Home

Student Resources

Chapter 27: The New Deal, 1933-1941

True/False Quiz

True/False Quiz
Ready to gauge your understanding? Answer the questions, then click “Submit for Grade” for your score.

This activity contains 15 questions.

	The Agricultural Adjustment Act tried to raise farm income by increasing the production of commodity goods like wheat and cotton.    True  False

	The New Deal's Tennessee Valley Authority was found unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in Schechter v. United States (1937).    True  False

	The Second New Deal began in June 1935.    True  False

	Determining whether the First or Second New Deal was more radical is a matter of perspective.    True  False

	The presidential election of 1936 was a clear vote of confidence for President Roosevelt and the New Deal.    True  False

	In the 1936 election, black voters voted Democratic in record numbers.    True  False

	In the 1938 midterm election campaign, President Roosevelt campaigned against several of his own party's conservative congressional candidates.    True  False

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

	The most significant aspect of the New Deal was that it committed the country to the idea of federal responsibility for the national welfare.    True  False

	During the 1930s, blacks shifted their political support from the Republican to the Democratic party.    True  False

	President Roosevelt was too inflexible in his thinking to be an effective leader in time of crisis.    True  False

	During President Roosevelt's first term, 1933 to 1937, U.S. foreign policy tended to be neutralist and isolationist.    True  False

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

	Following President Roosevelt's "quarantine speech" in 1937, Congress repealed the Neutrality Act of 1935.    True  False

	Even before Pearl Harbor, the United States was already fighting an undeclared naval war against Germany in the Atlantic.    True  False

Copyright © 1995-2008, Pearson Education, Inc., publishing as Pearson Longman Legal and Privacy Terms