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Number 1. A constitutional amendment (1933) ratified to repeal the 18th Amendment, which had initiated Prohibition
Correct Answer: Twenty-First Amendment
Number 2. Congressional act that legalized labor union's right to organize and use collective bargaining tactics; also known as the National Labor Relations Act.
Correct Answer: Wagner Act
Number 3. Agency created in 1935 to hire over 10 million American men to construct public works projects such as roads, bridges, and public buildings
Correct Answer: Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Number 4. A government agency created to build dams along the Tennessee River and generate electricity to the millions without power
Correct Answer: Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Number 5. A bill that paid farmer's subsidies to grow fewer crops in order to curb overproduction
Correct Answer: Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act
Number 6. Act that established pensions for the elderly, handicapped, and unemployed
Correct Answer: Social Security Act
Number 7. A 1935 case in which the conservative Supreme Court ruled that the National Recovery Act was unconstitutional on the grounds that the federal government had no business controlling intrastate commerce
Correct Answer: Schechter v. United States
Number 8. A recession caused by FDR's decision to cut back on deficit spending before the Great Depression was really over; many lost confidence in Roosevelt's New Deal legislation because of this recession
Correct Answer: Roosevelt Recession
Number 9. A government agency set up to create new jobs, improve the nation's infrastructure, and provide unemployment relief.
Correct Answer: Public Works Administration (PWA)
Number 10. Law that required federal examiners to survey the nation's banks and determine which ones were financially sound
Correct Answer: Emergency Banking Relief Act
Number 11. Agency that put millions of young men to work on conservation and environmental projects
Correct Answer: Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Number 12. An administration created to help poor farmers; the AAA reset prices for agricultural commodities at their high, pre-World War I prices and paid farmers subsidies to cut their supply
Correct Answer: Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)
Number 13. British economist who believed that deficit spending during recessions and depressions could revive national economies and would pay for the deficit spending by collecting revenues through taxes during good economic times
Correct Answer: John Maynard Keynes
Number 14. Reduced interests on loans and provided for postponement of payments
Correct Answer: Home Owners Loan Corporation
Number 15. Raised minimum wage to 40 cents per hour and shortened the work week to forty hours
Correct Answer: Fair Labor Standards Act
Number 16. Loaned money to sharecroppers and tenant farmers so they could purchase their own land
Correct Answer: Farm Security Administration
Number 17. Guaranteed workers the right to join labor unions and call strikes
Correct Answer: National Labor Relations Board
Number 18. An agency that distributed grants to state government and individuals to provide relief from the Depression
Correct Answer: Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)