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Question 1
Warren G. Harding won the
Presidency by appealing to
Americans’ desire to do
what?
Return to life as it was before
the war
Question 2
The McNary-Haugen Bill,
called for the government to
do what?
Buy American crop surpluses
and sell them abroad
Question 3
John T. Scopes was put on
trial for what?
Teaching evolution
Question 4
The Cotton Club was what?
Harlem nightspot where many
African Americans
entertainers got their start
Question 5
The purpose of Volstead Act
was to do what?
Enforce Prohibition
Question 6
Stock prices first began to
decline in late 1929 because
why?
Investors began to sell their
stock
Question 7
Farmers on the Great Plains
began to lose their crops
during the depression
because why?
A terrible drought dried the
soil
Question 8
An unintended effect of the
Fordney-McCumber Act was
what?
Farmers could no longer sell
their crops to overseas
markets
Question 9
President Hoover opposed direct
federal relief to the unemployed
because he believed what?
Only state and city governments
should dole out relief
Question 10
Alfred E. Smith endured a
smear campaign in the 1928
election because why?
He was Catholic
Question 11
After WWI, most Americans
wanted to avoid future wars
by doing what?
Avoiding involvement in
world affairs
Question 12
The NAACP’s lobbying
efforts influenced the HOR
to pass what in 1922?
Anti-lynching legislation
Question 13
The National Credit
Corporation tried to rescue
troubled banks by allowing
to do what?
Continue lending money in
their communities
Question 14
Thousands of WWI veterans
came to Washington in 1932 to
lobby Congress to do what?
Pass legislation giving veterans
their promised bonus early
Question 15
Before the late 1920s, stock
prices did what?
Generally reflected the
stocks’ true value
Question 16
Henry Ford’s system for
making cars increased
efficiency by doing what?
Dividing operations into
simple tasks
Question 17
The federal Reserve
contributed to the Depression
how?
Keeping interest rates low
Question 18
Most economists agree that a
key cause of the Depression
was what?
Overproduction
Question 19
Commercial radio began its
rise in November 1920, with
news about what?
A presidential election
Question 20
The first feature length animated
film was what?
Snow White & the 7 Dwarfs
Question 21
After entrepreneurs such as
Glenn Curtiss started building
practical aircraft, the federal
government did what?
Began to support the airline
industry
Question 22
The purpose of the
Reconstruction Finance
Corporation was what?
Make loans to banks,
railroads, and other
businesses
Question 23
During the Great Depression,
when a bank collapsed what
happened?
Depositors lost their savings
Question 24
In May 1932, the Senate
voted down a bill that would
have done what?
Authorized early payment of
WWI bonuses
Question 25
The Ohio Gang was what?
Group of Harding’s friends
Question 26
The golden age of
Hollywood began in 1927
with the release of the first
what?
“talking” motion picture
Question 27
During the Depression, many
state governments declared
“bank holidays” why?
Prevent bank runs
Question 28
Roosevelt’s advisers who
supported “New Nationalism”
wanted government agencies
to do what?
Work with businesses
Question 29
To fight the Depression, the
first thing Roosevelt set out
to do was to do what?
Restore confidence in the
banks
Question 30
The Emergency Relief and
Construction Act provided
what?
Loans to states for direct
relief
Question 31
In the Teapot Dome scandal,
Albert B. Fall received
bribes for what?
Allowing private interests to
lease lands containing U.S.
Navy oil reserves
Question 32
Many people viewed Sacco &
Vanzetti with suspicion
because why?
They were Italian immigrants &
anarchists
Question 33
As governor of NY, FDR
oversaw the creation of the
first state relief agency to
aid whom?
Unemployed
Question 34
To pay for public works, the
government would have to
raise taxes or what?
Borrow money
Question 35
In the early 1920s, the KKK
added to its membership
how?
Hiring professional promoters
Question 36
In search of work or a better
life during the depression,
many unemployed people
did what?
Rode the rails
Question 37
The stock market crash
weakened the nation’s
banks because why?
Banks had invested their
deposits in the stock market
Question 38
The new morality of the 1920s
glorified what?
Personal freedom
Question 39
A major contribution to Herbert
Hoover’s landslide victory in
the 1928 election was what?
The prosperity of the 1920s
Question 40
President Hoover hoped that
public works would do
what?
Provide jobs lost in the
private sector
Question 41
The flowering of African
American arts in the 1920s
became known as what?
Harlem Renaissance
Question 42
Coolidge believed part of his job
as president was to make sure
the government did what?
Interfered with business and
industry as little as possible