US - New Deal

What was the objective of the U.S. policy of isolationism?

• Stay out of conflicts and grow economy

• Intervene actively in foreign conflicts

• Keep foreigners out of the U.S.

• Spread religion to end degeneracy

How did the Teapot Dome Scandal mirror the end of Reconstruction?

• Angry Southerners ended desegregation efforts

• Oil production declined leading to a crisis

• Pres. Harding got stuck in an oil corruption scandal

• Proved democracy was not able to be fair

What was the key policy platform that unified women's rights and religious groups

• Flappers, ensuring equal rights in public spaces

• Isolationism, keep out threat to women and religion

• Prohibition, ending sale of alcohol

• Scopes Trial, challenging theories of evolution

How did Charles A. Lindbergh embody the hopes of the 1920s?

• First trans-Atlantic solo flight, showing new technology

• Created series of poems expressing belief in equal rights

• Invented an airplane able to travel faster than before

• Lead to political solutions that helped solve the Great Depression

Which best defines the impact of the Harlem Renaissance on U.S. society?

• Lead to violent black nationalism and race riots

• Showed progress & development of the black community

• Ended segregation in public spaces across the South

• Started the Great Depression as folks could not pay their loans

How did "buying-on-margin" set the stage for the Depression?

• Investors took out loans to buy stock, over inflating the market price

• Business men build too many factories leading to overproduction

• Agricultural overproduction lead to a crash in food prices

• Too many people attempted to withdraw money from banks at the same time

October 29, 1929 was called Black Tuesday because...

• The stock market crashed in value

• The U.S. was attacked by the Japanese

• Prohibition began, ending the sale of alcohol

• The Dust Bowl began, destroying farms in the U.S.

The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act attempted to end the Depression by...

• Raising taxes on foreign imports of goods

• Creating new programs to employ workers

• Creating Social Security to take care of the elderly

• Promising that every man would have a house and a car

The Dust Bowl impacted Mid-Western farmers by...

• further decreasing crop prices until farmers could not pay back their loans

• banks seizing farms in order to pay their clients attempting to withdraw money from their accounts

• having land dry up due to drought and the soil blown away

• the bootleggers taking property as safe-houses to supply alcohol for speakeasies

Hoover followed Laissez Faire economics, leading to what solution to the Depression?

• Autarky; ban the import of all foreign goods

• The Great Society; massive social spending to improve lives

• The New Deal; create new programs to help the unemployed

• Do nothing; let the economy recover on its own