Mac Quiz 4 Second Semester Exam Questions (17 Terms) With Verified Definitions Updated 2024

Emergency Relief Appropriation Act {Ans: FDR pushed it through Congress in 1935; $5 billion, at the time, the largest single appropriation in history, for emergency public employment}Deputy President {Ans: Harry Hopkins, lacking an official title for most of his years in Washington became known as FDR's}Alfred M. Landon {Ans: Republican who ran against and lost to President Franklin Roosevelt in the 1936 election (The most lopsided president election in U.S. history)}Revenue Act of 1935 {Ans: provided income taxes and increased estate and corporate taxes; Opponents called it the Soak the Rich Tax}Dust Bowl {Ans: the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history, in which the frenzied wheat boom of the "Great Plow-Up," followed by a decade-long drought during the 1930s nearly swept away the breadbasket of the nation (WAS A DROUGHT IN THE GREAT PLAINS)}Works Progress Administration, WPA {Ans: created by FDR and headed by Harry Hopkins; it was set up to assist the unemployed and boost the economy}Soak the Rich Tax {Ans: name given to the Revenue Act of 1935 by opponents}Franklin Delano Roosevelt {Ans: Democrat who won the 1936 election (The most lopsided president election in U.S. history); won 98.5