History Exam Review

Front 1

The result in the presidential election of 1920 seemed to be proof that Americans in the 1920s wanted to return to ___________

Back 1

normalcy

Front 2

The "Ohio Gang" was ___________ that were named to political office.

Back 2

a group of Harding's friends

Front 3

How did the tariff policy of the early 1920s affect our imports?

Back 3

The tariff policy made it harder for other nations to trade with the US.

Front 4

In order to stimulate the economy, Harding's secretary of treasury favored ___________

Back 4

the reduction of high wartime levels of taxation.

Front 5

What was the biggest scandal of the Harding administration? State what it is called, who was responsible and what it involved.

Back 5

The Teapot Dome was the biggest scandal of the Harding administration. Albert Fall was responsible for this scandal. It involved the leasing of government owned oil to private companies.

Front 6

What was the outcome of the 1924 presidential election?

Back 6

Coolidge won overwhelmingly.

Front 7

The arrival of the modern motion picture was marked by a 1915 movie based on Thomas Dixon's novel "The Clansman" entitled ___________

Back 7

Birth of a Nation

Front 8

___________ made the automobile available to more buyers.

Back 8

Mass production

Front 9

Identify two effects of the automobile on society in the 1920s.

Back 9

The rise of the automobile quickened good roads movement.

The rise of the automobile also encouraged the sprawl of suburbs.

Front 10

In the 1920s, farm prices ___________.

Back 10

fell sharply

Front 11

The Democrats lost the presidential election of 1928 because ___________.

Back 11

Americans were pleased with the Republican prosperity of the 1920s

Front 12

___________ contributed in large part to the stock market crash.

Back 12

Buying stocks on margin

Front 13

Hoover's early efforts to end the Depression included asking business men to ___________.

Back 13

Keep paying their employees and to not fire them in order to keep purchasing power strong.

Front 14

In 1931, just as economic indicators were beginning to rise, Austria's largest bank closed, triggering a panic that wept through Europe. Why did this effect the American economy?

Back 14

European investors withdrawed American old and dumped American securities because Austria's largest bank closed (which was caused by the economic indicators that were beginning to rise)

Front 15

What was the purpose of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation?

Back 15

It gave emergency loans to banks, farm mortgages, building and loan societies, and other such businesses to prevent bankruptcies.

Front 16

In the early years of the Depression, farmers ___________ because ___________.

Back 16

Farmers lost their farmers because of their income failure

Front 17

___________ said, "The chief business of the American people is business."

Back 17

Calvin Coolidge

Front 18

Politically, the ___________ suffered he most from the stock market crash and the beginning of the Depression.

Back 18

the Republicans

Front 19

In the presidential election of 1932 ___________

Back 19

radical Socialist and Communist party candidates won nearly one million votes.

Front 20

Between the election in November 1932 and Roosevelt's inauguration in March 1933, ___________.

Back 20

(no answer)

Front 21

The Federal Emergency Relief Administration ___________

Back 21

was created during the first Hundred Days, often gave financial assistance to the needy through the dole rather than through work, and was actually administered through the states.

Front 22

The goal of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 was to raise farm income mainly through ___________

Back 22

cutbacks in production.

Front 23

"Codes of fair practice" were a part of ___________

Back 23

the NRA.

Front 24

Huey Long was from ___________

Back 24

Louisiana.

Front 25

In the case of Norris v. Alabama, the Supreme Court ___________

Back 25

ruled that the systematic exclusion of blacks from juries denied defendants equal protection of the law.

Front 26

The Indian Reorganization Act restored ___________

Back 26

their cultural traditions.

Front 27

The Supreme Court packing plan was defeated in part because of ___________

Back 27

a change in the Court's direction in rulings on key measures.

Front 28

The New Deal's "cornerstone" and "supreme achievement", according to FDR, was ___________

Back 28

Social Security.

Front 29

The ___________ was NOT part of the first New Deal.

Back 29

Social Security.

Front 30

The Fair Labor Standards Act did NOT provide for ___________

Back 30

the right of workers to form unions.

Front 31

Eleanor Roosevelt helped the president by ___________

Back 31

taking political risks he could not take.

Front 32

The primary purpose of the Public Works Administration and the Works Progress Administration was to ___________

Back 32

provide employment through federal deficit spending.

Front 33

The most enduring change that occurred in United States banking during the administration of Franklin Roosevelt was the ___________

Back 33

federal insurance of bank deposits.

Front 34

In addition to putting young men back to work, a principal purpose of the CCC was to ___________

Back 34

promote reforestation and land conservation.

Front 35

Dr. Francis Townsend gained notoriety as a critic of the New Deal with his ___________

Back 35

$200 per month pension plan for the elderly.

Front 36

Most of the rationale for conservative opposition to the New Deal came from the argument that New Deal programs ___________

Back 36

diminished the liberty of the individual.

Front 37

Until the 1930s, the Supreme Court objected to social legislation passed by the states to protect workers on the basis that suck laws ___________

Back 37

interfered with the workers' right of contract.

Front 38

Huey Long's plan was to guarantee ___________

Back 38

an annual income to each family.

Front 39

During the 1932 presidential campaign, the Republican and Democratic candidates both promised generally to balance the budget.

True/False

Back 39

True

Front 40

The Twentieth Amendment moved the presidential inauguration date from March to January.

True/False

Back 40

True

Front 41

The AAA eliminated child labor in factories.

True/False

Back 41

False

Front 42

An early New Deal program called for slaughtering six million pigs.

True/False

Back 42

True

Front 43

Only the New Deal agricultural programs did not discriminate against blacks.

True/False

Back 43

False

Front 44

The Republican presidential candidate in 1932 was Alfred Landon

True/False

Back 44

True

Front 45

While Hoover believed that the federal government should provide relief assistance in the form of a dole, Roosevelt believed that it was the responsibility of the states.

True/False

Back 45

False

Front 46

Both Hoover and Roosevelt believed that the depression could be solved by government regulation of the economy.

True/False

Back 46

False

Front 47

The Scottsboro case in 1931 involved efforts to organize workers in the steel industry.

True/False

Back 47

False

Front 48

Only the New Deal agricultural programs did not discriminate against blacks.

True/False

Back 48

False

Front 49

"The Grapes of Wrath" depicted the dust bowl immigrants to California.

True/False

Back 49

True

Front 50

In 1939, seventeen percent of the nation's labor force was still out of work.

True/False

Back 50

True

Front 51

In his attitudes toward government and business, FDR was ideologically committed to enforcing antitrust laws.

True/False

Back 51

False

Front 52

At the end of the Hoover administration, four out of every five American banks were closed.

True/False

Back 52

True

Front 53

A first step toward direct relief for the unemployed was the CCC.

True/False

Back 53

True

Front 54

Codes of fair competitive practice were established by the NRA.

True/False

Back 54

True

Front 55

The "Blue Eagle" was a symbol for the AAA.

True/False

Back 55

False

Front 56

Perhaps the most enduring voting change brought by FDR was the shift of the farm vote to the Democratic party.

True/False

Back 56

False

Front 57

Deportation of Mexican American workers was popular because they were involved in labor union activities.

True/False

Back 57

True

Front 58

Keynesianism involves reducing government spending in times of severe unemployment.

True/False

Back 58

False

Front 59

The CIO was established to organize skilled workers.

True/False

Back 59

False

Front 60

In the election of 1936, the Republicans recognized the popularity of New Deal policies and simply asserted that they could administer them better.

True/False

Back 60

True

Front 61

The Twenty-First Amendment, ratified in 1933, repealed the progressive income tax.

True/False

Back 61

False

Front 62

During the period of the New Deal, the program of organized labor was most successful in unifying the labor movement.

True/False

Back 62

False

Front 63

The farm policy of the New Deal was designed to decrease the prices of farm products by increasing farm output.

True/False

Back 63

False

Front 64

The Wagner Act gave labor a minimum wage, maximum workweek, and retirement benefits.

True/False

Back 64

False

Front 65

In order to deal with the crisis in banking at the time of his inauguration, Franklin Roosevelt declared a four-day "banking holiday" and prohibited the export of money.

True/False

Back 65

True

Front 66

Huey Long challeged FDR for the Democratic presidential nomination on 1936.

True/False

Back 66

False

Front 67

The FDIC was established in 1934, to regulate the stock market and to prevent the abuses practiced during the 1920s that led to the Great Crash in 1929.

True/False

Back 67

False

Front 68

Franklin D. Roosevelt was permanently ___________ after contracting ___________

Back 68

he was permanently crippled after contracting polio

Front 69

The main purpose of the Civilian Conservation Corps was to ___________

Back 69

provide work relief for young men.

Front 70

The "Blue Eagle" was the symbol of compliance for the ___________

Back 70

NRA

Front 71

The Tennessee Valley provided ___________

Back 71

the production of cheap electric power, flood control, and soil conservation and forestry.

Front 72

In the case of Schechter Poultry Corporation v. United States, the Supreme Court ___________

Back 72

overturned the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA).

Front 73

The National Labor Relations Act was often called the ___________

Back 73

Wagner Act.

Front 74

The Social Security Act did NOT ___________

Back 74

___________