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The Twenty-First Amendment, passed in 1933, allowed

Americans to drink alcohol again.

The Louisiana native known as the "Kingfish" who criticized President Roosevelt was

Huey P. Long.

Frederick Winslow Taylor and the gospel of efficiency is best associated with which concept?

Scientific management

The _______ Trial is a classic example of modernism versus fundamentalism.

Scopes

The infamous Alabama court case that convicted nine black boys of raping two white women on flimsy evidence is the case of the

Scottsboro boys.

Which of the following was not a method adopted during the Progressive Era to improve government?

Term limits

Who is best associated with the Hull House?

Term limits

______________ killed roughly 100 million people worldwide in 1918.

The Spanish flu

Many reformers were motivated by conservative religious beliefs.

True

More than 400,000 southern blacks moved northward during the war years

True

Who made up the so-called Bonus Expeditionary Force?

World War I veterans

During the Great War, African American men fought

in racially segregated units.

As farm productivity ____________________, farmers earned ___________ from their crops.

increased, less

After World War I came to an end, the United States actively practiced ______________ in its relations with the rest of the world.

isolationism

President Wilson argued that women's suffrage

should be enacted by the states.

Which of the following statements regarding Europe's role in the Great Depression is most accurate?

Many European nations had not recovered from World War I and had high debts.

The First New Deal focused on three immediate goals.

Relief, recovery, reform

Harding's 1920 campaign for presidency revolved around what saying?

Return to Normalcy"

A system of governance in which a trained administrator was appointed to run a city was called a

city-manager plan.

In order to wage the Great War, the United States government did all of the following except

draft millions of young women.

President Roosevelt faced four major challenges when he first took office. They included all of the following except?

Aiding European governments abroad

The Reconstruction Finance Corporation was created to do what?

Make loans to struggling banks, life-insurance companies, and railroads

Which of the following statements regarding the effects of the Great Depression is inaccurate?

Malnutrition was not a serious concern during the Great Depression.

The Townsend Plan targeted which segment of the American population to aid during the Great Depression?

Senior citizens

Which of the following statement's regarding President Wilson's Fourteen Points is incorrect?

The Fourteen Points called for racial equality.

Women in the 1920s who rebelled against conventional dress, hairstyles, and what was considered to be "ladylike" were commonly called

flappers.

In 1919, the same year the Great War officially concluded, the United States saw all of the following except

full employment.

As a result of the Great Depression, the lives of American blacks often

got much worse.

The so-called Wagner Act

guaranteed American workers the right to organize.

For Einstein's work

he received the Nobel Prize.

`The Securities and Exchange Commission

required all stock brokers to be licensed.

After the end of the Great War, unemployment and consumer goods' prices both

rose a lot.

The first large scale federal experiment with work relief was

the CWA.

Fears of revolution were so widespread in post-war America that the U.S. attorney general created a government division to collect information on radicals headed by a.

J. Edgar Hoover.

Which of the following was not a goal of late 19th century progressives?

Jane Addams

During the Great War, Wilson's administration organized the sale of _________, which guaranteed a fixed rate of return to fund the war.

Liberty bonds

How did Lincoln Steffens propose ending the abuses toward society during the Progressive Era?

Make democracy more democratic

By 1932, how many Americans were out of work as a result of the Great Depression?

1 in 4

The fresh but untried American soldiers sent to aid the British and French during the Great War were nicknamed

Doughboys.

During the Great War, what countries made up the Allied Powers?

France, Great Britain, Russia

The first woman cabinet member in American history was

Frances Perkins.

What was the stated purpose of the Food Administration during the Great War

It was to reduce civilian food consumption.

In addition to the nickname "the Roaring Twenties," the 1920s have also been labeled the

Jazz Age

What incident set off the Taft-Roosevelt feud?

The Ballinger-Pinchot controversy

How was the foundation of the progressive movement different than that of the Populist movement?

The progressive movement was based on addressing issues that occurred in urban areas.

The first "progressive" president was

Theodore Roosevelt.

Although Warren G. Harding presided over what can be argued as the most corrupt administration in American history, he was never personally linked to any official wrongdoing.

True

FDR called the Social Security Act the most significant achievement of the New Deal.

True

As president, Calvin Coolidge pursued

a determined path to not be an activist president.

By the end of 1936, the Supreme Court had proven itself ___________ of Roosevelt's New Deal.

an enemy

Henry Ford revolutionized the industrial process by perfecting the

assembly line process.

The reason that Woodrow Wilson won the presidency in 1912 was

because Taft and Roosevelt split the Republican vote

Because of the actions of the Federal Reserve, the American money supply ________________ in the period from 1929 to 1932.

shrank

Casualties were staggering in the Great War, mainly because of new technologies. Which of the following was not used in the Great War?

Atomic weapons

What helped drive the consumer culture of the 1920s?

Effective marketing tactics

This law restricted immigration from Europe to the percentage of that ethnicity's makeup in the 1910 U.S. census.

Emergency Immigration Act of 1921

Henry Cabot Lodge was one of the biggest supporters of the League of Nations.

False

One major cause of the Depression was that workers' wages were too high.

False

The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s was mainly a southern rural organization.

False

Women in "war work" were usually able to keep their jobs after the war.

False

Which of the following did not benefit from a post-World War I economic boom?

Farmers

The ______________________ guaranteed customer savings accounts in banks up to $2,500.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

How long did the conflict known as the Great War last?

From 1914 to 1918

During the Great War, what countries made up the Central Powers?

Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy

In the Zimmerman telegram __________________ urged ____________ to invade the United States.

Germany, Mexico

France and England tried to repay their World War I debts to the United States by collecting reparations from

Germany.

Wilson offended many in Congress when he did not choose _______________ to accompany him to the peace negotiations.

Henry Cabot Lodge

In March 1917, German submarines sank five U.S. vessels in the North Atlantic.

True

In the 1920s many investors bought stocks on margin—that is, with borrowed funds.

True

The Hawley-Smoot Tariff raised import duties to an all-time high.

True

The Roaring Twenties pitted a cosmopolitan urban America against the values of an insular, rural America.

True

The phrase "Square Deal" is associated with Theodore Roosevelt.

True

The popular election of senators required a constitutional amendment.

True

This lowered tariff rates for the first time since the Civil War.

Underwood-Simmons Tariff

During the Great Depression, all of the following increased in frequency except

birth rates.

Because Franklin D. Roosevelt was not himself a deep thinker, he formed a ________________ to help him shape policy.

brain trust"

Because of the Roosevelt-Taft feud, Theodore Roosevelt decided to

break a pledge he had made to not seek another term in office.


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