Question 1

As urban workers experienced growing wealth in the 1920s, farmers:

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incomes declined and debt grew

Question 2

U.S. leaders in the 1920s hoped to keep the rest of the world

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at arm's length to avoid another war

Question 3

Modernists stressed science and secular ideas rather than:

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religious beliefs

Question 4

The significant changes in manners, morals, and mindset of many women in the 1920s came to be symbolized by the:

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flapper

Question 5

The Harlem Renaissance was an important cultural outpouring in which African American writers

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explored the pains and joys of being black in America

Question 6

One of the main reasons for the 1929 stock market crash

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Stock prices has risen too high because of speculation

Question 7

The Great Depression forced many Americans to live in shantytowns known as:

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Hoovervilles

Question 8

At first, what did President Hoover rely on to relieve the depression?

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volunteerism and localism

Question 9

The Bonus Army was a group of WWI veterans who were violently disbanded after they came to Washington, D.C. to:

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seek early payment of the money promised to them by Congress

Question 10

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation did what for deposits?

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insured bank deposits up to $5000

Question 11

Which policy would John Maynard Keynes consider pump priming?

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Funding public works projects to put unemployed people to work

Question 12

How did the New Deal affect the voting patterns of African Americans?

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many shifted their votes from Republicans to Democrats

Question 13

Which of these factors helped hide economic problems in the 1920s?

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Americans purchased many consumer goods on credit

Question 14

Farmers contributed to the problems that led to the Dust Bowl by

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using intensive farming practices that removed protective grasses

Question 15

The Agricultural Adjustment Act helped farmers because it

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sought to end overproduction and raise crop prices

Question 16

The Teapot Dome oil scandal involved which two officials?

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Edwin Denby and Albert Fall

Question 17

As president, Warren G. Harding

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Reduced the regulations on businesses put into place by the progressives

Question 18

Why was formal education more important for urban Americans than rural Americans?

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Most higher paying jobs in the cities required a formal education

Question 19

Most Americans who opposed the Ku Klux Klan embraced what notion?

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That America was a melting pot

Question 20

How did the consumer economy of the 1920s affect lives of women?

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It made life easier for urban women

Question 21

Who or what do the three figures in the cartoon represent?

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The three figures represent the president, the courts, and congress.

Question 22

To what 1937 FDR plan does the cartoon probably refer? Did FDR follow through with that plan? Why or why not?

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The cartoon refers to the Court packing Plan. FDR did not follow through with the plan. The plan was not approved by Congress.

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