A) The Dust Bowl B) The Great Depression C) Black Tuesday D) The Grapes of Wrath
A) paid his workers far below average factory wages. B) encouraged his workers to join trade unions. C) hired skilled workers who worked by hand. D) equipped his factory with an assembly line.
A) Okies. B) Hoovervilles. C) migrants. D) hoboes.
A) Chicago B) St. Louis C) Detroit D) Harlem
A) high salaries of union members B) good times in outdated industries like coal mining C) Unequal income distribution, specifically poor agricultural workers. D) purchase of factory goods by families of average income
A) World War I B) fundamentalism C) a rise in organized crime D) the Great Migration
A) the deep south to the western cities like Los Angeles B) cities to the country C) west Africa to the United States 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) accept bribes from oil companies to drill on federal lands for low rates instead of competive bidding C) pay oil companies to drill on private land D) allow Britain to avoid tariffs on oil
A) reaction, response and resignation B) review relocation and revolution C) relief, recovery and reforms D) revolt, relief and renewal
A) establish unions B) regain faith in the financial markets C) cope with poverty D) establish a minimum wage
A) have private property B) share equally in society's wealth C) not share equaly in society's wealth D) be divided by economic class
A) Harding's presidency was marked by numerous scandals B) Coolidge had numerous scandals during his presidency C) Coolidge's presidency greatly increased the size of the American Government D) Harding looked like a president and Coolidge did not
A) he did not fully grasp or care about how desperate the American people were B) he put more emphasis on international trade that he did on the American economy C) he grew rich while the American people suffered D) he started too many government aid programs and lacked business sense
A) Securities Exchange Commission B) Works Progress Administration C) Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation D) Social Security Act
A) the barter system B) installment buying or buying on credit C) delayed gratification D) name brand recognition
A) poor wages for factory workers B) clear-cutting in old-growth forests C) investor anxiety D) unemployment among young men
A) values B) urbanization C) fundamentalism D) evolution
A) the United States passed a tariff on foreign agricultural products B) competition grew when European farmers returned to their fields C) American farms were depleted during World War I D) demand for agricultural products was higher than supply
A) vacuum cleaners B) shacks C) dams D) banks |