Which quote by Calvin Coolidge best exemplifies the 1920s?

Which political party dominated the 1920s?

Which presidency from the 1920s is often associated with corruption?

Which member of Warren G. Harding's cabinet, also known as the "Ohio Gang", was convicted of a federal crime for taking bribes from oil companies in the Teapot Dome scandal?

What innovation in manufacturing spurred industrial growth in the 1920s?

The automobile industry became the backbone of the American economy during the 1920s, with automobile production tripling. Which three companies were known as the "big three"?

Which of the following are examples of new industries from the 1920s?

Which American industry moved to California shortly before World War I and became the world's leading producer in the 1920s?

Who was the most notable celebrity of the 1920s? He was the first man to fly nonstop from the U.S. to Europe.

What is the name of the group of authors, including Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald, who lived abroad during this period and wrote many classic works?

What is the name of the large-scale movement of African Americans from the South to industrialized northern cities (and to a lesser extent, western cities) slightly before and during the 1920s?

Which part of New York City became the cultural center of Black America?

Women experienced greater autonomy during the 1920s. Which group best exemplifies this?

Was wealth equally distributed during the 1920s?

What became the financial capital of the U.S., where large fortunes were made by selling and trading stocks?

During the 1920s, manufacturing began to move from New England to which region where labor was cheaper?

Which group of Americans experienced tough times during the 1920s as mechanization and low prices hurt their industry?

Which group, opposed to immigrants, Jews, and Catholics, reemerged in the 1920s?

Which famous trial from the 1920s best epitomizes the debate between Christian fundamentalists and progressive science-minded thinkers of the time?

What allowed Americans to purchase items they could otherwise not afford?

The following is a poem by Claude McKay: If we must die, let it be not like hogs. Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursed lot. If we must die, O let us nobly die, So that our precious blood may not be shed In vain; then even the monsters we defy Shall be constrained to honor us though dead! O kinsmen! we must meet the common foe! Though far outnumbered let us show us brave And for their thousand blows deal one deathblow! What though before us lies the open grave? Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!

In the context of the New Deal, what does NRA stand for?

Which President had a mediocre response to the Great Depression?

Franklin Delano Roosevelt's plan for economic recovery became known as the:

Which amendment repealed the prohibition on alcohol?

Which of the following is the best summary of the New Deal?

Crash Course categorizes New Deal programs into which three categories (3 R's)?

The first phase of the New Deal is often associated with:

This New Deal organization paid young people to build things such as National Parks.

This New Deal policy encouraged farmers to destroy some crops and subsidize others. It was later found unconstitutional.

This New Deal legislation prohibited commercial banks from buying and selling stocks.

This organization was designed for government planners and business leaders to work together in coordinating industry standards for production, prices, and working conditions.

This organization was formed during FDR's first hundred days to provide welfare payments to people in need.

Government intervention reached its highest point with this program, which built a series of dams to control floods, prevent deforestation, and provide cheap electric power to people in rural counties in seven southern states. However, it was controversial because it put the government in direct competition with private companies.

This controversial New Deal plan gave the government the power to try to raise farm prices by setting production quotas and paying farmers to plant less food and slaughter livestock.

Which two New Deal Programs were struck down as unconstitutional with the rulings of U.S. v. Butler and The Schechter Poultry Corp. v. U.S. "sick chicken" case?

The Supreme Court's ruling against some of FDR's New Deal programs led him to propose a law that would allow him to appoint new Supreme Court justices if sitting justices reached the age of 70 and failed to retire. This unpopular action was known as?

What is the period following FDR's first 100 days, during which the Supreme Court began to uphold the constitutionality of New Deal policies, known as?

Which of the following plans are often associated with the Second New Deal?

"Refusing to allow people to be paid less than a living wage preserves our own market. There is absolutely no use in producing anything if you gradually reduce the number of people able to buy even the cheapest products. The only way to preserve our markets is an adequate wage." The following quote is from which key individual from this period?

Which of the following best describes the strike method used by the United Auto Workers (UAW) for better working conditions during this period?

The Second New Deal Plan included unemployment insurance, aid to the disabled, aid to poor families with children, and retirement benefits. It was, and is, funded through payroll taxes rather than general revenue.

The Works Progress Administration (WPA) employed:

The popularity of FDR and his policies brought which minority into the Democratic party?

Did the New Deal end the Depression?

The Presidency of FDR and the New Deal made which two groups reliably Democratic voters since?

FDR's presidency and the New Deal shifted Americans' thinking forward, associating all government policy with which entity?

According to this episode, what events shaped Americans' opinion on foreign policy prior to WWII?

The period between World War I and World War II is often seen as an age of

Which of the following are examples of America not being as isolationist as some portray?

Which of Congress's actions reinforced the idea of American isolationism prior to WWII?

Which group, including many prominent Americans like Charles Lindbergh, encouraged America to remain neutral in European affairs?

In 1940, Congress allowed the U.S. to support the British War effort through which assistance program, provided that the British paid cash and transported the arms from the U.S. to the U.K.?

In 1941, for the first time in its history, the U.S. began what in preparation for war?

America became the "arsenal of democracy" with which act that authorized military aid to countries, promising to pay it back after the war?

What event fully pushed America into WWII?

Until 1944, which theater of WWII had more American servicemen deployed to it?

This disastrous event occurred when 78,000 American & Filipino troops surrendered to the Japanese early in the war.

This battle in 1942 prevented the Japanese from expanding into Australia.

Which battle in 1942 was a turning point in the Pacific theater?

Which of the following best describes the U.S. strategy in the Pacific?

Operation Torch, which involved the first fighting against Europeans in WWII by Americans, took place in:

During most of 1943 and 1944, where did the U.S. fight the Axis in the European theater?

On June 6th, 1944, D-Day, the Allies invaded which location?

The most notable U.S. war correspondent mentioned in this episode of Crash Course was?

Though the U.S. liberated Paris, some concentration camps, and participated in the final assault on Germany, which Allied power did the majority of fighting and dying in WWII?

What actions compelled the Japanese to unconditionally surrender?

What was the name of the secret project to develop an atomic bomb in the U.S.?

The U.S. dropped two atomic bombs on which two Japanese cities?

According to this episode, three arguments against dropping the atomic bombs were:

According to this episode, what was the most deadly innovation of WWII?

Is there a singular reason for the Great Depression?

Which of the following were factors for the Great Depression?

Are the Stock Market Crash and the Great Depression the same thing?

If there was one singular cause of the Great Depression, what was it according to this episode of Crash Course?

The series of bank failures in the U.S. led to _________. This event really started the Great Depression.

Which economist advocated for "pump-priming" or "deficit spending" to stimulate the economy?

What event did President Herbert Hoover place the blame on for the World Wide Great Depression?

Which tariff, aimed at protecting American manufacturing, let other nations place their own high tariffs on imports, essentially killing global trade?

How did many Americans feel about President Hoover's response to the Great Depression?

Which institution was not allowed by President Hoover to completely take over the situation of the Great Depression?

Which demographic was most affected by the Great Depression?

Who did President Hoover feel should step in and help those in need of relief?

Who took the famous photograph, "Migrant Mother"?

Which author wrote a series of books set during the Great Depression, including 'The Grapes of Wrath' and 'Of Mice & Men'?

What were the shantytowns for the homeless during the Great Depression known as?

This protest by WWI veterans was violently suppressed by the national guard, further damaging Herbert Hoover's reputation.

Which of the following best aligns with John's opening statements about the effects of World War II on the US?

What are examples of government intervention during World War II?

Which are the reasons that unemployment dropped from 14% in 1940 to 2% in 1943?

Government expenditures during the war were twice the amount they had been in the previous 250 years combined. Although a lot of this was financed with debt, much of the war was paid for with:

Which of the following best describes WWII's effect on big business?

Which region of the US became an industrial center due to the war?

Which region of the US was hit especially hard by WWII as many people moved to other regions of the US due to having only two major cities?

In order to prevent labor strife and keep the factories humming so that war production would not decrease, the government forced employers to recognize which labor group?

From a human history standpoint, one of the biggest changes is that many of the workers in those factories were:

Who was a symbol of women in the workforce?

Were many women able to keep their industrial jobs after the war was over?

Which are FDR's 'Four Freedoms'?

Though FDR's New Economic Bill of Rights was blocked by Southern Democrats, Congress did pass which bill to attempt to prevent widespread unemployment for returning soldiers?

How did WWII help reshape how Americans saw themselves?

Though WWII moved the US toward greater principles of equality, there was still a fear of minority groups, which contributed to race riots in Detroit and what series of riots against Mexicans in Los Angeles in 1943?

The war years saw a dramatic increase in immigration from Mexico under which program, lasting until 1964?

25 thousand of these Americans fought in WWII, although their reservations, being largely rural, didn't really share in the wartime prosperity.

Which ethnic group suffered from horrible racism and one of the worst violations of civil liberties in America's history during WWII?

Which Presidential order expelled all persons of Japanese descent from the west coast to internment camps where they lived in makeshift barracks under the eyes and searchlights of guards?

Which Japanese American appealed his conviction for failing to show up for internment all the way to the Supreme Court, where he lost in yet another horrendous Supreme Court decision?

Which group experienced the greatest change during WWII?

Which Presidential order banned discrimination in defense hiring and created the Fair Employment Practices Commission?

World War II saw a continuation of which demographic pattern that saw African Americans leave the South for industrial centers in the North & West?

Many African Americans saw themselves as engaged in which campaign for victory over the Axis powers abroad and over racism in the US?

Angered by discrimination in defense employment, which black labor leader threatened a march on Washington demanding access to defense jobs, an end to segregation, and a federal anti-lynching law?

After WWII, did the U.S. return to its policy of isolationism?

Which of the following meetings among the US, UK, and USSR planned for a more peaceful and prosperous post-war world, established the idea that Germany would be divided, Nazis tried for war crimes, and laid the foundation for the Cold War by allowing Soviet influence in Eastern Europe?

What conference in 1944 established America's economic dominance as the dollar (replacing the pound), and created the World Bank to help rebuild Europe and also to help developing countries and the IMF to stabilize currencies?

Following WWII, the US took the leading role in establishing which organization to ensure peace?

Which of these was MOST influenced by Keynesian economic thought?

Which fact is the BEST piece of supporting evidence that overproduction and falling prices was a cause of the Great Depression?

Where would you be MOST likely to find a sign like this one?

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a public works program run by the federal government during the Great Depression. How did the CCC show support for civil rights during the Depression?

Early Keynesian theorists developed the balanced budget multiplier, which suggests that an equal increase in government spending and tax revenue will boost aggregate demand by precisely the increase in the amount spent. How MIGHT governments fund programs in keeping with early Keynesian theorists?

By the start of 1929, more than half of the U.S. population was living below the poverty line. A major and immediate effect of this situation would be

In studying the Election Results map of 1932, it can be deduced that

Choose the three statements that CORRECTLY describe one of the causes of the Great Depression.

According to the provided image, what impact did the WPA program from the New Deal have on the lives of African Americans?

Hand in hand with this we must frankly recognize the overbalance of population in our industrial centers and, by engaging on a national scale in a redistribution, endeavor to provide a better use of the land for those best fitted for the land. The task can be helped by definite efforts to raise the values of agricultural products and with this the power to purchase the output of our cities. It can be helped by preventing realistically the tragedy of the growing loss through foreclosure of our small homes and our farms. - Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933 According to the passage, President Roosevelt believed that the American economy hinged on

1927 Last year of production for the Ford Model T. Sales dropped to 1/3 the 1926 level. Even at prices around $200 Ford couldn't maintain sales, and by this point consumers were buying 3- and 4-year old used cars rather than a T because they perceived the used cars as better value--with more features. By the time Ford shut down production of the Model T, the company had sold well over 15 million T's. In fact, the actual number produced was 15,458,781. Closing down production of the Model T meant 100,000 workers lost their jobs. Ford closed when sales flagged, then began the design and tooling changeover that produced the new Model A. - Excerpt from "The Automobile Technology 1920-1929" by Bryant University Based on the information provided, which statement BEST describes one cause of the Great Depression?

This advertisement is typical of the mass consumption and consumerism that emerged:

Which number represents the decade in which the "Stock Market Crash" took place, beginning the era of the Great Depression in the United States?

A million and a half workers took part in over two thousand strikes in 1934. What encouraged such strikes during the middle of the Great Depression?

This image would be of MOST interest to a student writing a research paper titled

During the 1920's, the supply of automobiles in the United States increased because of the introduction of the assembly line and mass production. Which is the BEST description of the effect that high supply had on the price of automobiles during this time period?

I am prepared under my constitutional duty to recommend the measures that a stricken Nation in the midst of a stricken world may require.... But in the event that the Congress shall fail to take one of these two courses, and in the event that the national emergency is still critical, I shall not evade the clear course of duty that will then confront me. I shall ask the Congress for the one remaining instrument to meet the crisis — broad Executive power to wage a war against the emergency, as great as the power that would be given to me if we were in fact invaded by a foreign foe. - March 4, 1933 This portion of President Franklin Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address hints at his plans that will

By 1920, both textile and agriculture faced growing economic problems due to

How did the demobilization that occurred following World War I affect the economy of the United States?

How did the end of World War I affect farmers in the United States?

At the end of 1918 and the start of the 1919, the United States experienced a recession. Which is the BEST explanation for this economic downturn?

In which way did the Works Progress Administration (WPA) illustrate the status of civil rights in the United States?

According to the chart, what was the average weekly rate for a female production worker in 1929?

The MOST LIKELY result of government programs to address the Great Depression in the United States was that

Which of these BEST describes how the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) had an effect on farmers in Alabama and other parts of the American South?

The increase in consumer spending during the 1920s was fueled in part by

During the 1920s, the prevailing attitude about the economy is BEST described as

How did union strikes contribute to rising racial tensions in the 1920s?

Why did the 1920s hurt the American labor movement?

Which group was helped the LEAST by Roosevelt's New Deal programs?

Which group was helped the LEAST by Roosevelt's New Deal programs?

What is the point of this cartoon from 1934?

This editorial cartoon from 1933 is of the opinion that

Which statement BEST describes the message of this political cartoon?

Which statement describes an effect of the Great Depression on city life?

Overproduction and underconsumption factored into causing the Great Depression by

Which of these BEST describes the political impact on migration during the Dust Bowl?

The rapid change in the percentage of unemployed people in the United States from 1927 to 1932 reflects changes caused by

What would BEST explain the increased totals for all cars made in the 1920s?

The "Dust Bowl" affected which area MOST?

"Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves." - Herbert Hoover This quote from President Hoover reflects his belief that

"After all there is an element in the readjustment of our financial system more important than currency, more important than gold, and that is the confidence of the people themselves. Confidence and courage are the essentials of success in carrying out our plan. You people must have faith; you must not be stampeded by rumors or guesses. Let us unite in banishing fear. We have provided the machinery to restore our financial system; and it is up to you to support and make it work. It is your problem, my friends, your problem no less than it is mine. Together we cannot fail." Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933 With this statement, President Roosevelt hoped to rally the spirits of U.S. citizens in their efforts to

Which of these was NOT a cause of the Great Depression?

One reason the Depression of 1929 was so severe in the United States was

Which of these was NOT a cause of the worldwide depression of 1920s and 1930s?

Which of these was an outcome of the Great Depression?

U.S. bank failures reached around 600 per year in the early 1930s because

Increased tariffs on imported goods in the 1920s resulted in

Which of these was the basic idea of the New Deal?

An obvious defect in the United States' banking system that was exposed during the Great Depression was

This cartoon would be MOST likely to have occurred:

"Sec.3. a. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, the President may...authorize the Secretary Of War... 1. To manufacture in arsenals, factories, and shipyards... any defense article for the government of any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States. 2. To sell, transfer title to, exchange, lease, lend, or otherwise dispose of, to any such government any defense article.... b. The terms and conditions upon which any such foreign government receives any aid authorized under subsection (a) shall be those which the President deems satisfactory, and the benefit to the United States may be payment or repayment in kind or property, or any other direct or indirect benefit which the President deems satisfactory." This law, passed in March of 1941, would have been MOST likely to directly result in which of these situations?

Why might have many U.S. Congressmen disliked Franklin D. Roosevelt's Quarantine Speech of 1937?

"When an epidemic of physical disease starts to spread, the community approves and joins in a quarantine of the patients in order to protect the health of the community against the spread of the disease. It is my determination to pursue a policy of peace. It is my determination to adopt every practicable measure to avoid involvement in war. It ought to be inconceivable that in this modern era, and in the face of experience, any nation could be so foolish and ruthless as to run the risk of plunging the whole world into war by invading and violating, in contravention of solemn treaties, the territory of other nations that have done them no real harm and are too weak to protect themselves adequately. Yet the peace of the world and the welfare and security of every nation, including our own, is today being threatened by that very thing." President Franklin Delano Roosevelt "Quarantine Speech" October 5, 1937 Why might have many U.S. Congressmen disliked Franklin D. Roosevelt's Quarantine Speech of 1937? Responses

This map shows an early proposal of post-war Japan, which would have been divided into zones of occupation much like post-war Germany. Which action had the BIGGEST impact on preventing the division of Japan seen in this proposal?

“The prodigious land, sea and air forces of the United States, the British Empire and of China, many times reinforced by their armies and air fleets from the west, are poised to strike the final blows upon Japan…. The full application of our military power, backed by our resolve, will mean the inevitable and complete destruction of the Japanese armed forces and just as inevitably the utter devastation of the Japanese homeland…. We call upon the government of Japan to proclaim now the unconditional surrender of all Japanese armed forces, and to provide proper and adequate assurances of their good faith in such action. The alternative for Japan is prompt and utter destruction.” - from “The Potsdam Declaration,” President Harry Truman, July 26, 1945 Which of these would, in the coming years, be an international effect of the ultimate result of President Truman’s words?

Which event would have FIRST caused the United States to begin reversing its Neutrality Acts in the early stages of World War II?

What event would have prompted the United States to start reversing its Neutrality Acts at the beginning of World War II?