US HISTORY: 1920

Question 1

The FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) was designed to

Answer 1

Strengthen consumer confidence in the banking systems

Question 2

President Hoover believed relief programs would

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Destroy individual initiative

Question 3

The fourteen points proposed by president Wilson can be described as a statement of principles that

Answer 3

Would govern the postwar world and create world peace

Question 4

The US became a consumer culture in the 1920s because of blank and blank encouraged blank.

Answer 4

Advertising
Installment payments
Buying

Question 5

People believed in never ending blank and this promoted heavy increases in blank

Answer 5

Prosperity
Stock speculation

Question 6

In the 1920s people believed in

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Borrowing and spending

Question 7

The 1925 scopes trial involved a conflict between blank. His conviction supported

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Science and religion
Traditional fundamentalist values

Question 8

Reasons for the Great Depression:
High blank
Farmers blank and faced blank that caused prices to fall banking policies were blank and led to the

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Protective tariffs
Overproduced
Competition
Unsound
Over expansion of credit

Question 9

Franklin Delano Roosevelt supported direct blank. His blank programs demonstrated a belief that the blank government must condemn itself with the blank

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Relief to the unemployed
New deal
Federal
People’s economic well being

Question 10

FDRs moody pressing problem when he became president was

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Unemployment

Question 11

The new deal program designed to correct abuses in the blank was called the

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Stock market
Securities and exchange commission

Question 12

FDRs new deal plans sought to solve the problems caused by the blank

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Great Depression

Question 13

The federal government attempted to improve blank economy by blank of agricultural goods.

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Farm
Reducing the production

Question 14

The new deal program about agricultural goods was called the

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Agricultural adjustment act

Question 15

The federal government even supported programs to blank

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Support the arts

Question 16

A lasting effect of the new deal is that many government programs

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Continue today

Question 17

The FDIC was created to

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Strengthen consumer confidence in banks

Question 18

FDRs critics felt that his attempts to blank was a clear conflict of blank. It started before the court was in blank to several blank

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Pack the Supreme Court
Checks and Balances
Opposition
New deal laws

Question 19

The red scare of national origins act were created because of

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Distrust of foreigners

Question 20

The major goals of both blank and blank back to Africa movement was blank

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Harlem renaissance and Marcus Garveys
increase racial pride among african Americans

Question 21

The Republican Party in the 1929s followed a foreign policy based on blank

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Noninvolvement

Question 22

When the Great Depression began the most common blank was that the

Answer 22

Economic belief
Economy would recover on its own

Question 23

Schneck vs the us decision and the red scare demonstrate that blank are sometimes compromised by the public’s blank of

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Civil rights
Fear
Radical political groups

Question 24

The city that had the most lawlessness during the 1920s was

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Chicago

Question 25

The Kellogg briand pact hoped to

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Outlaw war as a solution to international rivalry

Question 26

The individual most closely associated with the growth of blank sales was

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Automobile
Henry ford

Question 27

New deal

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FDRs program of relief recovery and reform

Question 28

Hundred days

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In FDRs first weeks in office he developed many laws to help the country

Question 29

Wagner act

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Laws passed to legalize collective bargaining

Question 30

Buying on margin

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Investors purchase stock for only a fraction of the cost

Question 31

Hoovervilles

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Shelters of homeless people made from scraps of material

Question 32

Bonus army

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20,000 jobless WWI vets campout at Washington DC demanding pensions

Question 33

Harlem renaissance

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Rebirth of music writing and art in African American cuktures

Question 34

Red scare

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Fear of communism in the USA

Question 35

Scopes trial

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Teacher brought on trial for teaching the theory of evolution

Question 36

Assembly line

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Manufacturing an item in which each worker has a specific task