Question 1
The criticism of the New Deal from Coughlin, Long, and Townshend demonstrated that:
A) the New Deal had opponents on both the left and the right.
B) Republicans were successful in organizing opposition to FDR.
C) only a radical fringe of Americans opposed the New Deal.
D) Roosevelt would have to swing hard to the right to win reelection in 1936.
Question 2
The first thing FDR did to re-establish confidence in the economy was to:
A) set up the Temporary Emergency Relief Administration.
B) declare a four-day bank holiday to shore up the banking system.
C) establish the President's Emergency Committee on Unemployment.
D) establish the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
Question 3
The UAW strike against General Motors' Flint, Michigan plant succeeded in part because:
A) Michigan Governor Frank Murphy called in the National Guard to protect the strikers.
B) GM was desperate for additional workers and gave in to their demands.
C) President Roosevelt threatened to nationalize the plant if the strike was not ended.
D) communist members of the CIO agreed to resign as a condition of ending the strike.