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| 341426642 | The most corrupt members of Harding's cabinet were the secretaries of state and the treasury. | False. The most corrupt members of Harding's cabinet were the secretary of the interior and the attorney general. | |
| 341426643 | The Republican administrations of the 1920s believed in strict enforcement of antitrust laws to maintain strong business competition. | False. The Republican administrations of the 1920s believed in loose enforcement of antitrust laws. | |
| 341426644 | The Republican administrations of the 1920s pursued an isolationist policy toward national security by engaging in a large military buildup. | False. The Republican administrations of the 1920s pursued an isolationist policy toward national security by engaging in a large military disarmament. | |
| 341426645 | The high tariff policies of the 1920s enhanced American prosperity but crippled international trade and Europe's economic recovery from World War I. | True | |
| 341426646 | Calvin Coolidge's image of honesty and thrift helped restore public confidence in the government after the Harding administration scandals. | True | |
| 341426647 | One sector of the American economy that did not share the prosperity of the 1920s was agriculture. | True | |
| 341426648 | The main sources of support for liberal third-party presidential candidate Robert La Follette in 1924 were urban workers and reformers. | True | |
| 341458793 | The main exception to America's isolationist foreign policy in the 1920s was continuing U.S. armed intervention in the Caribbean and Central America. | True | |
| 341458794 | Britain and France did not begin to repay their war debts to the United States until the Dawes Plan provided American loans to Germany. | True | |
| 341458795 | In the election of 1928, Democratic nominee Al Smith's urban, Catholic, and "wet" background cost him support from traditionally Democratic southern voters. | True | |
| 341458796 | The Hawley-Smoot Tariff strengthened the trend toward expanded international trade and economic cooperation. | False. The Hawley-Smoot Tariff strengthened the trend toward economic division. | |
| 341458797 | The American economic collapse set off by the Great Depression was the most severe suffered by any major industrial nation in the 1930s. | True | |
| 341458798 | The depression was caused partly by over-expansion of credit and excessive consumer debt. | True | |
| 341458799 | Throughout his term, Hoover consistently followed his belief that the federal government should play no role in providing economic relief and assisting the recovery from the depression. | False. Hoover provided public works projects like the Hoover Dam, but mostly kept out of providing economic relief. | |
| 341458800 | The Reconstruction Finance Corporation provided federal loans to business and governmental institutions but no aid to individuals. | True | |
| 341458801 | The United States strongly supported China against Japan in the Manchurian crisis even though it had greater economic interests in Japan. | False. The United States half-heartedly supported China against Japan because it had greater economic interests in China. | |
| 341458802 | As president, Warren G. Harding proved to be | d. weak-willed and tolerant of corruption among his friends. | |
| 341458803 | The general policy of the federal government toward industry in the early 1920s was | a. a weakening of federal regulation and encouragement of trade associations. | |
| 341458804 | Two groups who suffered severe political setbacks in the immediate post-World War I environment were | b. organized labor and blacks. | |
| 341458805 | Two terms that describe the Harding and Coolidge administrations' approach toward foreign policy are | c. isolationism and disarmament. | |
| 341458806 | The proposed ratio of "5-5-3" in the Washington Disarmament Conference of 1921-1922 referred to | c. the allowable ratio of battleships and carriers among the United States, Britain, and Japan. | |
| 341458807 | The very high tariff rates of the 1920s had the economic effect of | d. causing the Europeans to erect their own tariff barriers and thus reduce international trade. | |
| 341458808 | The central scandal of Teapot Dome involved members of Harding's Cabinet who | b. took bribes for leasing federal oil lands. | |
| 341458809 | The one major group that experienced hard economic times amidst the general prosperity of the 1920's was | b. farmers. | |
| 341458810 | The "farm bloc's" favorite solution to the severe drop in prices that caused farmers' economic suffering in the 1920s was | b. for the federal government to buy up agricultural surpluses at higher prices and sell them abroad. | |
| 341458811 | Besides deep divisions within the Democratic party, the elections of 1924 revealed | b. the weakness of pro-farmer and pro-labor Progressive reform. | |
| 341458812 | The international economic crisis caused by unpaid war reparations and loans was partially resolved by | a. private American bank loans to Germany. | |
| 341458813 | Al Smith's Roman Catholicism and opposition to prohibition hurt him especially | a. in the South. | |
| 341458814 | The election of Hoover over Smith in 1928 seemed to represent a victory of | d. big business and efficiency over urban and Catholic values. | |
| 341458815 | One important cause of the great stock-market crash of 1929 was | a. over-expansion of production and credit beyond the ability to pay for them. | |
| 341458816 | The sky-high Hawley-Smoot Tariff of 1930 had the economic effect of | c. crippling international trade and deepening the depression. | |
| 341458817 | The federal agency Hoover established to provide "pump-priming" loans to businesses was the | c. Reconstruction Finance Corporation. | |
| 341458818 | Poker-playing cronies from Harding's native state who contributed to the morally loose atmosphere in his administration | Ohio Gang | |
| 341472827 | Supreme Court ruling that removed workplace protection and invalidated a minimum wage for women | Adkins v. Children's Hospital | |
| 341472828 | World War I veterans' group that promoted patriotism and economic benefits for former servicemen | American Legion | |
| 341472829 | Agreement emerging from the Washington Disarmament Conference that reduced naval strength and established a ratio of warships among the major shipbuilding powers | Five-Power Naval Treaty | |
| 341472830 | Toothless international agreement of 1928 that pledged nations to outlaw war | Kellogg-Briand Pact | |
| 341472831 | Naval oil reserve in Wyoming that gave its name to one of the major Harding administration scandals | Teapot Dome | |
| 341472832 | Farm proposal of the 1920s, passed by Congress but vetoed by the president, that provided for the federal government to buy farm surpluses and sell them abroad | McNary-Haugen Bill | |
| 341472833 | American-sponsored arrangement for rescheduling German reparations payments that only temporarily eased the international debt tangle of the 1920s | Dawes Plan | |
| 341472834 | "Dry," Protestant southern Democrats who rebelled against their party's "wet," Catholic presidential nominee in 1928 and voted for the Republican candidate | Hoovercrats | |
| 341472835 | Sky-high tariff bill of 1930 that deepened the depression and caused international financial chaos | Hawley-Smoot Tariff | |
| 341472836 | The climactic day of the October 1929 Wall Street stock-market crash | Black Tuesday | |
| 341472837 | Depression shantytowns, named after the president whom many blamed for their financial distress | Hoovervilles | |
| 341472838 | Hoover-sponsored federal agency that provided loans to hard-pressed banks and businesses after 1932 | Reconstruction Finance Corporation | |
| 341472839 | Encampment of unemployed veterans who were driven out of Washington by General Douglas MacArthur's forces in 1932 | Bonus Expeditionary Force | |
| 341472840 | The Chinese province invaded and overrun by the Japanese army in 1932 | Manchuria | |
| 341472841 | Warren G. Harding | I. Weak-willed president whose easygoing ways led to widespread corruption in his administration | |
| 341472842 | Charles Evans Hughes | G. Strong-minded leader of Harding's cabinet and initiator of major naval agreements | |
| 341472843 | Andrew Mellon | H. Wealthy industrialist and conservative secretary of the treasury in the 1920s | |
| 341472844 | Henry Sinclair | M. Wealthy oilman who bribed cabinet officials in the Teapot Dome scandal | |
| 341472845 | Fordney-McCumber Tariff | E. Law that promoted American economic isolationism of the 1920's | |
| 341472846 | Albert B. Fall | D. Harding's interior secretary, convicted of taking bribes for leases on federal oil reserves | |
| 341472847 | Harry Daugherty | F. Attorney general and a member of Harding's corrupt "Ohio Gang" who resigned due to administration scandals | |
| 341472848 | Calvin Coolidge | O. Tight-lipped Vermonter who promoted frugality and pro-business policies during his presidency | |
| 341472849 | Robert La Follette | L. Leader of a liberal third-party insurgency who attracted little support outside the farm belt | |
| 341472850 | Herbert Hoover | K. Secretary of commerce through much of the 1920s whose reputation for economic genius became a casualty of the Great Depression | |
| 341472851 | Al Smith | C. "Happy Warrior" who attracted votes in the cities but lost them in the South | |
| 341472852 | Black Tuesday | A. The worst single event of the great stock market crash of 1929 | |
| 341472853 | Charles Dawes | B. Negotiator of a plan to reschedule German reparations payments and Coolidge's vice president after 1925 | |
| 341472854 | Douglas MacArthur | N. Commander of the troops who force- fully ousted the "army" of unemployed veterans from Washington in 1932 | |
| 341472855 | Henry Stimson | J. Hoover's secretary of state, who sought sanctions against Japan for its aggression in Manchuria | |
| 341472856 | Republicans pro-business policies | B. Weakened labor unions and prevented the enforcement of progressive antitrust legislation | |
| 341472857 | American concern about the arms race and the danger of war | E. Led to the successful Washington Disarmament Conference and the Five Power Naval Agreement of 1922 | |
| 341472858 | The high-tariff Fordney-McCumber Law of 1922 | I. Sustained American prosperity but pushed Europe into economic protectionism and turmoil | |
| 341472859 | The loose moral atmosphere of Harding's Washington | F. Encourage numerous federal officials to engage in corrupt dealings | |
| 341472860 | The improved farm efficiency and production of the 1920s | D. Drove crop prices down and created a rural economic depression | |
| 341472861 | America's demand for complete repayment of the Allies' war debt | J. Aroused Britain's and France's anger and toughened their demands for German war reparations | |
| 341472862 | Hoover's media campaign and Smith's political liabilities | A. Led to a Republican landslide in the election of 1928 | |
| 341472863 | The stock-market crash | C. Plunged the United States into its worst economic depression | |
| 341472864 | Domestic over-expansion of production and dried-up international trade | G. Helped cause the stock-market crash and deepen the Great Depression | |
| 341472865 | Hoover's limited efforts at federally sponsored relief and recovery | H. Failed to end the depression but did prevent more serious economic suffering |
