Question 1

The biggest scandal under President Hoover was the Teapot Dome scandal of 1930.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 2

MATCHING
Match each description with the item below.
-John W. Davis

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A)  was the secretary of the Treasury
B)  was Harding's secretary of state
C)  was the secretary of the interior
D)  was the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan
E)  died in 1923F) wrote American IndividualismG) was the Republican vice-presidential candidate in 1920H) was the Democratic presidential candidate in 1928I) was the Democratic presidential candidate in 1924J) was the Progressive party presidential candidate in 1924K) A) and E)
L) B) and D)

Question 3

Calvin Coolidge was notorious for his love of whiskey, poker, and women.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 4

The "Ohio gang":

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A)   rivaled Charlie Chaplin in box office receipts in the 1920s
B)   directed Herbert Hoover's rise to the presidency
C)   was a group of angry young men in a short story by Sinclair Lewis about the consumer culture
D)   hosted the first national radio program
E)   was a group of President Harding's friends who were named to political officeF) A) and B)
G) A) and C)

Question 5

Which one of the following is associated with Dayton, Tennessee?

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A)   Paul Gauguin
B)   F. Scott Fitzgerald
C)   the lynching of three Italian anarchists
D)   the Scopes Trial
E)   Ernest HemingwayF) B) and E)
G) C) and D)

Question 6

The Klan attracted all of the following groups EXCEPT:

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A)   clergymen
B)   engineers
C)   immigrants
D)   doctors
E)   lawyersF) A) and C)
G) A) and D)

Question 7

Proponents of Prohibition used ethnic and social prejudice in their campaign to make America "dry."

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

The immigration quota laws passed in the 1920s:

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A)   favored immigrants from northern and western Europe
B)   encouraged Asians to immigrate to America
C)   set strict limits on immigration from Mexico
D)   rescinded the Gentlemen's Agreement accepted during Theodore Roosevelt's administration
E)   favored immigrants from southern and eastern EuropeF) C) and D)
G) A) and E)

Question 9

In the 1920s, many investors bought stocks on margin-that is, with borrowed funds.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

The immigration quota laws passed in the 1920s favored immigrants from northern and western Europe.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 11

Discuss the various causes of the stock market crash, paying particular attention to government policies that helped bring on the crash.

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Question 12

Harding's secretary of the treasury:

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A)   favored retaining the high wartime level of taxation in order to build up the public treasury
B)   favored a reduction of the high wartime level of taxation but mainly for the rich
C)   favored a reduction of the high wartime level of taxation but mainly for the poor and middle class
D)   persuaded Congress to drop the personal income tax instituted under Wilson
E)   supported the calling in of all loans to EuropeF) C) and D)
G) A) and B)

Question 13

Andrew Mellon was Harding's

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A)   secretary of the Treasury
B)   secretary of state
C)   secretary of war
D)   secretary of commerce
E)   attorney generalF) B) and C)
G) D) and E)

Question 14

Of all the causes of the stock market crash of October 1929, the greatest culprit was:

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A)   Hoover's tax policies
B)   the weak foundation of the 1920s economy
C)   international monetary policy
D)   unethical practices on Wall Street
E)   union influences on businessF) B) and E)
G) A) and C)

Question 15

Of the following presidents, which tied government and business closer together than at any other time in the twentieth century?

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A)   Warren Harding
B)   Calvin Coolidge
C)   Herbert Hoover
D)   Franklin Roosevelt
E)   Woodrow WilsonF) A) and D)
G) B) and E)

Question 16

David C. Stephenson:

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A)   was the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan
B)   was twice elected governor of Indiana
C)   was born into a family of sharecroppers
D)   supported the continuation of Prohibition
E)   was a graduate of the Naval AcademyF) B) and E)
G) A) and E)

Question 17

What did Warren G. Harding mean by "normalcy"? Is that a good term to describe the 1920s?

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Question 18

Part of the reason for the stock market crash was:

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A)   the high rate of deflation in the 1920s
B)   the tax policies of the 1920s that hurt the wealthy, who might otherwise have bought more stocks
C)   the buying of great amounts of stock on margin
D)   the low tariff, which allowed imports to corner several important American markets
E)   the remarkably poor returns on government bonds in 1929F) A) and D)
G) A) and C)

Question 19

Harding's secretary of the treasury, who pushed tax cuts for the wealthy, was:

Accepted Answer

A)   Herbert Hoover
B)   Calvin Coolidge
C)   Charles Evans Hughes
D)   Albert Fall
E)   Andrew MellonF) C) and D)
G) None of the above

Question 20

Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were:

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A)   convicted of bombing eight army supply trucks
B)   two Italian-born anarchists sentenced to death and executed even though there was doubt as to their guilt
C)   finally exonerated of the charges of payroll robbery and murder
D)   murdered by members of the Ku Klux Klan
E)   the New York Yankees' double-play combination during the 1920sF) A) and E)
G) A) and D)

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The "Ohio gang":

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The immigration quota laws passed in the 1920s:

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The Klan attracted all of the following groups EXCEPT:

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David C. Stephenson:

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MATCHING Match each description with the item below. -John W. Davis

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Of the following presidents, which tied government and business closer together than at any other time in the twentieth century?

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