Unit 7 (Review for quiz)

Which amendment had the greatest impact on women during the 1920's?

• 16th

• 17th

• 18th

• 19th

The Scopes Trial resulted over ___.

• immigration policies

• prohibition laws

• Darwin's Theory

• tax increases

Open immigration up the 1920s resulted in the Red Scare, and another outcome was the rise of the new –

• Ku Klux Klan

• Rough Riders

• robber barons

• fundamentalists

One cause of the stock market crash was excessive investments made with borrowed money was called –

• tariffs

• overspeculation

• levies

• price quotas

Which was designed to protect American farmers and manufacturers from foreign competition, but restricted world trade?

• high tariffs

• income taxes

• surpluses

• using credit

In 1935, which provided a retirement pension while establishing other safeguards for workers?

• Social Security Act

• Federal Emergency Relief Administration

• Hawley Smoot Act

• Wagner Act

What does the term "kitchen cabinet" refer to in the context of Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency?

• Formal legislative body overseeing kitchen affairs
• Official government agency regulating kitchen standards
• Advisors composed entirely of African Americans who advised FDR on civil rights and other issues.

• Secret compartment in the White House storing kitchen supplies

Recovery programs were designed to work over time. In an attempt to stimulate recovery, which sought to reduce crop surpluses by paying farmers to cut production?

• Agricultural Adjustment Administration
  (AAA)

• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
  (FDIC)

• Civilian

  Conservation Corps
  (CCC)

• Works Progress Administration
  (WPA)

What is the primary function of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)?
(Established under Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal).

• To regulate the stock market
• To provide loans to small businesses
• To insure deposits in banks, thus preventing bank failures.

• To oversee international trade agreements

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was considered to be a --

• pre-war group of advisors

• relief measure

• tax program

• protection for investments