A) Black Tuesday B) The Dust Bowl C) The Grapes of Wrath D) The Great Depression
A) encouraged his workers to join trade unions. B) hired skilled workers who worked by hand. C) equipped his factory with an assembly line. D) paid his workers far below average factory wages.
A) Hoovervilles. B) Okies. C) migrants. D) hoboes.
A) St. Louis B) Harlem C) Chicago D) Detroit
A) purchase of factory goods by families of average income B) good times in outdated industries like coal mining C) high salaries of union members D) Unequal income distribution, specifically poor agricultural workers.
A) fundamentalism B) a rise in organized crime C) the Great Migration D) World War I
A) the deep south to the western cities like Los Angeles B) the rural south to the industrialized cities of the northern great lakes region C) cities to the country D) west Africa to the United States
A) accept bribes from oil companies to drill on federal lands for low rates instead of competive bidding B) allow Britain to avoid tariffs on oil C) lobby legislators to limit the amount of land set aside for nature preserves D) pay oil companies to drill on private land
A) revolt, relief and renewal B) review relocation and revolution C) reaction, response and resignation D) relief, recovery and reforms
A) cope with poverty B) establish a minimum wage C) regain faith in the financial markets D) establish unions
A) have private property B) share equally in society's wealth C) not share equaly in society's wealth D) be divided by economic class
A) Coolidge had numerous scandals during his presidency B) Harding's presidency was marked by numerous scandals C) Harding looked like a president and Coolidge did not D) Coolidge's presidency greatly increased the size of the American Government
A) he put more emphasis on international trade that he did on the American economy B) he did not fully grasp or care about how desperate the American people were C) he grew rich while the American people suffered D) he started too many government aid programs and lacked business sense
A) Works Progress Administration B) Securities Exchange Commission C) Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation D) Social Security Act
A) the barter system B) installment buying or buying on credit C) delayed gratification D) name brand recognition
A) unemployment among young men B) clear-cutting in old-growth forests C) investor anxiety D) poor wages for factory workers
A) evolution B) fundamentalism C) urbanization D) values
A) demand for agricultural products was higher than supply B) competition grew when European farmers returned to their fields C) the United States passed a tariff on foreign agricultural products D) American farms were depleted during World War I
A) dams B) shacks C) vacuum cleaners D) banks |