Extra Quiz: Chapter 32
1. Harding defeated which Democrat in the 1920 election?
2. The 1920 election was historic because it was the first in which:
3. Harding's cabinet appointees who exploited government positions for personal gain were nicknamed:
4. Which cabinet member arranged the secret Teapot Dome leases?
5. Fall's punishment for the Teapot Dome scandal made him:
6. Harding died in 1923 while:
7. Coolidge earned the nickname "Silent Cal" because of his:
8. Coolidge's Treasury Secretary, who cut taxes on the wealthy, was:
9. In the 1924 election, Coolidge defeated Democrat John W. Davis and progressive candidate:
10. Henry Ford's moving assembly line was significant because it:
11. During the 1920s boom, which group did NOT share in the "golden glow" of prosperity?
12. "Buying on margin" refers to:
13. The Florida land boom of the mid-1920s was significant as:
14. In the 1928 election, Hoover defeated Democrat:
15. Al Smith's 1928 candidacy was historic because he was the first major-party nominee who was:
16. Hoover's philosophy of "rugged individualism" held that:
17. The stock market's initial major sell-off, prior to the full collapse, occurred on:
18. Which was NOT among the deeper structural causes of the Great Depression?
19. Hoover's repeated public reassurance during the early Depression was that prosperity was:
20. The Hawley-Smoot Tariff of 1930 backfired chiefly because it:
21. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation was created in what year?
22. Hoover resisted direct federal relief to individuals mainly because he feared it would:
23. Roughly how many veterans and family members made up the Bonus Army in 1932?
24. Junior officers who assisted in dispersing the Bonus Army included:
25. The Bonus Army episode and ongoing hard times contributed most directly to:
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