Review Questions
- Which of the following best describes Roosevelt’s attempts to push his political agenda in the last months of Hoover’s presidency?
- Roosevelt spoke publicly on the issue of direct relief.
- Roosevelt met privately with Hoover to convince him to institute certain policy shifts before his presidency ended.
- Roosevelt awaited his inauguration before introducing any plans.
- Roosevelt met secretly with members of Congress to attempt to win their favor.
- Which of the following policies did Roosevelt not include among his early ideas for a New Deal?
- public works
- government regulation of the economy
- elimination of the gold standard
- aid to farmers
- What was the purpose of Roosevelt’s “Brains Trust?”
- Which of the following was not a policy undertaken by the NIRA?
- agreement among industries to set prices
- agreement among industries to reinvest profits into their firms
- agreement among industries to set production levels
- recognition of the right of workers to form unions
- What type of help did the CWA provide?
- direct relief
- farm refinancing
- bank reform
- employment opportunities
- In what ways did the New Deal both provide direct relief and create new jobs? Which programs served each of these goals?
- How did the NRA seek to protect workers? What difficulties did this agency face?
- Which of the following statements accurately describes Mary McLeod Bethune?
- She was a prominent supporter of the Townsend Plan.
- She was a key figure in the NYA.
- She was Eleanor Roosevelt’s personal secretary.
- She was a labor organizer.
- The Social Security Act borrowed some ideas from which of the following?
- the Townsend Plan
- the Division of Negro Affairs
- the Education Trust
- the NIRA
- What was the first New Deal agency to hire women openly?
- the NRA
- the WPA
- the AAA
- the TVA
- What were the major goals and accomplishments of the Indian New Deal?