Multiple Choice
What is the act of creating or proposing laws?
A. Overproduction
B. Legislation
C. Welfare state
B. Legislation
A culture that is focused on the buying of goods and services is called a welfare state.
False; it is called consumer culture
What did the NRA require businesses to do?
Pay workers minimum wage
A country in which the government takes responsibility for the financial support of its people is called ________________.
Welfare state
What is producing a surplus of goods that results in lowered prices?
Overproduction
What religious belief is doubtful about the existence of God?
A. Agnostic
B. Modernist
C. Liberal
A. Agnostic
Unemployment is the condition of wanting and needing a job but being unable to find one.
True
What did the CCC provide?
Work and military training for young men
___________ is the religious belief that comes from traditional views and values?
Conservative
What religious belief supports liberal views of religion or wants to update Christianity for the modern world?
Modernist
Under what program were businesses required to pay workers a minimum wage and were forbidden to compete with each other?
A. New Deal
B. CCC
C. NRA
C. NRA
The New Deal provided work for young men and later trained them for military service.
False; it was the CCC
What does the Social Security do?
The ___________ was the program Roosevelt proposed to help the US economy recover from the Great Depression.
New Deal
What did Roosevelt use to gain votes?
A political machine
During the 1920s American farmers found life difficult because of ___________.
A. Overproduction
B. Unemployment
C. Legislation
A. Overproduction
After President Harding died Franklin D. Roosevelt became the new president.
False; it was Calvin Coolidge
What was the purpose of the New Deal?
To help the US economy recover from the Great Depression
___________ tried to improve the economy but made the Depression worse.
Under what program are retirees and unemployed given financial support through workers' taxes?
Social Security
What religious belief has biblical or traditional views and values?
A. Fundamentalist
B. Conservative
C. Modernist
B. Conservative
Conservative is the religious belief that stands for the basic teachings of the Bible.
False; it's fundamentalist
What does the agnostic belief doubt?
The existence of God
___________ represented the defense in the Scopes Trial.
Clarence Darrow
What are shares in a business or corporation that can be bought or sold?
Stock