american history 1930's test
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- This president was shy, honest, and frugal
- Coolidge
- FDIC
- Federal Deposit INsurance Corp.
- He wrote the Sun Also Rises
- Ernest Hemingway
- His plan was "Share the Wealth" and "Make Every Man a King"
- Long
- This first cabinet member to go to jail
- Albert B. Fall
- His campaign slogan was "return to normalcy"
- Harding
- The groups of people discriminated against by the quota system
- Southern and Eastern Europeans
- The reason Japan left the League of Nations
- League tried to get them out of Manchuria, and instead, they just left the League
- As Secretary of Treasury, his policies lowered the national debt
- Mellon
- FERA
- Federal Emergency Relief Act
- He is best known for his efforts to promote efficiency
- Frederic Taylor
- Central character in The Man Nobody Knows
- Jesus Christ
- Wrote Great Gatsby
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- He failed to "pack" the court
- FDR
- CWA
- Civil Works Administration
- He was known as the "father of progressive education"
- John Dewey
- CCC
- Civilian Conservation Corps
- wrote Gone with the Wind
- Margaret Mitchell
- Organization that attacked New Deal and campaigned against FDR in 1936
- American Liberty League
- Radio talk show host hat promoted "social justice"
- Father Coughlin
- This president's handling of the Bonus Army hurt his public image
- Hoover
- This president has a mediocre mind, difficulty detecting moral weakness and an unwillingness to say "no" to associates/friends
- Harding
- first public enemy #1
- John Dillinger
- The nonbusiness froup that realized the most lasting gains from WWI
- Labor Unions
- Founder of the United Negro Improvement Association
- Marcus Garby
- EBRA
- Emergency Banking Relief Act
- Wrong Main Street
- Sinclar Lewis
- Critic who supported pensions for the elderly
- Townshend
- KKK's position on prohibition
- For
- 38% tariff rates
- Fordney-McCumber Tariff
- 60% increase in tariff rates
- Hawley-Smoot Tariff
- Major problem facing farmers in the 1920s
- Over-production
- Established to make loans to businesses, banks, and state/local gov'ts
- RFC- Reconstruction Finance Corp.
- He believe that the Depression would come to an end if people maintained faith in the American industrial system
- Hoover
- The reason France and Great Britain insisterd that Germany paid its debts
- Us insists it be repaid
- The most urgent prblem facing FDR when he took office in 1933
- Banking Situation
- The New Deal agency created to deal with the major problem facing farmers
- AAA- Agricultural Adjustment Act
- The agency helped move Dust Bowl victims to better land
- Resettlement Administration
- Aimed at insuring that investors received accurate information regarding stocks
- Federal Security Act
- The amendment which ended prohibiton
- 21st
- The New Deal agency responsible for the contruction of the Lincoln Tunnel, Triborough Bridge, and Bonneville dams
- WPA- Work Progress Administration
- Its first chief was Joseph P. Kennedy
- SEC- Security and Exchange Comissions
- He was on the losing ed of the most lopsided victory in 116 years
- Alfred Landon
- This president helped secure American drilling rights in the middle east
- Harding