The Second New Deal UPDATED Actual
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
Second New Deal - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔(1935) a new set of programs in the spring of
1935 including additional banking reforms, new tax laws, new relief programs; AKA the
Second Hundred Days
WPA (Works Progress Administration) - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔employed 8.5 million
Americans on public-works projects
Social Security - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔a system for providing pensions, guaranteed
regular payments, for many Americans age 65 and older
AFL (American Federation of Labor) - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔a collectio of smaller
unions representing the interests of skilled workers
John L. Lewis - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔head of the United Mine Workers; led the CIO
CIO - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔broke away from the AFL
sit-down strike - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔a strike in which workers refuse to work or leave
the workplace until a settlement is reached
deficit - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔when a governement spends more money than it takes in
John Maynard Keynes - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔British economist; argued that deficit
spending could provide jobs and stimulate the economy
Wagner Act - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔outlawed a number of antilabor practices, like the
creation of company-sponsored unions
Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers
Second New Deal - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔(1935) a new set of programs in the spring of
1935 including additional banking reforms, new tax laws, new relief programs; AKA the
Second Hundred Days
WPA (Works Progress Administration) - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔employed 8.5 million
Americans on public-works projects
Social Security - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔a system for providing pensions, guaranteed
regular payments, for many Americans age 65 and older
AFL (American Federation of Labor) - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔a collectio of smaller
unions representing the interests of skilled workers
John L. Lewis - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔head of the United Mine Workers; led the CIO
CIO - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔broke away from the AFL
sit-down strike - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔a strike in which workers refuse to work or leave
the workplace until a settlement is reached
deficit - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔when a governement spends more money than it takes in
John Maynard Keynes - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔British economist; argued that deficit
spending could provide jobs and stimulate the economy
Wagner Act - CORRECT ANSWER- ✔✔outlawed a number of antilabor practices, like the
creation of company-sponsored unions
