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| Elected president in 1920 from Ohio, a very bad leader, presidency rocked by scandels. |
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| Only president from VT Sworn in after Harding's death, tries to go back to traditional values. |
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| Future president of the US, is secretary of commerce under Harding, boosts America's economy. |
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| Wealthy buisnessman is the secretary of the treasury under Harding, lowers the tax rates. |
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| Scandal in which a major person in the Harding administration was found to be taking bribes & something to do with oil |
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| Automobile entrepenure who revolutionized the American auto industry with his use of the assembly line |
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| way of production where a line of workers puts together a finished product, first used with the model T Ford |
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| control of an industry by a few giant firms |
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| factory where union membership is not required to work |
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| factory where union membership is not required to work |
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| employment contract which forces workers not to join a union |
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| paternalistic style of employment, where workers get retirement benefits, vacations, etc... |
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| Nickname for the 1920's, so called for the popular music of the era. |
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| female stereotype of the 1920's of a women who smoke, drank, had a short skirt and slept around |
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| National Origins act of 1924 |
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| Law sharply restricting immigration to the US on basis of National Origin |
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| anti-minority group that remerged to power in the 1920's |
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| law that defines prohibited liquors and sets up a board to inforce the 18'th amendment. |
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| A high school teacher is tried for teaching Darwinism, and is defended by the well known lawyer Clarence Darrow. National sensation. |
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| Washington Naval Confrence |
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| anti-armerment buildup agreement which halted the production of arms around the world |
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| 1928 agreement to cease warfare, little more than a symbolic gesture |
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| Democrat candidate against Hoover, was a four-term governor of NY, a Catholic, an opponent of Prohibition, and a Tammany politicain |
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| Wagner National Realations Labor Act |
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| Garentees workers the right to form Unions and prohibits employers from using unfair labor practices. |
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| Provides unemployment compensations, old age pensions, aid for dependent mothers and the blind |
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| drought caused by poor farming practices along the great plains in the 1920's |
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| Residents of the great plains who decided to move west (California) as a result of the Dust Bowl |
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| Novel by John Stienbeck depicting the life of a family of Oakies as they move west. |
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| Works Progress Administration |
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| Sets up work programs to assist the poor. Gave jobs to 9 million Americans. |
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| Congress of Industrial Organizations |
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| Alliance of industrial Unions that grew in the 1930's |
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| Type of strike in which Workers idle at their stations. Prevents work from being done & scabs from being brought in. |
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| police guarding a steel plant fire on a crowd of workers on strike, killing 10. |
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| Powerful and strong first lady who played a roll in FDR's cabinet. |
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| Indian Reorganization Act |
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| garenteed religous freedom, establishes tribal land and form of self government for all Indians |
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| Highest ranking African American women in FDR's cabinet, advises him on all matters of race. |
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| Organization which builds schools, hospitals and dams in a huge region of the upper south. |
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| Head of Indian affairs uner FDR. |
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| Movie star, most famous for “The It Girl” |
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| Baseball star, extremely rich, popularized the game. |
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| white writer, the first American to win the Nobel prize in Literature |
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| Famous pianist, well known for “Rhapsody in Blue” |
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| 1st to fly across the Atlantic ocean, times man of the year. |
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| Itallian actor, sex symbol and fashion icon, “the Latin Lover” |
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| famous trumpeter and singer known for his low raspy voice |
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| Black poet of the Harlem Renaissance |
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| Influential director, known for his epics such as “The Ten Commandments" |
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| Black dancer/entertainer, known for her semi-nude dancing. |
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| Short story writer, famous for “The Great Gatsby” |
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| Prolific American writer and novelist, wrote “A Farwell to Arms” |
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| Prolific lawyer, defends Scopes in the scopes trial. |
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| most famous critic of the 1920’s |
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| Great Migration of the 1920's |
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| Mass movement of blacks from the rural south to the urban north |
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| Great Migration of the 1920's |
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| Mass movement of blacks from the rural south to the urban north |
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| leader of the Universal Negro Improvement association (UNIA) that exhorted black people to migrate to Africa and also set up black run buisnesses. |
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| a new African-American cultural awareness that flourished in literature, art and music in the 1920s |
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| - man whose poetry reflected the rhythm of jazz and blues during the Harlem Renaissance |
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| The economic an political practices of the Roosevelt administration during the 1030's |
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| Shantytowns, sarcastically named after President Hoover, in which unemployed and homeless people lived in makeshift shacks, tents, and boxes |
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| The nations worst economic crisis extending through the 1930's producing unprecidented bank failures, unemployment, and industiral & agricultural collapse. |
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| - October 29, panicked investors dumped their stocks, wiping out the previous year’s gains in one day; also knows as “Black Tuesday” |
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| U.S. stock exchange and money market/ financial interests |
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| Reconstruction Finance Corporation |
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| - established in 1932, the RFC lent federal funds to banks, insurance companies, and railroads so that their recovery could “trickle down” to ordinary Americans |
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| unemployed veterans of WW1 gathering in Washington in 1932 demanding payment of service bonuses not due until 1945 |
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| Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
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| Democratic candidate for the 1932 election (President of the United States |
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| the first 3 months of FDR’s presidency and the New Deal |
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| - act which stabilized the private banking system by extending government assistance to sound banks and reorganizing the weak ones |
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| speeches broadcast nationally over the radio in which President FDR explained complex issues and programs in plain language, as though his listeners were gathered around the fireside with him |
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| Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation |
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| - Government agency that guarantees bank deposits, thereby protecting both depositors and banks |
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| Securities and Exchange Commission |
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| - federal agency with authority to regulate trading practices in stocks and bonds |
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| Fordism included all of the following EXCEPT |
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| E. all answers are correct |
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| Fordism came to be associated with |
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| All of the following were industrial giants in the 1920s EXCEPT: |
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| Public Works Administration |
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| provided work relief on useful projects to stimulate the economy through public expenditures |
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| a.its size allowed it to swallow small firms |
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| Wolsworth was so successful because: |
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| Danger signs in the American economy in the 1920s included all of the following EXCEPT: |
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| c. Harding's attorney general |
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| Each of the following was true of the Harding administration EXCEPT: |
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| More people were recorded as living in urban areas than rural districts in the census of: |
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| Civilian Conservation Corps |
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| employed 2.5 million young men to work on reforestation and flood-control projects, built roads & bridges in national forests and parks, restored Civil War battlefields, and fought forest fires. |
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| Edward F. Purinton makes all of the following claims for business EXCEPT: |
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| business is at the core of every heart |
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| Agriculture Adjustment Administration |
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| subsidized farmers who agreed to restruct production. |
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| drive in restaurants and fast food chains |
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| America’s character changed in the 1920s as shown by: |
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| celebrities such as Charles Lindbergh had flying concerts |
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| Roaring was a good description of the 1920s for all of the following reasons EXCEPT: |
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| it embodied fear and.. of social change |
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| The KKK made a resurgance in the 1920's because |
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| it never got 3/4 of the state to approve it |
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| Prohibition was deemed a failure for all of the following reasons EXCEPT: |
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| National Recovery Administration |
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| Sought to halt the slide in prices, wages, and unemployment by suspending antitrust laws and authorizing industial and trade associations to draft codes setting production quotas, price policies, wages and working conditions. |
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| america had more colonies |
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| America might be considered a world dominant power for all of the following reasons EXCEPT: |
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| The election of 1928 exposed strife in America in all of the following areas EXCEPT: |
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| A successful engineer, administrator, and business-man |
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| Herbert Hoover reflected the character of the 1920s by being: |
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| All of the following were causes of the Great Depression EXCEPT: |
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| the FR expanded the money supply |
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| The Great Depression was caused by all of the following EXCEPT: |
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| Roosevelt's proposal to restructure the federal judiciary by proposing to authorize the president to name of new justice for each one serving past that age of 70 in hopes to appoint justices sympathetic to the new deal. |
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| As a result of the Great Depression: |
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| The Great Depression affected blacks by: |
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| British economist whose principles based the decision of Roosevelt's to increase spending. |
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| B. he depended to highly on.... |
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| Hoover’s response to the Great Depression failed because: |
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| he gave direct federal relief to needy Americans |
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| Hoover responded to the Great Depression in all of the following ways EXCEPT: |
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| b.. complained government role weakened |
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| After the early New Deal from 1933 to 1935: |
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| a government subscribing to a philosophy of dictatorship that merges the interests of the state, armed forces, and big businesses |
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| farmers received federal assistance to increase production |
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| The government response to the Great Depression and the recession of 2008-2009 are similar in all of the following ways EXCEPT: |
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| The coalition compromising the Democratic Party under Roosevelt was made up for all of the following reasons EXCEPT: |
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| Fascist leader of the German Nazi party who tried to purify the German race through the elimination of other ethnic groups, especially the Jews |
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| the new deal of country immigration |
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| Each of the following gains were made for minority groups EXCEPT: |
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| voter registration and social status |
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| . The Tennessee Valley Authority was able to provide all of the following EXCEPT: |
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| It is interesting to note that Roosevelt’s political base: |
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| Italian leader who envisaged emulating the power and prestige of the Roman empire, attacked Ethiopia in 1935. |
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| the recession interupted the momentum o the new deal |
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| Roosevelt and the New Deal had trouble during his second administration because: |
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| fed. gov rather than state and local |
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| The New Deal may be considered new because: |
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| Roosevelt’s foreign policies: |
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| Young fascist military officer who led an uprising in Spain, and succesfully ousted the Spanish Republic and its loyalist supporters by 1939 to create an authoritarian government |
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America did not appease its immigration laws to provide refuge for German Jews
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| policy of remaining apart from the affairs of other countries |
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| Federal Emergency Relief Administration |
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| furnished funds to state and local agency to provide relief for the unemployed |
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| a dude from North Dakota who loved his agriculture |
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| a doctor/physician from California who invented marijuana (and lobbied for compensation for dude > 60) |
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| this guy was a radical agrarian, meaning he was a priest who had radio talks that were anti-semitisista |
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| a senator from Louisiana who liked helping people |
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