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Which of the following was NOT a cause of the Great Depression?
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Farmers were unable to produce enough to feed the population
dramatically unequal distributions of income
tariffs and war debt policies which cut down on foreign trade
availability of easy credit, including for stock purchases
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Which president during the 1920s is shown bailing out of the pilot seat of the GOP airplane in 1928?
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Herbert Hoover
Calvin Coolidge
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Alfred Smith
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Which of the following was NOT a cause of the Great Depression?
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Which president during the 1920s is shown bailing out of the pilot seat of the GOP airplane in 1928?
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Which president is most blamed for the failures of the Great Depression?
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The conflict between modernism and traditional values could be seen in which trial?
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Embodied by individuals like Zora Neal Hurston, Duke Ellington and others, what is the name attached to the flowering of culture in the 1920s and 1930s that followed the Great Migration?
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This cartoon depicts a sentiment which is in line with which movement?
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In light of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, following WWI America experienced a period of hysteria known as the ...
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In the 1920s, which industry helped to reshape American culture and spurred economic growth?
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In response to critics like Dr. Francis Townsend, the Second New Deal included a program which provided income for people over 65. What was that program?
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Buying stocks on credit is known as ____________
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Who was the New Deal critic who believed in Sharing Our Wealth by taking from the rich?
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Who was the poet that expressed the complexity of black identity in the 1920s?
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Secretary of Labor who oversaw programs of the New Deal including social security?
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Black nationalist leader who advocated economic separation from whites?
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What New Deal agency was created to protect bank deposits?
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What new deal agency, symbolized by the "Blue Eagle" was designed to reinvigorate industry, yet was struck down by the Supreme Court?
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What New Deal agency paid farmers not to grow crops, despite the fact that people were starving?
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What New Deal agency was created to electrify Appalachia through hydroelectric dams and spur economic activity in America's poorest region?
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What New Deal agency was created to regulate the stock market and prevent unfair practices after the market crash?
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Secretary of Treasury Andrew Mellon's policies did which of the following?
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The purpose of the immigration restriction acts passed in the 1920s was to
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All of the following concerns were addressed during the "Hundred Days" of the New Deal EXCEPT
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Which of the following best characterizes the white writers associated with the 1920s such as Sinclair Lewis and F. Scott Fitzgerald?
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DW Griffith's epic film The Birth of a Nation (1915) became controversial because of its
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For Americans farming in the 1920s was a period of
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The primary message of this cartoon is which reality of the 1920s?
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"Woman must have her freedom, the fundamental freedom of choosing whether or not she will be a mother and how many children she will have." - This quote is most likely from which of the following?
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Which intervention in the market by Hoover and Roosevelt is most closely related to the recent (2008-10) federal stimulus programs of capital investment in banks and big business?
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When elected to a third term in 1940, FDR broke the two-term tradition established by
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Who were positioned to most benefit from the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)?
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Which of the following is NOT associated with the presidency of Warren G. Harding?
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Which key Supreme Court decision declared the National Industrial Recovery Act and its component the NRA unconstitutional?
