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True/False Quiz
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Question 1
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Open Hint for Question 1 in a new window		 During the 1920s, appointees to federal regulatory agencies were generally pro-business.
   
 
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Question 2
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Open Hint for Question 2 in a new window		 In the 1920s, most Americans were anxious for their nation to participate fully in international affairs.
   
 
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Question 3
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Open Hint for Question 3 in a new window		 The 1922 Four-Power Treaty committed its signatories to respect one another's interests in the Far East.
   
 
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Question 4
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Open Hint for Question 4 in a new window		 About the only thing the western democracies agreed on during the 1920s was a mechanism to govern the repayment of World War I debts.
   
 
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Question 5
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Open Hint for Question 5 in a new window		 Excessive government regulation was the major weakness in the national economy in the 1920s, eventually ending its prosperity.
   
 
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Question 6
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Open Hint for Question 6 in a new window		 The primary causes of the Great Depression were the economic dislocations resulting from World War I.
   
 
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Question 7
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Open Hint for Question 7 in a new window		 President Hoover's program for combating the Great Depression called for the federal government to lend funds to banks and corporations that were in danger of failing.
   
 
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Open Hint for Question 8 in a new window		 President Hoover's primary response to the Great Depression was to follow historical precedent and let the Depression run its course.
   
 
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Question 9
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Open Hint for Question 9 in a new window		 President Hoover's plans for dealing with the Great Depression showed that he was willing to experiment boldly and persistently in a search for solutions.
   
 
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Open Hint for Question 10 in a new window		 During the Great Depression, "Hoovervilles" became temporary homes for unemployed workers.
   
 
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Question 11
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Open Hint for Question 11 in a new window		 One social consequence of the Great Depression was that there was a notable increase in the birthrate in families of unemployed men.
   
 
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Question 12
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Open Hint for Question 12 in a new window		 Through the 1920s, Franklin D. Roosevelt was a noted social reformer who had considerable insight into the aspirations of ordinary people.
   
 
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Question 13
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Open Hint for Question 13 in a new window		 At the heart of President Roosevelt's New Deal was bold, persistent experimentation with different ways to solve the nation's economic problems.
   
 
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Open Hint for Question 14 in a new window		 Secretary of Treasury Andrew Mellon had little influence on domestic policy.
   
 
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