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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)

 

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