Chapter 8 Quiz

A  the responsibilities of the federal government.

B  local relief programs and private charities.

C  presidential elections.

D  The role of the Supreme Court in deciding elections.

E  the Bill of Rights.

A  allowed Mexican citizens in the US without documentation to apply for wartime employment.

B  allowed American businesses to establish war production factories in Mexico to cut costs.

C  admitted Mexican contract laborers into the United States for a limited time.

D  accepted Mexican citizens into the United States armed forces.

E  increased the number of Mexican immigrants that the United States would accept as new citizens.

A  The automobiles and construction industries were at the center of economic growth.

B  The agricultural sector struggled throughout the decade regardless of higher protective tariffs.

C  Buying on credit became more common, producing growing indebtedness.

D  Increased standard of living and consumerism fueled economic growth.

E  The federal tax cuts helped narrow the income gap, encouraging consumer spending.

A  They were New Deal programs that put Americans to work improving American infrastructure and public buildings.

B  They played a significant role in strengthening the resurgent labor movement in the Great Depression.

C  They did not gain enough public support to go into effect.

D  They focused on helping revitalize American agriculture and rural regions.

E  They were all attempts by Republican lawmakers to undermine the success of FDR’s New Deal policies.

A  Anticommunism

B  Continuation of a strong corporate-military role

C  Precedence of national security over domestic issues

D  All of these

E  Support for a government role in the economy

A  Provided for mandatory retirement savings for wage earners through a payroll tax

B  Offered federal support to states to provide for unemployment benefits

C  Helped states with establishing disability insurance programs

D  Excluded farm laborers and domestic workers from the old age pension plan

E  Is accurately represented in all of the above statements

A  It permanently ended the Great Depression.

B  It burdened the nations farmers.

C  It caused the stock market crash of 1929.

D  It marked the first time that the federal government took a strong role in directing the nation’s economy.

E  It placed a huge war debt on the American people.

A  Immigrants made up the majority of the poor.

B  The majority of the poor were white and tended to live in the rural South.

C  Poverty rates significantly declined as Americans benefited from the growth of the economy.

D  The majority of the poor were people of color.

E  The majority of the poor lived in the nation’s urban areas.

A  He took no significant actions because of his belief in laissez-faire economic policies.

B  He focused on trade with Europe to create a market for American industrial goods.

C  He instituted the largest government intervention in the economy since the founding of the US.

D  He raised tariffs, increased federal spending to alleviate the effects of the depression, and called for strengthening of government immigration enforcement.

E  He focused his efforts on helping the growing numbers of Okie migrants who fled the Dust Bowl.

A  It succeeded in ending the depression.

B  It helped revive American industrial production. 

C  It relied on Keynesian economics to prop up the American economy, helping to shift power to the federal government.

D  It was a clearly-focused and organized effort to end the Great Depression.

E  It was an effort to radically transform the American capitalist system.

A  The main issue focused on the failure of the federal government to provide sufficient services for World War I veterans.

B  The government had no intention of honoring the promise they had made to compensate World War I veterans for their service.

C  Veterans sought to collect a bonus for remaining enlisted in the armed forces.

D  Veterans demanded an increase in the armed forces to allow more enlistments to alleviate the increasing unemployment.

E  Veterans demanded that the bonus they had been promised for their service in World War I be paid early.

A  FDR won a landslide victory reflective of the wide support for the New Deal

B  Democrats won control of both the House and the Senate

C  The election results guaranteed smooth sailing for Roosevelt’s continued efforts to deal with the depression. 

D  It created a coalition of the traditional supporters of the Democratic Party in the South and lower income groups in the nation’s urban areas.

E  The so-called New Deal coalition helped power the Democratic Party for several decades. 

A  Harry S. Truman

B  Richard Nixon

C  Herbert Hoover

D  Franklin D. Roosevelt

E  Dwight D. Eisenhower

A  The work force reached near full employment during the war.

B  Unions lost membership as wages rose across most industries.

C  The number of federal civilian employees increased significantly as a result of the wartime bureaucratic increases.

D  The wages and savings of American workers generally increased.

E  Women and people of color benefited from the creation of nearly 17 million new jobs.

A  The economic growth of the war years.

B  The technological advancements of the war years that helped fuel the American economy for years to come.

C  The collaboration between private corporations and the federal government, especially the military, and that relies on the research at institutions of higher education.

D  Henry Kaiser’s innovations in shipbuilding during the war.

E  The Manhattan Project that built the atomic bomb.