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.
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.
