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1. Warren G. Harding�s weakness as president included all of the following except a(n)
a) lack of political experience
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3. Which of the following individuals was considered one of the �worst minds� of President Harding�s cabinet?
e) Albert Fall
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4. Republican economic policies under Warren G. Harding
b) hoped to encourage the government to guide business along the path to profits.
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5. During the 1920s, the Supreme Court
a) often ruled against progressive legislation.
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6. ____________________ was (were) adversely affected by the demobilization policies adopted by the federal government at the end of World War I.
e) Organized labor
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7. The Supreme Court in the Muller and Adkins cases centered on
d) the question of whether women merited special legal and social treatment.
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8. The non-business group that realized the most significant, lasting gains from World War I was
e) veterans.
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9. Despite President Warren G. Harding�s policy of isolationism, the U.S. became involved in the Middle East to
d) secure oil-drilling concessions for American companies.
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10. Warren G. Harding was willing to seize the initiative on the issue of international disarmament because
c) businesspeople were unwilling to help pay for a larger U.S. Navy.
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11. The 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact
e) outlawed war as a solution to international rivalry.
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12. In the 1920s the Fordney-McCumber Tariff _____________ tariff rates and the Hawley-Smoot Tariff ______________ tariff rates, so that by 1930 the tariff rates had been substantially ____________ from the opening of the decade.
c) raised; raised; raised
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13. Because the U.S. raised its tariffs in the 1920s,
e) all of the above.
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14. The Teapot Dome scandal involved the mishandling of
a) naval oil reserves.
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15. The major political scandal of Harding�s administration resulted in the conviction and imprisonment of his secretary of
e) the interior.
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16. Which of the following descriptive attributes is least characteristic of President Coolidge?
d) wordiness
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17. During Coolidge�s presidency, government policy was set largely by the interests and values of
b) the business community.
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18. After the initial shock of the Harding scandals, many Americans reacted by
b) excusing some of the wrongdoers on the grounds that �they ad gotten away with it.�
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19. One of the major problems facing farmers in the 1920s was
a) overproduction.
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20. In the mid-1920s President Coolidge twice refused to sign legislation proposing to
e) subsidize farm prices.
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21. The intended beneficiaries of the McNary-Haugen Bill were _______________; the intended beneficiaries of the Norris-LaGuardia Act were __________________.
b) farmers; labor unions
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22. Which of the following splits did not affect the Democratic party in 1924?
c) urbanites vs. suburbanites
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23. Robert La Follette�s Progressive party advocated all of the following except
e) increased power of the Supreme Court.
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24. In 1924 the Democratic party convention came within a single vote of adopting a resolution condemning
a) the Ku Klux Klan.
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25. The Progressive party did not do well in the 1924 election because
b) too many people shared in prosperity to care about reform.
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26. In the early 1920s, the U.S.� ____________ was a glaring exception to its general indifference to the outside world.
b) armed intervention in the Caribbean and Central America.
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27. America�s European allies argued that they should not have to repay loans that the U.S. made to them during World War I because
c) they had paid a much heavier price in lost lives, so it was only fair for the U.S. to write off the debt.
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28. As a result of America�s insistence that war debts be repaid,
a) the French and British demanded enormous reparations payments from Germany.
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29. America�s major foreign-policy problem in the 1920s was addressed by the Dawes Plan, which
e) tried to solve the tangle of war-debt and war reparations payments.
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30. The most colorful presidential candidate of the 1920s was
c) Alfred E. Smith.
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31. All of the following were political liabilities for Alfred E. Smith except his
d) failure to win the support of American labor.
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32. One of Herbert Hoover�s chief strengths as a presidential candidate was his
e) talent for administration.
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33. When elected to the presidency in 1828, Herbert Hoover
d) was a millionaire.
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34. The Federal Farm Board, created by the Agricultural Marketing Act, lent money to farmers primarily to help them to
a) organize producers� cooperatives.
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35. As a result of the Hawley Smoot Tariff of 1930,
e) the worldwide depression deepened.
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36. In America, the Great Depression caused
b) a decade-long decline in the birthrate.
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37. President Herbert Hoover believed that the Great Depression could be ended b doing all of the following except
a) providing direct aid to the people.
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38. President Hoover�s approach to the Great Depression was to
e) adopt unprecedented federal initiatives.
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39. The ___________________ was an �alphabetical agency� set up under Hoover�s administration to bring the government into the anti-depression effort.
d) Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
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40. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation was established to
b) make loans to businesses, banks, and state and local governments.
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41. The Bonus Expeditionary Force marched on Washington, D.C., in 1932 to demand
c) immediate full payment of bonus payments promised to World War I veterans.
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42. President Hoover�s public image was severely damaged by his
e) handling of the dispersal of the Bonus Army.
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43. In response to the League of Nations� investigation into Japan�s invasion and occupation of Manchuria,
d) Japan left the League.
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44.The 1932 Stimson doctrine
d)declared that the U.S. would not recognize any territorial acquisition achieved by force of arms.
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