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Are You Familiar with the New Deal?

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Are You Familiar with the New Deal game quiz
"In order to find a way out of the Great Depression, the Roosevelt administration, amid much disagreement and controversy, brought in the New Deal. How much do you know about it?"

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1. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the "mind" behind the New Deal, won the presidential election in 1932 against which president (who had governed between 1929 and 1933)?
    Herbert Hoover
    Calvin Coolidge
    Woodrow Wilson
    John Fitzgerald Kennedy


2. Franklin D. Roosevelt belonged to which political party?
    Republicans
    Conservationists
    Greens
    Democrats


3. This was one of Roosevelt's first promises to the American people?
    "Action, and action now."
    "It is time to replace the present corruption, lawlessness and hypocrisy with honesty."
    "Every American home should have two cars in the garage and a chicken in the pot."
    "Prosperity is just around the corner."


4. Roosevelt was indeed a smart man, but he didn't come up with the programme for the New Deal all by himself. He worked with a panel of experts. What was it called?
    the Great Bunch
    the Brain Trust
    the Smart Trust
    the Big Bunch


5. The New Deal program had three main aims, which were what?
    Relief, Recovery, Reform
    Power, Protection, Prohibition
    Relief, Empowerment, Economic Boom
    Pauperisation, Unemployment, Crisis


6. Roosevelt, first of all, closed all the banks for a ten-day holiday. He wanted to rescue the banks.
    True
    False


7. In 1933 Roosevelt set up the first of a series of government agencies, which were the means of his New Deal, designed to give the American people support. Since their names were often not very short, they quickly became know as ...?
    Acronym Agencies
    Alphabet Agencies
    Initial Agencies
    Omega Organisations


8. In 1933 the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was established as a temporary emergency measure. In 1935 it was in effect replaced by a much larger program, which lasted till into the World War II. What was this latter program called?
    Federal Employment Administration
    Civilian Credit Corps
    Right to Work Program
    Works Progress Administration


9. The CCC gave the young men working in its camps a wage of $2 per day.
    True
    False


10. What was the purpose of the agency named HOLC?
    It helped single mothers take care of their children with a monetary aid
    It loaned money to people who risked losing their homes
    It created public works of real and lasting value ( people were employed to build bridges, dams etc)
    It established fixed pensions for the elderly


11. What is the name of the agency which was set up to develop the Tennessee Valley, a really poverty-stricken area?
    Answer: (One Word (use the initials, with no dots))


12. The Wagner Act of 1935 gave more power to what?
    Trade unions
    Farm tenants
    Rich businessmen
    Black people


13. The Civilian Works Administration (CWA) created as many jobs as possible. Many of them were really useless, and were called "boondoggles". Which of these is an example of a "boondoggle"?
    reading out newspapers for children to hear
    none of them
    researching the history of the safety pin
    sitting on benches in parks to make sure they were safe


14. What was the symbol of the NRA, the National Recovery Administration, which helped industries to flourish again?
    the Blue Eagle
    the Black Hawk
    the Blue Swan
    the Black Robin


15. Not all of the USA saw the New Deal as a positive influence and method to get the country out of the Great Depression. Some extremely influential characters in American society did not support the New Deal. Who were they?
    The Republicans
    All of these
    The Big Businessmen
    The Rich


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