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- 14) The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) was designed toA) bring modernization and jobs to desolate areas of the upper rural South.B) help support the continued control of electrical power by private companies.C) alienate conservationists.D) test the authority of the Supreme Court.E) win votes in a largely Republican area.
- 8) Which of the following individuals was blamed by Americans for the Depression?A) Herbert HooverB) Calvin CoolidgeC) Franklin D. RooseveltD) Harry HopkinsE) J. P. Morgan
- 10) The "Hundred Days" wasA) the period between Roosevelt's election and his inauguration.B) the period immediately after Roosevelt's first inauguration.C) the last three months of the 1932 campaign.D) the final days of the Hoover administration.E) the worst period of the Great Depression.
- 9) In the presidential campaign of 1932, HooverA) announced that he had been irresponsible in his attitude toward the Depression.B) conducted an upbeat, optimistic campaign.C) announced his support for public relief.D) was haunted by the public's memory of the Bonus March.E) announced he would take more bold action in the future.
- 1) The most striking characteristic of the stock market in 1929 wasA) investors' obsession with speculation.B) the downward trend of its major stocks early in the year.C) the government's desire to carefully regulate it.D) the fact that the great majority of wage-earning Americans were so heavily involved in it.E) its steady advancement through the decade, culminating in record levels in 1929.
- when reconstruction began, abraham lincons main goal was to
- How did the grandfather clause restrict the voting rights of illiterate African Americans but not the voting rights of illiterate whites?
- which of the following is not an example of how the freedmans bureau helped in the south after the war
- which of the following systems created a cycyle of debt
- What Democrat won the 1856 presidential election?
- What novel publishing 1852 helped to create a rift between the north and the south?
- How did the United States become an imperial nation and world power in the late 19th and early 20th centuries?
- Which one of states was the north un capable to keep in the union when war erupted?
- Which state was literally split into by the Civil War?
- Who was the leading black abolitionist who traveled and gave lectures against slavery?
- How did conflict have an impact on relations between Mexico and the United States during Woodrow Wilson's administration in the White House ?
- What escaped slave repeatedly returned to the South to help other slaves escape along the Underground Railroad?
- The 1854 act was indirectly, responsible for _______________ in Kansas
- In the mid 1800s, did the southerners oppose or support a high protective tariff?
- Who gave orders to prevent all efforts to resupply Fort Sumter?