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tiara099 · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

In 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt's call to expand the Supreme Court came from

A. his desire to change the ideological balance of the Court.

B. his opinion that the Court needed to review a larger number of cases.

C. complaints by several justices that they were being overworked.

D. a desire not to have to choose between two different popular candidates for chief justice.

E. a Democratic plan to gain permanent control of the federal government.

Question 2

All of the following groups were part of the New Deal political coalition EXCEPT

A. big-business owners.

B. urban blacks.

C. western and southern farmers.

D. the working class.

E. liberals and progressives.

Question 3

The primary New Deal government aid to women during the 1930s was in the form of

A. free health care.

B. cash assistance.

C. free child care.

D. industrial work relief.

E. secretarial work relief.

Question 4

The Works Progress Administration of 1935

A. displayed very little flexibility or imagination.

B. was much larger than previous programs of its kind.

C. provided mostly make-work jobs to the unemployed.

D. was under the direction of Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins.

E. gave federal relief money to those deemed unemployable.