A) The Grapes of Wrath B) Black Tuesday C) The Dust Bowl D) The Great Depression
A) hired skilled workers who worked by hand. B) encouraged his workers to join trade unions. C) equipped his factory with an assembly line. D) paid his workers far below average factory wages.
A) hoboes. B) migrants. C) Hoovervilles. D) Okies.
A) St. Louis B) Detroit 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A) good times in outdated industries like coal mining B) Unequal income distribution, specifically poor agricultural workers.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) World War I B) a rise in organized crime C) the Great Migration D) fundamentalism
A) west Africa to the United States B) the deep south to the western cities like Los Angeles C) cities to the country D) the rural south to the industrialized cities of the northern great lakes region
A) lobby legislators to limit the amount of land set aside for nature preserves B) allow Britain to avoid tariffs on oil C) pay oil companies to drill on private land D) accept bribes from oil companies to drill on federal lands for low rates instead of competive bidding
A) reaction, response and resignation B) relief, recovery and reforms C) revolt, relief and renewal D) review relocation and revolution
A) regain faith in the financial markets B) establish a minimum wage C) cope with poverty D) establish unions
A) have private property B) not share equaly in society's wealth C) share equally 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 started too many government aid programs and lacked business sense 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 grew rich while the American people suffered
A) Securities Exchange Commission B) Works Progress Administration C) Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation D) Social Security Act
A) installment buying or buying on credit B) delayed gratification C) the barter system 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) fundamentalism B) evolution C) urbanization D) values
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) vacuum cleaners B) banks C) dams D) shacks |