Unit 10 Test 2.27.16

Question 1

The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) proposed to solve the “farm problem” by

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reducing agricultural production

Question 2

Senator Huey P. Long of Louisiana gained national popularity by

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promising to give every family $5,000

Question 3

The first Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) raised the money that it paid to farmers not to grow crops by

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taxing processors of farm products

Question 4

When Franklin Roosevelt asumed the presidency in March 1933

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he received unprecedented congresional support

Question 5

The _______________________ was probably the most popular New Deal program; the __________________ was one of the most complex; and the ____________________ was the most

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Civilian Conservation Corps; National Recovery Act; Tennessee Valley Authority

Question 6

Match each New Dealer below with the fedral agency or program with which he or she was closely identified.

A. Robert Wagner 1. Department of Labor
B. Harry Hopkins 2. Public Works Administration
C. Harold Ickes 3. Works Progress Administration
D. Frances Perkins 4. National LaborRelations Act

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A-4, B-3, C-2, D-1

Question 7

Franklin Roosevelt’s initial “managed currency” policy aimed to

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stimulate inflation

Question 8

All of the following contributed to the Dust Bowl of the 1930s except

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farmers’ failure to use steam tractors and other modern equipment

Question 9

The National Recovery Act (NRA) failed largely because

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it required oo much self sacrifice on the part of industry, labor, and the public

Question 10

The most vigorous “champion of the dispossessed” - that is, the poor and minorities - in Roosevelt administration circles was

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Eleanor Roosevelt

Question 11

The most immediate emergency facing Franklin Roosevelt when he became president in March of 1933 was

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the collapse of international trade

Question 12

The Works Progress Administration was a major ____________________ program of the New Deal; the Public Works Administration was a long-range ____________________ program; and the Social Security Act was a major _____________________ program.

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relief; recovery; reform

Question 13

The Democratic party platform on which Franklin Roosevelt campaigned for the presidency in 1932 called for

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a balanced budget

Question 14

Both ratified in the 1930s, the Twentieth Amendment _______________________; the Twenty-First Amendment __________________________.

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shortened the time between the presidential election and inauguration; ended prohibition

Question 15

Franklin Roosevelt’s _________________________ contributed the most to his development of compassion and strength of will.

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affliction with infantile paralysis

Question 16

The Glass-Steagall Act

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created the Federeal Deposit Insurance Corporation to insure individual bank deposits

Question 17

While Franklin Roosevelt waited to assume the presidency in early 1933, Herbert Hoover tried to get the president-elect to commit to

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an anti-inflationary policy that would make much of the New Deal impossible

Question 18

In 1932 Franklin Roosevelt campaigned on the promise that as president he would attack the Great Depression by

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experimenting with bold new programs for economic and social reform

Question 19

The Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 attempted to

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reverse the forced assimilation of Native Americans into white society by establishing tribal self-government

Question 20

Match each Nw Deal critic below with the “cause” or slogan that he promoted.

A. Father Coughlin 1. “social justice”
B. Huey Long 2. “every man a king”
C. Francis Townsend 3. “a holy crusade for liberty”
D. Herbert Hoover 4. old age pensions

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A-1, B-2, C-4, D-3

Question 21

Prominent female social scientists of the 1930s like Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead brought widespread contributions to the field of

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anthropology

Question 22

President Roosevelt’s chief “administrator of relief” was

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Harold Hopkins

Question 23

In 1935, President Roosevelt set up the Resettlement Administration to

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help farmers who were victims of the Dust Bowl move to better land

Question 24

The phrase “Hundred Days” refers to

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the first months of Franklin Roosevelt’s presidency

Question 25

One striking new feature of the 1932 presidential election results was that

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African Americans shifted from their Republican allegiance and became a vital element in the Democratic party

Question 26

The 1936 election was most notable for

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its reflection of a bitter class struggle between the poor and the rich

Question 27

The National Labor Relations Act proved most beneficial to

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unskilled workers

Question 28

Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal was most notable for

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providing moderate social reform without radical revolution or reactionary fascism

Question 29

The Social Security Act of 1935 provided all of the following EXCEPT a. old-age pensions. b. unemployment insurance. c. health care for the poor. d. support for the blind and physically handicapped.

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c. health care for the poor.

Question 30

The primary interest of the Congress of Industrial Organizations was

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the organization of all workers within an industry

Question 31

After Franklin Roosevelt's failed attempt to "pack" the Supreme Court,

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the court began to support New Deal Programs

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The federally owned Tennessee Valley Authority was seen as a particular threat to

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the private electric utility industry

Question 33

During the 1930s

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the national debt doubled

Question 34

The Wagner Act of 1935 proved go be a trailblazing law that

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gave labor the right to bargain collectively

Question 35

The most controversial aspect of the Tennessee Valley Authority was its efforts in

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electrical power

Question 36

The strongest criticisms leveled against the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) drew criticism that it

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represented the first stage of "creeping socialism."

Question 37

Most "Okies" in California escaped the deprivation and uncertainty of seasonal farm labor when they

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found jobs in defense industries during World War II

Question 38

The Federal Securities Act and the Securities and Exchange Commission aimed to

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provide full disclosure of information and prevent insider traing and other fraudulent practices

Question 39

By 1938, the New Deal

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had lost most of its momentum

Question 40

As a result of the 1937 "Roosevelt recession,"

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Roosevelt adopted Keynesian (planned deficit spending) economics

Question 41

Most Dust Bowl migrants headed to

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California

Question 42

President Roosevelt's "Court-Packing" scheme in 1937 reflected his desire to make the Supreme Court

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more sympathetic to New Deal programs

Question 43

On the following, the one LEAST related to the other three is a. George W. Norris. b. the Tennessee Valley Authority. c. Muscle Shoals. d. the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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d. the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Question 44

Shortly after Adolf Hitler signed the nonagression pact with the Soviet Union,

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Germany invaded Poland and started World War II

Question 45

Franklin Roosevelt undermined the London Economic Conference because

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any agreement to stabilize national currencies might hurts America's recovery from depression

Question 46

One internationalist action by Franklin D. Roosevelt in his first term of office was

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a formal recognition of the Soviet Union

Question 47

The Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937 stipulated that when the president proclaimed the existence of a foreign war,

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Americans would be prohibited from sailing on the ships of warring nations

Question 48

Throughout most of the 1930s, the American people responded to the aggressive actions pf Germany, Italy and Japan by

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retreating further into isolationism

Question 49

In September 1938 in Munich, Germany,

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Britain and France consented to Germany's taking the Sudetenland from Czechoslovakia

Question 50

The 1934 Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act

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increased America's foreign trade

Question 51

Franklin Roosevelt's sensational "Quarantine Speech" in 1937 resulted in

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a wave of protest by isolationists

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Franklin Roosevelt embarked on the Good Neighbor policy in part because

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he was eager to enlist Latin American allies to defend the Western Hemisphere against dictators

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America's neutrality during the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939 allowed

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Spain to become a fascist dictatorship

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Roosevelt's recognition of the Soviet Union was undertaken partly

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in hopes of developing an diplomatic counterweight to the rising power of Japan and Germany

Question 55

As part of the Good Neighbor Policy toward Latin America, President Roosevelt developed more generous policies of

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removing American controls on Haiti, Cuba, and Panama

Question 56

As a result of Franklin Roosevelt's withdrawl from the London Economic Conference

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the trend toward extreme nationalism was strengthened

Question 57

Passage of the Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, and 1937 by the United States resulted in all of the following EXCEPT a. balancing the scales between dictators and U.S. Allies by trading with neither. b. a decline in the navy and other armed forces. c. abandonment of the traditional policy of freedom of the seas. d. making no distinction whatever between aggressors and victims.

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a. balancing the scales between dictators and U.S. Allies by trading with neither.

Question 58

President Franklin Roosevelt's foreign trade policy

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lowered tariffs to increase trade

Question 59

Fascist aggression in the 1930s included Mussolini's invasiion of ____________________, Hitler's invasion of ________________, and Franco's overthrow of the republican government of _______________.

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Ethiopia; Czechoslovakia; Spain

Question 60

From 1925 to 1940 the transition of American policy on arms sales to warring nations followed this sequesnce:

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embargo to cash-and-carry to lend-lease

Question 61

In 1938 the British and French bought peace with Hitler at the Munich Conference by effectively handing over the nation of

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Czechoslovakia

Question 62

In promising to grant the Philippines independence, the United States was motivated by

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the realization that the island were economic liabilities

Question 63

By the mid-1930s, there was a strong nationwide agitation for a constitutional amendment to

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forbid a declaration of war by Congress unless it is first approved by popular referendum

Question 64

On the eve of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, a large majority of Americans

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still wanted to keep the United States out of war

Question 65

After the Greer was fired upon, the Kearny crippled, and the Reuben James sunk,

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Congress allowed the arming of United States merchant vessels

Question 66

Congress' first response to the unexpected fall of France in 1940 was to

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pass a conscription law

Question 67

The surprise Republican presidential nominee in 1940 was

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Wendell L. Wilkie

Question 68

During the 1930s, the United States admitted _____________________ Jewish refugees from Nazism.

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about 150,000

Question 69

Arrange these events in chronological order: (A) Munich Conference, (B) German invasion of Poland, (C) Hitler-Stalin nonaggression treaty.

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A, C, B

Question 70

In 1940, in exchange for American destroyers, the British gave the United States

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eight valuable naval bases in the Western Hemisphere

Question 71

The first casualty of the 1939 Hitler-Stalin nonagression treaty was

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Poland

Question 72

The U.S. military refused to bomb Nazi gas chambers such as those in Auschwitz and Dachau because of the belief that

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bombing would divert essential military resources

Question 73

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 came as a great surprise because

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President Roosevelt suspected that if an attack came, it would be in Malaysia or the Philippines

Question 74

Franklin Roosevelt was motivated to run for a third term in 1940 mainly by his

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belief that America needed his experienced leadership during the international crisis

Question 75

When Germany invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, the United States

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made lend-lease aid available to the Soviets

Question 76

Which of the following nations was NOT conquered by Hitler's Germany between September 1939 and June 1940?

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Finland

Question 77

Arrange the following events in chronological order: (A) fall of France, (B) Atlantic Conference, (C) Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union.

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A, C, B

Question 78

Probably the greatest obstacle in America's acceptance of more Jewish refugees from Europe was

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a failure of moral imagination and belief that the Holocaust could actually be happening

Question 79

By 1940 American public opinion had come to favor

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providing Britain with "all aid short of war."

Question 80

Franklin Roosevelt was motivated to run for a third term in 1940 mainly by his

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belief that America needed his experienced leadership during the international crisis

Question 81

In 1940, Republican presidential candidate Wendell Wilkie avoided deepening the sharp divisions among the American people when he

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avoided attacking Roosevelt for his increasingly interventionist policies

Question 82

America's neutrality effectively ended when

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France fell to Germany

Question 83

Japan believed that it was forced into war with the United States because Franklin Roosevelt insisted that Japan

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withdraw from China

Question 84

The 1941 lend-lease program was all of the following EXCEPT a. the catalyst that caused American factories to prepare for all-out war production. b. another privately arranged executive deal, like the destroyers-for-bases deal. c. the point when all pretense of American neutrality was abandoned. d. a direct challenge to the Axis dictators.

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b. another privately arranged executive deal, like the destroyers-for-bases deal.