AP – United States History
Daily Quiz #7A.2
S17
Chapters 26-28
Directions: Complete questions 1-30 on the Scantron sheet provided.
1.
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were . . .
A. immigrants murdered by members of the Ku Klux Klan.
B. two Italian-born anarchists sentenced to death and executed even though there was doubt as to
their guilt.
C. eventually exonerated of the charges of robbery and murder.
D. anarchists convicted of bombing the home residences of public officials.
2.
The Scopes Trial . . .
A. prosecuted Klansmen for lynching.
B. pitted William Howard Taft, former United States president and Supreme Court Chief Justice, for the
prosecution against Fundamentalist Clarence Darrow for the defense over teaching Christianity in
public schools.
C. concerned a state law that prohibited the teaching of evolution in public schools.
D. separated many Americans over the issue of legal immigration into the United States.
3.
The amendment to the United States Constitution that barred the manufacture or sale of alcohol was
ratified in . . .
A. 1917.
B. 1918.
C. 1919.
D. 1920.
4.
Al Capone was eventually charged, convicted, and imprisoned for . . .
A. drug trafficking.
B. bootlegging alcohol.
C. murder.
D. tax evasion.
5.
During the 1920s, the musical genre known as “jazz” . . .
A. was invented by Bennie Goodman.
B. blended African and European musical traditions.
C. inspired rebellious youth to violence.
D. was a European innovation emerging from modern “classical” music.
6.
Carrie Chapman Catt was BEST known for her achievements promoting . . .
A. prohibition.
B. racial reforms.
C. immigration reform.
D. women’s suffrage.
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Daily Quiz #7A.2
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Chapters 26-28
7.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) emphasized . . .
A. the formation of a black political party.
B. legal action against discrimination.
C. black nationalism, and the concept of social and political separation of blacks from the general
society.
D. vocational and technical education.
8.
The “Roaring Twenties” was dubbed the “Jazz Age” by . . .
A. F. Scott Fitzgerald.
B. Gertrude Stein.
C. Thomas Wolfe.
D. Ernest Hemingway.
9.
William Jennings Bryan . . .
A. advocated Prohibition.
B. believed evolution should be taught in the classroom.
C. prosecuted John Scopes in the Dayton, Tennessee, evolution case for teaching evolution.
D. was a leading advocate for immigration reform.
10. The 1924 immigration law . . .
A. continued an open door policy, whereby almost all new immigrants, regardless of nation of origin,
would be allowed into the United States.
B. set strict annual limits on the number of immigrants allowed into the United States.
C. restricted immigration to those from Eastern Europe.
D. stopped the illegal flow of immigrants into the United States.
11. The biggest scandal of the Harding Administration . . .
A. led to an attempt to impeach Harding that fell just four votes short of success in the House of
Representatives.
B. concerned a corrupt United States customs official who had regularly allowed Chinese imports into
the United States duty-free.
C. involved the leasing of government-owned oil deposits to private companies.
D. was the impeachment of the attorney general for fraudulent handling of German assets seized after
the “Great War”.
12. In the 1920s, farm prices . . .
A. fell sharply.
B. rose sharply.
C. were eventually subsidized by the federal government.
D. kept at their high wartime levels.
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Daily Quiz #7A.2
S17
Chapters 26-28
13. The rise of the automobile did all of the following EXCEPT:
A. encouraged the sprawl of suburbs.
B. sparked real estate booms.
C. reduced travel in rural areas.
D. Was aided by Henry Ford’s mass-production innovations.
14. President Herbert Hoover’s early efforts to end the Great Depression included . . .
A. extending federal loans to individuals.
B. asking businessmen to maintain wages and avoid layoffs in order to keep purchasing power strong.
C. an increase in aid to farmers to allow them to produce more.
D. a stricter credit policy by the Federal Reserve to stop the flow of “easy money” available for
speculation.
15. The Bonus Expeditionary Force . . .
A. marched in protest of large dividends being paid to the wealthy by the federal government.
B. marched on Washington, D.C., in an attempt to get immediate payment of veterans’ bonus that
Congress had approved in 1924.
C. toured the United States to create support for the Communist Party.
D. consisted of angry farmers who sometimes acted outside the law to prevent the foreclosure of
mortgages on their farms.
16. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) . . .
A. was created over President Herbert Hoover’s veto.
B. offered emergency loans to banks, farm mortgage associations, and other such businesses.
C. was criticized for is alleged favoritism to farmers and workers.
D. did little to prevent bankruptcies.
17. Warren G. Harding’s Secretary of the Treasury, who pushed tax cuts for the wealthy, was . . .
A. Herbert Hoover.
B. Albert Fall.
C. Andrew Mellon.
D. Charles Evans Hughes.
18. Democratic presidential nominee Al Smith was hurt in 1928 by the fact that he was . . .
A. a Catholic.
B. a millionaire businessman who supported high tariffs.
C. a supporter of Prohibition.
D. a New Yorker.
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Daily Quiz #7A.2
S17
Chapters 26-28
19. Part of the reason for the stock market crash was . . .
A. the high rate of deflation in the 1920s.
B. the low tariff, which allowed imports to corner several important American markets.
C. the buying of great amounts of stock on margin.
D. the tax policies of the 1920s that hurt the wealthy, who might otherwise might have bought more
stocks.
20. Labor’s new direction in the late 1930s was toward . . .
A. the Republican Party.
B. allowing women in unions.
C. industrial unions.
D. decentralization of union organization.
21. The National Labor Relations Act . . .
A. gave employers the right to control union activities.
B. was often called the Wagner Act.
C. was struck down by the Supreme Court in 1936.
D. was upheld by the Supreme Court in 1939.
22. Among the objectives of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) were all of the following EXCEPT:
A. flood control.
B. the production of cheap electric power.
C. employment in areas in areas of the South.
D. the development of national parks.
23. The goal of the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 was to raise farm income through . . .
A. setting market quotas in certain farm areas of the South and West.
B. intensive farming.
C. cutbacks in production.
D. nationalization of the agriculture sector by the federal government.
24. Which of the following statements about the Social Security Act is NOT True?
A. It provided old age pensions.
B. It was based on a progressive tax that took a larger percentage of higher incomes.
C. It committed the national government to a broad range of welfare activities.
D. It was, according to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the “supreme achievement” of the New Deal.
25. The main purpose of the Civilian Conservation Corps was to . . .
A. train young men for the Corps of Army Engineers.
B. promote general conservation practices by the general public.
C. give young women an opportunity to earn money for higher education.
D. provide work relief for young men.
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Daily Quiz #7A.2
S17
Chapters 26-28
26. The conservative Democratic opposition to the New Deal in the late 1930s . . .
A. was never a formable threat to the President or his policies.
B. was heaviest in New England.
C. was heaviest in the South.
D. succeeded in removing three of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s cabinet positions from office.
27. The Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 . . .
A. gave assimilated Indians the right to vote in national elections.
B. broke up tribal lands and allocated them to individuals.
C. had the support of western Congressmen and assimilated Indians.
D. attempted to reinvigorate traditional Indian cultures.
28. At the outset of his presidency, to deal with the banking crisis, newly elected President Franklin D.
Roosevelt . . .
A. declared a “bank Holiday” and shut down banks down briefly.
B. put strict limits on the issuance of paper currency.
C. ordered the Federal Reserve System to lower interest rates.
D. used his emergency powers to nationalize the banking industry.
29. In early 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed to reform the Supreme Court by . . .
A. requiring justices to retire at age 70.
B. adding up to six additional members to the Court.
C. requiring Senate-confirmation hearings.
D. removing justices appointed by previous presidents.
30. The growing consumerism of the 1920s manifested itself in all of the following ways EXCEPT:
A. automobiles.
B. radios.
C. home appliances.
D. passenger rail service.
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AP – United States History
Daily Quiz #7A.2
S17
Chapters 26-28
Directions: Complete questions 31-45 on the answer sheet provided by matching the name in the left column
with the corresponding fact in the right column.
31. Eleanor Roosevelt
32. Warren G. Harding
33. Gertrude Stein
34. Alice Paul
35. Calvin Coolidge
36. Douglas MacArthur
37. Herbert Hoover
38. F. Scott Fitzgerald
39. Albert Fall
40. Harry L. Hopkins
41. John Maynard Keynes
42. Alfred M. Landon
43. Marcus Garvey
44. Huey Long
45. Margaret Sanger
A. was the militant head of the National American
Women Suffrage Association’s Congressional
Committee
B. wrote This Side of Paradise
C. led the Universal Negro Improvement
Association
D. wrote Look Homeward, Angel
E. was the leading birth control advocate
AB. was one of the South’s leading modernist
writers
AC. was the Progressive Party presidential candidate
in 1924
AD. was the Republican Party vice presidential
candidate in the 1920 election
AE. was the Republican Party candidate during the
1936 presidential election
BC. was especially supportive of women, blacks, and
organized labor
BD. headed the Federal Emergency Relief
Administration (FERA) and Works Progress
Administration (WPA)
BE. labeled World War I veterans the “Lost
generation”
CD. supported the “Share Our Wealth” program
DE. wrote The General Theory of Employment,
Interest, and Money
ABC. was the Republican candidate for president in
1932
ABD. supported a “Return to Normalcy” in the 1920
presidential election
ABE. cleared out “rioting” veterans in Washington,
D.C., in the summer of 1932
ABCD. was Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first Vice
President
ABCDE. was the Secretary of the Interior
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Daily Quiz #7A.2
S17
Chapters 26-28
Answer Sheet
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