What was one short-term effect of the Emergency Banking Act?
Select one:
a. Roosevelt declared a bank holiday.
b. Commercial and investment banking were split.
c. Banks began to fail because of ongoing bank runs.
d. People stopped rushing to banks to withdraw all their savings.
How did the Banking Act of 1933 make banks more stable in the long run?
Select one:
a. It separated commercial and investment banking.
b. It made bank runs and bank holidays illegal.
c. It created a system of regional federal banks to oversee local banks.
d. It required people to take out insurance on their bank deposits.
The passage of the Wagner Act legalized which of the following?
Select one:
a. labor unions
b. Federal Deposit Insurance
c. Social Security
d. minimum wage
Which of these New Deal opponents advocated an idea that was adopted during the Second New Deal?
Select one:
a. Francis Townsend
b. Herbert Hoover
c. Huey Long
d. Father Coughlin
Besides providing funds to those in need, which of the following may have been another goal of the Social Security Act?
Select one:
a. to encourage older workers to retire so younger workers had more jobs available
b. to remove the cost of caring for blind or injured workers from private companies
c. to help older citizens gain important financial management skills after banking failures
d. to provide a safety net for farmers and other agricultural workers if crop prices dropped again
Which of the following was built by the Tennessee Valley Authority?
Select one:
a. dams
b. highways
c. public buildings
d. national parks
Which of these was a part of the First New Deal?
Select one:
a. National Labor Relations Act
b. Works Progress Administration
c. Social Security Act
d. Public Works Administration