Question

One of the most important New Deal programs was the Social Security Act of 1935. What was the purpose of this program?

Answer 1

The correct answers are:

Question 17: ANSWER A: The Social Security Act of 1935 was enforced to establish a social security sistem, providing pensions for retired workers, benefits for children and insurance to disabled or unemployed people.

Question 18: ANSWER A: The Agricultural Adjustment Act was aimed at reducing excesive production of certain goods produced by US farmers, such as cotton in order to grant higher prices for those products. One way of doing so was giving money to the farmers that planted less of their fields.

Question 19 ANSWER B: The State of Georgia contributed to the war effort during WWI with the military facilities that were present in its territory, with textile mills that produced uniforms for the soldiers and with arsenals of weapons.

Question 20 ANSWER D: the most affacted group by the boll weevil infestation were cotton farmers, since it is an insect that eats the cotton. The infestation happened in the 1920's and the insect came from Mexico.

Question 21 ANSWER B: the situations were present in the beginning of the Great Depression. It was caused by excessive indebtness, by stock markets speculation, overproduction and low wages.

Question 22: ANSWER B. Georgia housed several military facilities where hundreds of thousands soldiers were trained.

Question 23: ANSWER B. The Agricultural Adjustment Administration was a in charge of trying to raise crop prices and it did so by subsidizing farmers that produced less.

Question 24: ANSWER D: Eugene Talmadge was one of the fiercest critics to the New Deal policies and he believed that they affected the interests and sovereignty of the States.

Question 25: ANSWER A: The Social Security Act enforced benefis to retired people, to workers and to tax payers as they contribute to the program.

Question 26: Without the photo is hard to tell what the right answer is, however there are some possible options such as The Resettlement Administration which was in charge of providing housing to rural Americans and the Agricultural Adjustment Act, which was aimed at reducing over production of farms.

Question 27: ANSWER B: The New Deal was a series of programs, policies and agencies created during Franklin Roosevelt's presidency which were designed to fight against the effects of the Great Depression.

Question 28: ANSWER D: FDR had a house in Warm Springs, Georgia "The Little White House" which he visited often and where he tried to recover from the effects of polio on his muscles.

Answer 2

The right answers are the following:

17 ) A  18)  A) b)  19) B)  20) d  21) b  22) b) 23)  b)  24) d) 25) a  26) The Works Progress Administration (WPA)  27) b)  28) d)