse?

26. Name 3 things the WPA did.

27. Who folk singer wrote This Land is Your Land?

28. How did FDR’s administration help fight against discrimination?

29. What singer did Eleanor Roosevelt help get a concert for at the Lincoln Memorial? What group forbade this singer from singing in their hall?

30. What did the AAA help farmers create to assist in raising the prices of crops?

31. What state did most Dust Bowlers head towards to escape the terrible conditions?

32. What road did most Dust Bowlers use?

33. Who was FDR’s trusty advisor that oversaw the FERA program?

34. How much did men make a day working for the CCC?

37. Name 2 things established by the Fair Standards Act.

38. What are the 3 parts of the Social Security Act?

40. What type of protest was used by General Motors workers?

41. What act guaranteed labor’s right to organize unions and to use collective bargaining?

42. What did the fed. gov’t do to help make sure the Dust Bowl never occurred again?

43. What was the name of the most famous piece of art created during the Great Depression?

44. What were the three goals of the New Deal?

45. How many terms did FDR serve?

46. What 2 programs were deemed unconstitutional by the Supreme Court?

47. How did many Americans “escape” the miseries of the Great Depression?

48. What program supplied poor farmers with cheap electricity? Not the TVA