Chapter 26 DC History

With the Republicans in control of the federal government, progressivism disappeared in the 1920s.

False

Herbert Hoover served as secretary of state.

False

As president, Warren G. Harding was actually more progressive than Woodrow Wilson in his attitudes and policies toward African Americans and Jews.

True

The Kellogg-Briand Treaty endorsed future wars.

False

The biggest scandal under President Hoover was the Teapot Dome affair of 1930.

False

While Warren G. Harding presided over what can be argued as the most corrupt administration in American history, he was never personally linked to any official wrongdoing.

True

Warren G. Harding was shot by the assassin Charles Guiteau.

False

According to Calvin Coolidge, the president should passively defer to Congress.

True

Calvin Coolidge was notorious for his love of whiskey, poker, and women.

False

Robert M. La Follette said, "The chief business of the American people is business."

False

The McNary-Haugen bill passed both houses of Congress in 1927, only to be vetoed by President Coolidge.

True

"Parity," as used in this chapter, refers to farm prices.

True

William Green, founder and longtime president of the American Federation of Labor (AFL), died in 1924.

False

The Hawley-Smoot Tariff raised import duties to an all-time high.

True

In the 1920s many investors bought stocks on margin, that is, with borrowed funds.

True

One major cause of the Depression was that workers’ wages were too high.

False

Herbert Hoover refused to involve the government in efforts to relieve the effects of economic depression.

False

Although Herbert Hoover strictly resisted giving federal assistance directly to individuals, he did actively pursue avenues intended to put the nation’s economy on the path of recovery.

True

The Bonus Expeditionary Force was organized to secure the United States-Mexico border.

False

The progressive coalition that elected Woodrow Wilson president dissolved by 1920 for all the following reasons EXCEPT:

many of the progressive reforms still seemed unattainable

In his 1920 campaign for president, Warren G. Harding said the country needed a return to:

normalcy

The result in the presidential election of 1920 might be attributed to:

the fact that Americans in the 1920s were "tired of issues, sick at heart of ideals, and weary of being noble"

Which of the following was NOT a part of Warren G. Harding’s presidency?

supporting progressive legislation

The Budget and Accounting Act of 1921:

formed a new Bureau of the Budget to streamline the process of preparing an annual federal budget

Harding’s secretary of the Treasury:

favored a reduction of the high wartime level of taxation, but mainly for the rich

Harding’s secretary of the Treasury, who pushed tax cuts for the wealthy, was:

Andrew Mellon

On the issue of regulating big business, President Harding:

named conservative advocates of big business to head the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Federal Trade Commission

The biggest scandal of the Harding administration:

involved the leasing of government-owned oil deposits to private companies

In the 1924 presidential election:

the Democratic candidate almost upset the Republican candidate

John W. Davis:

was the Democratic presidential candidate in 1924

Robert M. La Follette’s 1924 presidential campaign:

is correctly represented by all of the above statements

During World War I, Franklin Delano Roosevelt served as:

assistant secretary of the navy

Who created the Federal Radio Commission?

Herbert Hoover

In the 1920s, farm prices:

fell sharply

As secretary of commerce under Coolidge, Herbert Hoover’s priority was the trade-association movement, about which all of the following are true EXCEPT:

it successfully blocked all monopolistic practices

Which of the following is NOT true of the McNary-Haugen Plan?

It was supported by Coolidge as a way to empower farmers.

The McNary-Haugen bill:

called for crops to be sold on the world market to raise domestic prices

In the 1920s, labor unions:

lost about 1.5 million members

In the 1928 presidential election, the Democrats nominated:

Alfred E. Smith

In 1928, Democratic presidential nominee Alfred E. Smith was hurt by the fact that he was a(n):

New Yorker and a Roman Catholic

Part of the reason for the stock market crash was the:

buying of great amounts of stock on margin

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

Policy makers moved away from the gold standard.

The tariff policy of the early 1920s:

made it harder for other nations to sell to the United States

Hoover’s early efforts to end the Depression included:

asking businessmen to maintain wages and avoid layoffs, in order to keep purchasing power strong

In the election of 1930:

Democrats won a majority in the House of Representatives

The Reconstruction Finance Corporation:

offered emergency loans to banks, farm mortgage associations, building and loan societies, and other such businesses

The Federal Emergency Relief Act:

avoided a direct dole to individuals

At the end of 1928, President-elect Herbert Hoover sought to demonstrate his activist bent by:

touring ten Latin American nations

Just before his presidency in 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt was serving as:

governor of New York

Franklin D. Roosevelt:

was permanently disabled after contracting polio

Calvin Coolidge

was the Republican vice-presidential candidate in 1920

Warren G. Harding

died in 1923

Albert Fall

was secretary of the interior

Herbert Hoover

endorsed the trade-association movement

Andrew Mellon

was secretary of the Treasury

Alfred E. Smith

was the Democratic presidential candidate in 1928

William H. Taft

was a Supreme Court chief justice