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Chapter 26: The New Era: 1921-1933

Multiple Choice Quiz #1

Multiple Choice Quiz #1
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	The Dawes and Young plans   sought to assist the Germans in making reparations. limited the size of the post-war German army. provided financial assistance in rebuilding Europe after the war. called for a moratorium on all war debts. were efforts to limit naval arms after World War I.

	Critics of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation claimed that it   loaned money without checking into the solvency of the recipients. encouraged persons to remain jobless. aided businessmen who were not directly affected by the Depression. was simply a holdover from the post-Civil War era. subsidized farmers at the expense of industry.

	All of the following were characteristics of the economy in the late 1920s EXCEPT   government's refusal to help farmers. business consolidation. falling farm prices. increasing numbers of trade associations. a balance of productive capacity and purchasing power.

	"Teapot Dome" refers to a scandal in the Harding administration involving   veterans hospitals. liquor permits. government sale of western lands. Indian reservations. oil leases.

	The Secretary of the Treasury in the Harding administration who dominated the administration's economic policy was   Charles Evans Hughes. Albert B. Fall. Andrew Mellon. Henry C. Wallace. Charles R. Forbes.

	The linguistic vulgarism that came to be associated with President Harding is   "the business of the U.S. is business." "dynamic conservatism." "flapper." "normalcy." "the New Era."

	Robert La Follette, candidate of a new Progressive party, carried which state in 1924?   Wisconsin Michigan Minnesota New York Arkansas

	Why did President Hoover break up the veterans' Bonus Army in 1932?   He feared their presence would affect the election. He had earlier vetoed "adjusted compensation." He opposed direct government aid to individuals. He believed that criminals and radicals had infiltrated the ranks of the demonstrating veterans. He believed that the right of free speech and assembly did not permit harassment of the national government.

	Of the following, the weakest sector of the national economy in the 1920s was   mineral exports. home appliance sales. the steel industry. the oil industry. farming.

	President Hoover demonstrated an innovative and anti-laissez-faire approach to the Great Depression when he endorsed the   Reconstruction Finance Corporation. Dawes Plan. McNary-Haughen Bill. Glass-Steagall Act. Hawley-Smoot Tariff.

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