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) equipped his factory with an assembly line. C) paid his workers far below average factory wages. D) encouraged his workers to join trade unions.
A) Hoovervilles. B) Okies. C) migrants. D) hoboes.
A) Chicago B) Detroit C) Harlem 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A) good times in outdated industries like coal mining B) Unequal income distribution, specifically poor agricultural workers.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) World War I B) a rise in organized crime C) fundamentalism D) the Great Migration
A) west Africa to the United States 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) cities to the country
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) relief, recovery and reforms B) reaction, response and resignation C) revolt, relief and renewal D) review relocation and revolution
A) establish a minimum wage B) regain faith in the financial markets C) establish unions D) cope with poverty
A) share equally in society's wealth B) have private property C) be divided by economic class D) not share equaly in society's wealth
A) Harding looked like a president and Coolidge did not B) Coolidge had numerous scandals during his presidency C) Coolidge's presidency greatly increased the size of the American Government D) Harding's presidency was marked by numerous scandals
A) he grew rich while the American people suffered B) he started too many government aid programs and lacked business sense C) he did not fully grasp or care about how desperate the American people were D) he put more emphasis on international trade that he did on the American economy
A) Social Security Act B) Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation C) Works Progress Administration D) Securities Exchange Commission
A) name brand recognition B) the barter system 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) fundamentalism B) values C) urbanization D) evolution
A) competition grew when European farmers returned to their fields B) American farms were depleted during World War I C) demand for agricultural products was higher than supply D) the United States passed a tariff on foreign agricultural products
A) vacuum cleaners B) dams C) shacks D) banks |