Dr. Carter's Courses
  • Home
  • ABOUT
  • CONTACT
  • COURSES

assignment  3--us  history  since  1877

Assignment 3

1.      _____  In his 1925 trial in Dayton, Tennessee, John T. Scopes was found innocent.

2.     _____   The Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s was mainly a southern rural organization.

3.     _____  The Roaring Twenties pitted a cosmopolitan urban American against the values of an insular, rural America.

4.     _____  Prohibition outlawed the consumption of alcoholic drinks. 

5.     _____   Jazz music inspired rural youth to remember their culture’s musical roots.

6.     _____   During the 1920s, the ideas of scientists about the nature of the universe inspired modernist artists to try new techniques.

7.     _____   Sacco and Vanzetti were advocates of surrealism in art. 

8.     _____   Teapot Dome was the major issue in the 1920 election. 

9.     _____   The Catholic, "wet" candidate for president in 1928 was Alfred E. Smith, a Democrat. 

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

11.   _____  The best example of mass production was the motion picture industry. 

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

13.  _____  Excessively high wages for labor in the 1920s helped cause the stock market crash in 1929. 

14.  _____  Most of the Dust Bowl migrants to California, known as Oakies, came from Oklahoma.

15.  _____  The first crisis facing FDR as president involved the nation’s banks. 

16.  _____  The AAA required farmers to donate surplus crops and livestock to feed the poor.

17.  _____  The CCC addressed the problem of overcharging by doctors and other in the medical and health professions.

18.  _____  The "Hundred Days" refers to the long waiting period between FDR’s election and his inauguration. 

19.  _____  The Wagner Act passed in 1935 gave workers the right to organize unions. 

20. _____  Franklin D. Roosevelt called the Social Security Act the most significant achievement of the New Deal.

Extra Credit Questions:  Each question is worth one extra credit point.

A.     _____  The Culture of modernism viewed reality as something to be created.

B.     _____  The Hawley-Smoot Tariff raised import duties to an all-time high.

C.     _____  By the end of the 1930s, FDR’s New Deal had pushed the country a long way toward socialism.

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.