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A) good times in outdated industries like coal mining B) purchase of factory goods by families of average income C) Unequal income distribution, specifically poor agricultural workers.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