Deck 6: Social Policy to Address the Worst Economic Catastrophe in Us History

Question 1

Some areas that policy advocates like Mary van Kleeck and Mary McLeod Bethune advocated for during the New Deal Era included

A) developing federal programs for African Americans for job training and educational scholarships.
B) increasing quality of work environments and pay for social workers delivering the New Deal services and benefits.
C) supporting the agendas of union, industrial workers, and women's groups.
D) All of the answers are correct.

Answer 1

D

Question 2

The Federal Emergency Relief Administration was formed by President Roosevelt to

A) stabilize the banking system.
B) support immigrant families.
C) provide funds to states and localities for persons who needed financial assistance.
D) provide a temporary boost to the economy via moderately sized tax rebates, which only worsened the situation in the long run.

Answer 2

C

Question 3

In an effort to appease Southern and Western interests, Title II of the Social Security Act, Federal Old-Age Benefits, excludes which of the following groups from receiving benefits:

A) agricultural labor
B) affluent Americans
C) elderly persons with private retirement plans
D) no one; everyone may receive benefits

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Many leaders of the Catholic Church defended the New Deal, but its bishops opposed passage of child labor regulations because they believed it interfered with the privacy of the family.

Question 5

The Social Security Act created a welfare program

A) for the blind.
B) for impoverished farmers.
C) for disabled persons.
D) for millionaires.

Question 6

The Civilian Conservation Corps was formed to

A) create jobs for 2.5 million young men.
B) provide funds for 1 million people to start small businesses.
C) build parks in 100 cities.
D) boost work programs for African American youth.

Question 7

The New Deal was mostly financed by deficit spending and increase in national debt.

Question 8

When the Aid to Dependent Children Program (ADC) started, it provided benefits only to

A) children.
B) children and their parents.
C) children but only in single-parent households.
D) runaway children who refused to return home.

Question 9

Though many social workers supported Franklin Roosevelt, Jane Addams and some other reformers voted for ____ in the election of 1932.

A) Hoover
B) Debbs
C) Hopkins
D) Truman

Question 10

Many people in the 1920s believed that if private enterprise was left unfettered, prosperity would soon follow for all. This belief was also expressed in

A) the 1950s.
B) the 1980s.
C) the 1950s and 1980s.
D) no other time in American history.

Question 11

Reserves of Social Security are financed by

A) special private insurance policies.
B) a condition of federal and state subsidies.
C) payroll taxes of workers.
D) sales of the blood donated to the Red Cross.

Question 12

The National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933, which lead to the National Recovery Administration, was formed to

A) raise tariffs.
B) form the AFL-CIO.
C) bring together business leaders of the steel, mining, and coal industries to agree on pricing and how they would charge for products in their sectors.
D) rescue the nation's wilderness from being swallowed entirely by the big business interests of the day.

Question 13

At the beginning of the economic depression, Herbert Hoover embraced _______to address the nation's unemployment.

A) government-funded programs
B) private enterprise
C) a combination of government programs and private enterprise
D) a cap on consumer spending

Question 14

The Great Depression was caused because

A) American consumers lacked resources to purchase goods.
B) of speculation and high tariffs.
C) economic expansion halted as industry did not have sufficient capital.
D) no evidence of a single cause of the depression and its precise causes still remain controversial.

Question 15

Unions were not necessarily proponents of the New Deal because they were so preoccupied with securing their right to organize.

Question 16

Although every social and economic class experienced some form of distress due to the depression, there were still factors that limited policy initiatives:

A) unions were not always a proponent of the New Deal policies
B) the Supreme Court often ruled against New Deal policies
C) the United States lacked fiscal and governmental institutions to implement reforms
D) All of the answers are correct.

Question 17

The Public Works Administration focused on public projects that could quickly be completed.

Question 18

The Civilian Works Administration (CWA) focused on increasing worker's productivity.

Question 19

The Fair Labor Standard Act established minimum wage and maximum hours but excluded

A) government workers.
B) workers in department stores.
C) farm laborers.
D) single poor men.

Question 20

Though African Americans participated in the WPA and PWA, some New Dealers

A) were reluctant to develop programs specifically for African Americans.
B) were opposed to quotas for African Americans in New Deal programs.
C) thought that programs like the WPA would end discrimination more effectively than civil rights legislation.
D) All of the answers are correct.

Question 21

Fearing Japanese, German, and Italian citizens in the United States, Roosevelt placed significant numbers of each of these groups in internment camps during World War II.

Question 22

The Southern Tenant Farmer's Association was established to stop the eviction of impoverished, American tenant farmers.

Question 23

The New Deal demonstrated that the federal government could become a major force in social welfare, which it could develop, and could oversee major social programs and move quickly to respond to urgent need.

Question 24

Eleanor Roosevelt worked tirelessly throughout her lifetime acting as an advocate for millions of poor and disadvantaged Americans despite her wealthy roots.

Question 25

Many consider the Social Security Act to be the foundation of the American welfare state.