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A) good times in outdated industries like coal mining B) Unequal income distribution, specifically poor agricultural workers.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