Question 1

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Dawes Plan

Accepted Answer

The Dawes Plan was an economic plan firs

Question 2

The pivotal event that essentially crippled organized labor throughout the 1920s was

Accepted Answer

A)  the Supreme Court's ruling against the union closed shop in the Adkins case. 
B)  the deportation of the most effective labor organizers to the Communist Soviet Union. 
C)  the split within the American labor movement between the American Federation of Labor and the Socialists. 
D)  the federal government's antilabor intervention that broke the 1919 steel strike. 
E)  repeal of the Clayton Act guaranteeing unions the right to organize. 
A)  the Supreme Court's ruling against the union closed shop in the Adkins case. 
B)  the deportation of the most effective labor organizers to the Communist Soviet Union. 
C)  the split within the American labor movement between the American Federation of Labor and the Socialists. 
D)  the federal government's antilabor intervention that broke the 1919 steel strike. 
E)  repeal of the Clayton Act guaranteeing unions the right to organize.

Question 3

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Teapot Dome

Accepted Answer

The Teapot Dome scandal was a significan

Question 4

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-​Agricultural Marketing Act

Accepted Answer

The Agricultural Marketing Act of 1929 w

Question 5

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-steel strike of 1919

Accepted Answer

The steel strike of 1919 was a major lab

Question 6

Which of the following represented political divisions that divided the Democratic party in the presidential election of 1924?

Accepted Answer

A)  "Wets" versus "drys" 
B)  Immigrants versus old-stock Protestant Americans 
C)  ​Northern liberals versus southern conservatives. 
D)  Fundamentalists versus modernists 
E)  All of these choices are correct. 
A)  "Wets" versus "drys" 
B)  Immigrants versus old-stock Protestant Americans 
C)  ​Northern liberals versus southern conservatives. 
D)  Fundamentalists versus modernists 
E)  All of these choices are correct.

Question 7

One exception to President Warren G. Harding's policy of isolationism involved the Middle East, where the United States sought to

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A)  support a homeland for Jews in Israel. 
B)  prevent the League of Nations from establishing British and French protectorates in the region. 
C)  stop the Soviet Union from dominating the area. 
D)  secure oil-drilling concessions for American companies. 
E)  curb the rise of Arab nationalism. 
A)  support a homeland for Jews in Israel. 
B)  prevent the League of Nations from establishing British and French protectorates in the region. 
C)  stop the Soviet Union from dominating the area. 
D)  secure oil-drilling concessions for American companies. 
E)  curb the rise of Arab nationalism.

Question 8

President Hoover was criticized for his handling of the Great Depression, but some historians consider this unfair for all of the following reasons except

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A)  Hoover's moderate economic measures and measured economic policies probably paved the way for a much more aggressive government intervention and direct government relief by his successor Franklin Roosevelt. 
B)  Hoover's willingness to sign the Norris-La Guardia Anti-Injunction Act actually provided a much needed legal boost to organized labor. 
C)  Hoover' creation of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation actually presaged similar, if somewhat more ambitious, New Deal efforts to lift business out of the Depression by his successor Franklin Roosevelt. 
D)  Hoover's willingness to abandon strict laissez-faire capitalism of the nineteenth century made Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal programs and policies much more politically palatable. 
E)  Hoover's policies to relieve the suffering caused by the Depression enabled local and state governments to act more efficiently to provide immediate and long-term help to unprecedented number of Americans in need. 
A)  Hoover's moderate economic measures and measured economic policies probably paved the way for a much more aggressive government intervention and direct government relief by his successor Franklin Roosevelt. 
B)  Hoover's willingness to sign the Norris-La Guardia Anti-Injunction Act actually provided a much needed legal boost to organized labor. 
C)  Hoover' creation of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation actually presaged similar, if somewhat more ambitious, New Deal efforts to lift business out of the Depression by his successor Franklin Roosevelt. 
D)  Hoover's willingness to abandon strict laissez-faire capitalism of the nineteenth century made Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal programs and policies much more politically palatable. 
E)  Hoover's policies to relieve the suffering caused by the Depression enabled local and state governments to act more efficiently to provide immediate and long-term help to unprecedented number of Americans in need.

Question 9

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Muscle Shoals Bill

Accepted Answer

The Muscle Shoals Bill refers to a piece

Question 10

The term "Hoovervilles" refers to

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A)  industrial sections of cities where poor workers lived. 
B)  shantytowns filled with shacks created by homeless people during the Great Depression. 
C)  picket lines erected by the Bonus Army in their protest against Washington D.C. 
D)  breadlines and soup kitchens that fed the hungry during the Great Depression. 
E)  cities hardest hit by the Great Depression: with the highest unemployment and poverty rates. 
A)  industrial sections of cities where poor workers lived. 
B)  shantytowns filled with shacks created by homeless people during the Great Depression. 
C)  picket lines erected by the Bonus Army in their protest against Washington D.C. 
D)  breadlines and soup kitchens that fed the hungry during the Great Depression. 
E)  cities hardest hit by the Great Depression: with the highest unemployment and poverty rates.

Question 11

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Dawes Plan

Accepted Answer

The Dawes Plan was an economic plan firs

Question 12

The McNary-Haugen Bill passed by Congress and twice vetoed by President Coolidge was aimed to assist American farmers by

Accepted Answer

A)  providing federal farm subsidies and federal price supports for agricultural products and commodities to solve the problem of overproduction on America's farms. 
B)  having the federal government buy farm surpluses and sell them abroad. 
C)  providing federal support for farm co-operatives as a way of eliminating middle men. 
D)  providing federal loans for agricultural equipment and seeds. 
E)  making the importation of cheaper agricultural commodities from Europe and Latin America economically unfeasible by doubling and tripling the tariff on nearly all agricultural commodities from these regions. 
A)  providing federal farm subsidies and federal price supports for agricultural products and commodities to solve the problem of overproduction on America's farms. 
B)  having the federal government buy farm surpluses and sell them abroad. 
C)  providing federal support for farm co-operatives as a way of eliminating middle men. 
D)  providing federal loans for agricultural equipment and seeds. 
E)  making the importation of cheaper agricultural commodities from Europe and Latin America economically unfeasible by doubling and tripling the tariff on nearly all agricultural commodities from these regions.

Question 13

____ was/were adversely affected by the dismantling of government regulations and the withdrawal of government assistance by the federal government at the end of World War I.

Accepted Answer

A)  The steel industry 
B)  The railroad industry 
C)  The shipping industry 
D)  Veterans 
E)  Organized labor 
A)  The steel industry 
B)  The railroad industry 
C)  The shipping industry 
D)  Veterans 
E)  Organized labor

Question 14

The 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact

Accepted Answer

A)  formally ended World War I for the United States, which had refused to sign the Treaty of Versailles. 
B)  set a schedule for German payment of war reparations. 
C)  established a battleship ratio for the leading naval powers. 
D)  condemned Japan for its unprovoked attack on Manchuria. 
E)  ostensibly and naively attempted tooutlaw war as a legitimate means to resolve armed conflict arising from geopolitical rivalries between and among nations. 
A)  formally ended World War I for the United States, which had refused to sign the Treaty of Versailles. 
B)  set a schedule for German payment of war reparations. 
C)  established a battleship ratio for the leading naval powers. 
D)  condemned Japan for its unprovoked attack on Manchuria. 
E)  ostensibly and naively attempted tooutlaw war as a legitimate means to resolve armed conflict arising from geopolitical rivalries between and among nations.

Question 15

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Douglas MacArthur

Accepted Answer

Douglas MacArthur was a prominent Americ

Question 16

America's European allies argued that they should not have to repay loans that the United States made to them during World War I because

Accepted Answer

A)  the United States had owed them about $4 billion before the war. 
B)  the amount of money involved was not significant. 
C)  they had paid a much heavier price in lost lives, so it was only fair for the United States to write off the debt. 
D)  the United States was making so much money from Mexican and Middle Eastern oil that it did not need extra dollars. 
E)  ​ 
A)  the United States had owed them about $4 billion before the war. 
B)  the amount of money involved was not significant. 
C)  they had paid a much heavier price in lost lives, so it was only fair for the United States to write off the debt. 
D)  the United States was making so much money from Mexican and Middle Eastern oil that it did not need extra dollars. 
E)  ​

Question 17

One of the major problems facing farmers in the 1920s was

Accepted Answer

A)  overproduction. 
B)  the inability to purchase modern farm equipment. 
C)  passage of the McNary-Haugen Bill. 
D)  the prosecution of cooperatives under antitrust laws. 
E)  drought and insects like the boll weevil. 
A)  overproduction. 
B)  the inability to purchase modern farm equipment. 
C)  passage of the McNary-Haugen Bill. 
D)  the prosecution of cooperatives under antitrust laws. 
E)  drought and insects like the boll weevil.

Question 18

Which one of the following members of President Harding's cabinet proved to be incompetent and corrupt?

Accepted Answer

A)  Herbert Hoover 
B)  Calvin Coolidge 
C)  Andrew Mellon 
D)  Charles Evans Hughes 
E)  Albert Fall 
A)  Herbert Hoover 
B)  Calvin Coolidge 
C)  Andrew Mellon 
D)  Charles Evans Hughes 
E)  Albert Fall

Question 19

The text authors state that during the 1920s "isolation [from foreign involvement] was enthroned in Washington." What evidence supports this view? What evidence would you cite to argue that American foreign policy was not really as isolationist as it first appears?

Accepted Answer

The evidence that supports the view of i

Question 20

Historians have not looked too kindly on the presidents of the 1920s, usually judging them as mediocre. Do you agree with this evaluation of their performances as president? On the other hand, whydo you believe some revisionist historians have taken a much more sympathetic and favorable view of the performance of Herbert Hoover as president? Do you believe this relatively recent reappraisal of Hoover has some historical merit? Cite specific examples to support your views.

Accepted Answer

I believe that the evaluation of the pre

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Dawes Plan

The pivotal event that essentially crippled organized labor throughout the 1920s was

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Teapot Dome

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Agricultural Marketing Act

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -steel strike of 1919

Which of the following represented political divisions that divided the Democratic party in the presidential election of 1924?

One exception to President Warren G. Harding's policy of isolationism involved the Middle East, where the United States sought to

President Hoover was criticized for his handling of the Great Depression, but some historians consider this unfair for all of the following reasons except

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Muscle Shoals Bill

The term "Hoovervilles" refers to

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Dawes Plan

The McNary-Haugen Bill passed by Congress and twice vetoed by President Coolidge was aimed to assist American farmers by

____ was/were adversely affected by the dismantling of government regulations and the withdrawal of government assistance by the federal government at the end of World War I.

The 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Douglas MacArthur

America's European allies argued that they should not have to repay loans that the United States made to them during World War I because

One of the major problems facing farmers in the 1920s was

Which one of the following members of President Harding's cabinet proved to be incompetent and corrupt?

The text authors state that during the 1920s "isolation [from foreign involvement] was enthroned in Washington." What evidence supports this view? What evidence would you cite to argue that American foreign policy was not really as isolationist as it first appears?

The Ordeal of Reconstruction, 1865-1877

Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age, 1869-1896

Industry Comes of Age, 1865-1900

America Moves to the City, 1865-1900

The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution, 1865-1896

Empire and Expansion, 1890-1909

Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt, 1901-1912

Wilsonian Progressivism in Peace and War, 1913-1920

American Life in the “Roaring Twenties” 1920–1929

The Great Depression and the New Deal 1933–1939

Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of War 1933–1941

America in World War II 1941–1945

The Cold War Begins 1945-1952

American Zenith 1952-1963

The Stormy Sixties 1963-1973

Challenges to the Postwar Order 1973-1980

The Resurgence of Conservatism 1980-1992

America Confronts the Post-Cold War Era, 1992-2000

The American People Face a New Century, 2001-2014

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Dawes Plan

The pivotal event that essentially crippled organized labor throughout the 1920s was

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Teapot Dome

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -​Agricultural Marketing Act

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -steel strike of 1919

Which of the following represented political divisions that divided the Democratic party in the presidential election of 1924?

One exception to President Warren G. Harding's policy of isolationism involved the Middle East, where the United States sought to

President Hoover was criticized for his handling of the Great Depression, but some historians consider this unfair for all of the following reasons except

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Muscle Shoals Bill

The term "Hoovervilles" refers to

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Dawes Plan

The McNary-Haugen Bill passed by Congress and twice vetoed by President Coolidge was aimed to assist American farmers by

____ was/were adversely affected by the dismantling of government regulations and the withdrawal of government assistance by the federal government at the end of World War I.

The 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact

Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Douglas MacArthur

America's European allies argued that they should not have to repay loans that the United States made to them during World War I because

One of the major problems facing farmers in the 1920s was

Which one of the following members of President Harding's cabinet proved to be incompetent and corrupt?

The text authors state that during the 1920s "isolation [from foreign involvement] was enthroned in Washington." What evidence supports this view? What evidence would you cite to argue that American foreign policy was not really as isolationist as it first appears?

The Ordeal of Reconstruction, 1865-1877

Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age, 1869-1896

Industry Comes of Age, 1865-1900

America Moves to the City, 1865-1900

The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution, 1865-1896

Empire and Expansion, 1890-1909

Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt, 1901-1912

Wilsonian Progressivism in Peace and War, 1913-1920

American Life in the “Roaring Twenties” 1920–1929

The Great Depression and the New Deal 1933–1939

Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Shadow of War 1933–1941

America in World War II 1941–1945

The Cold War Begins 1945-1952

American Zenith 1952-1963

The Stormy Sixties 1963-1973

Challenges to the Postwar Order 1973-1980

The Resurgence of Conservatism 1980-1992

America Confronts the Post-Cold War Era, 1992-2000

The American People Face a New Century, 2001-2014

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Identify and state the historical significance of the following: -Agricultural Marketing Act