Exam 2 - Chapters 20, 21, 22, 23
What amendment to the Constitution, passed in 1917, forbade the sale or manufacturer of alcohol in the United States?
A. 16th B. 17th C. 18th D. 19th E. 29th
What are considered some of the successes of Prohibition?
A. Bank savings increased. B. Decreased in absenteeism in businesses. C. Decrease in admittance to mental hospitals. D. All of the above. E. A but not B or C.
The collapse of the Stock Market in 1929 triggered which of the following events:
A. Expansion of the world's money supply which resulted in deflation. B. Expansion of the world's money supply which resulted in inflation. C. Shrinking of the world's money supply which resulted in deflation. D. Shrinking of the world's money supply which resulted in inflation. E. The impeachment and removal from office of President Herbert Hoover.
The advent of the radio affected American society by:
A. Pulling American families apart. B. Slowing affecting advertising. C. Causing politicians to learn old ways of speaking. D. Making actors into celebrities. E. All of the above.
"Dollar Diplomacy" is associated primarily with the administration of...
A. Warren Harding. B. William Howard Taft. C. Theodore Roosevelt. D. Woodrow Wilson. E. William McKinley.
Prior to 1932, Franklin Roosevelt had been all of the following EXCEPT...
A. a member of the Wilson administration. B. vice president of the United States. C. governor of New York. D. a state legislator.
What amendment to the Constitution gave women the right to vote?
A. 15th B. 16th C. 17th D. 18th E. 19th
In the 1931 Scottsboro court case,
A. a Georgia jury convicted all of the black youths. B. the Supreme Court reaffirmed the death penalty convictions. C. black teenagers were accused of rape by two white women. D. All these answers are correct. E. eight of the convicted youths were executed for crimes they did not commit.
During the Progressive Era, who was the acknowledged leader of American socialism?
Eugene V. Debs
In the early twentieth century, what restrictions did eugenics support?
Restriction on immigration increased.
In his political program known as the "New Freedom," what did Woodrow Wilson believe regarding trusts?
They should be ended altogether.
What did President Woodrow Wilson's "Fourteen Points" include?
an end to secret treaties
In the workplace, the "open shop" meant...
A. no worker was required to join a union. B. skilled workers were required to join a craft union. C. labor unions had the right to organize that particular industry. D. workers had no right to join a union.
President Theodore Roosevelt defined "civilized" and "uncivilized" ... ... the basis of...
A. both race and economic development. B. race. C. economic development. D. literary achievements. E. All these answers are correct.
Throughout the 1920s, the performance of the U.S. economy...
A. saw ten straight years of continuous growth. B. saw per capita income flatten while manufacturing output soared. C. experienced a severe recession in 1923 that lasted two years. D. struggled with a persistently high rate of inflation. E. saw nearly uninterrupted prosperity coupled with severe inequalities.
In the aftermath of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire in New York City,
A. strict regulations were imposed on factory owners. B. few true reforms of industry were made. C. New York State barred factories from employing women under the age of sixteen. D. Tammany Democrats attempted to thwart the New York State commission examining the fire. E. factories taller than ten stories could only use the upper floors for storage of materials.
During the 1920s, products that grew dramatically in use in the United States included...
A. synthetic fibers. B. plastics. C. electric-powered home appliances. D. all of the above
In 1904, Ida Tarbell published a highly critical study on...
A. the Carnegie Steel Company. B. urban "boss rule." C. Congress. D. child industrial labor. E. the Standard Oil trust.
Prior to the United States' construction of the Panama Canal,
A. the French had tried but failed to build a canal at the same site. B. no country had attempted to build a canal connecting the Atlantic with the Pacific. C. the Germans had failed to build a canal at the same site. D. the British had failed to build a canal across Costa Rica. E. the United States had failed to build a canal across Nicaragua.
The immediate spark for hostilities in Europe in 1914 was...
A. the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand. B. a struggle between European powers for control of the internal diamond trade. C. the sinking of the British passenger liner Latitude. D. the death of Otto von Bismarck in Germany. E. the German invasion of Poland.
During the Great Depression in the rural United States,
A. the farm economy could not keep up with consumer demand. B. one-third of all farmers lost their land. C. farmers enjoyed several unusually fertile growing seasons. D. farm income dropped by twenty-five percent. E. economic conditions were slightly better than in industrial cities.
During the Harding administration, the Teapot Dome scandal involved...
A. the illegal sale of timber rights. B. transfers of national oil reserves. C. graft in federal construction contracts. D. political blackmail.
The federal government's response to the "Bonus Army" included...
A. the use of six tanks to rout the veterans from Washington. B. General Douglas MacArthur exceeding his orders to remove the veterans. C. both A and B D. neither A nor B
In the 1920s, the idea of agricultural "parity" was...
A. to match crop production with demand. B. to ensure farmers would at least financially break even. C. strongly opposed by Congress. D. to equalize the average farmer income with the average industrial worker income.
After World War I, the new Ku Klux Klan...
A. was a males-only organization. B. became primarily concerned about Catholics, Jews, and foreigners. C. was largely centered in the South. D. focused primarily on intimidating African Americans. E. officially renounced the used of violence.
All the following factors contributed to the Great Depression EXCEPT...
A. weak consumer demand. B. a lack of div in the United States economy. C. conservative banking policies that restricted the availability of loans. D. a maldistribution of purchasing power. E. an unstable European economy.
In 1919, all of the following figures were at the Paris peace conference EXCEPT
Alexander Kerensky of Russia
During World War I, what powered technologically-advanced submarines?
diesel