American History II Online Midterm Part II

What environmental disaster struck the nation during the Depression?

Dust Bowl

A growing anti-business attitude during the first Hundred Days of the New Deal could be detected in which of the following programs?

Federal Securities Act

What was the purpose of the National Resources Planning Board?

It facilitated state and regional management of water, soil, timber, and minerals.

How did U.S. Steel in 1937 respond to the newly formed Steel Workers' Organizing Committee?

It recognized the union, granted a wage increase, and agreed to a forty-hour week.

Which statement best represents the economic status of farm families during the 1930s?

Many farm families gave up because of debt and the drought

Which of the following agencies was created during the Hoover administration to help failing financial institutions and continued to be active through the New Deal years?

Reconstruction Finance Corporation

Which piece of New Deal legislation established the principle of federal responsibility for social welfare and created the basic framework for the welfare system?

Social Security Act

What groups were the Farm Security Administration designed to benefit?

Tenant farmers and sharecroppers

What event triggered the Panic of 1893?

The collapse of a railroad

Why did the United States begin to lend money to the European powers after August 1915?

The Wilson administration feared the economic, financial, and social consequences of American industry's failing to secure European business.

Which of the following was not an approach that Franklin Roosevelt used during the early years of his administration to fight the depression?

nationalization of the railroads and steel industry

What type of entertainment did the Frank Capra films Mr. Deeds Goes to Town and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington provide?

They were patriotic and idealistic portrayals of the triumph of "the people" over entrenched interests.

Why did black Americans migrate to northern cities during World War I?

They were seeking the economic opportunities afforded by northern industrial expansion.

The Civilian Conservation Corps

employed jobless young men in rural projects such as reforestation, park maintenance, and erosion control.

"Machine politics" was

a form of urban politics where local politicians, known as bosses, dominated urban areas.

What vision of the future did the Futurama exhibit at the New York World's Fair of 1939 feature?

A complex interstate highway network of the future.

Which of the following is associated with the administration of Benjamin Harrison?

A record-high tariff

The Scottsboro Boys were

African-American teenagers sentenced to death by an all-white jury on highly suspect rape charges.

Which New Deal initiative paid farmers subsidies to take acreage out of production?

Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933

How did the National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act) influence the labor movement?

All of these choices

What was the radio adaptation of War of the Worlds about?

An alien landing

While the Treaty of Versailles was opposed for many reasons, what was the most important criticism of it?

Article 10 seemed to limit America's sovereignty and infringed on Congress's constitutional power to declare war.

Which of the following is an accurate statement about unemployment during the New Deal?

As late as 1939 more than 17 percent of the labor force remained jobless.

Which writer captured the political idealism of the Spanish Civil War in a novel?

Ernest Hemingway

Which of the candidates in the 1912 presidential election advocated the most far-reaching changes for American society?

Eugene V. Debs

Which New Deal legislation banned child labor, established a minimum wage, and set maximum hours for the work week?

Fair Labor Standards Act

Which of the following examples of New Deal legislation is correctly paired with what its purpose?

Fair Labor Standards Act: Banned child labor and set a national minimum wage.

Which of the following companies bitterly resisted unionization in the 1930s?

Ford Motor Company

Which of the following pieces of legislation was an attempt at campaign reform in the late 1930s?

Hatch Act

What did John Steinbeck describe in The Grapes of Wrath?

He described the desperate struggles of an uprooted dust-bowl family.

What happened to Roosevelt's "court-packing" plan?

He had to drop it but was nevertheless able to replace four members of the Supreme Court who died or retired.

Which of the following steps did Herbert Hoover not take to revive the economy after the stock-market crash?

He persuaded Congress to pass the National Industrial Recovery Act, which embodied ideas of industrial self-regulation and business-government cooperation.

Which statement best describes Franklin Roosevelt's position concerning the Depression in the 1932 presidential campaign?

He promised to end the depression but offered only vague plans describing how he was going to do it.

During the first two decades of the twentieth century, what was the greatest source of urban population growth?

Immigration

How did the American economic crisis affect the European economy?

It also experienced a crisis as world trade declined.

Which of the following was not one of the ways that Germany alienated many Americans?

It distributed lurid and exaggerated propaganda about atrocities by the British.

What did the 1935 Social Security Act do?

It offered financial assistance for the elderly and the disabled.

Which of the following did the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 not do?

It outlawed closed shops.

Which statement best describes the Treaty of Versailles?

It was harsh in that it stripped Germany of territory and saddled that country with immense reparations.

Who commanded American forces in Mexico and later the AEF?

John J. Pershing

Which group faced appalling labor conditions in California's agricultural regions?

Mexican-Americans

Which of the following was not a way that World War I affected American women?

Millions of women entered the work force for the first time.

What did Eleanor Roosevelt see as her primary role as First Lady?

She wanted to serve as an observer for her husband and promote social reform

Which of the following is not one of the characteristics of the stock market in the months leading up to the October 1929 crash?

Steep income-tax hikes suddenly cut the flow of money into the market.

Which of the following amendments is not accurately defined?

The Seventeenth Amendment allows the direct election of members of the House of Representatives.

Which statement best describes union membership in the 1930s?

Unions gained membership, growing from only 3 million in 1933 to over 8 million in 1941.

In the 1896 election, which area was a center of William McKinley's political support?

Urban areas

Which of the following was not a popular pastime during the depression?

Watching television

Who were the 1932 "bonus marchers"?

World War I veterans who marched on Washington to lobby for immediate cash payments of their veterans' bonuses.

Huey Long proposed

a 100% tax on all incomes over $1 million and appropriation of all fortunes over $5 million.

In the early twentieth century, how did many middel-class women begin to view employment outside the home?

as a potential opportunity

Benny Goodman was noteworthy because he

created an integrated jazz orchestra that performed at Carnegie Hall.

The Teller Amendment asserted that the United States had

no interest in sovereignty, jurisdiction, or control of Cuba.

Grover Cleveland proposed a reduction of the tariff rates because

the tariff was feeding a large and growing federal budget surplus.

The Committee for Industrial Organization was established

to organize all workers in a particular industry, regardless of race, gender, or degree of skill.