Question 1
While many New Deal programs were discriminatory, Roosevelt issued an executive order banning discrimination in the:
A) Agricultural Adjustment Administration.
B) Civilian Conservation Corps.
C) National Recovery Administration.
D) Works Progress Administration.
Question 2
One of the consequences of FDR's court packing attempt was that:
A) the Supreme Court started to uphold the constitutionality of New Deal legislation.
B) he won over his Republican opposition.
C) Southern Democrats gave their full support to FDR.
D) African American labor leaders rejected the president's action.
Question 3
Who was the first woman to become part of a president's cabinet?
A) Eleanor Roosevelt
B) Mary McLeod Bethune
C) Frances Perkins
D) Carey McWilliams
Question 4
The influence of the women's network in the New Deal is exemplified by FDR's appointment of Frances Perkins as:
A) Secretary of Labor.
B) the first woman on the Supreme Court.
C) Attorney General.
D) the first female Army general.
Question 5
Raymond Moley, Rexford Tugwell, and Adolf Berle, were all
A) professors at Harvard University.
B) bankers responsible for the stock market crash.
C) men who led infamous Ponzi schemes.
D) part of FDR's original Brain Trust.
Question 6
The Glass-Steagall Act created the
A) Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
B) Federal Reserve Board.
C) Civilian Conservation Corps.
D) Social Security Administration.
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