US History Fall Final Exam Review #2

The stock market took its steepest dive on October 29, 1929, the day known as

• Red Thursday

• Black Tuesday

• Black Friday

• Bloody Sunday

Which of the following best completes this graphic organizer?

• Increase in consumer spending

• Over speculation in the stock market

• Decrease in military spending

• Government subsidization of agriculture

"Selling" WWI to the American people was the task of

• J. Edgar Hoover

• The War Industries Board

• The Committee on Public Information

• The War Propaganda Board

Henry Ford's system for making cars increased efficiency by

• assigning a team to each car

• dividing operations into simple tasks

• reducing the number of parts needed

• training each worker to perform every task

Who began the first modern research laboratory, resulting in many new inventions, including the battery and the motion picture?

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Edwin Drake

• George Pullman

• Thomas Alva Edison

What law prevented Chinese immigrants already in the United States from becoming citizens?

• Workingmen's Act

• Chinese Immigration Act

• Taiping Act

• Chinese Exclusion Act

People using the phrase "Pikes Peak or Bust!" were

• cattle ranchers

• dry farmers

• gold miners

• mountain climbers

Which of the following was a defining characteristic of the United States during the 1930s?

• A sharp increase in the power given to state governments

• An extended period of economic depression

• The adoption of an interventionist foreign policy

• The formation of a national Civil Rights movement

The Homestead Act gave land to homesteaders if they __________ for five years.

• cut down trees

• lived on it

• fenced it off

• planted crops on it

Which of these resulted from the prohibition of alcohol during the 1920s?

• A decline in immigration rates

• A growing fear of communism

• The expansion of the consumer economy

• The rise of organized crime