1. Chapter 23 Test Review

2. A New Deal Fights Depression
Chapter 23 section 1

3. FDR’s programs to end the Great Depression
The New Deal

4. This law created insurance for Bank Deposits
The Glass-Steagall Banking Act

5. What Program aimed to help farmers?
Agricultural Adjustment Act paid farmers not to grow in order to stimulate prices

6. Name the job creating programs of the New Deal
Civilian Conservation Corps
Works Progress Administration
National Youth Administration

7. This Louisiana politician criticized the new deal
Huey Long

8. The Second New Deal Takes Hold
Chapter 23 section 2

9. This law protected workers’ rights
The Wagner Act

10. What is Social Security?
Provides financial assistance for the disabled and unemployed and pensions for the elderly

11. How did Eleanor Roosevelt affect The New Deal
She spoke up greatly on behalf of the poor, minorities and women.

12. The New Deal Affects Many Groups
Chapter 23 section 3

13. Who was Frances Perkins?
The Secretary of Labor under FDR and first female member of The Cabinet

14. This man was the Commissioner on Indian Affairs
John Collier

15. Head of the Office of Minority Affairs for the NYA
Mary McLeod Bethune

16. What was the New Deal Coalition?
Voters from a number of different groups that supported the Democratic party because of the New Deal.

17. What were some of the groups in the New Deal Coalition?
Southern Whites, African Americans, union workers, city people

18. Society & Culture
Chapter 23 section 4

19. This was a popular movie of the 1930’s
Gone With the Wind

20. Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
This novel depicted life of a migrant farming family during the Dust Bowl
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

21. How did the New Deal support the arts?
The Federal Theater Project supported playwrights
The Federal Arts Project paid artists for art for public places
The Federal Writers project funded writers
Richard Wright was one writer and won the Pulitzer

22. Impact of The New Deal
Chapter 23 section 5

23. What is deficit spending?
When a government spends more money than comes in

24. What is the Securities & Exchange Commission?
Regulates the stock market

25. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and insures savings in banks
What is the FDIC?
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and insures savings in banks

26. What is the Tennessee Valley Authority
Work Project that prevented floods and provided electricity for rural people