Module 10 TEST review

The federal government has too much control over agriculture and industry

Granted Money to states to construct schools and community buildings

Headed the Division of Negro Affairs and helped organize the "Black Cabinet"

Established a maximum weekly number of hours and a minimum wage

Hired photographers to document the lives of people in rural areas

Which of the following is a legacy of the New Deal?

Employed men in projects building parks and preventing forest fires

How did a large part of the general public try to escape the hardships of their lives during the Great Depression?

Who wrote "Native Son"

Established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to protect bank accounts

monitors the stock market

Established to regulate industry, created the NRA

commissioner of Indian Affairs who helped create the Indian Reorganization Act

Required corporations to provide complete information on all stock offerings & made them liable for misrepresentations

The federal government should nationalize the country's banks.

What was the goal of President Roosevelt's bank holiday and passage of the Glass-Steagall Act?

How did striking labor unions often prevent companies from using scabs in the 1930s?

settles disputes between unions and employers

Government spending more money than it receives

provided young people with education, jobs, and counseling

How did Eleanor Roosevelt participate in the New Deal?

What was an effect of the WPA?

Who wrote "The Grapes of Wrath"

Raised crop and livestock prices by paying farmers to produce less

guarantees the money in individual bank accounts