A-Freaking-PUSH chapter 23
In 1932, the unemployment rates in Toledo, Ohio was one of the worst in the nation, at
80%
The Hoover administration addressed the economic situation of American farmers with the
Agriculture Marketing Act
In the 1930s, all of the following films offered social commentary on the United States and the Great Depression, EXCEPT
It Happened One Night
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
All the following factors contributed to the Great Depression EXCEPT
conservative banking policies that restricted the availability of loans
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
In response to the Great Depression, many Mexican Americans
left the United States entirely
During the 1930s, regarding radio,
listening was often a community experience
In 1939, after the Soviet Union signed a nonaggression pact with Nazi Germany, the American Communist Party
lost a significant portion of its membership
The severity of the Depression increased in 1931 when the Federal Reserve Board
raised interest rates
After Democrats won control of Congress in the 1930 elections, President Herbert Hoover
refused to support a more vigorous public spending program for relief
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
Prior to 1932, Franklin Roosevelt had been all of the following EXCEPT
vice president of the United States
The federal government's response to the "Bonus Army" included
All these answers are correct
In the 1930s, all the following books offered criticism of American society EXCEPT
Anthony Adverse by Hervey Allen
The Hawley-Smoot Tariff of 1930
None of these answers is correct
During the 1930s, the left in the United States
All these answers is correct
The Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
All these answers is correct
In the 1930s, the largest Japanese American and Chinese American populations were found in
California
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
In the 1931 Scottsboro court case
black teenagers were accused of rape by two white women
As Herbert Hoover began his presidency, he
considered the country's economic future bright
During the Great Depression, Asian Americans
had trouble competing for jobs with poor white migrants from the Midwest
In 1932, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation
lent funds only to financial institution with sufficient collateral
During the 1920s, American literature
offered a greater degree of social commentary than did either radio or movies
During the Great Depression in rural United States,
one-third of all farmers lost their land
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
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.
The economic pressures caused by the Great Depression
saw men move into jobs traditionally held by professional women
Beginning in February 1928 and lasting through most of 1929, the American stock market
saw the number of shares traded daily soar
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
During the Great Depression,
the divorce rate declined
President Herbert Hoover responded to the onset of the Great Depression by
urging a program of voluntary cooperation from business leaders
Franklin Roosevelt's victory over Herbert Hoover in 1932
was a convincing mandate
The "Dust Bowl" in the 1930s
was a product of changing environmental conditions
In 1932, the Farmers' Holiday Association
was essentially a farmers' strike