Test #3

The many messages of condolence received as a result of the explosion included a telegram from

Adolph Hitler

Which of the following statement characterizes the scopes "monkey trial" of 1925

All of the are correct

What is a "Speakeasy"

An illegal drinking establishment

The _____ was the first car produced by the Ford Motor company that took advantage of the economies of scale provided by assembly-line production and was therefore affordable to a large segment of the population

Model T

According to the Daily Life in the 1930s video, board games became popular during this time. Which one was the most popular during this period?

Monopoly

Which statement best explains how bank failures contributed to the Great Depression?

People lost their savings because the government did not insure bank deposits.

This is what the more permissive mores adopted my many young people in the 1920s was called

The New morality

"Black Blizzards" are most associated with

The dust bowl

The innovation of Henry Ford lay in his emphasis on

The efficiency of the assembly line

The explosion was the result of

a gas leak

Which of the following is a cause of the stock market crash of 1929?

investors made risky investments with borrowed money

According to the video, Lange attended University were she took classes in photography.

Columbia

Which presidential candidate ran on the promise of a "return to Normalcy"

Warren G. Harding

Who was the Republican presidential nominee for the 1920 election?

Warren Harding

The Kellogg-Briand Pact sought to outlaw

war as an instrument of national policy

In 1932, when FDR took office the unemployment rate was

25%

The U.S. Army disproved of Lange's WWII photos and impounded them for how many years?

30

Who became America's first baseball hero?

Babe Ruth

Which of the following protests was directly related to federal policies, and thus had the greatest impact in creating a negative public perception of the Hoover presidency?

Bonus Expeditionary Force

Lange's most famous photo, Migrant Mother, was taken where?

California

Employers did not support the NIRA's protection of the workers' rights to organize into unions. They did all of the following to try and prevent workers from organizing except

Embracing worker unions and working with their employees

Which amendment did Alice Paul promote to end gender discrimination

Equal Rights Amendment

Black Tuesday is what the day Hoover was elected came to be called

False

During WWII, Lange took pictures of European cities that had been bombed and the people that were forced to still live there.

False

Elenor Roosevelt was famous for giving the "fireside" chats

False

Farmers were group of people least impacted by the Great Depression

False

Frances Perkins was a member of FDR's "Black Cabinet".

False

NASCAR was the most popular form of entertainment in the 1920s

False

The "Indiana New Deal" reinforced the Dawes Act and the "Americanization" of Native Americans

False

The "bank runs" of 1929 and the "black blizzards" both directly caused the Great Depression.

False

The "new Negro" is symbolized by Marcus Garvey, who promoted a "back to Africa" movement

False

The Bonus Army was made up of workers from Ford's plants in Michigan who had been promised a bonus and pay raise prior to the Great Depression. When they did not get the money, they went on strike.

False

The Scottsboro Boys raped and killed two white women in Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl

False

The first movie ever shot in Hollywood called the SPIRIT OF SAINT LOUIS.

False

The new morality was a conservative reaction to the social upheaval that occurred during the 1920s and was typically embraced by the Christian middle-class

False

The reconstruction Finance Corporation was the tariff approved by Hoover to raise the tax in thousands of imported goods in the hope that it would encourage people to buy American-made products; the unintended result was that other nations raised their tariffs, further hurting American exports and exacerbating the global financial crisis.

False

Charles Augustus Lindbergh flew nonstop in 1927 from

New York to Paris

Which of the following is NOT one of the 3 R's of the New Deal?

Revitalize

The popularization of which psychologist's ideas encouraged the new morality of the 1920s

Sigmund Freud

Dorothea Lange

Took photographs of migrants fleeing the Dust Bowl

American workers employed higher wages and in increase in leisure's time during the 1920s

True

At the time of the accident, New London, Texas was known as the richest independent school district in the United States. Due to its oil wealth, the district was able to construct a state-of-the-art, for its time, school to house grades K-11.

True

Coney Island was a popular destination for many New Yorkers during the 1920s

True

The "court packing scheme" was FDR's plan to "reform" the Supreme Court by appointing an additional justice for every justice over age 70.

True

The American Red Cross did exist during the Great Depression, but Chairman John Barton Payne contended that unemployment was not an "Act of God" but rather an "Act of Man", and therefore refused to get involved in widespread direct relief efforts.

True

The Lost Generation was a group of writers who came of age during World War 1 and expressed their disillusionment with the era

True

When Lange was a child, she contracted polio.

True

Fundamentalists rejected ideas that questioned the historical truth of the Bible

Truth

The current site of the London Museum is

an old drug store

As a result of the explosion, the Texas Legislature had passed a law requiring

refiners to add a scent to natural gas