True or False Chapter 23 Self-Quiz 2

s3e_TF 23.2

. Congress passed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff in 1930 because it wanted to boost domestic sales.

. The main mission of Franklin D. Roosevelt's brain trust was to salvage capitalism from its own follies.

. The cheap electricity generated by TVA improved the life of millions of Southerners.

. New York Senator Robert Wagner pushed for the National Labor Relations Act after he saw how state governors broke strikes with National Guard troops in 1934.

. Striking autoworkers occupying Ford and GM plants in Flint, Michigan, depended on wives and women supporters to provide them with food during weeks of protest.

. The exploits of John Dillinger during the 1930s were an example of the rising crime wave that afflicted the nation during the Great Depression.

. Though a woman with a good heart, Eleanor Roosevelt had little experience and advice that she could offer her husband during the Great Depression.

. Of the eight Supreme Court justices appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt, not one supported the dismantling of segregation in the South.

. Though fascinated with Native American culture, the new head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs John Collier furhter strengthened the role of boarding schools on reservations.

. The outbreak of war in Europe gave pending social reform measures of the Second New Deal the decisive moral boost.

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