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The progressive coalition that elected Woodrow Wilson president dissolved by 1920 for all the following reasons EXCEPT:

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many of the progressive reforms still seemed unattainable

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In his 1920 campaign for president, Warren G. Harding said the country needed a return to:

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normalcy

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The result in the presidential election of 1920 might be attributed to:

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the fact that Americans in the 1920s were "tired of issues, sick at heat of ideals, and weary of being noble"

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Harding's secretary of Treasury:

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favored a reduction of the high wartime level of taxation, but mainly for the rich

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The biggest scandal of the Harding administration:

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involved the leasing of government-owned oil deposits to private companies

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Which of the members of Harding's cabinet was jailed for his role in the Teapot Dome scandal?

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Albert Fall

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Of the following presidents, which one served as vice president?

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Calvin Coolidge

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Harding's administration is most remembered for:

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the scandals that plagued it

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In the 1924 presidential election:

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Calvin Coolidge swept both the popular and electoral votes by decisive majorities

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During WWI, FDR served as:

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Governor of New York

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Who created the Federal Radio Commission?

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Herbert Hoover

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As secretary of commerce under Coolidge, Herbert Hoover's priority was the trade-association movement about which all of the following are true EXCEPT:

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It successfully blocked all monopolistic practices

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Which of the following is NOT true of the McNary-Haugen Plan?

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It was supported by Coolidge as a way to empower farmers

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In the 1920s, labor unions:

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Lost about 1.5 million members

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In 1928, Democratic presidential nominee Alfred E. Smith was hurt by the fact that he was a(n):

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New Yorker and Roman Catholic

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In the election of 1930:

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Democrats won a majority in the House of Representatives

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The Bonus Expeditionary Force:

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Marched on Washington in an attempt to get immediate payment of a veteran's bonus that Congress had voted in 1924

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At the end of 1928, President-elect Herbert Hoover sought to demonstrate his activist bent by:

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Asking Congress to pay World War veterans their bonuses

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FDR:

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was permanently disabled after contracting polio

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in 1932, what was the percentage of Americans unemployed?

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25%

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On his second day in office, FDR called upon Congress to meet in special session on March 9 to pass the:

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Emergency Banking Relief Act

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On March 12, in the first of his radio-broadcast "fireside chats", the president:

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Assured the 60 million Americans listening that it was safer to "keep your money in a reopened bank than under a mattress"

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The first large-scale experiment with federal work relief, which put people directly on the government payroll at competitive wages, came with the formation of the:

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Civil Works Administration

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The goal of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 was to raise farm income mainly through:

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cutbacks in production

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The head of the National Recovery Administration (NRA) was:

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Hugh Johnson

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What organization sought to set workplace standards, such as child labor restrictions?

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NRA

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To earn the federal payments for reducing crops:

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Many landowners kicked out black tenants in favor of whites

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TVA as a multipurpose public corporation included all the following states EXCEPT:

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Louisiana

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Because of the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Tennessee River became:

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the "Great Lakes of the South"

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The Dust Bowl can be associated with:

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The blowing away of millions of acres of topsoil

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Frequently lumped together as "oakies" or "arkies":

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Most of the dust bowl refugees were from cotton belt communites

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Who directed the Bureau of Indian Affairs during the New Deal?

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John Collier

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Eleanor Roosevelt:

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Was especially supportive of women, blacks, and organized labor

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Huey Long:

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Developed a program called Share the Wealth

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Huey Long's program to end the Depression:

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was a plan to share the wealth

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Charles E. Coughlin:

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was the "radio priest"

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Who was the California doctor who called for old-age pensions from the government?

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Francis Townsend

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All of the following statements are true of the National Youth Administration EXCEPT:

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it was the parent organization for the CCC

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The National Labor Relations Act:

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was struck down by the Supreme Court in 1935

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Which of the following statements about the social security act is NOT true?

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it was based on a progressive tax that took a larger percentage of higher incomes

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In the 1936 election, Roosevelt wound up carrying every state except:

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Maine and Vermont

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Which is true of the 1936 presidential election?

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FDR defeated Alfred M. Landon in a landslide

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In early 1937 FDR proposed to reform the Supreme Court by:

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adding up six additional members

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The "sit-down strike" was used successfully in 1937 by:

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automobile workers

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The Housing Act was developed by:

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Senator Robert F. Wagner

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The conservative Democratic opposition to the New Deal in the late 1930s:

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was heaviest in the south

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In the elections of 1938:

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Roosevelt's attempts to "purge" the Democratic party were largely unsuccessful

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South Carolina Senator Ellison D. "Cotton Ed" Smith:

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was FDR's staunchest ally in the south

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Concerning US action in the Caribbean, President Wilson:

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kept marines in Nicaragua and sent marines to Haiti and the Dominican Republic

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All these innovations changed warfare during World War I EXCEPT:

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blockades

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Who said, after sinking the Lusitania, "There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight"?

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Woodrow Wilson

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President Wilson's secretary of state resigned in 1915 because:

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he thought Wilson's note to Germany denouncing the sinking of the Lusitania would draw America closer to war

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Which of these did NOT take place in 1917?

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Paris Peace Conference

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The most important of all the mobilization agencies was the:

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War Industries Board

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What was the major cause of the Chicago riot in 1919?

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Whites were angered by the influx of southern blacks into their communites

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To what did Wilson refer when he spoke of "the heart of the league"?

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Article X, which would pledge members to consult on military and economic sanctions against aggressors

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In negotiating with the Big Four over many postwar territorial issues, President Wilson:

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had to compromise his principle self-determination

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The Spanish Flu epidemic:

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killed nearly seven times the number of Americans as died of combat deaths in France

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A race riot in which 38 people were killed and more than 500 were injured took place in July 1919 in:

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Chicago, Illinois

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The Communist party (USA) was formed in:

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1919

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The Red Scare of 1919-1920 was directed against:

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Labor Unions

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the 1924 immigration law:

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set strict yearly limits on the number of immigrants allowed into the country

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the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s was based mainly on:

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"100 percent Americanism"

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How many members did the Ku Klux Klan allegedly have at its peak?

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as many as 4 million

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As a result of the Scopes trial:

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John T. Scopes was found guilty of teaching evolution

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By the early 1900s, the Anti-Saloon League:

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had become one of the most effective pressure groups in American History

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Which of the following statements best describes working women in the 1920s?

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the number of employed women rose

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The movement of the southern blacks to the North:

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was called the "Great Migration"

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James Weldon Johnson coined the term:

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"Aframerican"

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Marcus Garvey:

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said blacks should return to Africa

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Modernists in art and literature came to believe that:

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the subconscious is more interesting and more potent than reason

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F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote about:

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"real" life punctuated by the doomed, war-tainted love affairs of young Americans

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Fitzgerald's stories during the 1920s were:

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painfully autobiographical

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Hemingway used the phrase "lost generation" as the epigraph in:

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The Sun Also Rises (1926)

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Far more people read the uplifting poetry of Carl Sandburg than the despairing verse of:

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TS Elliot

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The best-selling novelist of the 1920s was:

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Zane Grey

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In 1933, President Roosevelt confronted all the following major challenges EXCEPT:

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defending the country against communism

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The goal of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 was to raise farm income mainly through:

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cutbacks in production

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The fair practice codes of the NRA did all the following EXCEPT:

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break up large corporations

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During the Depression, the US government deported 500,000 Mexican Americans and their American-born children because officials:

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wanted to avoid the costs of providing them with public services

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In the case of Schechter Poultry Corporation vs. United States, the Supreme Court:

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said that the Agricultural Adjustment Act was unconstitutional

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All the following statements are true of the National Youth Administration EXCEPT:

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it was the parent organization for the CCC

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Which of the following refused to apply for a Social Security card?

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Herbert Hoover

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Which was true about the 1936 Presidential election?

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FDR defeated Alfred M. Landon in a landslide

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Roosevelt's court-packing scheme became unnecessary when:

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the Supreme Court began reversing previous judgments and upholding the New Deal

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By the end of 1937, which group had coalesced against the New Deal?

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a bipartisan conservative bloc

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