20.4

The Reconstruction Finance Corporation

Made loans to failing businesses.

The Hawley-Smoot Tariff

Raised taxes on imported goods.

Which issue became the focus of the 1928 presidential election?

The fact that Alfred Smith was Catholic.

Hoover's response to the Depression included all of the following measures EXCEPT:

a reduction in the size of the army.

A main cause of the Great Depression was:

declining American purchasing power.

The Great Depression was caused by all of the following EXCEPT:

increased government regulation of banking and the stock market.

President Hoover responded to the onset of the Depression by:

reassuring Anericans that "the tide had turned."

The Great Depression shaped the lives of Americans in all of the following ways EXCEPT:

the America suicide rate declined.

In 1928, Herbert Hoover:

won the presidency.