Higher Level Multiple Choice Questions
Volume II
Chapter Two, The Boom and the Bust
1. Marcus Garvey’s philosophy can best summarized as:
A. African Americans will achieve equality and respect when they prove
themselves to be an economic asset to the United States.
B. Education in integrated schools will offer African Americans the opportunity
to fully assimilate into American society.
C. African Americans should adopt Black Nationalism, racial separation, and
ultimately return to Africa.
D. African-Americans should use any and all legal recourses to achieve equality
within the United States.
2. The “Great Migration” of African-Americans led to:
A. a movement to return to ancestral roots in Africa.
B. poor and dispossessed people moving with their meager belongings to
California looking for work as migrant laborers.
C. a flowering of African American culture in northern cities known as the
Harlem Renaissance.
D. a system of sharecropping in the South that proved to be nearly impossible to
escape.
3. Which best describes the historical legacy of the Harding administration:
A. Harding was a strong leader who suffered from being president when the
stock market crashed.
B. Harding’s cronies from Ohio opened the door to corruption and abuse due to
the President’s lack of leadership.
C. Harding was a weak leader, but he was fortunate to be surrounded by bright
and capable men in his cabinet.
D. Harding is most remembered for his successful foreign policy that kept the
U.S. out of any wars during the 1920s.
4. U.S. Immigration policies in the 1920s can best be characterized as:
A. a retreat from being open to massive immigration with severe restrictions
being placed on immigrants from specific areas then deemed “less desirable.”
B. very much reflective of the Emma Lazarus poem on the base of the Statue of
Liberty – “give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to
breathe free.”
C. still open to immigrants, but only those from South and East Europe.
D. completely open to immigrants leading the 1920s to being the biggest decade
of immigration in our nation’s history.
5. While Henry Ford was one of America’s great entrepreneurs, he also had a less
admirable side that included:
A. his willingness to pay his workers less than other companies in order to make
the Model-T affordable.
B. his support of Eugene Debs, many-time socialist candidate for president.
C. his secret sabotage of the factories of competing car manufacturers.
D. his anti-Semitism printed in regular articles in his newspaper, the Dearborn
Independent.
6. Perhaps the central historical meaning of the Scopes Trial of 1925 is:
A. the desire of the U.S. Department of Education to control local school
curriculums.
B. the growing abandonment of rural Americans of their religious beliefs.
C. the excitement the great majority of Americans had for new scientific
discoveries.
D. the growing tension between forces of tradition and forces of modernism.
7. The Sacco-Vanzetti trial is remembered and discussed today because it is an
example of:
A. organized crime’s ability to use intimidation of a jury to secure an acquittal.
B. the political beliefs of defendants unduly influencing the fairness of the trial
they receive.
C. immigrants being deported to their homeland without due process.
D. people being convicted of a serious crime with no evidence pointing to their
guilt.
8. President Hoover’s biggest mistake during the early days of the Great Depression
was:
A. signing a much higher tariff bill and thus cutting off trade and killing U.S.
jobs.
B. lowering the U.S. tariff, allowing cheap foreign goods to enter the market and
thus cost U.S. jobs.
C. scaring U.S. consumers by telling them the Depression was likely to last for
many years.
D. running up the federal deficit with federal road construction programs
designed to put Americans back to work.
9. Between Franklin Roosevelt’s election in November of 1932 and his inauguration
in March of 1933, he and President Hoover:
A. worked closely to begin the implementation of FDR’s New Deal well before
Roosevelt took office.
B. organized a series of debates where the two of them discussed the best way to
end the Depression.
C. did no coordinated planning, despite Hoover’s frequent attempts to solicit
FDR’s input.
D. made a joint appeal to the Bonus Marchers to return to their homes until the
government could determine the best way to meet their needs.
10. The Great Depression in the U.S. was felt in many ways around the globe,
including:
A. the fall of Joseph Stalin from power as the economy of the USSR imploded.
B. the turn of several nations to totalitarian governments as a way of dealing
with the economic crises with a stronger hand.
C. the dissolution of the League of Nations because so few nations refused to
send delegates.
D. the adoption communism in Germany, Japan, and Italy.