Module 10 TEST review

What was an effect of the WPA?

Established a maximum weekly number of hours and a minimum wage

The federal government has too much control over agriculture and industry

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

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

Who wrote "The Grapes of Wrath"

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

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

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

provided young people with education, jobs, and counseling

Employed men in projects building parks and preventing forest fires

The federal government should nationalize the country's banks.

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

Who wrote "Native Son"

Raised crop and livestock prices by paying farmers to produce less

Established to regulate industry, created the NRA

Granted Money to states to construct schools and community buildings

Established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to protect bank accounts

settles disputes between unions and employers

commissioner of Indian Affairs who helped create the Indian Reorganization Act

Government spending more money than it receives

monitors the stock market

How did Eleanor Roosevelt participate in the New Deal?

guarantees the money in individual bank accounts

Hired photographers to document the lives of people in rural areas