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All the following were New Deal programs EXCEPT:

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  1. Civil Works Administration

  2. Reconstruction Finance Corporation

  3. National Labor Relations Act

  4. Farm Security Administration

  5. Federal Housing Administration

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The New Deal was a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1936. It responded to needs for relief, reform, and recovery from the Great Depression except for Reconstruction Finance Corporation.

Franklin D. Roosevelt attempted to pack the Supreme Court in 1937 because _______.

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  1. the justices were too inexperienced to deal with the Great Depression.

  2. the court had declared some New Deal legislation unconstitutional.

  3. Roosevelt felt that Congress had become more powerful than the president.

  4. the court refused to allow the president to implement the Lend-Lease Act.

  5. the court had demonstrated liberal tendencies in interpreting the New Deal legislation.

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Franklin D. Roosevelt attempted to pack the Supreme Court in 1937 because the court had declared some New Deal legislation unconstitutional.

Herbert Hoover reacted to the Depression of 1929 by __________________.

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  1. doing nothing.

  2. encouraging unions to organize.

  3. establishing extensive federal relief programs to meet the emergency.

  4. building Hoovervilles to shelter the homeless in all the large cities.

  5. providing loans to industry to restart production.

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Correct Option: E

Frank Capra was a Depression-era film director whose artistic response to the Great Depression could best be described as ________________________.

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  1. elaborate musicals, such as Gold Diggers of 1933, with lavish dance numbers and opulent sets, which suggested that better times were just around the corner.

  2. earnest films, such as Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, which suggested that the problems of the era could be solved by old-fashioned values rather than sweeping political or economic change.

  3. bright, animated films, such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which offered Americans an escape from the drudgery of daily life.

  4. zany comedies, such as Duck Soup, which created an anarchic world that mocked authority at a time when traditional authorities seemed to be unable to provide answers to the day's problems.

  5. gritty gangster movies, such as The Public Enemy, which presented a lonely, often cruel world of urban decay and violence.

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Correct Option: B

The nomination of Theodore Roosevelt as the presidential candidate for the "Bull Moose" party led to the election of which of the following presidents?

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  1. William McKinley

  2. William Howard Taft

  3. Franklin D. Roosevelt

  4. Woodrow Wilson

  5. Calvin Coolidge

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Thomas Woodrow Wilson was an American statesman and academic who served as the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921. A member of the Democratic Party, Wilson served as the president of Princeton University and as the 34th governor of New Jersey before winning the 1912 presidential election.

President Theodore Roosevelt's foreign policy initiatives included all of the following EXCEPT:

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  1. securing the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty with Panama to build a canal through Panama.

  2. brokering a peace treaty between Russia and Japan.

  3. establishing a corollary to the Monroe Doctrine asserting a U.S. right to intervene in Latin American affairs.

  4. popularizing the expression "speak softly but carry a big stick" in regard to dealing with foreign nations.

  5. negotiating a treaty with Spain following the Spanish-American War.

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Correct Option: E

As part of President Franklin Roosevelt's plan to fight the Great Depression, the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) was passed to _____________.

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  1. replace the New Deal farm price supports, which had been declared unconstitutional.

  2. help raise the prices of farm goods so that farmers could survive the Depression.

  3. provide new equipment so farmers could grow more crops.

  4. give loans to farmers who planted crops that were needed in cities.

  5. ensure that all farmers who wanted to relocate to more fertile land could move without difficulty.

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

As part of President Franklin Roosevelt's plan to fight the Great Depression, the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) was passed to help raise the prices of farm goods so that farmers could survive the Depression.

The Square Deal domestic programs were established by ___________.

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  1. Franklin D. Roosevelt

  2. James Garfield

  3. Grover Cleveland

  4. James K. Polk

  5. Theodore Roosevelt

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Correct Option: E
Explanation:

Theodore Roosevelt established the Square Deal domestic programs in 1910. It aims to the conservation of natural resources, control of corporations and consumer protection.

"Hostilities exist. There is no blinking at the fact that our people, our territory, and our interests are in grave danger. With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph---so help us God. I ask that the Congress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack by Japan on Sunday, December 7th, 1941, a state of war has existed between the United States and the Japanese empire."
The statement above was most likely made by which of the following?

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  1. Woodrow Wilson

  2. Herbert Hoover

  3. Harry Truman

  4. Dwight D. Eisenhower

  5. Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Correct Option: E
Explanation:

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.

The End Poverty in California campaign and the Share the Wealth Society could best be described as ________________________.

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  1. campaigns that argued the New Deal did not go far enough.

  2. local programs under the auspices of the New Deal.

  3. labor organizations formed by the Communist Party.

  4. conservative attacks on the "dictatorial" New Deal.

  5. women's organizations that thought male-dominated organizations did not understand the realities of poverty.

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Correct Option: A