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What Republican candidate won the presidential election of 1920 by promising a return to "normalcy" and simpler times and a promotion of business interests?
Warren Harding,
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What was the meaning of "Fordism"?
the mass production technique system,
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Suburbanization in the 1920's
was made possible by the automobile,
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The Scopes Trial revealed fundamentalists' discomfort with
evolutionary science,
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Dupont emerged as a powerful corporation in the
chemical industry,
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A major industrial trend of the 1920's with Oligopolies was
the concentration of wealth in the largest firms of an industry,
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The Republican presidents of the 1920's
emphasized the importance of business interests,
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The "Good Neighbor Policy" was designed to
improve relations with nations in Latin America.
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What did President Calvin Coolidge call "one of the most potent influences" on modern life?
the advertising industry,
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What person's popularity as a trumpet player was one of the hallmarks of the appeal that jazz had with Americans?
Louis Armstrong,
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What name was given to the African-American literary movement that flourished in literature, art, and music in the 1920s?
Harlem Renaissance,
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The National Origins Act of 1924
favored western Europeans over eastern and southern Europeans,
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All of the following were causes of the Great Depression except
a drop in agricultural production in the mid-1920's,
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Franklin Roosevelt's first goal and crisis as president was to
strengthen the faltering bank industry,
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"Court packing" refers to Roosevelt's proposal to
assert more presidential control over the makeup of the U.S.Supreme Court with judges who supported the New Deal,
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One important result of the New Deal reform was that
it expanded the government's role in the economy.
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What were Hoovervilles?
squalid collections of shacks where the homeless of America's cities lived,
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What was the purpose of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA)?
to furnish funds to local and state governments for public relief projects,
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The Agricultural Adjustment Administration attempted to
raise farm incomes by controlling overproduction,
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What U.S. Senator from Louisiana won enormous appeal to his Share Our Wealth Society program in 1934?
Huey P. Long,
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What government agency, established in 1932 under President Hoover, lent federal funds to banks, insurance companies and railroads to encourage "trickle down" recovery?
Reconstruction Finance Corporation,
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What Congressional act in 1935 guaranteed workers the right to organize unions?
Wagner National Labor Relations Act,
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In the presidential campaign of 1932, what Democratic candidate pledged himself to a "New Deal for the American people"?
Franklin Roosevelt,
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What British economist advocated deficit spending during a Depression in order to increase purchasing power and stimulate recovery?
John Maynard Keynes,
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