What of the following did NOT provided mortgage relief?

Civilian Homeowners Corporation

What occurred imediately prior to Word War II begining on September 1, 1939?

Hitler & Stalin signed a non-aggression pact

What was the purpose of FDR's "quarantine speech"?

To warn Japan against futher expansion

What did Thomas Hunt Morgan NOT do?

created first genetic synthesizer

Which of these is FALSE in regards to the Social Security Act?

Retirment Pension began immediately

What is FALSE anout the 1936 "Referendum"?

Democrats lost presence in both houses

What was A. Philip Randolph's Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters?

African-American dominant union

What did the Sheppard-Towner Act do?

federal funds for prenatal and child-health care programs

Who was Chiang Kai-Shek?

Leader of China during Mukden Incidents

Which Act(s) did the Supreme Court uphold in 1937?

Social Security Act, Wagner Act

What were Pin-money workers?

Married women working for extra money

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1
Who was the target of the Leo Frank Case?
Jew
African American
Catholic
Women
2
What is NOT true about welfare capitalism?
instituted paid vacation
gave managers more control
enacted by Henry Ford
gave workers control of own fate
3
Who wrote The Grapes of Wrath?
John Ford
John Steinbeck
John Green
John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt
4
What did FDR do two days after inauguration?
Enacted the Glass-Steagall Act
shut down all banks
called Hoover for help
enacted the Economy Act
5
What was the largest public works project of the New Deal?
Building the Empire State Building
Building schools in the Northwest
Grand Coulee Dam
Yomesite National Park
6
What portion of the population believed Germany posed a direct threat to the safety of the U.S?
1/6
None
2/3
All of them
7
FDR circumvented cash-and-carry by giving England 50 American destroyers.
True
False
8
What did the Teapot Dome scandal involve
steel companies
warships
oil reserves
wheat production
9
What of the following did NOT provided mortgage relief?
Farm Credit Administration
Frazier-Lemke Farm Bankruptcy Act
Civilian Homeowners Corporation
Federal Housing Administration
10
What organization offered free council in Tennessee to any educator willing to defy the law?
American Federation of Labor
National Womens party
Southern Communist Party
American Civil Liberties Union
11
What did Charles E. Laughlin call for?
monetary reforms
Share-Our-Wealth Plan
right to unions
pension for the elderly
12
1921-1922 saw uninterrupted prosperity and economic expansion
True
False
13
The government adapted public policy to ensure efficiency in the industries in 1920.
True
False
14
What occurred imediately prior to Word War II begining on September 1, 1939?
Hitler & Stalin signed a non-aggression pact
Hitter occupied Czechoslovakia
France fell
Appeasement
15
What term was used to describe blacks in significant second level positions in the government?
Brudders
Black pups
Black Cabinet
Pin-money workers
16
What was the purpose of FDR's "quarantine speech"?
Warn Mussolini against his intentions to invade Ethiopia
Reassure the public that influenza was no longer an issue
To warn Japan against futher expansion
Convince the public to support isolationism
17
How long after Hoover's inauguration did the Great Depression begin?
16 months
2 years
8 months
24 days
18
What is FALSE about the NRA?
powerful enforcement mechanism
maintained employment & production
directed by Hugh S. Johnson
stated right to collective bargaining
19
What did Thomas Hunt Morgan NOT do?
experimented with fruit flies
revealed gene arrangement in chromosome
created first genetic synthesizer
spearheaded advanced genetics
20
Which of these is FALSE in regards to the Social Security Act?
Direct Assistance from government to needy elderly
Retirment Pension began immediately
Implemented Retirement Pension for workers
Federal Aid to the Disabled
21
What is FALSE anout the 1936 "Referendum"?
Roosevelt was reelected with hardly any opposition
Roosevelt carried nearly every state
Union Party was Established
Democrats lost presence in both houses
22
What was A. Philip Randolph's Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters?
parking garage
African-American dominant union
anti-immigration organization
secret society for congressman
23
What party made up a majority of an isolationist lobby known as the America First Committee
Populist
Republican
Democratic
Bull Moose
24
Congress approved the McNary-Haugen bill twice. How many times did Calvin Coolidge veto it?
twice
He never vetoed it
once
25
FDR supported the Social Security Act in 1935.
True
False
26
The Japanese suffered heavy losses like the Americans when Pearl Harbor was attacked
False
True
27
Who was the facist trying to overthrow the government in the Spanish Civil War?
Juan Yague
Emilio Mola
Fransico Franco
Pancho Villa
28
Who was NOT a "debunker"?
H. L Mencken
Sinclair Lewis
Leo Frank
F. Scott Fitzgerald
29
What did the Scottsboro case involve?
blacks in white neighborhoods
illegal immigration
unrestricted cotton farming
2 girls who cried rape
30
What party did FDR associate with?
Communist
Republican
Democrat
Bull Moose
31
Did congress approve FDR's request to extend cash-and-carry to allow for the sale of arms?
No
Yes
Congress didn't know
FDR never asked congress
32
Which party was Benito Mussolini a part of in Italy?
Socialist
The 2,500th Anniversary of the Peacock Throne Party
Communist
Facist
33
What allowed the gov't to lend or lease arms to any nation pivotal to the defense of the U.S.?
Cash-and-carry
Lend-lease
Dawes Plan
Burke-Wadsworth Act
34
What was term for the day the Stock Market crashed?
Black Friday
Black Monday
Black Wednesday
Black Tuesday
35
What was the first feature-length movie with sound?
The Public Enemy
talkie
Snow White
KDKA
36
What did the Sheppard-Towner Act do?
limited child labor
federal funds for prenatal and child-health care programs
limit agricultural production
designated state funds to construction projects
37
Who made the Temporary National Economic Committee designed to deal with anti-trust laws?
FDR
Huey Long
Harry Hopkins
sHerbert Hoover (lol)
38
Who was Harry Hopkins?
FDR's Vice President
Electricity magnate
Assistant Secretary of Navy
director of the FERA
39
Congress was more than willing to permit assistance to the allies during WWII
True
False
40
What did the Southern Tenant Farmers support?
Socialism
Liberation
Communism
Radicals
41
Who was Chiang Kai-Shek?
Director of foreign affaris in China
Lead rebel cause into Manchuria
Leader of China during Mukden Incidents
Leader of Japan during Mukden Incidents
42
The US became embroiled in arguments with Japan over the sinking of the Panay.
True
False
43
What is FALSE about the Emergency Banking Act?
Treasury Dept inspection of all banks before reopening
gave federal assistance to some troubled institutions
cut federal employee salaries
protected larger banks from being dragged down
44
In 1936, US offered assistance in Falangists' revolt in Spain.
False
True
45
Which Act(s) did the Supreme Court uphold in 1937?
Social Security Act
Agriculture Adjustment Acts
National Recovery Act
Wagner Act
46
What did the Harlem Renaissance rise from?
mass farming
factory workers
harlem shake
african roots
47
In 1941 American Ships patrolled the Pacific Ocean as far as Iceland.
True
False
48
Who was instrumental in creating the the American Lincoln Brigade?
Herbert Hoover
American Communist Party
Southern Tenant Farmers
Modernists
49
What were Pin-money workers?
Mexican immigrant workers
Young children selling things on the street
They sold pinwheels for money
Married women working for extra money
50
What country was not attacked during the "blitzkreig"?
Belgium
Denmark
France
Sweden
51
Who was NOT a person who worked to insure relief programs were avalible to blacks?
Harold Ickes
John Collier
Harry Hopkins
Eleanor Roosevelt
52
What was the Lebensraum?
The "bible" of the Aryan race
Living space for German master race
The party before Hitler came to power
A kind of mushroom
53
The Great Depression destroyed the success ethics.
False
True
54
Which of the following was NOT undermined by the Supreme Court?
AAA
NRA
TVA
CCC
55
In 1941 American ships patrolled the Pacific ocean in response to German submarines
True
False
56
What is FALSE in regard to the Indian Reorganization Act?
Some regained original tribal lands
Allowed a tribal government
Gave tribes up to 4 million acres of new land
It restored the tribes' right to own land collectively
57
Women found it easier to establish themselves in psychiatry than in other medicinal practices.
False
True
58
What is FALSE about the rise of the automobile industry?
increased demand for suburban housing
spearheaded by Reginald Fessden
gateway to expand other related industries
59
What did NOT happen under the Nuetrality Act of 1935?
Pres. warned public travelling on warring nations' ships
Mandatory arms embargo
Was supported by isolationists
Made US part of the World Court
60
Who succeeded Warren Harding?
Herbert Hoover
Calvin Coolidge
Al Smith
61
What did the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation do?
called on businesses to establish blanket codes
guaranteed all bank deposits up to $2,500
ensured large banks wouldn't fail
62
Who defended prohibition?
Catholics
wets
Jews
Protestants
63
What is NOT in the 5-Power Pact?
US and Britan could have 5 tons to China's 3 tons
Ratio of armerments
France and Italy could have 1.75 tons each to US's 5 tons
Limits for total naval tonnage
64
FDR was an isolationist.
False
True
65
What is TRUE about Asian Americans during the Great Depression?
found it easier to move into mainstream professions
Able to keep from losing jobs to white Americans
had trouble competing for jobs with poor white migrants
the college educated generally weathered crisis fairly well
66
What is the most different when comparing the New Deal to the Second New Deal?
focused efforts on farms
openly attacked corporate interests
focused on deflation
67
What is FALSE in regards to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation?
enacted under the Hoover administration
operated on a small scale
failed to produce significant recovery
much of the federal funds went to larger corporations
68
What did the modernists want?
increased media exposure
literal bible interpretation
adaptation to science
abstract art
69
What party did the League of Women's Voters members belong to?
democrats
not associated with any party
republicans
democrats and republicans
70
What was the function of the American Liberty League?
gather support for unions
Provide relief for unemployed men
to press for the "New Deal"
arouse opposition to the New Deal
71
How did the people public take to FDR's Quarantine speech?
Hostile
They didn't know it happened because it was a secret speech
Neutral
Love it
72
Empty question
Empty choice
Empty choice
73
What did the Economy Act do?
brought rise in farm prices
gave small depositors an amount of security
cut federal employees salaried
reopened banks under the federal reserve
74
What was the first thing Gregor Mendel performed hybridization on?
Cows *moo
Fruit Flies
People
Vegetables
75
What did The Birth of Nation glorify?
capitalism
patriotism
KKK
immigrants
76
What Act inaugurated the first peacetime military draft in American History?
Atlantic Act
Palmer-Cox Act
Burke-Wadsworth Act
Statecraft Act
77
What limited immigration to 3% per nationality based on the 1910 census?
Emergency Immigration Act
Native Origins Act
Big Stick Diplomacy
20th Ammendment
78
What did Margaret Sanger do?
worked in the Hull House
supported full unionization of all workers
pioneered birth control movements
contributed to mental health development
79
What was NOT one of the effects of the WPA's policies?
Employed Writers, Artists and Musicians
Worked with the National Youth Administration
Made Women Work for Federal Aid
Emplowed 2.1 Million People
80
Who created the first analog computer?
Vannevar Bush
Reginald Fenssenden
Gregor Mendal
Howard Aiken
81
Americans in the West did NOT recieve special attention from the New Deal policies.
False
True
82
What did Charles Evans Hughes do?
Was the Sec. of Treasury
Helped with Kellog-Briand Pact
Wanted an alternitive to League of Nations
Stripper for hire
83
What was NOT a legacy of the New Deal?
Elevated rokers and farmers
Divided the Democratic Party
Increased government prsence in the economy
Beginning of American Welfare State
84
What act enforced section 7(a) of the Industrial Recovery Act which was undermined by the SC?
National Labor Relations Act
Holding Company Act
Recovery Act
Wagner Act
85
The New Era was a prosperous time for labor organizations.
False
True
86
What did the Kellog-Briand Act do?
Limited Naval tonnage
Allied all nations that signed
Monopolized the cereal industry
Outlawed war as instument of national policy
87
What group campaigned for an Equal Rights Amendment?
League of Women Voters
NAWSA
National Women's party
Populists
88
What were "pink-collar" jobs?
being detective like the pink panther
provided health care for women
low paying service occupations
jobs in the garment industry
89
What does WPA stand for?
Working People Association
Works Progress Administration
Women's Property Administration
Matthew Shaw
90
What is NOT a country that Hitler invaded
France
Sweden
Netherlands
Norway
91
What president ran for three terms?
Franklin Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Calvin Coolidge
Warren Harding
92
What is FALSE about the TVA?
provided electricity
program to encourage growth of local industries
program for reforestation and farmer productivity
turned Tennessee Valley into a prosperous region
93
What trial did Clarence Darrow participate in?
Scopes
Scottsboro
Atlantic Charter
Leo Frank
94
What was a defining feature of The Man Nobody Knows(1920)?
"super salesman" Jesus
first American ghost story
portrayed African heritage
derailed success ethics
95
Where was the World Economic conference held in 1933?
Washington D.C
Paris
Manchuria
London
96
What is false about Warren Hardings presidency?
party loving scorpion
Surrounded by scandalous cabinet members
baffled with presidency responsibilities
pushed the McNary-Hagen bill
97
What is FALSE regarding the KKK?
allowed women
largest clan in South
concerned with Jews, Catholics, foreigners
presented as patriots and morality defenders
98
What is NOT true about the Dawes Plan of 1924?
Was negotiated by FDR
Was created by Charles Dawes
France and Britain reduced reparation demands
Our great nation, 'Murica,lent money to Germany
99
What jumpstarted the "Roosevelt Recession"?
The rise of the Shawlites
Failure of Greenfield International Reserves
FDR balancing the federal budget
Assassination of Huey Long
100
In October, during the USA's declared neutrality, what US destroyer did the Germans sink?
Reuben James
Atlantic
Marina
Mchenry
101
FDR supported the Social Security Act in 1935.
True
False
102
What amendment repealed prohibition?
19
18
20
21
103
Who directed the Works Progress Administration (hint hint)?
George Thompson
Harry Hopkins
Harry Long
Harry Richards
104
What was FDR's position on the Roosevelt Corellary?
He used it to push American economic interests
He refused to permit American intervention
He created it
He used it to increase the power of the Executive Branch
105
What is NOT true about Calvin Coolidge's term?
won attention with the Boston Police Strike
just as passive as Harding
comfortable victory in 1924 election
lost election of 1928
106
What did the SEC do?
roots of social security
lifted up troubled banks
guaranteed small depositors some insurance
police the stock market
107
What kind of strike did the United Auto Workers have?
Working Strike
Sit Down Strike
Matthew Shaw Strike
Flying Strike
108
What occured between the US and the Soviet Union in 1933?
Russia sent over soldiers to learn war strategy
Agreed to open formal diplomatic relations
US flourished in Russia
US reassured Soviets of interest to stop Japanese expanding
109
what did fundamentalists want?
preservation of tradition
teaching of evolution
more immigration for factories
all workers in unions
110
What was the term used to describe the quiet lull between winter & spring during WWII?
Phony war
Blitzkrieg
Lebensraum
Appeasement
111
Who said it: " I am a Negro - and beautiful"
Langston Hughes
Zora Hurston
James Johnson
Countee Cullen
112
What was FDR's "bombshell message" about reducing gold value of the dollar?
Accepted no compromise
Challengin traditional views
Warning of Hanford Project
He's so sexy
113
In response to the Great Depression, many Mexican Americans..?
successfully organized effective ressistance
left the united states entirely
moved into California
migrated south
114
What industry was involved in the "Memorial Day Massacre"?
automobiles
steel
coal
oil
115
In the 1920's birth control was legal in all states.
False
True
116
Roosevelt enacted the Highest & most progressive peace time tax in history.
True
False
117
What is the term for farmers that left to California in search of work?
Okis
Okies
Okers
Ogres
118
What is FALSE about the National Origins Act of 1924?
reduced quota of Asians to 1%
favored northwestern Europeans
based on 1890 census
reduced quota of Europeans to 2%
119
Which was NOT an effect of the Fair Labor Standards Act?
Child Labor Laws!
National Minimum Wage!
Enforced Right to Collective Bargining!
40 Hour Maximum Work Week!
120
In the campaign of 1940 who did Franklin D. Roosevelt choose as his Vice President?
Henry Wallace
Charles Lindbergh
Burton Wheeler
Wendell Wilkie
121
What Act gave the government authority to curb irresponsible speculation by banks?
Glass-Steagall Act
Economy Act
Securities and Exchange Commission
Wagner Act
122
Who was the leader of the National Women's Party?
Alice George
Alice Paul
Alice John
Alice Ringo
123
Where did Hoover go for his ten week good will tour in 1929?
Britain
Italy
Rural South
Latin America
124
Who was the first female cabinet member, and in which position?
Matthew Shaw, Sec. of Education
Loretta Lynch, Sec. of the Interior
Frances Perkins, Sec. of Labor
Madeline Albright, Sec. of State
125
What is NOT true about the 1937 "cash-and-carry" policy?
Warring nations had to ship their own goods from the US
Isolationists opposed the idea
Warring nations had to pay cash
Warring nations could only purchase non-millitary goods
126
What is true about the "Good Neighbor Policy"?
Matthew Shaw
It reinforced economic relations with Latin America
It helped people realize their faults
Expanded on changes from Hoover Administration
127
What is NOT true about the Emergency Immigration Act?
enacted in 1921
banned East Asia immigration
curbed immigration at 3% per nationality
was based on 1910 consensus
128
What did Dr. Francis E. Townsend call for?
distribution of surplus riches to poor
strident attacks on banks
wanted more public works built
elderly receiving government pension
129
What were the goals of the Washington Conference of 1921?
Equal Rights Amendment
Stopping a Naval Arms race between US, Japan and Britain
Meeting of Democrats to establish their agenda
Recognize a treaty between US and Britain
130
Who invaded Manchuria in 1931?
US
China
Japan
Germany
131
What was the significance of the Scopes trial?
glorified William J. Bryan
fundamentalists put on defensive
modernists shut down
workers allowed union membership
132
What was the term for the U.S & Britains statement of war aims.
The Atlantic Charter
Common principles
The new promise
Reuben James
133
What did the McNaury-Haugen provide parity for?
cotton, wheat, tobacco, potatoes
cotton, wheat, corn, rice
oranges, banana, pineapple, apples
grain, cotton, tobacco, rice
134
What did people call the "liberated" women?
Floozies
Flapper
Flaps
Flappings
135
No one believed Germany posed a direct threat to the United States in 1940
True
False
136
What is FALSE in regard to Huey Long?
launched attacks on banks, oil companies & utilities
succeeded himself as governor
possible viable third party candidate in the 1936 election
created Share-Our-Wealth Plan
137
What did Hitler want to created between Germany & Austria?
Anschluss
Lebensraum
Appeasement
Union
138
What is FALSE in regards to the Congress of Industrial Organization?
less militant than the AFL
expanded to women and blacks
under John L. Lewis
targeted unorganized industries
139
What is FALSE about the Agricultural Adjustment Administration?
limited agricultural production
tax on food processing
deemed constitutional by supreme court
payed farmers subsidies for leaving land idle
140
What was Roosevelts REAL motivation behind the court-hacking plan?
He wanted to be reelected
He wanted a better representation for minorities
He didn't want to overwork the courts
Needed more Justices to support his New Deal policies
141
There were many efforts to exclude Mexican immigration in the 1920's.
False
True
142
Where was the "dust bowl" drought?
Great Plains
South
PNW
North Bend
143
What was the first commercial radio station in America?
NPR
99.1
KDKA
National Broadcasting company
144
FDR's court-packing plan was supported by the public.
True
False
145
The government assisted American economic expansion in Latin America aggresively in the 1920s.
True
False
146
What was NOT part of the Hoover Program?
urged business leaders to cooperate voluntarily
cut layoffs
forgoing demands for higher wages
forbid child labor
147
Who challenge Sigmund Freud's ideas about mental health?
John Watson
Woodrow Wilson
Carl Jung
Margaret Sanger
148
New Deal agencies struck down existing discrimination?
True
False
149
What was meant by the term "open shop"?
union membership is forbidden
no worker required to join a union
free ice cream scoops in shops
Union membership is mandatory
150
What is false about the "American plan"?
pretext for harsh union busting
organized by Philip Randolph
crusade for open shop
reduced union membership
151
Who is largely identified with "appeasement"?
Chiang Kai-Shek
Marco Polo
Franklin Roosevelt
Neville Chamberlain
152
What act employed young men to work in rural and wilderness settings?
Civilian Conservation Corps
Tennessee Valley Authority
American Liberty League
National Recovery Administration
153
Who did Hitler and Mussolini support in the 1936 civil war in Spain?
José Antonio Primo de Rivera
Pancho Villa
The existing regime
Francisco Franco
154
What term was used to describe the lighting war that ended when France fell?
Blitzkrieg
Phony war
Lebensraum
Anschluss
155
Industrialists feared overcapacity thus made strenuous efforts to curb competition.
False
True
156
Hitler was opposed by Britain and France in his march into Austria.
True
False
157
What was not an occupation of Franklin D. Roosevelt?
seat in the New York State Legislature
Vice President
Assistant secretary of the Navy
Governor of New York
158
The democrats were deeply divided in the 1920's
False
True
159
Who pioneered the theory of modulation, allowing music and speech transmission via radio?
Reginald Fessenden
Woodrow Wilson
Gregor Mendel
Thomas Morgan
160
What did the Federal Emergency Relief Administration do?
gave cash grants to states to lift bankrupt relief agencies
guaranteed small bank deposits
experiment in regional planning
established right to collective bargaining
161
What is FASLE about the Farm Security Administration?
assisted small farmers
made huge improvements
provided loans to help farmers relocate to better lands
162
Finish the title of the book: How to win friends and..
love yourself
prevent enemies
influence people
get money

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