EOC Review: The Poor's History

What was the significant impact of the Progressive Movement on American life?

• decreased influence of the media on public policy

• increased restrictions on presidential powers

• increased government regulation of business

• reduced government spending for social programs

Lyndon Johnson's Great Society program was aimed primarily at

• increasing the number of Americans who attended college

• spurring advances in American science and education

• provide minimum wage jobs for all unemployed Americans

• sending volunteers to poor foreign nations

President Roosevelt's response to Supreme Court decisions that declared several New Deal laws unconstitutional was to

• propose legislation to increase the size of the Supreme Court

• ignore the Court's rulings

• demand the resignation of several justices

• ask Congress to limit the Court's jurisdiction

A major effect of the National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act, 1935) was that labor unions

• were soon controlled by large corporations

• obtained the right to bargain collectively

• lost the right to strike

• experienced increasing difficulty in gaining new members

A main goal of the Granger Movement of the 1870s and 1880s was to

• strengthen labor unions

• improve living conditions in urban slums

• reduce the rate of inflation

• force the railroads to lower freight rates

The "supply side" economics of President Ronald Reagan and President George H. W. Bush favored

• raising tariffs to increase the number of imports

• providing incentives to stimulate business growth

• establishing government programs to provide jobs for the unemployed

• increasing federal taxes to support social welfare programs

Both the Sherman Anti-Trust Act and the Clayton Anti-Trust Act were passed in response to the problem of

• companies refusing to hire minority workers

• unsafe working conditions in factories

• big business limiting competition

• businesses choosing to hire illegal immigrants

In the early 1900s, muckrakers were able to influence American society mainly through their

• publication of articles and books

• control over factories

• activities as government officials

• frequent acts of civil disobedience

The New Deal tried to solve many problems of the Great Depression by

• lowering federal spending to maintain a balanced budget

• reducing taxes on big business to stimulate job creation

• providing federal aid to many sectors of the economy

• decreasing foreign competition by raising tariffs

What effect did overproduction have on farmers in the 1920s?

• farm prices rose because there was more to buy, thereby making farmers rich for a time

• farm production increased even more, and farmers prospered

• farm prices fell, causing farmers to struggle even prior to the Great Depression

• farmers had to rely on President Coolidge's price controls to survive