The "Brain Trust" refers to:

FDR's close advisers during the First Hundred Days

Herbert Hoover's primary response to the Great Depression was to:

Wait for the economy to fix itself

The "Hundred Days" refers to the:

First three months of FDR's administration

The term "lost generation" refers to:

American writers disillusioned by consumerism

The purpose of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff was to:

Help American businesses by imposing high taxes on imports

The purpose of the Dawes Plan was to:

Create a way for Germany to pay war reparations

Prohibition led to all of the following EXCEPT

Greater tolerance among temperance reformers

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1
The Scopes Monkey Trial showed the struggle between:
Nativists vs. Liberals
Modernists vs. Fundamentalists
Urban vs. Rural
Functionalism v. Non-Conformity
2
The "Brain Trust" refers to:
A group of bankers
FDR's close advisers during the First Hundred Days
FDR's bodyguards
a group of Republicans opposed to FDR'S programs
3
The required closing of all banks for government inspection is known as:
The FDIC
The Securities and Exchange Commission
The Bank Holiday
Social Security
4
Herbert Hoover's primary response to the Great Depression was to:
Take control of bankrupt state and local relief programs
Set up bread and soup lines immediately
Establish the TVA and other public works programs
Wait for the economy to fix itself
5
The "Hundred Days" refers to the:
First three months of FDR's administration
Last three months of FDR's administration
Last three months of Hoover's administration
First three months of Hoover's administration
6
The term "lost generation" refers to:
People sterilized during the eugenics movement
The soldiers that died in WWI
American writers disillusioned by consumerism
Children left orphaned by WWI
7
The President during the stock market crash was:
Herbert Hoover
Calvin Coolidge
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Warren G. Harding
8
The purpose of the Kellogg-Briand Pact was to:
End poverty
End war
End the League of Nations
Create a way for Germany to pay reparations
9
The purpose of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff was to:
Establish government funds to be used for soup lines
Help American businesses by imposing high taxes on imports
Help European businesses by imposing a high tax on exports
Help farmers by holding surplus grain in storage
10
FDR, or Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was crippled by which of the following diseases?
Cholera
Polio
Tuberculosis
MRSA
11
The public works program designed to bring electricity to areas hit by the dust bowl was the:
WPA
TVA
NRA
NIRA
12
The purpose of the Dawes Plan was to:
End poverty
Create a way for Germany to pay war reparations
End war
End the League of Nations
13
Many farmers forced off their land during the Dust Bowl moved to what state?
Hawaii
Oregon
California
New York
14
All of the following contributed to the Great Depression EXCEPT:
Weak farm economy
Practice of buying stocks with borrowed money
Overproduction of consumer goods
Prohibition
15
Prohibition led to all of the following EXCEPT
Greater tolerance among temperance reformers
Defiance of the law by large numbers of people
Widespread smuggling
Rise of organized crime
16
The stock market crashed in:
November 1927
July 1930
March 1928
October 1929
17
The group of WWI veterans forcibly dispersed by the U.S. army in 1932 is known as:
The Army of Veteran Soldiers
The Little Army
The Brain Trust
The Bonus Army

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