MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. MULTIPLE CHOICE The Great DepressionPart 1

2. 1. All of the following were causes of the Great Depression except Poor banking practices Depressed precious metal prices European countries’ inability to pay their debts Overproduction in factories and on farms

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5. 2. The “Bonus Army” marched on Washington, D.C., to pressure Congress to Pass the Norris–La Guardia Anti-Injunction Act to protect organized labor Dole out federal aid to the homeless and depressed living in “Hoovervilles” “Your toupee is on backward” Pay World War I veterans their army pensions early

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8. 3. How did Herbert Hoover believe that the economy could be revived? By supporting industry in the hopes that federal dollars at the top would “trickle down” to the poorest Americans Through government intervention to directly assist the poor By forcing Britain and France to repay their war debts By shifting the base of the economy away from heavy industry toward the production of consumer goods

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11. 4. Why did topsoil turn to a fine layer of infertile dust in the Dust Bowl region of the United States? Tornadoes had ravaged the region Farmers had not planted soil-replenishing crops The area was poorly irrigated All of the above

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14. 5. Franklin Delano Roosevelt won a landslide victory in 1932 because Americans Were dissatisfied with Hoover’s “ride-it-out” policy Distrusted Hoover after the “Battle of Anacostia Flats” Wanted more direct federal assistance All of the above

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17. 6. The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s was not different from the Klan of the Nineteenth Century The KKK of the 1920s was also anti-Jewish The KKK of the 1920s was also anti-black The KKK of the 1920s was also anti-immigration All of the above

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20. 7. What prompted the 1919–1920 Red Scare in the United States? The 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia The influx of southern and eastern European immigrants to the United States Eugene V. Debs and the rise of the Socialist Party All of the above

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23. 8. The Eighteenth Amendment Gave women the right to vote Prohibited the manufacture, sale, and consumption of alcohol Ended Prohibition Allowed Americans to elect U.S. senators directly

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26. 9. In which U.S. election were women first allowed to vote? 1920 1924 1928 1932

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29. 10. The Emergency Quota Act severely reduced immigration from Northern Europe Ireland and Germany Latin America Southern and eastern Europe

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32. 11. What do the conspirators do at the Senate?? Increased national immigration quotas from their 1921 levels Forbade Latin Americans from entering the United States Forbade Chinese immigrants from entering the United States Decreased national immigration quotas from their 1921 levels

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35. 12. The Scopes Monkey Trial illustrated the heated debate between Democrats and Republicans regarding immigration The wets and the drys regarding Prohibition Liberals and conservatives regarding the New Deal Christian fundamentalists and those who believed in natural selection

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38. 13. What caused the so-called Roosevelt Recession of 1937? The U.S. government’s overly hasty retreat from deficit spending Overspending Germany’s inability to repay war reparations to Britain and France Over-speculation in western lands

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41. 14. What did the 1939 Hatch Act do? Reduced the exorbitantly high tax on foreign goods under the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Barred federal officials from participating in political campaigns Further reduced immigration Helped farmers by paying them to burn surplus crops

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44. 15. The Five-Power Naval Treaty of 1922 reflected Europe’s willingness to uphold the Open Door policy in China Japan’s willingness to scale down military operations in Asia Harding’s interest in protecting American territorial possessions in the Pacific America’s unwillingness to remain over-involved in international affairs

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47. 16. The Dawes Plan Outlined Roosevelt’s three-step program to provide relief, recovery, and reform to end the depression Rescheduled Germany’s war reparation payments to Britain and France Revitalized the financial sector of the American economy in 1933–1934 Outlawed tribal ownership of Native American lands

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50. 17. Henry Ford changed industrial America by perfecting a method of Horizontal integration Assembly-line production Vertical integration Building machines with interchangeable parts