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