history ch. 23/24
Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, and Sinclair Lewis spoke for which group of Americans
Critics of American materialism and mass culture society
How did the Great Depression affect the American family in the 1930s?
It created resentment among men, who lost their jobs more often than women did
Which statement describes the purpose of Roosevelt's Civilian Conservation Corps
It gave young men government jobs conserving natural resources
Which statement describes the purpose of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
It guaranteed to bank customers that the federal government would reimburse them for deposits if their bank failed
Which statement describes the purpose of the Tennessee Valley Authority program that began in 1933
It helped supply jobs and power to impoverished rural communities
Which statement describes the overall impact of the New Deal
It kept the United States from turning toward authoritarian solutions to the nation's economic crisis
How did Hoover administration respond to the WW1 veterans, known as Bonus Marchers, who asked for the immediate payment of their pension
It ordered the U.S. army to forcibly evict them from their camp on the edge of Washington, D.C
Which statement describes the unifying basis of the New Deal coalition
Members expressed faith that the government would change things for the better
which form of entertainment was the most popular during the 1920s
Movies
President Harding's administration was characterized by
Scandals that involved several members of his administration
Which statement describes the outcome of President Roosevelt's fiscal decisions in 1937
The country suffered a recession
Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association urged black Americans in the 1920s to
rediscover their African heritage and take pride in their culture and achievements
President Calvin Coolidge's economic policy included
reductions in government regulation of business
The Emergency Banking Act of 1933 strengthened American banks by
using federal funds to bolster their assets
President Roosevelt's plan to remove judicial obstacles to New Deal reforms in his second term of office
was popularly known as court packing
The Social Security Act stated that the program would be funded
with tax contributions from workers and their employers
The shift toward repetitive assembly-line work and specialized management divisions in the 1920s resulted in
a tremendous increase in business productivity and overall efficiency
Which element of the American economy during the 1920s lay at the heart of its fundamental lack of stability
Consumption
Which factor diluted the influence of women in politics in the 1920s?
A lack of unity around the issues
Which statement describes both popular culture and consumer goods in the 1920s?
Both were mass produced and mass consumed
Who was responsible for the creation of "welfare capitalism" in the 1920s, and why did they use it?
Businesses created welfare capitalism to encourage workers' loyalty to the company
Which guiding idea formed the basis for New Deal policies
Capitalism held the solution to the nation's economic crisis
Father Charles Coughlin, an opponent of the New Deal, placed the blame for the nation's economic crisis on
Communists, bankers, and capitalists
Which woman became the New Deal's unofficial ambassador
Eleanor Roosevelt
With which statement would economist John Maynard Keynes most agree
Government intervention is needed to pump enough money into the economy to revive production and increase consumption
Why did Upton Sinclair challenge Roosevelt and the New Deal
He believed that the New Deal was the handmaiden of business elites
How did President Roosevelt attempt to restore America's confidence in government and the private banking system
He broadcasts his reassuring fireside chats on the radio
Why did Roosevelt fail to push for more ambitious reforms for black Americans
He could not afford to lose the support of southern Democrats for his New Deal agenda
How did President Roosevelt attempt to change the economy in 1937
He decrease federal spending
Who championed the "Share Our Wealth" plan of income redistribution
Huey Long
Federal authorities sent Al Capone to prison on which charge
Income tax invasion
Which event in 1938 proved that opposition to the New Deal had increased
Republicans made gains in Congress
The Democrat victory in the 1934 election signaled what about the future of the United States economy
New Deal programs would have more support and the economy would be centered on welfare programs
President Franklin Roosevelt's signature program was known as
The New Deal
Which organization was created to give unemployed Americans federally funded jobs
The Works Progress Administration
Why didn't southern tenant farmers benefit from the programs developed by the Agricultural Adjustment Act, the Commodity Credit Corporation, and the Farm Credit Act
The programs benefited large farmers rather than tenant farmers who rented land
How did the Agricultural Adjustment and Farm Credit Acts of 1935 help American farmers
They paid farmers not to grow crops and provided long-term credit on mortgaged farm property
How did New Deal programs affect the average national unemployment rate during the 1930s
They reduced the average unemployment rate, but it remained high, at about 17 percent
Who became president in 1920 by campaigning on the desire to "return to normalcy?"
Warren G. Harding
In the United States, the flapper of the 1920s represented
a challenge to women's traditional gender roles
By the early 1930s, unemployed workers were responding to the Great Depression by
becoming increasingly outraged and turning toward militant forms of protest
Which criteria were used to determine who would receive Social Security benefits
benefits were based on workers' contributions and years of work
Detroit;s second largest industry during the 1920s was
illegal alcohol sales
The New Deal made significant improvements to the quality of life in rural America by
providing electricity to rural communities through the Rural Electrification Administration
The presidential election of 1924 revealed American voters'
rejection of labor unions, government regulation of business, and the protection of civil liberties
The three-part goal of Roosevelt's New Deal was
relief, recovery, and reform
Opponents of the New Deal included business leaders and
some labor leaders
When President Roosevelt said, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself," he was referring to
the terror caused by the Depression
Which groups were hardest hit by the Great Depression
the unemployed, tenant farmers, and sharecroppers
