CH24

While Warren G. Harding presided over what can be argued as the most corrupt administration in American history, he was never personally linked to any official wrongdoing.

True

How many people were out of work in early 1933?

12 million

The amendment to the constitution that barred the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors was ratified in:

1919.

During the 1928 presidential election, the Democrats nominated:

Alfred E. Smith.

Harding's secretary of the Treasury, who pushed tax cuts for the wealthy, was:

Andrew Mellon.

The tariff policy of the early 1920s:

made it harder for other nations to sell to the United States.

The biggest scandal under President Hoover was the Teapot Dome affair of 1930.

False

Warren G. Harding was shot by the assassin Charles Guiteau.

False

Who created the Federal Radio Commission?

Herbert Hoover

Which of the following is NOT true of the McNary-Haugen plan?

It was supported by Coolidge as a way to empower farmers.

In 1928, Democratic presidential nominee Alfred E. Smith was hurt by the fact that he was a(n):

New Yorker and a Roman Catholic.

Which of the following was NOT a cause of the Great Depression?

Policy makers moved away from the gold standard.

As president, Warren G. Harding was actually more progressive than Woodrow Wilson in his attitudes and policies toward African Americans and Jews.

True

In the 1920s, many investors bought stocks on margin—that is, with borrowed funds.

True

Parity, as used in this chapter, refers to farm prices.

True

The Smoot-Hawley Tariff raised import duties to an all-time high.

True

In the 1920s, labor unions:

lost a substantial number of members.

Part of the reason for the stock market crash was the:

buying of great amounts of stock on margin.

The McNary-Haugen bill:

called for crops to be sold on the world market to raise domestic prices.

The immigration quota laws passed in the 1920s:

favored immigrants from northern and western Europe.

The Budget and Accounting Act of 1921:

formed a new Bureau of the Budget to streamline the process of preparing an annual federal budget.

Robert M. La Follette's 1924 presidential campaign:

is correctly represented by all of the above statements.

The progressive coalition that elected Woodrow Wilson president dissolved by 1920 for all the following reasons EXCEPT:

many of the progressive reforms still seemed unattainable.

In his 1920 campaign for president, Warren G. Harding said the country needed a return to:

normalcy.

Coolidge's administration was marked by:

prosperity

The 1924 immigration law:

set strict yearly limits on the number of immigrants allowed into the country.

Unable to convict Al Capone on bootlegging charges, the federal government arrested him for:

tax evasion.

Which one of the following is associated with Dayton, Tennessee?

the Scopes trial

The result in the presidential election of 1920 might be attributed to:

the fact that Americans in the 1920s were "tired of issues, sick at heart of ideals, and weary of being noble."

Harding's administration is most remembered for:

the scandals that plagued it.

John W. Davis:

was the Democratic presidential candidate in 1924.