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A) good times in outdated industries like coal mining B) Unequal income distribution, specifically poor agricultural workers.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