Chapter 26
how many people were out of work in early 1933
13 million
In the 1928 presidential election, Democrats nominated:
Al Smith
The rise of the automobile
All the above statements are true.
The Democrats lost the presidential election of 1928 because
American were pleased with the Republican prosperity of the 1920's.
In 1931, just as economic indicators were beginning to rise.
Austria's largest bank closed, triggering a panic that led European investors to dump their American securities.
In the election of 1928,
B. the Republican and the Democrats ran on similar platforms.
Of the following presidents, which tied government and businesses closer together than at any other time in the twentieth century?
Calvin Coolidge
In the 1924 presidential election,
Calvin Coolidge swept both the popular and electoral votes by decisive majorities.
In the elections of 1930,
Democrats won a majority in the House of Representatives.
In 1926 on warning sign for the economy surfaced when a real estate boom collapsed in
Florida
Whose campaign song was "happy days are here again"
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Which of the following is NOT true of the "American plan" concept of employment?
It promised a more democratic work environment than most other shops
The budget and Accounting Act of 1912 created:
a new Bureau of the budget to streamline the process of preparing an annual federal budget
Hoover's early efforts to end the depression included
a request to business men to maintain wages and avoid layoffs, in order to keep purchasing power strong.
The uneven distribution of wealth in America helped cause the Depression because
as production increased, demand declined.
during World War 1, Franklin Delano Roosevelt served as:
assistant secretary of the navy
the emergency relief Act:
avoided a direct dole to individuals
Part of the reason for the stock market crash was the
buying a great amounts of stock "on margin."
The McNary-Haugen bill
called for dumping surplus crops on the world market in order to raise domestic prices.
despite the many well-found criticisms of Warren Harding as president, he was a visionary for his era in the field of:
civil rights
Herbert Hoover, while attempting to shore up the economy through economic policy, considered to be the best thing American's needed most at the time
confidence
in november 1930
democrats won a majority in the house of Representatives
Harding's secretary of the treasury
favored a reduction of the high wartime level of taxation, but mainly for the benefit of the rich.
In the 1920's, farm prices
fell sharply.
In "yellow-dog" contracts, employers
forced workers to agree to stay out of unions.
Which of the following is NOT true about Robert La Follette's 1924 presidential campaign?
he tried to unite the fractured Democratic party
All the following were governmental policies that contributed to the crash except
increased taxes on upper levels of income.
the biggest scandal of the Harding administration:
involved the leasing of government-owned oil deposits to private companies
The biggest scandal of the Harding administration
involved the leasing of government-owned oil deposits to private companies.
In the 1920s, labor unions
lost about 1.5 million members.
The tariff policy of the 1920s
made it harder for other nations to sell in the United States.
The progressive coalition that had elected Woodrow Wilson president dissolved by 1920 for all the following reasons except
many of the major progressive reforms still seemed unattainable.
The "Bonus Expeditionary Force"
marched on Washington in an attempt to get immediate payment of a veterans' bonus that Congress had voted in 1924.
On the issue of regulating big business, President Harding
named conservative advocates of big business of head the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Federal Trade Commissions.
In his 1920 campaign for president, Warren Harding said the country needed a return to:
normalcy
The Reconstruction Finance Corporation
offered emergency loans to banks. farm mortgage associations, building and loan societies, and other such businesses to prevent bankruptcies.
In the early years of the depression, farmers
often lost their farms as their income continued to fall.
The growing consumerism of the 1920s manifested itself in all of the following ways EXCEPT:
passenger rail service
Coolidge's administration was marked by
prosperity.
Between 1921 and 1928, the wages of non-farm workers
rose by about 20 percent.
In the 1920's, the Supreme Court
seemed to favor the interests of business over those of labor.
In response to the Bonus Army marchers, Herbert Hoover
sent the U.S army to evict them
As secretary of commerce under Coolidge, Herbert Hoover's priority was the trade-association movement, about which all of the following are true EXCEPT that it:
successfully blocked all monopolistis practices
President Herbert Hoover's progressive and humanitarian reforms included all the following except
support for the bill to provide federal financial assistance to lower-income families.
As secretary of commerce, Herbert Hoover
supported the trade-association movement.
Which of the following was NOT part of Warren Harding's presidency?
supporting progressive legislation
The result in the presidential election of 1920 might be attributed to
the fact that Americans in the 1920's were "tired of issues, sick at heart of ideals, and weary of being noble.
which of the following was NOT a cause of the Depression?
the gold standard caused a tightening of currency supplies worldwide.
Harding's administration is most remembered for:
the scandals that plagued it
The "Ohio gang"
was a group of President Harding's friends who were named to political office.
Franklin D. Roosevelt:
was permanently disabled after contracting polio
John W. Davis
was the Democratic presidential candidate in 1924.