APUSH Chapter 32

which of the following information on the Fordney-McCumber act is false?

• U.S high tariffs encouraged Europe to have high tariffs

• This act was supported by replublicans

• This act raised tariffs 38.5%

• This act was part of the "New Deal"

What was the teapot scandal?

• scandal involving the Minnesota teapot factory and its employees

• The secret leasing of federal oil reserves

• an oil company extracting oil parasitically from another companies reserve

• an administration breaks into a room and steals secret documents to give them an advantage in the election

What group didn't prosper in this period

• The farmers

• Th bankers

• The stock brokers

• The average joe

why didn't farmers prosper during this period

• organic food wasn't as desirable as the new processed better tasting products started to make an apearence

• WWI ended, meaning the mass production of crops wasn't needed and over production started

• Less land was owned by small farmers and increasing amounts owned by corporation

• Major drought called the "drought of 1920's" started and food was scarce

What was the Capper-Volstead act

• Exempt labor unions from antitrust prosecution

• Exempt farmers from antitrust prosecution

• Exempt bankers from antitrust prosecution

• Exempt big business from antitrust prosecution

The Hawley-Smoot Tariff was...

• designed to help bankers

• the highest tariff during peace time in american history

• put high taxes on imported textiles

• designed to help the average joe

What year was the stock market crash

• 1928

• 1932

• 1933

• 1927

What was the highest unemployment rose to during the great depression?

• 25%

• 29%

• 40%

• 70%

Which was not a cause of the Depression?

• Overexpansion of credit

• Uneven distribution of wealth

• Overproduction of food and goods

• The debt of ww1

What was the Bonus army

• A group of veterans wanting their war bonus from hoover

• veterinarians doing work for free demand for their paychecks

• The kellogg company promised a yearly bonus to its workers that was never received

• The big money corporations wouldn't give yearly bonuses to their employees