FREE U.S. HISTORY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT A.P.U.S.H.

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FREE U.S. HISTORY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT A.P.U.S.H.

CH. 27 EXAM QUESTIONS

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Question 1: How did the Harding administration regulate the large corporations?

Answer:

The Harding administration did not dissolve the regulatory agencies, but they named commissioners to promote friendly regulation, conservatives to the ICC, FRB, and FTC, in order to nullify the federal regulation of large corporations.

Question 2: What was President Calvin Coolidge's perspective on business?

Answer:

Coolidge focused on industrial development, tried to end government regulation of business and industry, reduced taxes and the national debt.

Question 3: What were Hoover blankets?

Answer:

The newspapers that homeless people wrapped around themselves during the winter and had cynically named after Hoover.

Question 4: What was "open shop"?

Answer:

The theory that implied employers could hire anyone, which resulted in employers discriminating against unionites and refusing to recognize unions.

Question 5: What were the warning signs of the Great Depression?

Answer:

Brokers' loans more than doubled from 1927 to 1929, residential and automobile sales were catching up to the demand, business inventories had risen, and consumer spending, production, employment, and other measures of economic activity had decreased.

Question 6: Why did the Progressive movement fragment by 1920?

Answer:

People were upset about the U.S.'s involvement in WWI, Wilson's unsympathetic response to the labor strikes of 1919-20, the discrimination farmers had faced as a result of the wartime price controls, the religious fundamentalism and Prohibition movements.

Question 7: What was the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921?

Answer:

The congressional legislature that created a new Bureau of the Budget to prepare a unified federal budget and a General Accounting Office to audit the accounts, thus realizing the Progressive goal to bring efficiency and nonpartisanship.

Question 8: What were the results of the McNary-Haugen bill?

Answer:

The bill promoted debates regarding the farm problem as a national problem, and it revived the idea of a political alliance between the South and the West.

Question 9: What did President Herbert Hoover do to help gutted markets?

Answer:

Hoover provided federal help for cooperative marketing and implemented higher tariffs on imported farm products.Question 10: What sparked the economic downturn associated with the Great Depression?

Answer:

Stock prices wavered on September 4th, and the stock market collapsed on October 29th.

Question 11: What happened to the agricultural industry?

Answer:

The farmers prospered as a result of WWI because they had to feed the Europeans; however, after the war they continued to overproduce, lowering prices, and throwing the South into an early depression.

Question 12: What was the Air Commerce Act of 1926?

Answer:

The legislature that provided federal funds to aid the advancement of air transportation and navigation, including the construction of airports.Question 13: What did Chief Justice William Howard Taft do against Progressivism?

Answer:

Taft struck down the federal child-labor law, minimum-wage law for women, issued injunctions against striking labor unions, and limited the powers of federal regulatory agencies.

Question 14: What was Calvin Coolidge like?

Answer:

Coolidge believed problems could be solved through passivity, like the Gilded Age, had strong principles, was simple, direct, conservative, and an advocate for business.

Question 15: What were the results of the Gastonia Strike of 1929?

Answer:

The strikers were convicted of conspiracy for the murder of the police chief, the shooter of the labor-organizer was found not guilty, the strike collapsed in 1929 because the NTWU could not feed the strikers, and the workers had gone back to work.

Question 16: What was associationalism?

Answer:

The principle Herbert Hoover invented, which was also called cooperative individualism and prescribed a middle way between regulatory and trustbusting traditions to promote voluntary cooperation among businesses.

Question 17: What happened to the Democratic party during the 1924 election?

Answer:

The Democrats nominated John W. Davis, a Wall Street lawyer from West Virginia, who was more conservative than Coolidge, but their party was suffering from divisions.

Question 18: Who was Henry Ford?

Answer:

The expander of the automobile industry and the founder of the Ford Motor Company in 1903.

Question 19: What was the National Textile Workers Union?

Answer:

The Communist rival of the United Textile Workers, who supported communism, and racial equality.

Question 20: What was the Volstead Act?

Answer:

The legislature that provided for the enforcement of Prohibition.

Question 21: What was industrial democracy?

Answer:

A means employed by company owners to prevent workers from unionizing that involved welfare capitalism, profit sharing, bonuses, pensions, healthcare, and recreational programs.

Question 22: What was Hoover's response to the Great Depression?

Answer:

He retained limited government action, advocated for national confidence, owners to maintain businesses, government construction projects, enacted an easier credit policy, reduced taxes, and increased the loans and purchases of the Farm Board.

Question 23: What prompted the Gastonia Strike of 1929?

Answer:

The largest textile mill in the South, the Loray Mill, slashed the workforce, lengthened the hours, and decreased the wages, so the NTWU encouraged them to strike.

Question 24: Who were the Democratic candidates for the 1920 election?

Answer:

The Democrats nominated James Cox, a newspaper publisher and governor of Ohio, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the assistant secretary of the navy.