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Test Review #3
What was the New Deal?
What is a flapper?
Test Review #3
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1
What is a flapper?
Men who enjoyed the support of leaders from their our state
A person freed from slavery
A huge ice sheet
A young woman in 1920s who showed freedom from convention
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What was the New Deal?
An organization of workers
Authorization to act given to a representative
Belief that the Soviet Union had nuclear weapons
Federal programs, public work projects, financial reforms
3
Why was Harlem the center of the African American renaissance?
Harlem experienced an influx of African Americans to NYC.
The community offered freedom from conformity.
An increase in tax cuts made it affordable to live in NYC.
Traditional ideals were supported here.
4
What were some federal programs put in place to combat debt and the financial crisis?
Federal Deposit Corporation
All the above
Home Owners' Loan Coporation
Emergency Banking Relief Act
5
All of the following programs were geared towards work and relief, EXCEPT:
Federal Emergency Relief Administration
Farm Credit Administration
Civilian Conservation Corps
Public Works Administration
6
Who was F. Scott Fitzgerald?
An American aviator
A congressman
A jazz flute player from the Harlem Renaissance.
Famed author of the Great Gatsby
7
What were some features of the African American political renaissance of the 1920s?
All the above.
Strong voting blocks in northern cities.
First African American elected to Congress.
The NAACP battled segregation and discrimination
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What were some traditional values that were revitalized during the Jazz Age?
The prohibition was supported.
Nativism grew
Congress created immigration quotas.
An emphasis on family and moral values.
9
What was the Works Progress Administration?
An active effort to improve employment opportunities for all
A policy which tried to release tensions between countries
A government ban on trade with other countries
Employed millions of people to do public works projects
10
What does the FDIC stand for?
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Federal Directory and Income Corporation
Federal Daily Input Corporation
11
What is the Social Security Act?
Theodore Roosevelt's promise of fair and equal treatment
A law that let voters accept or reject decisions of Congress
Doctrine established by the Supreme Court in 1896
A law requiring worker to pay a tax for retired people
12
What was a speakeasy?
A committee organized in the House or Senate.
A poor section of town consisting of crudely built houses.
A place where alcoholic beverages are sold illegally.
fog made heavier and darker by smoke.
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What was a shantytown?
A rolling grassland
To leave or withdraw
A military blockade of a city or fortified place
A poor section of town consisting of crudely built dwellings
14
What was the Wagner Act?
Gives banks the rights to add interest onto loans
Guarantees basic rights of employees to organize into unions
Stops farm monopolies
Makes it easier for private sector companies to sell goods
15
What was Hooverville?
To search or raid for food
A nickname given to shantytowns in the United States
A huge ranch
A homeless and usually penniless wanderer
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What was the dust bowl?
Great Plains severely damaged by drought and dust storms
A general agreement
A person who owes a debt
Segregation by custom and tradition
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What was the Fundamentalist movement?
Congress enacted a tariff on alcohol.
A way in which to combat police powers.
A religious movement to reassert the Bible's authority.
A movement to stop the spread of Jazz.
18
What national groups were affected most by the new restrictions on immigration in the 1920s?
Irish
Russians
Southern and Eastern Europeans.
Italians
19
What were some cultural changes that occurred during the Jazz Age?
Young people and women gained more independence.
All the above
Youth and beauty emphasized.
Mass media expanded.
20
When was the Great Depression?
1929-1939
1941-1945
1861-1865
1914-1919
21
What was the Great Migration?
A migratory path taken by North American bats.
A mass exodus out of California.
movement of 6 million African-Americans into urban areas.
A movement out of urban areas into more rural areas.
22
What was the Agricultural Adjustment Administration?
Boost agricultural prices by reducing surpluses
Laws banning tea tariffs
A political policy pushing for gender equality.
A way in which to boost the revenue of big businesses
23
What role did the automotive play in changing the way young people in the U.S. lived?
Automobiles made it possible for cross country travel.
It made it impossible to find work.
It caused a debate of vehicular safety.
It allowed them to escape their parents control.
24
Why was there a rise in racism and nativism in the 1920s?
An increase in war time hostility.
There was debate of science and religion.
An increase in party boss power.
An influx of immigrants and a recession.
25
How did the Supreme Court challenge the New Deal?
It made it impossible to enact any of the laws
It declared some of the legislation as unconstituional
It stopped the production of bank notes
It became a way in which judges pushed for control
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Who was the president who put most of the New Deal policies in place?
Abraham Lincoln
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
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What was Black Tuesday?
The Treaty of Versailles was signed
World War I came to an end
October 29, 1929. The stock market crash
JFK was assassinated
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What were some major initiatives president Hoover took to try and help the economy?
All the above
National Credit Corp
emergency relief and Construction Act
Reconstruction Finance Corp
29
What was a fireside chat?
A strike involving all the workers in particular region
A cultural separation between parents and their children
A practice of limiting work output
A radio broadcast made by FDR
30
What was the Prohibition?
A man who herded cattle
An 1860's term for a torpedo.
The prevention by law of the manufacture and sale of alcohol
A popular bar in Harlem, NY.
31
Why did the federal government create work programs during the Depression?
To increase government spending
To halt bank closures
To decrease state control
To speed up economic recovery by providing work
32
What caused the stock market to crash in 1929?
Too many loans were taken out
Stocks prices dropped in coffee swiftly
An increase in corporate tariffs
It was a long bull market and stocks were overvalued
33
What were some the underlying causes of the Great Depression?
Overproduction and low interest rates
Weak central government
Lack of control on a state level
Controlling bank system
34
What was the Reconstruction Finance Corporation?
Provided financial support to state and local governments
A relief system put in place for banks
Designed to protect the Consumer in the credit market
An attempt to stabilize the banking system.
35
What were some effects of the changing role of women in the 1920s?
Women weren't getting married as frequently.
It allowed women more chances to interact with Congress
It caused a debate of the women's role.
Women gained more public freedom, and new jobs opportunities
36
What is a sit-in strike?
An act of rebellion against the government
An extended meeting taking about a political issue.
A method of extracting information
A form of boycotting work involving sitting down at work
37
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
an intellectual, social, and artistic explosion in the 1920s
A solider captured by enemy in battle.
A person in control of a political machine.
A colony owned by the individual.
38
The following are true of the bills passed in the first 100 days of FDRs presidency EXCEPT:
They were meant to provide immediate relief to Americans
They were designed as a temporary restart to the economy
They were subject to divisive debate in Congress
They were known as the New Deal
39
What is the definition of Eugenics?
spying, especially to gain government secrets.
a pseudo- science that deals with the improvement of genes.
The act of process of freeing enslaved people.
A government ban on trade with other countries.
40
What is a binding arbitration?
The immediate ending of slavery.
The act of granting a pardon to a large group of people
Money paid by contract on regular intervals.
When a neutral party hears the viewpoints of two sides.
41
What was the Hawley-Smoot Tariff?
The act raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods.
Created to try to stop bank failure
Provided financial support to state and local governments
An attempt to stabilize the banking system.
42
What is a bull market?
a proposed law
A long period of rising stock prices.
a large, profitable wheat farm
money paid by contract on regular intervals
43
All of the following are Agriculture programs passed with the New Deal EXCEPT:
Civilian Conservation Corps
National Labor Relations Act
Agricultural Adjustment Administration
National Industrial Recovery Act
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What is the stock market?
A business group
A computer program
A place where alcoholic beverages are sold illegally
A system for buying and selling stocks in corporations
