MCQ Test 2
One striking new feature of the 1932 presidential election results was that
African-Americans became a vital element in the Democratic party
Among the major spors figures promoted by mass media image makers and the new "sports industry" in the 1920's were
Babe Ruth and Jack Dempsey
Most Dust Bowl migrants headed to
California
The first woman cabinet member who served as Secretary of Labor was
Frances Perkins
of the following, the one least related to the other four is
Frederic W. Taylor.
The concept that championed black racial pride and cultural identity in the midst of white society was known as the
Harlem Renaissance
The most tenacious pursuer of "radical" elements during the Red Scare was
Mitchell Palmer
Which of the following best explains changes in the federal government resulting from the Great Depression?
Policymakers developed a limited welfare state to reduce the effects of mass unemployment and social upheavals
In which of the following ways did the New Deal mark a departure from previous government practices?
The New Deal actively used government power to stimulate economic recovery.
Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and Okies are most directly associated with
The dust bowl
The revolution in consumer goods
disguised the decline of many traditional industries
An ironic effect of Prohibition was that
drinking became more socially acceptable
Disillusioned by war and peace, Americans in the 1920's did all of the following EXCEPT
enter a decade of economic difficulties
Marcus Garvey, founder of the UNIA, is known for all of the following EXCEPT
establishing the idea of the talented tenth to lead African Americans.
In 1932 FDR campaigned on the promise that as president he would attack the Great Depression by
experimenting with bold new programs for economic and social reform.
The least prosperous group in the 1920's consisted of
farmers in the Midwest and South
All of the following were causes of the great depression EXCEPT
government's excessive spending
All of the following helped to make prosperity of the 1920's possible EXCEPT
govt. stimulation of the economy.
"Cultural pluralists" like Horace Kallen and Randolph generally advocated that
immigrants should be able to retain their traditional cultures rather than blend into a single American "melting pot."
The Kellogg-Briand Pact
outlawed war as a solution to international rivalry.
One of the major problems facing farmers in the 1920's was
overproduction
John Dewey can rightly be called the father of
progressive education.
Senator Huey Long from Louisiana was one of Roosevelt's largest threats with his
share our wealth movement
The immigration quota system adopted in the 1920's discriminated directly against
southern and eastern europeans
In the mid-1920's President Coolidge twice refused to sign legislation proposing to
subsidize farm prices
The phrase "Hundred Days" refers to
the first months of Franklin Roosevelt's presidency.
The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920's was a reaction against
the forces of diversity and modernity that were transforming American culture.
The first "talkie" motion picture was
the jazz singer
As a result of the Hawley-Smoot tariff of 1930,
the worldwide depression deepened
The immigration legislation of the 1920's
was the most enduring achievement of the rural counterattack
Most Americans assumed that prohibition
would be permanent
The chief figure in the Teapot Dome scandal was
Albert Fall
Which is true of the Social Secutiry Act of 1935
It legislated a tax that transfers money from workers to pensioners
As a result of the 1937 "Roosevelt recession"
roosevelt adopted kenynesian
The palmer Raids and the Sacco and Vanzetti trial indicate
the American people feared radicals.
Which of the following best explains a connection between policies intended to address the Great Depression and earlier Progressive Era reform policies?
Both sought to create a stronger financial regulatory system
The famous evolution trial of 1925 involved biology teacher
John Scopes
Margret Sanger was most noted for her advocacy of
birth control
Prohibition
bred a profound disrespect for the law
The Glass-Stegall Act
created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to insure individual bank deposits.
The first action FDR took to help the crisis was to
declare a bank holiday that allowed only sound banks to reopen
The 20th Amendment, passed during FDR's administration
decreased the presidential lame-duck period by two months
The impact of the 19th Amendment on women was
less than women had hoped
As Secretary of the Treasury, Andrew Melon placed the tax burden on the
middle income groups
President Roosevelt's "Court-packing" scheme in 1937 reflected his desire to make the Supreme Court
more sympathetic to New Deal programs.
The Teapot Dome scandal involved the corrupt mishandling of
naval oil reserves
America's major foreign policy problem in the 1920's was addressed by the Dawes Plan, which
provided a solution to the tangle of war a debt and war
Buying stock "on margin" meant
purchasing it with a small down payment.
The invention which had the greatest effect on mass communication and the spread of culture in the 1920's and 1930's was the
radio
The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) proposed to solve the "farm problem" by
reducing agricultural production to raise farm prices
Henry Ford's contribution to the automobile industry
relatively cheap automobiles.
Which American Ideal, coined during Hoover's presidency, caused so many Americans to blame themselves for their plight during the great Depression?
rugged individualism
After FDR's attempt to "pack the Supreme Court
the court began to support New Deal programs
The Tennessee valley Authority (TVA) was designed to
to provide navigation,flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development to the Tennessee Valley
The red scare of 1919
was an outgrowth of the intense nationalism of WWI