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