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Manush’s story shows the importance of using powerful keywords to his resume in landing the job he wanted.

Chapter 8 Quiz

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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:

Question #1
A  presidential elections.
B  the Bill of Rights.
C  the responsibilities of the federal government.
D  The role of the Supreme Court in deciding elections.
E  local relief programs and private charities.
Question #2
A  increased the number of Mexican immigrants that the United States would accept as new citizens.
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  allowed Mexican citizens in the US without documentation to apply for wartime employment.
E  accepted Mexican citizens into the United States armed forces.
Question #3
A  Increased standard of living and consumerism fueled economic growth.
B  Buying on credit became more common, producing growing indebtedness.
C  The federal tax cuts helped narrow the income gap, encouraging consumer spending.
D  The automobiles and construction industries were at the center of economic growth.
E  The agricultural sector struggled throughout the decade regardless of higher protective tariffs.
Question #4
A  They were all attempts by Republican lawmakers to undermine the success of FDR’s New Deal policies.
B  They focused on helping revitalize American agriculture and rural regions.
C  They were New Deal programs that put Americans to work improving American infrastructure and public buildings.
D  They did not gain enough public support to go into effect.
E  They played a significant role in strengthening the resurgent labor movement in the Great Depression.
Question #5
A  Anticommunism
B  Continuation of a strong corporate-military role
C  Precedence of national security over domestic issues
D  Support for a government role in the economy
E  All of these
Question #6
A  Offered federal support to states to provide for unemployment benefits
B  Provided for mandatory retirement savings for wage earners through a payroll tax
C  Excluded farm laborers and domestic workers from the old age pension plan
D  Helped states with establishing disability insurance programs
E  Is accurately represented in all of the above statements
Question #7
A  It caused the stock market crash of 1929.
B  It placed a huge war debt on the American people.
C  It marked the first time that the federal government took a strong role in directing the nation’s economy.
D  It burdened the nations farmers.
E  It permanently ended the Great Depression.
Question #8
A  Poverty rates significantly declined as Americans benefited from the growth of the economy.
B  Immigrants made up the majority of the poor.
C  The majority of the poor lived in the nation’s urban areas.
D  The majority of the poor were people of color.
E  The majority of the poor were white and tended to live in the rural South.
Question #9
A  He instituted the largest government intervention in the economy since the founding of the US.
B  He focused his efforts on helping the growing numbers of Okie migrants who fled the Dust Bowl.
C  He raised tariffs, increased federal spending to alleviate the effects of the depression, and called for strengthening of government immigration enforcement.
D  He took no significant actions because of his belief in laissez-faire economic policies.
E  He focused on trade with Europe to create a market for American industrial goods.
Question #10
A  It helped revive American industrial production. 
B  It succeeded in ending the depression.
C  It relied on Keynesian economics to prop up the American economy, helping to shift power to the federal government.
D  It was an effort to radically transform the American capitalist system.
E  It was a clearly-focused and organized effort to end the Great Depression.
Question #11
A  The government had no intention of honoring the promise they had made to compensate World War I veterans for their service.
B  Veterans demanded that the bonus they had been promised for their service in World War I be paid early.
C  The main issue focused on the failure of the federal government to provide sufficient services for World War I veterans.
D  Veterans demanded an increase in the armed forces to allow more enlistments to alleviate the increasing unemployment.
E  Veterans sought to collect a bonus for remaining enlisted in the armed forces.
Question #12
A  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.
B  The so-called New Deal coalition helped power the Democratic Party for several decades. 
C  Democrats won control of both the House and the Senate
D  FDR won a landslide victory reflective of the wide support for the New Deal
E  The election results guaranteed smooth sailing for Roosevelt’s continued efforts to deal with the depression. 
Question #13
A  Harry S. Truman
B  Dwight D. Eisenhower
C  Herbert Hoover
D  Franklin D. Roosevelt
E  Richard Nixon
Question #14
A  The wages and savings of American workers generally increased.
B  The work force reached near full employment during the war.
C  Women and people of color benefited from the creation of nearly 17 million new jobs.
D  Unions lost membership as wages rose across most industries.
E  The number of federal civilian employees increased significantly as a result of the wartime bureaucratic increases.
Question #15
A  Henry Kaiser’s innovations in shipbuilding during the war.
B  The collaboration between private corporations and the federal government, especially the military, and that relies on the research at institutions of higher education.
C  The technological advancements of the war years that helped fuel the American economy for years to come.
D  The economic growth of the war years.
E  The Manhattan Project that built the atomic bomb.