A-Freaking-PUSH chapter 23

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The federal government's response to the "Bonus Army" included

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During the 1930s, the left in the United States

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The Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)

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Between his election in 1932 and the inauguration in 1933, Franklin Roosevelt

refused to make any agreements on the economic direction of the country with the outgoing president, Herbert Hoover.

Prior to 1932, Franklin Roosevelt had been all of the following EXCEPT

vice president of the United States

Franklin Roosevelt's victory over Herbert Hoover in 1932

was a convincing mandate

The Hoover administration addressed the economic situation of American farmers with the

Agriculture Marketing Act

The Hawley-Smoot Tariff of 1930

None of these answers is correct

In the late 1920s, the European demanded for agricultural and manufacturing goods from the United States was

declining

As the depression deepened, President Herbert Hoover

grew less willing to increase federal spending

During the Great Depression, Asian Americans

had trouble competing for jobs with poor white migrants from the Midwest

In 1939, after the Soviet Union signed a nonaggression pact with Nazi Germany, the American Communist Party

lost a significant portion of its membership

During the Great Depression in rural United States,

one-third of all farmers lost their land

After Democrats won control of Congress in the 1930 elections, President Herbert Hoover

refused to support a more vigorous public spending program for relief

The economic pressures caused by the Great Depression

saw men move into jobs traditionally held by professional women

During the Great Depression,

the divorce rate declined

In 1932, the unemployment rates in Toledo, Ohio was one of the worst in the nation, at

80%

In the 1930s, all the following books offered criticism of American society EXCEPT

Anthony Adverse by Hervey Allen

In the 1930s, the largest Japanese American and Chinese American populations were found in

California

In the 1930s, all of the following films offered social commentary on the United States and the Great Depression, EXCEPT

It Happened One Night

During the 1930s, the American Communist Party

None of these answers are correct

In 1932, Franklin Roosevelt's promise of a "new deal" for America included a commitment to

None of these answers are correct

During the 1930s, southern rural blacks who moved to northern urban areas

None of these answers is correct

Erskine Caldwell's _________. which later became a long-running Broadway play, was an expose of poverty in the rural South.

Tobacco Road

The long-time censor of Hollywood films in the 1920s and 1930s was

Will Hays

The 1930s films of director Frank Capra typically displayed

a populist admiration for ordinary Americans

In the 1931 Scottsboro court case

black teenagers were accused of rape by two white women

All the following factors contributed to the Great Depression EXCEPT

conservative banking policies that restricted the availability of loans

As Herbert Hoover began his presidency, he

considered the country's economic future bright

In response to the Great Depression, many Mexican Americans

left the United States entirely

In 1932, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation

lent funds only to financial institution with sufficient collateral

During the 1930s, regarding radio,

listening was often a community experience

During the 1920s, American literature

offered a greater degree of social commentary than did either radio or movies

The severity of the Depression increased in 1931 when the Federal Reserve Board

raised interest rates

After 1929, in the face of the worsening global economic crisis, the United States

refused to alter the payment schedule of debts owed by European nations to America

Beginning in February 1928 and lasting through most of 1929, the American stock market

saw the number of shares traded daily soar

As a result of the Great Depression, social values in the United States

seemed to change relatively little

During the 1930s, the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union

sought to organize the rural poor across racial lines

In the 1930s, Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People

taught that individual initiative could help people to restore themselves financially

All of the following statements regarding the 1932 "Bonus Army" are true EXCEPT that

the "Army" demanded Congress create relief programs for World War 1 veterans

During the 1930s, the most important group within the Popular Front was

the Communist Party

The Abraham Lincoln Brigade is associated with

the Spanish Civil War

President Herbert Hoover responded to the onset of the Great Depression by

urging a program of voluntary cooperation from business leaders

The "Dust Bowl" in the 1930s

was a product of changing environmental conditions

In 1932, the Farmers' Holiday Association

was essentially a farmers' strike


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