Roaring 20s and Domestic Policy
What was the primary focus of the federal government’s domestic policies in the 1920s?
A. Protecting business interests
B. Furthering social reform
C. Negotiating reciprocal trade agreements
D. Improving the national banking system
A. Protecting business interests
To increase the public’s confidence in American banks, Franklin D. Roosevelt did all of the following except
A. Declare a four day banking holiday
B. Double the percentage of total deposits that banks were required to keep on hand, available for withdrawal
C. Persuade Congress to pass the Emergency Banking Relief Act
D. Assure the public of the safety of banking institutions in his first “Fireside Chat”
B. Double the percentage of total deposits that banks were required to keep on hand, available for withdrawal
The American strategy for fighting World War II was to
A. Defeat Japan first, then defeat Germany
B. Defeat Germany first, then defeat Japan
C. Fight Japan and Germany equally
D. Follow the lead of the more experienced British
B. Defeat Germany first, then defeat Japan
Franklin Roosevelt’s program to provide aid to the British in 1941 was called
A. The Neutrality Acts
B. The Democracy Initiative
C. The Lend-lease Acts
D. The Peace Acts
C. The Lend-lease Acts
Black nationalist leader of the Universal Negro Improvement Association who rejected integration in favor of migration to Africa.
A. Marcus Garvey
B. Langston Hughes
C. W.E.B. Dubois
D. Claude McKay
A. Marcus Garvey
Calvin Coolidge
A. Continued Harding’s pro-business themes
B. Strongly supported the concept of the active presidency
C. Hailed from the South
D. Wanted the Federal Trade Commission to primarily support workers and consumers
A. Continued Harding’s pro-business themes
The main purpose of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was to
A. Train young men for the Army Corps of Engineers
B. Provide work relief for young men with little education and few professional skills
C. Promote conservation practices by the general public
D. Give young women an opportunity to earn money for higher education
B. Provide work relief for young men with little education and few professional skills
Which battle is considered the “turning point” in the war in the Pacific?
A. The Coral Sea
B. Guadalcanal
C. Midway
D. New Guinea
C. Midway
During the period 1939 to 1941, US foreign policy can best be described as
A. Consistently internationalist
B. Aimed at avoiding war at all costs
C. Moving steadily toward isolation
D. Moving from isolation to active aid for the Allies
D. Moving from isolation to active aid for the Allies
The Harlem Renaissance
A. Undermined the goals of the N.A.A.C.P.
B. Was a movement among white liberals to achieve racial equality in America
C. Featured some of the greatest literature, music, and visual art of the era
D. Failed to nurture the emergence of black cultural pride in northern cities
C. Featured some of the greatest literature, music, and visual art of the era
The Teapot Dome Scandal involved
A. Import duties on tea
B. Excise taxes on the sale of beverages
C. Overcutting in government forest lands
D. Liberal leases of government oil reserves
D. Liberal leases of government oil reserves
The goal of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 was to raise farm income mainly through
A. Cutbacks in production
B. Intensive farming
C. Meeting marketing quotas
D. Increased exports
A. Cutbacks in production
Operation Cobra was the
A. Allied invasion of southern France
B. American breakout from the D-Day beaches
C. American invasion of Iwo Jima
D. Allied capture of Paris
B. American breakout from the D-Day beaches
During the Yalta Conference, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin
A. Agreed to create the United Nations
B. Agreed to use the atomic bomb against Japan
C. Could not agree on any major principles, a sign of the coming Cold War
D. Agreed to use the atomic bomb against Germany
A. Agreed to create the United Nations
Who advocated for the integration of factories and industry during World War II?
A. Martin Luther King, Jr.
B. Frederick Douglas
C. Marcus Garvey
D. Philip Randolph
D. Philip Randolph
Nativists promoted
A. Protecting the rights of immigrant workers
B. Restricting immigration of people who were not Anglo-Saxon
C. The virtues of advertising and consumerism
D. Progressive labor reforms for unskilled workers
B. Restricting immigration of people who were not Anglo-Saxon
Portions of the National Recovery Act (NRA) were
A. Declared unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court
B. Reserved for southern industrial complexes
C. Used to find industrial jobs for youths under the age of sixteen
D. Opposed by Socialists and Communists
A. Declared unconstitutional by the US Supreme Court
The first battle in which aircraft carriers engaged each other – neither side’s ships fired directly at each other
A. Coral Sea
B. Midway
C. Guadalcanal
D. Iwo Jima
A. Coral Sea
The United States Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles mainly because the
A. contained the Covenant of the League of Nations.
B. made Germany assume sole guilt for the war.
C. required Germany to pay reparations.
D. provided for the return of Alsace-Lorraine to France.
A. contained the Covenant of the League of Nations.
Effects of the Great Migration included all of the following except
A. Increasing the number of blacks who voted in local and national elections
B. Encouraging the cultural pride of African-Americans
C .Ending housing and job discrimination in the North
D. Developing new expressions of racial pride
C .Ending housing and job discrimination in the North
The main cause of the depression of 1929 was
A. Monetary policies
B. A decline in American exports to Europe
C. War scares
D. Greater use of machinery in industry
A. Monetary policies
In which area was the New Deal farm program least successful?
A. Encouraging soil conservation
B. Preventing farm surpluses
C. Keeping surpluses from the market
D. Giving stability to farm prices
B. Preventing farm surpluses
The German attack that caught the Allies by surprise in December 1944 was
A. the Battle of Berlin.
B. the Battle of the Argonne Forest.
C. the Battle of the Bulge.
D. stopped by a Soviet attack
C. the Battle of the Bulge.
Franklin D. Roosevelt first gave his attention to what major problem?
A. Unemployment
B. Bank failures
C. Speculation in securities
D. Farm relief
B. Bank failures
Which group would have not been strong supporters of prohibition?
A. Immigrants in urban ethnic areas
B. Protestant leaders in the South
C. Fundamentalist preachers
D. Female leaders of the temperance movement
A. Immigrants in urban ethnic areas