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Unit 4 Study Guide-2
American History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Huey Long | proposed the Share-Our-Wealth program |
| Margaret Mitchell | wrote Gone With the Wind |
| John L. Lewis | organized the United Mine Workers strike |
| Eugene Debs | formed the Socialist Party |
| Eliot Ness | Organized an elite squad of detectives to go after gangsters |
| Charles Lindbergh | the first pilot to fly nonstop from New York to Paris |
| Dorothea Lange | a depression-era potographer known for her photograph Migrant Mother |
| Andrew Mellon | believed businesses should deal with the depression without government help |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | promised a "new deal" during his election campaign |
| Mary Mcleod Bethune | was appointed director of the Division of Negro Affairs in the National Youth Association |
| During the election of 1928, many Americans opposed Alfred E. Smith because he was African American. | False |
| Prohibition led to a rise in organized crime. | True |
| Most advertisements during the 1920's targeted women. | True |
| The Harding administration raised taxes on wealthy Americans. | False |
| The National Youth Administration provided high school and college-age people with part-time jobs. | True |
| The Socialist Party believed in expanded capitalism. | False |
| Warren G. Harding was a 1920 presidential candidate who called for a return to "normalcy". | True |
| Calvin Coolidge supported the Boston Police Strike. | False |
| Langston Hughes was a Harlem Renaissance poet who dealt with issues of Native American cultural heritage. | False |
| The United Mine Workers Strike resulted in wage increases for its participants. | True |
| The West Coast was referred to as the Dust Bowl in the mid-1930's. | False |
| Organized labor made many gains during the 1920's. | False |
| Socialists and Communists believed capitalism was to blame for the depression. | True |
| Herbert Hoover received much of the blame for the development of shantytowns. | True |
| The popularity of sports increased in the 1920's. | True |
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