Chapter 24: Homework

Chapter 24: Homework

Answer both the Short Answer and the Review Questions; the vocabulary has been provided for you to study. Submit your answers to the dropbox labeled Chapter 24 Homework.  I will provide answers to you after your submission for you to use to study.  You will be graded on your effort.  By submitting the work, you are agreeing that this is your work and you have not worked with another student or copied their work.  You may submit up to the deadline but NO LATE WORK WILL BE ACCEPTED.

Short Answer Questions (these will be the basis for the short answer on the test)

1. Why did Franklin D. Roosevelt win the 1932 election by such a large margin?

2. How did the New Dealers try to steer the nation toward recovery from the Great Depression?

Homework Review (these questions will be the basis for the multiple choice questions)

1. What was Franklin Roosevelt’s political experience before he won the presidential election of 1932?
2. In order to win the presidential election in 1932, what did Franklin Delano Roosevelt have to do?
3. What was the name of President Roosevelt’s signature program?
4. What was the unifying basis of the New Deal coalition?
5. To what was President Roosevelt referring when he said, “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself”?
6. What was the three-part goal of Roosevelt’s New Deal?
7. Which woman became the New Deal’s unofficial ambassador in 1933?
8. What belief lay at the foundation of Roosevelt’s New Deal?
9. Describe the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
10. What strategy did President Roosevelt use to restore America’s confidence in government and the private banking system?
11. What was the name of the agency President Roosevelt established in 1933 to provide direct relief to more than four million households?
12. What was the purpose of the Franklin Roosevelt’s Civilian Conservation Corps?

To give young men government jobs conserving natural resources

13. What was the purpose of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) program that began in 1933?
14. How did the New Deal make significant improvements in the quality of life in rural America?
15. 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?
16. Where did migrant workers seeking to escape the chronic drought of the Dust Bowl typically look for work in the 1930s?
17. On what grounds did Upton Sinclair challenge Roosevelt and the New Deal?
18. Who championed the “Share Our Wealth” plan of income distribution?
19. Which New Deal agency employed artists, musicians, actors, journalists, academics, poets, and novelists?
20. What was the purpose of the National Labor Relations Act, or Wagner Act, when it was enacted in 1934?
21. How did the framers of Social Security agree to fund the program?
22. On what criteria were benefits provided through Social Security?
23. Why did Roosevelt fail to push for more ambitious reforms for black Americans?
24. Describe the experiences of Mexican Americans during the 1930s.
25. What was the outcome of the 1934 Indian Reorganization Act on Native Americans?
26. What was President Roosevelt’s plan to remove judicial obstacles to the New Deal reforms in his second term of office commonly called?
27. What was the outcome of President Roosevelt’s fiscal decisions in 1937?
28. In his book The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, what did John Maynard Keynes argue?
29. What was the goal of the New Deal’s Farm Security Administration, created in 1937?
30. Describe the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.