ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT
Answers
The Great Depression and the economic crisis that ensued discredited supporters of:
a. unregulated capitalism
b. liberalism
c. fascism
d. Keynesian economics
e. communism - CORRECT ANSWER - a. unregulated capitalism
In his 1932 campaign for the presidency, Franklin Roosevelt promised Americans a policy
change he called the:
a. Great Society
b. New Freedom
c. New Nationalism
d. New Deal
e. Fair Deal - CORRECT ANSWER - d. New Deal
The First New Deal:
a. ended unemployment
b. provided relief to very few Americans
c. ended the Great Depression
d. led to the construction of few public facilities
e. was a series of policy experiments - CORRECT ANSWER - e. was a series of policy
experiments
During 1934, the great wave of labor strikes included all of the following EXCEPT:
, a. International Longshoremen's Association
b. textile workers
c. Harry Bridges
d. stockbrokers
e. dockworkers - CORRECT ANSWER - d. stockbrokers
The administrators that Roosevelt choose for his cabinet reflected the conservative traditions of
Coolidge and Hoover. - CORRECT ANSWER - False
During the Roosevelt administration, the Democratic Party emerged into a coalition that included
all of the following EXCEPT:
a. the white supremacist South
b. industrial workers
c. northern African-Americans
d. farmers
e. the business elite - CORRECT ANSWER - e. the business elite
Which program employed white-collar workers and professionals, including doctors, writers, and
artists?
a. the Civilian Conservation Corps
b. the Wagner Act
c. the Works Progress Administration
d. the National Recovery Administration
e. the Tennessee Valley Authority - CORRECT ANSWER - c. the Works Progress
Administration
In John Steinbeck's piece about the Dust Bowl, he explained that recent migrants to California
were hated for all of the following reasons EXCEPT:
a. they were primarily immigrants
b. they carried disease