VUS SOL 10 (and 9) Review (2024)

Question 1

Which tariff was levied in 1930, and subsequently crippled international trade?

Accepted Answer

Hawley-Smoot Tariff

Question 2

Which Constitutional Amendment banned the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol?

Accepted Answer

18th

Question 3

True or False: The New Deal ended the Great Depression.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 4

Why didn't the United States join the League of Nations?

Accepted Answer

the Senate objected to the terms of the Treaty of Versailles

Question 5

The Scopes trial focused on the issue of:

Accepted Answer

Darwinian Evolution

Question 6

The "New Deal" programs were most associated with:

Accepted Answer

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Question 7

Which New Deal recovery program tried to raise farm prices by paying farmers to cut production?

Accepted Answer

AAA

Question 8

FDR's radio "conversations" with the American public were known as:

Accepted Answer

fireside chats

Question 9

The shantytowns of the Great Depression were often nicknamed:

Accepted Answer

Hoovervilles

Question 10

Which New Deal program provides retirement insurance and other safeguards for workers?

Accepted Answer

Social Security Act

Question 11

Which Constitutional Amendment guaranteed women's suffrage?

Accepted Answer

19th

Question 12

Nativism and racist attitudes of the 1920s led to the 2nd rise of this organization in America:

Accepted Answer

Ku Klux Klan

Question 13

This occurs when too many people try to withdraw their funds from a bank at the same time:

Accepted Answer

bank run

Question 14

The New Deal is most important because it:

Accepted Answer

changed the role of government in solving problems

Question 15

Which New Deal program created public works programs for unemployed Americans?

Accepted Answer

WPA

Question 16

Young women who embraced the new style and attitudes of the "Roaring Twenties" were known as:

Accepted Answer

flappers

Question 17

When did the Great Stock Market Crash occur?

Accepted Answer

1929

Question 18

Who said that the U.S. had to join World War I to "make the world safe for democracy?"

Accepted Answer

Woodrow Wilson

Question 19

Which of the following was NOT one of the New Deal's "three R's"?

Accepted Answer

Redemption

Question 20

Which of the following was annexed by the U.S. as a result of the Spanish American War?

Accepted Answer

Puerto Rico

Question 21

Which organization was blamed for not "bailing out" the banks during the Great Depression?

Accepted Answer

Federal Reserve

Question 22

This describes a considerable risk taken in the hopes of a high return, especially in stocks.

Accepted Answer

overspeculation

Question 23

Which U.S. president was most responsible for the building of the Panama Canal?

Accepted Answer

Theodore Roosevelt

Question 24

What was the U.S. policy for the first three years of World War I?

Accepted Answer

neutrality

Question 25

Which New Deal program insures bank deposits?

Accepted Answer

FDIC

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