Hon US Hist 2 Test 3 review

Between 1929 and 1932, farmers in the Dust Bowl of the Soul and Midwest experienced all of the following problems except

rapidly rising prices

One of the Hoover administration's major failings in dealing with the Depression was its

reluctance to spend large amounts of federal funds

all of the following statements about women in the Depression are true except

women experienced a significant increase in gaining opportunities for jobs in professional fields of work

After WW!, schoolds became institutions where

youths were allowed to identify themselves more in terms of their peers than in relation to their families

By the 1920s, it became increasingly evident that the key to financial success was

hard work, talent, training, and education

Hoover responded to the domestic crisis in 1931 by asking Congress to

increase funding for financial institutions to prevent mortgage foreclosure

According to a crude estimate, the unemplyment rate in 1932 at the height of the Depression was

25 percent

The Great Depression was caused by all of the following factors except

American industries and banks were not involved in the European economy

Historians and contemporaties called the 1920s the "New Era" because

American popular culture reshaped itself to reflect an urban, middle-class, consumer-oriented society

During 1930 and 1931, Hoover's situation deteriorated even further because

Americans began using the term "Hoovervilles" to describe shanty towns of the unemployed, the Republicans lost heavily in the 1930 elections, many Americans were holding him personally for their crisis, and the banking structure in Europe collasped

Bruce Barton, author of The Man Nobody Knows, promoited the idea of divine approval for advertising and salesmanship when he depicted

Jesus as prophet and "super salesma" who was concerned with living a full and rewarding life in this world

The first feature-length film to feature "talkie" sound was

The Jazz Singer with Al Jolson

the closing of over 9000 American banks between 1930 and 1933 resulted in

a decrease in the money supply

During the 1920s, the US experienced an economic boom that included

a substantial increase in the nation's manufacturing output

In response to American consumer society;s emphasis on immediate personal fulfillment, theological modernists taught their followers to

abandon a literal interpretation of the Bible

During 1920s, the growth in agricultural production resulted in all of the following developments except

an increase in demand

The US truly became a consumer society during the 1920s, which meant that Americans

bought things bothj for the needs and their pleasures

The most important communications vehicle in the New Era, and the only one truly new to the 1920s, was

commerical radio

During the Depression, blakc Americans suffered special harships, which were caused by

continuing racial prejudice in the nation, unemployed whties seeking positions held by blacks, the sharecropping system becoming unprofitable, and blacks not recieving their fair share of relief benefits

Under the leadership of Alfred P. Sloan, the General Motors Corp. developed a modern administrative system

created efficient heirchical organization among divisions

Alice Paul led the National Women's party in

demandingg the right for women to vote

Between May 1928 and September 1929, the prices of the stocks of the major industries

doubled in value

During the 1920s, the American Federation of Labor pursued the policy of

excluding African-Americans from their unions

Dance Halls offered all of the following excpet

family atmosphere which encouraged attendance by all ages in families

the collaspe of the international credit structure in the early 1930s was fostered by the US policy of

loaning less money to foreign countries

Herbert Hoover's early response to the Depression included all of the following actions except

lowering tariffs in order to encourage foreigners to buy American products

Under the terms of te proposed McNary-Haugen bill, the government would have helped the farmers to achieve parity by

maintaining high tariffs against foreign competition and buying surplus crops for sale abroad

During the Depression, the cause of equal rights for blacks was advanced when

many blacks were allowed to join labor unions

Many industries of the 1920s improved the efficienct of production by adopting

mass-production methods that lowered their costs

In the 1920s, working women exhibited all of the following characteristics except

most belonged to the middle class

The final outcome of the "Bonus Army" march was that Congress gave the marchers

nothing, and the president authorized the use of military force to make them leave

During the summer of 1932, the local conditions produced by the Depression caused some farmers to engage in

organizing a strike in an effort to keep their crops from market

US industrial leader's attempts either to curb competition or to acheive cooperation reflected their overriding fear of

overproduction

The purpose of the "Bonus Army" march into Washington D.C, in 1932 was to

persuade Congress to approve the early payment of bonuses due to WWI veterans

Industry's dream during the 1920s was to prevent periodic economic collapes by

preventing too rapid expansion and overproduction

Parity, a price-raising scheme that dominated agrarian demands in the 1920s, required

prices for agricultural commodities to be continuously based on the average price of crops during the period the good pre-war years

the purpose of the Reconstruction Finance Corp. was to

provide federal loans to troubled banks, railroads, and other big buisnesses

Feminist activies won a significant legislative triump when Congress passed the Sheppard-Towner Act in 1921, which

provided federal funds to states to establish parental and child healthcare programs

During the 1920s, some employers adopted a system known as "welfare capitalism," which

provided workers with fringe benefits such as shorter work weeks and retirement pensions

When employers practiced "welfare capitalism," they engaged in the practice of

providing fringe benefits to prevent union growth

the dilemma of American labor in the 1920s lay in the poor distribution of wealth and purchasing power, because wages

rose but many workers still lived at or below a minimum living standard

During the Depression, many Americans reacted by

showing shame over their inability to find work, accusing corporate moguls and international bankers of causing much of the distres, blaming themselves for their economic difficulties, and looking to the government for assistance in a sitation that was essentially society's problem

During the Depression, American families experienced all of the following except

small home buisnesses increased

So-called "pink-collar" jobs included all the following except

teachers

During the 1920s, the US experienced an economic boom, largely because

technological innovations appeared quickly and European competition did not challenge American industry

the labor organization that successfully represented a virtually all African-American worforce was

the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

the election of 1932 saw all of the following events except

the Republicans dumped Herbert Hoover in a desperate attempt to avoid defeat

Between the election in late 1932 and the inauguration in early 1933,

the banking industry begin to collapse

During the Depression, people who lived in the industrial Norhteast and Midwest experienced

the collapse of city and state relief systems

the steady rise in stock prices between the spring of 1928 and the fall of 1929 was caused by

the easy credit policies of brokerage firms

the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1929 failed to improve conditions for farmers because

the program relied on voluntarily cooperation rather than on deferal court