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The New Deal, 1933-1941
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1 .       The Agricultural Adjustment Act tried to raise farm income by increasing the production of commodity goods like wheat and cotton. [Hint]

 
 


2 .       The New Deal's Tennessee Valley Authority was found unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in "Schechter v. United States" (1937). [Hint]

 
 


3 .       President Roosevelt's New Deal policies were mostly experimental and not tied to any consistent ideological system. [Hint]

 
 


4 .       The First New Deal was more innovative in attempting a planned economy than the Second New Deal. [Hint]

 
 


5 .       The presidential election of 1936 was a clear vote of confidence for President Roosevelt and the New Deal. [Hint]

 
 


6 .       President Roosevelt's popularity declined in the late 1930s partly because of his decision to take the nation off the gold standard. [Hint]

 
 


7 .       In the 1938 midterm election campaign, President Roosevelt campaigned against several of his own party's conservative congressional candidates. [Hint]

 
 


8 .       One problem with the New Deal was that it was stunted by President Roosevelt's unwillingness to stretch presidential powers to obtain his objectives. [Hint]

 
 


9 .       The most significant aspect of the New Deal was that it committed the country to the idea of federal responsibility for the national welfare. [Hint]

 
 


10 .       During the 1930s, blacks shifted their political support from the Republican to the Democratic party. [Hint]

 
 


11 .       President Roosevelt was too inflexible in his thinking to be an effective leader in time of crisis. [Hint]

 
 


12 .       During President Roosevelt's first term, 1933 to 1937, U.S. foreign policy tended to be neutralist and isolationist. [Hint]

 
 


13 .       Congressional legislation in the mid-1930s prohibited the sale of U.S. munitions to any foreign nation the president proclaimed was engaged in war. [Hint]

 
 


14 .       Following President Roosevelt's "quarantine speech" in 1937, Congress repealed the Neutrality Act of 1935. [Hint]

 
 


15 .       Even before Pearl Harbor, the United States was already fighting an undeclared naval war against Germany in the Atlantic. [Hint]

 
 






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