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Chapter 27
Republican Resurgence and Decline
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07/25/2013

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Calvin Coolidge...
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was the Republican vice-presidential candidate in 1920.
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Robert F. Wagner...
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was critical of Hoover's "trickle-down" theory.
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Warren G. Harding...
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died in 1923.
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Albert Fall...
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was secretary of the interior.
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Herbert Hoover...
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endorsed the trade-association movement.
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Robert M. La Follete...
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was the Progressive party presidential candidate in 1924.
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Douglas MacArthur...
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cleared out "rioting" veterans from Washington in summer of 1932.
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Andrew Mellon...
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was secretary of the Treasury.
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Alfred E. Smith...
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was the Democratic presidential candidate in 1928.
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William H. Taft...
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was a Supreme Court chief justice.
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T/F: With the Republicans in control of the federal government, progressivism disappeared in the 1920s.
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False
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T/F: Calvin Coolidge was notorious for his love of whiskey, poker, and women.
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False
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T/F: The biggest scandal under President Hoover was the Teapot Dome affair of 1930.
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False
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T/F: 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.
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True
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T/F: As president, Warren G. Harding was actually more progressive than Woodrow Wilson in his attitudes and policies toward African Americans and Jews.
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True
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T/F: Warren G. Harding was shot by the assassin Charles Guiteau.
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False
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T/F: According to Calvin Coolidge, the president should passively defer to Congress.
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True
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T/F: Robert M. La Follete said, "The chief business of the American people is business."
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False
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T/F: The federal government refused to assist the young aircraft industry in the 1920s.
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False
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T/F: By the mid-1920s, most Americans still could not afford to buy a Model T Ford.
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False
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T/F: One of the most important results of the automobile age was the discovery of California and Florida by American families.
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True
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T/F: "Parity," as used in this chapter, refers to farm prices.
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True
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T/F: The Hawley-Smoot Tariff raised import duties to an all-time high.
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True
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T/F: In the 1920s many investors bought stocks on margin, that is, with borrowed funds.
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True
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T/F: One major cause of the Depression was that workers' wages were too high.
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False
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T/F: Herbert Hoover refused to involve the government in efforts to relieve the effects of economic depression.
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False
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T/F: Politically, Democrats suffered most from the stock market crash and the beginning of the Depression.
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False
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T/F: 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.
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True
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T/F: The Bonus Expeditionary Force was organized to secure the United States- Mexico Border.
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False
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The result in the presidential election of 1920 might be attributed to:
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the fact that Americans in the 1920s were "tired of issues, sick at heart of ideals, and weary of being noble."
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The Ohio gang:
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was a group of President Harding's friends who were named to political office.
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The biggest scandal of the Harding administration:
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involved the leasing of government-owned oil deposits to private companies.
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Despite the many well founded criticisms of Warren G. Harding as president, he was a visionary for his era in the field of:
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civil rights
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Harding's administration is most remembered for:
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the scandals that plagued it.
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In the 1924 presidential election:
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Calvin Coolidge swept both the popular and electoral votes by decisive majorities.
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Coolidge's administration was marked by:
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prosperity
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The growing consumerism of the 1920s manifested itself in all of the following ways EXCEPT:
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passenger rail service.`
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In the 1920s home entertainment was bolstered by the spectacular growth of:
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radio
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The rise of the automobile:
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was aided by Henry Ford's mass production innovations.
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Charles Lindbergh Jr. became immensely popular in the 1920s due to:
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his solo flight across the Atlantic.
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As secretary of commerce, Herbert Hoover:
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supported the trade-association movement
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In the 1920s farm prices:
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fell sharply
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As secretary of commerce under Coolidge, Herbert Hoover's priority was the trade-association movement, it gave business leaders an opportunity to share information among themselves, it allowed businessman to more accurately foresee developments, it allowed price fixing among companies, and it was upheld by the Supreme Court in 1925 EXCEPT:
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it successfully blocked all monopolistic practices.
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The McNary-Haugen bill:
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called for dumping surplus crops on the world to raise domestic prices.
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In the 1920s labor unions:
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lost about 1.5 million members.
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In the 1928 presidential election, the Democrats nominated:
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Alfred E. Smith
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Democratic presidential nominee Alfred E. Smith was hurt in 1928 by the fact that he was:
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a New Yorker and a Catholic.
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Of all the causes of the stock market crash of October 1929, the greatest culprit was:
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the weak foundation of the 1920s economy.
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Part of the reason for the stock market crash was:
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the buying of great amounts of stock on margin.
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Herbert Hoover, while attempting to shore up the economy through economic policy considered:
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confidence to be the thing Americans needed most at the time.
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Hoover's early efforts to end the Depression included:
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asking businessmen to maintain wages and avoid layoffs, in order to keep purchasing power strong.
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The Reconstruction Finance Corporation:
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offered emergency loans to banks, farm mortgage associations, building and loan societies, and other such businesses.
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The Federal Emergency Relief Act:
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avoided a direct dole to individuals.
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The Bonus Expeditionary Force:
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marched on Washington in an attempt to get immediate payment of a veterans' bonus that Congress had voted in 1924.
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In response to the Bonus Army marchers, Herbert Hoover:
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sent the U.S. Army to evict them from their Hooverville.
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