1920s and Great Depression

The Harlem Renaissance can best be described as a period in which

• A wide audience was exposed to blues music

• Poets and novelists wrote about opposing WWI

• White as well as black audiences became interested in African American literature, art and music.

• The Concept of the “New Negro” inspired people to urge the government to support isolationism

The case of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti in the 1920s best illustrated

• America’s “Return to Normalcy.”

• the reckless vigilante spirit that existed in the Southern states.

• a fear of teaching evolution in public schools.

• the lack of compassion toward immigrant due to the Red Scare.

During the 1920s, a significant factor in the growth of cities was

• the migration of African-Americans from the rural South.

• immigration from western and northern Europe.

• improvement in the interstate highway system.

• the growth of intra-urban commuter transportation.

Participation in WWI transformed the United States in the 1920’s in all of the following ways EXCEPT:

• The US was the richest most developed country in the world

• Mass production of consumer goods

• New forms of entertainment

• Social programs to aid the poor

The era of Prohibition in the 1920s created each of the following, EXCEPT:

• A general breakdown of change in the moral attitudes of Americans.

• An increase in the number of gangsters and bootleggers.

• Strong support for repeal of Prohibition throughout the South.

• An awareness of the weakness of the federal government in controlling private

President Roosevelt’s attempt to restructure the Supreme Court in 1937

• Passed overwhelmingly in Congress

• Resulted in an overturning of all his New Deal programs

• Cost him in political power in Congress and his own party

• Shifted the balance of power to the court

When the Great Depression hit, what action did President Hoover take to deal with it?

• He began a massive program of deficit spending to pump money into the economy and create thousands of public works jobs for the unemployed.

• He began a program of strict regulation of banks and industry to insure that the abuses which caused the depression could never again happen.

• He borrowed money from Europe to finance our national debt and get U.S. industry back on its feet again.

• He took no meaningful actions until it was too late, believing that private enterprise would pull the country out of the depression.

The following were all causes of the Great Depression EXCEPT:

• The election of Franklin D Roosevelt

• Overproduction of goods

• Uneven distribution of wealth

• The Stock Market Crash of 1929

The most important difference between the policies toward relief for the unemployed in the administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover was that Roosevelt supported

• state and local assistance programs.

• private and religious assistance programs.

• business sponsored work relief programs.

• federally sponsored work relief programs.

In order to deal with the crisis in banking at the time of his inauguration, Franklin Roosevelt

• drastically curtailed government spending and cut taxes.

• declared a four-day “banking holiday” and prohibited the export of money.

• announced a multi-billion-dollar federal bailout package.

• announced the nationalization of all banks with over $100 million in total assets.