US_Ch7_Homework-2

=**U.S. History Chapter 7 Homework #2**= Answer the following questions on notebook paper.

1. What hurt the Harding Administration the most? (A) depression (B) postwar problems (C) corruption in administration especially Teapot Dome (D) tax and spending cuts (E) all (F) none

2. How did tax cuts and spending cuts impact the economy? (A) got out of depression and led to economic boom (B) rich got richer (C) inflation (D) recession (E) all (F) none

3. How did the Coolidge agenda impact America? (A) unemployment rate below 2% (B) cut national debt by 1/3 (C) people afforded cars and electricity (D) Roaring 20s (E) all (F) none

4. Who was most responsible for suggesting tax cuts to help the economy? (A) Warren Harding (B) Calvin Coolidge (C) Andrew Mellon (D) Herbert Hoover (E) all (F) none

5. What was made illegal by the Kellogg-Briand Pact? (A) tariffs (B) battleships (C) reparations (D) war (E) all (F) none

6. How did the automobile become affordable to all in the 1920s? (A) government assistance (B) mass production on the assembly line (C) Ford invented it (D) GM began (E) all (F) none

7. Electricity in homes would also improve communication since more people could have (A) movies (B) radios (C) telephones (D) Internet (E) all (F) none

8. What was the new form of entertainment that began with KDKA in Pittsburgh? (A) radio (B) television (C) motion pictures (D) electric power plants (E) all (F) none

9. What damaged Herbert Hoover’s presidency? (A) scandal (B) he was Roman Catholic (C) cut taxes (D) scapegoat of the Great Depression (E) all (F) none

10. Why was the Smoot-Hawley Tariff one of the major causes of the depression? (A) raised income tax (B) increased government spending (C) taxes on imports caused foreign nations to do the same and world trade stopped (D) led to an uneven distribution of wealth (E) all (F) none

11. Why was the Federal Reserve part of cause of the causing the Depression? (A) set up bank failures (B) failed to increase money supply (C) raised taxes (D) printed money (E) all (F) none

12. Which explains Hoover’s actions in the depression (A) raised taxes and government spending (B) printed money (C) cut taxes and spending (D) did nothing (E) all (F) none

13. Overall in the Roaring 20s, Harding and Coolidge gave incentives to (A) entrepreneurs (B) inventors (C) businesses to expand (D) production of more consumer goods (E) all (F) none

14. How were 1920s medical advances important?

15. How were other inventions important?

16. Evaluate Harding:

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.33px;">17. Evaluate Coolidge:

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.33px;">18. Evaluate Hoover:

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.33px;">19. Who or what gets the pinhead label for the depression? Why?

<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.33px;">20. Who gets a patriot label for the chapter? Why?

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