HIUS 222 content quiz 4 solutions complete answers

HIUS 222 content quiz 4 solutions complete answers 

 

· Question 1

 

 
 
 
By the 1930s, Americans had more cars per capita than any other country except Great Britain.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
·         Question 2

 

 
 
 
How many banks shut down between 1930 and 1933?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
·         Question 3

 

 
 
 
What was the worst year of the Dust Bowl?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
·         Question 4

 

 
 
 
Which of the following presidents did not serve his time in office in the 1920s?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
·         Question 5

 

 
 
 
What precipitated the Tulsa Race Riot?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
·         Question 6

 

 
 
 
What was FDR’s priority when he came into office?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
·         Question 7

 

 
 
 
When did significant criticism of President Roosevelt’s policies begin?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
·         Question 8

 

 
 
 
Who argued in the 1930s that the federal government was not doing enough to regulate capitalism and to help the poor?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
·         Question 9

 

 
 
 
According to your textbook, what best describes the performance of the U.S. economy throughout the 1920s?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
·         Question 10

 

 
 
 
What is the significance of the Harlem Renaissance artists and intellectuals in the 1920s?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
·         Question 11

 

 
 
 
Where was the first commercial radio station to broadcast located in the United States?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
·         Question 12

 

 
 
 
What was the average annual income of a worker in the 1920s?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
·         Question 13

 

 
 
 
What was the focus of the Ku Klux Klan after World War I?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
·         Question 14

 

 
 
 
The Issei and Nisei were relatively unsuccessful and were ignored by the United States government.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
·         Question 15

 

 
 
 
What was the first “talkie” motion picture?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
·         Question 16

 

 
 
 
Al Smith lost the 1928 presidential election because he carried the South but not the North.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
·         Question 17

 

 
 
 
The largest Japanese American and Chinese American populations were located in California during the Great Depression.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
·         Question 18

 

 
 
 
At the end of the 1930s, a higher percentage of black women were employed than were white women.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
·         Question 19

 

 
 
 
Which magazine had the largest readership of any publication other than Reader’s Digest?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
·         Question 20

 

 
 
 
Which film(s) offered social commentary on the United States and the Great Depression?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
·         Question 21

 

 
 
 
Comic books were first published during World War II.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
·         Question 22

 

 
 
 
What was the main purpose of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff of 1930?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
·         Question 23

 

 
 
 
What was the “Dust Bowl” in the 1930s?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
·         Question 24

 

 
 
 
What was the primary New Deal government aid to women during the 1930s?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
·         Question 25

 

 
 
 
Who did the Works Progress Administration provide federal assistance to?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
·         Question 26

 

 
 
 
What aspect of the New Deal is John Collier associated with?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
·         Question 27

 

 
 
 
What was one long-term consequence of the New Deal?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
·         Question 28

 

 
 
 
According to you textbook, what is true about the Social Security Act of 1935?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
·         Question 29

 

 
 
 
What was the purpose of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
·         Question 30

 

 
 
 
What did President Franklin Roosevelt do two days after he took office in 1933?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Question 1 Which of the following was a popular trumpet player who gained prominence during the Jazz Age?

Question 2 Who was the African­American leader who rejected integration in favor of establishing an independent nation in Africa?

Question 3 The Dawes Plan resulted in the United States’ loaning Germany

Question 4 What attitude toward birth control did Margaret Sanger encounter in her work?

Question 5 Who were referred to as “wets”?

Question 6 Which of the following best characterizes the Harlem Renaissance?

Question 7 In the 1920s, the best predictor of how a woman would vote was

Question 8 The Immigration Act of 1924 significantly restricted emigration from

Question 9 In the 1920s, American women were primarily employed as

Question 10 In evicting the Bonus Marchers, Chief of Staff General Douglas MacArthur exceeded President Hoover’s orders, thus committing insubordination.

Question 11 In the 1930s, black voters abandoned the Republicans for the Democratic Party. What does this shift in allegiance reveal about the FDR’s Democratic Party?

Question 12 The New Deal successfully ended the Great Depression.

Question 13 As high as unemployment rates were during the Great Depression, the nation had seen similar levels of unemployment previously in its history.

Question 14 Dorothea Lange’s photographs for the Resettlement Administration were intended to

Question 15 Which of the following is NOT true of Father Charles Coughlin?

Question 16 During the Great Depression more than 400,000 Mexicans left the United States, both voluntarily and involuntarily.

Question 17 The fact that the government encouraged farmers in the Dust Bowl to plant soil­improving crops like legumes most likely indicates that

Question 18 With Eleanor Roosevelt leading the way, more political opportunities became available to women during FDR’s presidency.

Question 19 How many home runs did Babe Ruth average each year in the 1920s?

Question 20 Why was Frederick Taylor significant?

Question 21 Which New Deal program employed men ages 18­25 and became one of the most popular Roosevelt initiatives of the 1930s?

Question 22 By the 1930s, Americans had more cars per capita than any other country except Great Britain.

Question 23 What did Francis Townsend want FDR and the federal government to do?

Question 24 What was FDR’s priority when he came into office?

Question 25 What did Huey Long believe FDR should do?

 

Question 1 

According to the text, Warren Harding’s victory in the election of 1920 was largely due to the public’s

Question 2 

What attitude toward birth control did Margaret Sanger encounter in her work?

Question 3 

The Scopes Trial revealed Fundamentalists’ rejection of

Question 4 

What was one major effect of the widespread acquisition of radios in American homes during the 1920s?

Question 5 

Which of the following best characterizes the Harlem Renaissance?

Question 6 

In the 1920s, the best predictor of how a woman would vote was

Question 7 

The Immigration Act of 1924 significantly restricted emigration from

Question 8 

According to philosopher Alain Locke, the “New Negro” embodied

Question 9 

Suburbanization 

Proponents of welfare capitalism pushed for all of the following EXCEPT

Question 10 

The Agricultural Marketing Act was passed before the beginning of the Great Depression with the purpose of

Question 11 

With Eleanor Roosevelt leading the way, more political opportunities became available to women during FDR’s presidency.

Question 12 

How did FDR’s efforts to address unemployment compare with those of Hoover? 

Question 13

The fact that the government encouraged farmers in the Dust Bowl to plant soil-improving crops like legumes most likely indicates that

Question 14

The purpose of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was to

Question 15

The Dust Bowl wreaked havoc on the western plains to the degree that even the East coast felt its effects.

Question 16

All of the following contributed to the economic problems that emerged in the 1920s EXCEPT

Question 17 The unemployment rate climbed as high as 25% during the Great Depression.

Question 18 The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was created to regulate

Question 19

Which of the following presidents did not serve their time in office in the 1920s?

Question 20

What did Americans call the make-shift towns that the newly-homeless created in the 1930s?

Question 21

Where did the Catholic Church hold a series of meetings in 1926 that drew an estimated 1 million attendees?

Question 22

Clara Bow was a famous singer in the 1920s.

Question 23

How bad was the situation in the United States in 1932-1933?

Question 24

What did Huey Long believe FDR should do?

Question 25

Who argued in the 1930s that the federal government was not doing enough to regulate capitalism and to help the poor?