Question

1. Which of the following best explains why President Roosevelt proposed his 1937 “court-packing” plan?

A. He argued that more juries were necessary to hear challenges to the New Deal.

B. He wanted to add to the Supreme Court more justices who supported the New Deal.

C. He argued that the Supreme Court lacked the authority to overturn New Deal programs.


2. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) was created primarily to address which problem? Think of where deposits are made.


A. the widespread bank failures that resulted from bank runs

B. the freezing of credit that resulted from high unemployment

C. the increase in personal debt that resulted from rising food prices

Answer 1

B is the correct answer.

Roosevelt was frustrated that the Supreme Court kept rejecting New Deal programs as unconstitutional.

In the end, the Supreme Court caved and Roosevelt was publicly derided for trying to pack the Court before failing

2. A is the correct answer.

the FDIC exists to insure that if you put money in a bank, that money will always be safe even if the Bank loans it out.