NAME: ________________________
← History 1920's Politics & Business Quiz Test
5 Written Questions
5 Matching Questions
- Dow Jones Industrial Average
- Farm Bloc
- Return to Normalcy
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- The Solid South
- a A group of Democratic and Republican members of Congress from the farming states of the Middle West that pressures the federal government to adopt policies favorable to farmers
- b the most widely used indicator of the overall condition of the stock market
- c go back to America before the Progressives
- d Southern states whom were regarded as solidly supporting the Democratic Party, until the Election of 1928 when republican Hoover wins
- e leader of the Allied forces in Europe
5 Multiple Choice Questions
- Unemployed veterans of WWI gathering in Washington in 1932 demanding payment of service bonuses not due until 1945
- the practice of making high-risk investments with borrowed money in hopes of getting a big return
- pay for the damage caused (Germany)
- purchasing power
- the nation's worst economic crisis, extending through the 1930s, producing unprecedented bank failures, unemployment, and industrial and agricultural collapse
5 True/False Questions
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Dust Bowl → Region of the Great Plains that experienced a drought lasting for a decade, leaving many farmers without work or substantial wages
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Hawley-Smoot Tariff → raised tariffs rates on farm products to protect US farmers
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Calvin Coolidge → Democratic nomination in the Election of 1928, evoked the cultural conflicts of the 20s, opposed prohibition, and was a Tammany politician
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Volunteerism → president Hoover called for this after the Depression
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Frederick Taylor → A group of Democratic and Republican members of Congress from the farming states of the Middle West that pressures the federal government to adopt policies favorable to farmers
Regenerate Test