The New Deal Answers

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Why did President Roosevelt need to create a Second New Deal?

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Americans were prospering and needed to find new ways to spend and invest their money.
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The unemployment rate had dropped to an all-time low, and there was a need to find new workers.
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The economy continued to struggle with high unemployment rates and widespread poverty.
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There was no longer a need for the government to support social programs for Americans.
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President Franklin Roosevelt’s judicial reform bill would have allowed him to

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reject a Supreme Court decision by protesting to Congress.
d
decide which laws the Supreme Court could review.
a
appoint as many as six additional Supreme Court justices.
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reapprove each of the nine current Supreme Court justices.
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How did the Supreme Court frustrate Roosevelt’s New Deal legislation?

b
by declaring parts of it unconstitutional
b
by suspending funds for Social Security
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by suggesting a judicial reform bill
b
by bringing six new justices to the court
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Which of the following oversaw the Federal One project in the 1930s?

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the Social Security Administration
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the National Labor Relations Board
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the National Youth Administration
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the Works Progress Administration
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The Social Security Administration faces new challenges in the twenty-first century because

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there are more workers paying into the system.
i
its services are no longer needed by American workers.
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there are a greater number of retirees in the system.
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its revenues are needed in other government programs.

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