LUOA US History Module 8

Which of the following is TRUE about the G-men? They were heroes in the public's imagination. They were overwhelmingly effective in their roles. They were reviled by most of the public. They made many mistakes.

They made many mistakes. They were heroes in the public's imagination.

What was the primary agenda of the Harding administration?

To undo as much of the work of the progressives as possible.

The ____________ Act of 1919 specifically outlined the 18th Amendment.

Volstead

What were some of the private organizations that helped people during the Great Depression? [Choose all that apply] YMCA Salvation Army Hull House Red Cross Goodwill

YMCA Salvation Army Red Cross

What contributed to the trend toward rejection of traditional morality in the 1920s? [choose all that apply] a backlash against the self-sacrifice of the war years the glorification of consumption a loss of family and societal traditions as people were separated from their roots an increase in mobility through advanced transportation

a backlash against the self-sacrifice of the war years the glorification of consumption a loss of family and societal traditions as people were separated from their roots an increase in mobility through advanced transportation

The Bonus Expeditionary Force was _______________________.

a group of World War I veterans who went to Washington to ask for early payment of their promised pensions

Which of the following parts proposed for the Social Security Act was dropped because it would never receive Congressional approval?

a national health insurance program

The Dust Bowl was ____________________________.

a period of drought, dust storms, and high winds on the Great Plains during the 1930s

To try to stop the financial panic on "Black Thursday" some prominent investors issued a statement that the markets were actually sound and that the crash was the result _____________________.

a technical glitch

The Kellogg-Briand Pact was essentially an attempt by world leaders to _____________________-.

abolish war

Ford wanted to make an automobile that was ________________.

affordable for everyone

Which of the following were centers for criminal gangs in the 1930s? New Orleans Cleveland Chicago San Antonio

all of the above

One of the unintended consequences of Prohibition was that it served ________________.

as a school for organized crime

When the Army was called in to deal with the remaining veterans of the Bonus Expeditionary Force, how did the commander view them?

as an "incipient revolution"

One of the first acts passed by Congress during the New Deal was aimed at solving the ____________ crisis.

banking

Following the crash, people began panicking about the safety of their money that was in _______________.

banks

During Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first term in office, the people came to see him as a _______________.

benevolent father figure

One of President Franklin Roosevelt's circles of consultants was called the "_____________ ________________."

brain trust

The single biggest factor that assisted Roosevelt in the Election of 1936 was that _____________________.

by the time of the election, the New Deal had done something for almost every important electoral group

In the 1920s, American life became more about _________ rather than_________ .

consuming, producing

When the stock market crashed, many people had been living on ____________ that they used to buy consumer goods.

credit

The expansion of credit in the 1920s left many American families ______________________.

deeply in debt

Because of the principles of Keynesianism, the entire New Deal was founded on the concept of _____________ ____________ to stimulate the economy and end the depression.

deficit spending

Without ______________, popular forms of entertainment such as the radio and movies would not have existed.

electricity

Because of the grim reality of poverty and the hard times of the depression, ____________ became more important than ever.

entertainment

The Scopes Trial began because a Tennessee teacher taught the theory of __________ in his classroom in violation of a law that prevented it.

evolution

In the 1920s, the stock market became a financial bubble supported by _______________________. [choose all that apply] expectations of profit government subsidies borrowed money buyer enthusiasm

expectations of profit borrowed money buyer enthusiasm

The McNary-Haugen bill was an attempt to protect American _______.

farmers

In Franklin Delano Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address, he spoke one of the most famous lines of American history, "The only thing we have to fear is ____________ ____________."

fear itself

President Roosevelt believed that relief from the Great Depression would require action by the _______________.

federal government

The quintessential woman of the 1920s became known as the _________________.

flapper

The United States enacted protective tariffs such as the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, which severely raised the tax on __________________.

foreign goods

How many times was Roosevelt elected to be the president of the United States?

four

Hoover's campaign message was that he had worked hard and __________________.

he should be given another chance

The growth of suburbs in the 1920s encouraged the government to spend money on ____________ with federal money, making it the biggest budget expenditure by the end of the decade.

highways

Shortly after learning of the death of President Harding, Vice President Calvin Coolidge took his presidential oath, which was administered by _______________.

his father

Important aspects of Roosevelt's leadership style were ______________________. [choose all that apply] his fierce determination to get his own way his sense of pragmatism his willingness to experiment his fixation on taking only one approach to a problem

his sense of pragmatism his willingness to experiment

In addition to poverty and starvation, many city-dwellers also faced the prospect of _______________.

homelessness

In the 1920s, many Americans believed that _____________ were responsible for bringing ideas of socialism, communism, and anarchy into American society.

immigrants

Which of the following was NOT one of the sources of funding for the New Deal?

increased sale of government bonds

In the Election of 1936, Roosevelt's most powerful opposition came from ___________________.

industrial and business leaders the ultra-wealthy

An _____________ _____________ was a company whose only "business" was to speculate in the stock market.

investment trust

During this time, what type of music represented a combination of rural and urban traditions?

jazz

____________ music was a synthesis of black folk and big band music that was a combination of rural and urban traditions.

jazz

Many people took great a great risk by using ____________ to buy stock in the 1920s.

loans

Which sport was particularly popular on radio broadcasts in the 1930s?

major league baseball

Believing that the Depression was ending, President decided to _____________________.

make a major shift in government policy

Ford's streamlined assembly line led to the rise in the _____________________and ____________________ that fueled the mass consumerism of the 1920s. [Select the two answers that apply] mechanization deregulation slow production standardization

mechanization standardization

By the 1920s, electric lighting had become _____________ for both families and businesses, which helped it to become more common.

more affordable

As the radio grew in popularity, it helped encourage a ______________________________.

national American Identity

In his acceptance speech at the Chicago convention, Roosevelt pledged to the American people a ____________________.

new deal

When the original advisors fell away, many of them were replaced by a circle of consultants called the "_____________ ________________."

new dealers

For the better part of a century, from where did most Americans get some of their entertainment and most of their news?

newspaper

The affordable automobile led to the growth of which of the following industries? [Choose all that apply] road construction steel oil railroads

oil

What institution saw large scale growth as a result of Prohibition?

organized crime

_______________ increased when it became profitable to manufacture, sell, and transport alcohol illegally.

organized crime

The most controversial and troublesome part of the NIRA was the provisions it made for _______________.

organized labor

Which of the following was NOT one of the new farming methods developed by the SCS to help with the problems in the Dust Bowl?

planting prairie grasses and shifting from farming to ranching

Which of the following was NOT a characteristic of the Great Depression? prosperity soup kitchens bread lines hobos unemployment

prosperity

In late 1937 and into 1938, the American economy went into ________________ once again.

recession

Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau wanted President Roosevelt to ___________________.

reduce federal spending

Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau wanted President Roosevelt to ____________________________.

reduce federal spending

Until 1927, motion pictures were ____________.

silent

The 1920s saw the rise of __________ _____________ as a lucrative industry and a contribution to a common American culture.

spectator sports

The 1920s saw the rise of ___________ _____________ as a lucrative industry and a contribution to a common American culture.

spectator sports

The first comic books were aimed at adults, but in June 1938, Action Comics introduced this genre of comic books aimed at children and young adults, beginning with Superman.

superhero comics

Which of the following contributed to the start of the Great Migration? [Choose all that apply] suppression of African Americans' right to vote reemergence of the Ku Klux Klan lynching Jim Crow laws desegregation

suppression of African Americans' right to vote reemergence of the Ku Klux Klan lynching Jim Crow laws

One of the reasons that President Franklin Roosevelt was successful was that he __________________________.

surrounded himself with a select team of people who shared his vision and energy

The FDIC reimbursed the depositors of failed banks with ___________.

taxpayer funds

The employees of General Motors used a new tactic in their labor strike in 1937, known as ______________.

the "sit down strike"

In 1935, Congress gave the President power to divide millions of dollars among several agencies how he saw fit bypassing ______________.

the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act

This New Deal program was established by executive order to purchase distressed and foreclosed farm mortgages so that farmers would have the opportunity to refinance at rates they could afford.

the Farm Credit Administration

The Glass-Steagall Banking Act gave the Federal Reserve new power and established _______________.

the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

African Americans began moving to the North and Midwest in 1915 when there were labor shortages due to ________________________________.

the Great War and immigration restrictions

Which of the following is NOT one of the reasons why movies grew in popularity and influence?

the Hayes Code

This New Deal agency introduced legislation on the theory that the free market had failed because it was too chaotic and not regulated enough by the government.

the National Recovery Administration

____________________ made the first promising flight of a powered machine at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

the Wright Brothers

What technological advances encouraged the growth of the suburbs in the 1920s? [choose all that apply] the automobile the airplane radio public transportation

the automobile public transportation

The period during the Great Depression when dust storms moved across the Plains is called __________________.

the dust bowl

Which of the following is NOT true regarding the economy between the second half of 1935 and the first half of 1937? the economy improved significantly industrial production and retail sales were up the economy improved slightly but unemployment remained above 20% banks were offering cheap credit again

the economy improved slightly

The case of Sacco and Vanzetti is evidence of __________________.

the growing fear in the United States of immigrants and their political ideas

The National Labor Relations Act of 1935 gave what provisions to workers? [Choose all that apply] the right to join unions protection from being fired for striking the right to unlimited sick leave the right to collectively bargain with employers protection under the National Labor Relations Board

the right to join unions protection from being fired for striking the right to collectively bargain with employers protection under the National Labor Relations Board

The strike tactic used by General Motors employees in 1937 would later be used in Alexandria, Virginia where a group of young black men did the same in ______________________________.

the segregated public library

In the late 1920s, business people increasingly looked to this to expand their businesses:

the stock market

In 1915, Alexander Graham Bell made the first _____________ phone call.

transcontinental

Federal work programs were designed to decrease _________________ and stimulate the economy.

unemployment

One of the defining features of the Great Depression was the depth and duration of mass ________________________.

unemployment

After the Literary Digest wrongly predicted that Alf Landon would win in the Election of 1936, it ___________________.

ushered in the age of "scientific" opinion

During the Great Migration, African Americans became an influential group of ____________ in elections.

voters

Doctors called the respiratory disease created by the dust storms _______________.

"Dust pneumonia"

Franklin Roosevelt's plan to shape the Supreme Court to his will was called the __________________.

"New Deal court"

Franklin Roosevelt's plan to shape the Supreme Court to his will was called the __________________________.

"court packing scheme"

The Veteran's Bureau was established in _____________.

1921

Coolidge became popular after serving the rest of Harding's term and won the presidential election of _________.

1924

The stock market crashed on October 29, ______________.

1929

The Social Security Act was passed in ___________.

1935

Herbert Hoover won the 1928 election with __________ million votes.

21

The ___________ Amendment repealed the Eighteenth Amendment and formally ended the Prohibition era.

21st

Warren Harding became the __________ president of the United States in 1920.

29th

Herbert Hoover was the _________ president of the United States.

31st

The Agricultural Marketing Act provided _________ dollars in aid to American farmers.

600

Instead of choosing a hardline anti-Roosevelt candidate, the Republican Party chose this man as their candidate in the Election of 1936.

Alf Landon

Composers Aaron Copland and George Gershwin sought to create music that was uniquely ______________.

American

Who was the "Empress of the Blues"?

Bessie Smith

After breaking away from the Democrat Party because of their choice in candidate in 1924, some delegates broke away and revived the ______________.

Bull Moose Progressive Party

This Canadian Catholic priest used his popular radio show to challenge President Roosevelt's New Deal.

Charles E. Coughlin

The kidnapping of this famous American's child pushed Congress to pass a law making kidnapping a federal crime if the kidnapper or victim crossed state lines.

Charles Lindbergh

One of the black denominations that sprang from the Holiness Pentecostal movement was the

Church of God in Christ

One of the best-known preachers of the Social Gospel was

Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick

How was society changed by the rise of Consumer Culture in the 1920s?

During the 1920s, the nation's total wealth more than doubled. Even working-class Americans saw their incomes rise by over 25 percent. Now more than ever, people had extra money and more time to engage in leisure activities. Advertising became a massive industry for the first time as companies vied for middle and upper-class Americans' disposable income. Americans began buying items on credit and paying for goods over an extended period of time with interest.

Novelist who wrote The Great Gatsby?

F. Scott Fitzgerald

What American novelist labeled the time in which he lived the "Jazz Age" ?

F. Scott Fitzgerald

What American novelist labeled the time in which he lived the "Jazz Age"?

F. Scott Fitzgerald

In 1938, as Roosevelt addressed the new economic crisis, he had Congress pass the ________________________.

Fair Labor Standards Act

The coming of what group changed the landscape and environment of the Great Plains?

Farmers

In the Election of 1936, the Union Party formed under the leadership of _________________.

Father Charles Coughlin

As stock market prices were rising, the ________________ raised interest rates in order to reduce speculation and slow the increasing stock prices.

Federal Reserve

Artist who pioneered modern art in America?

Georgia O'Keeffe

One of this movies' claims to fame is that the actress for one of the principal parts, Hattie McDaniel, became the first African-American woman to win an Oscar.

Gone with the Wind

The most significant social change for African-Americans in the early twentieth century was the _____________ ________________ away from the South toward the northern cities.

Great Migration

The great African-American literary and cultural movement was known as the _____________.

Harlem Renaissance

How was the shift in the public's view of the President achieved in Franklin Roosevelt's first term? [choose all that apply] He held town meetings and personal interviews with groups of citizens. He increased the size, scale, and power of the federal bureaucracy. He increased federal regulatory power. He increased taxing and spending at unheard-of levels.

He increased the size, scale, and power of the federal bureaucracy. He increased federal regulatory power. He increased taxing and spending at unheard-of levels.

Which of the following won the Election of 1928 and would be President during the worst economic collapse in American history?

Herbert Hoover

The wreck of the __________________ was one important event that was broadcast on the radio.

Hindenburg

This United States Senator established a plan as an alternative to the New Deal that was basically a radical redistribution of wealth, summed up with the slogan "Every Man a King."

Huey P. Long

During the _________________, more new laws were passed in the United States than any other time in US history.

Hundred Days

In the 1920s, businesses did not feel the need to pay workers more because __________________.

Immigration made labor plentiful.

What was the Scopes Trial, and why is it important to American history?

In 1925, the state legislature of Tennessee outlawed the teaching of evolution in public schools and colleges. Some Americans, especially members of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), believed that the law was unconstitutional because it violated church and state separation; many other Southern states also passed laws against the teaching of evolution

Where did Fundamentalism become most firmly established?

In the South

What effect did the collection of payroll taxes to support the new Social Security system have on the economy?

It was negative; slowing it down.

When the government bought large numbers of cattle and had them slaughtered, then processed and canned the meat, where did the canned meat go?

It went to the poor through other relief programs.

The "Kansas City Massacre" led this FBI director to ask President Roosevelt to declare a "War on Crime," making G-men heroes in the public imagination.

J. Edgar Hoover

_________________ was a painter who sought to relay the African-American experience through his work.

Jacob Lawrence

Novelist who wrote about the migrant worker experience?

John Steinbeck

In the 1930s, what technology did record companies develop as an additional outlet for phonograph records?

Jukeboxes

What was Calvin Coolidge's campaign slogan?

Keep it Cool with Coolidge

__________________________ was at the heart and soul of the New Deal.

Keynesianism

Why did Southern African Americans move North between 1910 and 1920?

Labor shortages in the North meant more employment opportunities.

Why did southern African Americans move north between 1910 and 1920?

Labor shortages in the North meant more employment opportunities.

What famous African-American poet was the best representative of the "New Negro" movement?

Langston Hughes

Tighter immigration laws after 1929 meant that Okies assumed the role of ________________.

Migrant farm workers

In Franklin Delano Roosevelt's second inaugural address, he compared America to the ancient Hebrews with himself as _______________________.

Moses

In 1933, what portion of the American people understood the problems of the dust storms on the Great Plains?

Most people outside the immediate area were unaware of the problem.

Roosevelt's ____________ was a plan to invigorate and save the American economy.

New Deal

What is meant by "fractional reserve banking"?

Only a portion of deposits were held by the bank and the rest loaned out.

The 18th Amendment was also known as the ______________ Amendment.

Prohibition

Frederic Clements and Paul Sears argued that the only way to fix the problems of the Great Plains was to ________________.

Put the natural ecological balance back the way it was before.

The summer of 1919 became known as "_________________" because of the immense amount of racial violence that took place.

Red Summer

What is the decade of the 1920s known as?

Roaring Twenties

____________ were places where people would build small shacks out of scrap metal, wood, and other materials on vacant land to live in.

Shantytowns

Huey P. Long's radical plan for saving America resulted in an organization called the __________________.

Share Our Wealth Society

Who was the founder of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel?

Sister Aimee Semple McPherson

The _________________ Act of 1935 guaranteed pensions for the elderly, gave assistance for dependent children, provided unemployment insurance, and gave workers' compensation.

Social Security

Which of the following is true about the New Deal in 1935?

Some New Deal programs had achieved specific objectives but overall had not achieved their main objectives.

The real center of the Dust Bowl was in the ________________.

Southern Great Plains

Which of the following were NOT among organized crime's diversified illegal activities after the repeal of Prohibition? "Tijuana Bibles" Stock Speculation Brothels Racketeering and Extortion Casinos

Stock Speculation

Although Roosevelt and the New Dealers won the Election of 1936, the President still faced strong opposition from the _____________ _____________.

Supreme Court

What major scandal affected Harding's presidency even though he was not involved?

Teapot Dome Scandal

What religious organization was most vocal regarding the declining moral standards in movies over the 1920s and 1930s?

The Catholic Church

Because of the rise of the radio industry, Congress created what agency in 1927?

The Federal Radio Commission

What Pulitzer Prize winning novel shaped American perceptions of the Dust Bowl migration to California?

The Grapes of Wrath

What organization, originally founded to investigate anti-trust violations, went on to declare a "War on Crime?"

The Justice Department's Bureau of Investigation

This New Deal program was similar to the CCC but focused on employing all able men in urban areas.

The Public Works Administration

Which of the following Second New Deal program could be called the crowning achievement of Roosevelt's Great Depression policies?

The Social Security Act

Which of the following would be the largest scandal in the federal government until Watergate in the 1970s and color the legacy of Warren G. Harding?

The Teapot Dome Scandal

Although considered one of the greatest movies of all time, this audience spectacle lost over 1 million dollars at the box office in 1939.

The Wizard of Oz

Which of the following is NOT true of the first code to be completed by the NRA (governing the cotton textile industry)?

The code was heavily enforced by the federal government.

What was Prohibition, and why was it enacted?

The movement to ban alcohol began in 1900 when the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) and the Anti-Saloon League politicized their efforts to begin a national campaign for prohibition. By the 1910s, the Anti-Saloon League, in particular, had become incredibly influential. On December 18, 1917, Congress passed the Eighteenth Amendment, the Prohibition amendment, which was ratified on January 16, 1920. One year later, the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol was made illegal.

What role did the Ku Klux Klan play in the immigration debates in the 1920s?

The new Klan was committed not just to terrorizing Southern blacks but also any foreign-born American

What event served as a trigger in the economic collapse that began in 1929?

The stock market crash

How did the federal monetary policy affect economic growth in the 1920s?

They expanded credit, making it easier to get loans and expand businesses.

Land speculation in the 1920s ___________________________. [choose all that apply] artificially increased demand decreased the number of people trying to purchase land resulted in inflated land values resulted in a few people owning vast acreage in many states

artificially increased demand resulted in inflated land values

In response to Black Tuesday, The New York Times called the day ________________.

"the most disastrous in Wall Street's history"

The Reconstruction Finance Corporation ____________________.

was a government agency meant to deliver emergency loans to insolvent companies and banks

In his acceptance speech at the Chicago convention, Roosevelt pledged to the American people a _____________.

"New deal"

Who became President after the death of Warren G. Harding?

Calvin Coolidge

How did Prohibition contribute to the growth of organized crime in America?

Crime institutions throughout American cities used the sale of illegal alcohol to fund their activities. The advent of automobiles and submachine guns also made criminals more dangerous. Organized crime leaders used loopholes in the law, bribed police officers and politicians, or used terror to avoid prosecution. Crime syndicates became massive institutions profiting from extortion and alcohol sales along with other vices such as drugs, prostitution, and gambling. Prohibition directly led to the largest increase in crime in American history.

During and just after World War I, farmers in the United States made a great deal of money supplying food to the world, but why did that change in the early 1920s?

European farmers were able to resume production and eliminated the need for American commodities

What were the characteristics of the "Jazz Age," and how did it affect views on gender?

F. Scott Fitzgerald, the most prominent American novelist of the 1920s, labeled this time the "Jazz Age." He chose this title not because of the sudden popularity of jazz music but because the culture of the time seemed to match the seemingly frantic rhythms and dissonant tones of the era's music.The 1920s were full of conflict as many began to reject traditional values and moral standards that had driven much of the progressive movement.Fashion for women changed dramatically in the 1920s. Young women across the nation rejected the constraining corsets, heavy petticoats, and long dresses of the previous era. Instead, they donned skirts that rose to the knee or loose-fitting dresses with limited undergarments. Women hoped to express their desire for equality with men by wearing dresses that more closely resembled men's and hid their bodies' curves. They wore their hair short or under a tight hat. Still, women's fashion maintained a feminine style while adopting these new trends.The quintessential woman of the 1920s became known as the "flapper," so named because they unbuckled their boots so they would "flap" around their feet.

What was the effect of new technologies on society and culture during the 1920s?

For many Americans, life became more about consuming rather than producing. This was facilitated by the rise of new technologies that made life easier. In 1920, only 34 percent of homes had electricity, but by 1930, that number increased to 68 percent. Indoor plumbing in homes also doubled. Other comforts such as washing machines, flush toilets, vacuum cleaners, and linoleum floors became available. In the 1920s, radio broadcasting exploded in popularity. By the 1930s, every city and most towns had at least one movie theater, and movies became the most popular entertainment form. most transformative new piece of technology of the twentieth century was undoubtedly the automobile.

What was the intention of the Smoot-Hawley tariff?

It was intended of raise the price of imported goods and give American companies a chance to compete.

How did American views of immigration change in the 1920s, and what steps did the government take to control it?

Many Americans became fearful of the influence of foreign immigrants during the 1920s. Many believed that immigrants were responsible for bringing ideas from socialism, communism, and anarchism into American society. Many even blamed foreigners for the changing moral values and the cultural conflict that came with it. The Red Scare of 1919 provided the impetus for the rise of anti-foreign mania, known as nativism. In 1921, Congress passed the Emergency Immigration Act of 1921, which restricted Europeans' yearly immigration to 3 percent of each nationality in the 1910 census. The Immigration Act of 1924 took this a step further by reducing the number to 2 percent based on the 1890 census.

What was the religious response to social and cultural changes in the 1920s?

Many Christians became concerned during and before the 1920s about the influence of secular philosophies on the church. Many theologians and other scholars began arguing that Christians should use new literary criticism techniques to interpret the Bible. Even more controversial was the push to adopt new interpretations that reconciled the Bible with the theory of evolution and other relatively new scientific discoveries. These modernist notions made their way into seminaries and churches across America. Many Christians reacted to these trends by adopting a strong posture of opposition. The movement against these secular trends was known as Fundamentalism

Which of the following is NOT true of American cities in the 1920s? Most American cities remained constant in population as working-class people moved into urban areas while the middle class moved to the suburbs. Miami grew faster than most American cities because of the large influx of Cuban immigrants. Technology allowed cities to construct high-rise buildings to accommodate increasing populations. Land values in cities increased, which encouraged the building of skyscrapers.

Most American cities remained constant in population as working-class people moved into urban areas while the middle class moved to the suburbs.

Which of the following is true of the "Negro Nationalism" movement? [choose all that apply] One of the leaders of the movement was Marcus Garvey. It encouraged the segregation of society into black and white communities. The movement contributed to the "black power" movement of the 1960s. Leaders advocated an armed uprising that would seize land in the American West for a nation made entirely for and of the black community.

One of the leaders of the movement was Marcus Garvey. It encouraged the segregation of society into black and white communities. The movement contributed to the "black power" movement of the 1960s.

Which of the following is NOT a reason for the end of the Progressive Movement? Progressives had grown too radicalized for the majority of the American population. In the 1920s, it seemed that all the goals of the Progressives had been accomplished. The Progressives lacked leadership with the death of Roosevelt and the illness of Wilson. The American people were not optimistic about Progressive ideas about a utopian society after the Great War.

Progressives had grown too radicalized for the majority of the American population.

What was the most transformative piece of technology to be expanded in the 1920s?

The automobile

What is true of stock prices by 1928-1929? The prices of many stocks were so high that they did not accurately reflect the company's performance. Stock prices had dipped so low that investors did not feel confident in the economy. Stock prices fluctuated wildly, and investors were cautious about investing. Stock prices were so carefully monitored that there was no chance for inflated prices.

The prices of many stocks were so high that they did not accurately reflect the company's performance.

What prominent politician became one of the leading advocates for Fundamentalism?

William Jennings Bryan

The 1926 Air Commerce Act ______________________________.

allowed the federal government to provide funds for commercial air transportation

Purchasing stocks "on margin" meant that investors _______________________.

borrowed money from a stockbroker to purchase stocks

Purchasing stocks "on margin" meant that investors ___________________________________________.

borrowed money from a stockbroker to purchase stocks

Investors who didn't want to invest in the markets directly could get involved in the stock market by placing bets on the performance of stocks in _________________.

bucket shops

During the 1920s, how did businesses attempt to bring customers into a lifestyle of consumption?

by offering cheap and easy credit

Unemployment during the Depression was both a symptom and a _________.

cause

The most famous of the Hoovervilles sprang up almost overnight in _____________.

central Park

In 1917, Congress passed the ______________ Amendment to the Constitution, the Prohibition Amendment.

eighteenth

In separate provisions, the Emergency Immigration Act of 1921 and the Immigration Act of 1924 [choose all that apply] encouraged immigration from Latin America were meant to encourage immigration from Northern and Western Europe excluded all immigrants from East Asia severely limited immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe

encouraged immigration from Latin America were meant to encourage immigration from Northern and Western Europe excluded all immigrants from East Asia severely limited immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe

The most notable organization for the advancement of racial equality in the United States was _____________.

the NAACP

Which of the following was NOT one of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's campaign promises?

to spend borrowed money to stimulate the economy