New Deal Study Guide
1. Why did many state governors declare “bank holidays” during the Great Depression?
2. What was something FDR did early in his presidency to fight the Depression? (hint:
banks)
3. What group did Congress create to regulate the stock market?
4. The National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) set up ______ among business, labor and
government to help them cooperate.
5. What was the purpose of the Townsend plan?
6. In the Schechter v. United States what did the Supreme Court rule?
7. How did the authors of the Social Security Act see the plan?
8. Why was FDR’s court packing plan a mistake?
9. Roosevelt’s advisers disagreed on the specifics, but what is something they all agreed on
when it came to how the government and the economy should work?
10.What did those who supported “New Freedom” want to do to big companies?
11.How did the Emergency Banking Relief Act help solve the banking crisis?
12.How did the AAA try to help farmers?
13.What did the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation do?
14.Why did Congress authorize the Farm Credit Administration?
15.Who did the Federal Number One program employ?
16.The Committee for Industrial Organization set out to organize what type of workers?
17.How did FDR trigger a new economic downturn in 1937?
18.What was the period of time in 1933 called when FDR sent bill after bill to Congress?
19.How did FDR reassure citizens about all the changes the government was making?
20.What was the right-wing criticism of the New Deal?
21.What happened to Roosevelt’s court packing plan?
22.What was one objective of the Social Security Act?
23.What were some effects of the New Deal?
24.What was an aspect of the Indian New Deal?
25.Why did Roosevelt with the 1932 election so easily?
26.What was Roosevelt’s view of the government in 1932?
27.Why was there an increase in bank runs before Roosevelt was elected?
28.What did the Farm Credit Administration do?
29.What did the CCC do?
30.What were a few criticisms of the New Deal?
31.Why were people on the political left unhappy with the New Deal?
32.What did the Works Progress Administration do?
33.Explain the Wagner Act.
34.What was a sit down strike?
35.What did Social Security provide Americans.
36.How were the 1st and 2nd New Deal Different?
37.What group voted for Roosevelt in 1936 that traditionally voted Republican?
38.Describe court packing.
39.What did the Fair Labor Standards Act do?
40.What was the result of Roosevelt’s spending cuts in 1937?
41.What is Keynesianism?
42.What is one positive legacy of the New Deal for American workers?