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1. B After being elected to the presidency, Franklin D. Roosevelt
surrounded himself with the best and brightest advisors, which
he referred to as the brain trust. [USSRG:44,2,1]
2. D In order to account for inflation in wages, the United Auto
Workers bargained with General Motors until the Treaty of
Detroit was created to include a cost of living allowance in
employee wages every year. [USSRG:92,1,1]
3. C The Home Owners Loan Corporations advised lenders not to
make loans to neighborhoods marked with red on their maps,
which represented a high risk for defaulted loans. [USSRG:66,1,2]
4. B As a part of his Great Society welfare program, President
Johnson introduced Medicare as a healthcare plan for the
elderly that was to be housed within Social Security.
[USSRG:94,1,2]
5. A At the onset of the Depression, engineers and architects were
the first professional occupations to suffer due to cutbacks in
construction and related capital. [USSRG:16,1,2]
6. B The term G-Men, a shortened version of "government men,"
was used by the public for the agents of the newly created
Federal Bureau of Investigation. [USSRG:33,1,1]
7. C The Federal Reserve System is made up of twelve district
banks that serve as lenders of last resort to other banks in time
of need. [USSRG:14,1,2]
8. D During the Great Depression, couples refrained from marriage
and thus the birthrate decreased by 14% from 1929 to 1932.
[USSRG:29,1,1]
9. A The allied nations’ economic conference of 1944 was held in
the small town of Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. The
conference decided to place the American dollar as the
principal currency for world reserves and exchanges, thus
insuring American economic dominance in the years to come.
[USSRG:88,1,1]
10. D The Scottsboro boys were a group of nine African American
youths that got in a fight with a group of young white boys on
a train, and were hastily sentenced to death by an all-white
jury. [USSRG:28,2,2]
11. C In order to halt rampant overproduction, the Agricultural
Adjustment Act and other similar legislation called for
immediate reduction in cultivation that led to the destruction
of millions of acres of crops and millions of livestock.
[USSRG:48,1,1]
12. C The idea held by President Roosevelt and his advisors that
excess crop cultivation was lowering prices is known as
overproduction. [USSRG:49,2,1]
13. C The idea of “trickle-down economics” is fundamental to the
supply side economics that motivated President Reagan’s tax
breaks in the 1980s. [USSRG:98,1,2]
14. A The introduction of hi-tech agricultural technology began a
large decline in the agricultural labor force that continues to
the present day, with less than three percent of the American
labor force working in agriculture. [USSRG:96,1,1]
15. E While on a family vacation in 1921, Franklin D. Roosevelt
was stricken by the viral disease known as poliomyelitis, or
simply polio. [USSRG:40,2,2]
16. A The Immigration acts of the mid-1920s, described by some as
draconian in nature, started a decline in European
immigration to the United States. [USSRG:8,1,2]
17. C The first issue addressed by President Roosevelt after taking
office was the bank crisis. The day after his inauguration, he
called for a national banking holiday until he could push
through the Emergency Banking Act. [USSRG:45,2,1]
18. A After putting himself through high school and Stanford
University, Herbert Hoover earned a fortune as a mining
engineer overseas. [USSRG:34,1,1]
19. D President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s court-packing plan was
included in the Judicial Procedures Reform Act, which did not
pass through Congress successfully. [USSRG:70,2,1]
20. D The Smoot-Hawley Tariff was passed by Congress in an
attempt to protect domestic industries from foreign
competition after the stock market crash of 1929. [USSRG:20,2,2]
21. E The Bonus Army, or the Bonus Expeditionary Force, marched
on Washington D.C. in 1932 to protest the decision to
withhold Veteran’s bonuses until the due date in 1945.
[USSRG:36,1,2]
22. B Desptie discovering her husband’s affair with Lucy Mercer in
1919, Eleanor Roosevelt remained devoted to him as a
political partner and friend. [USSRG:41,1,2]
23. C Outlawed by President Hoover’s Norris-LaGuardia Act of
1932, yellow-dog contracts were used by companies to force
new employees to abstain from joining unions. [USSRG:8,2,2]
24. E The growing public resentment of extensive welfare spending
and the endless demands of special interest groups led to local
taxpayer revolts in the 1970s. [USSRG:97,2,1]
25. E The recovery of American production and unemployment to
pre-Depression levels was brought on by World War II.
[USSRG:82,1,1]
26. C The Mississippi Flood of 1927 served as a sneak peek at the
ability of future President Hoover to respond to a national
crisis and highlighted the plight of poor southern blacks.
[USSRG:28,1,2]
27. E Due to its relative isolation from the global economy and lack
of reliance on trade with other countries, the Soviet Union
actually thrived during the 1930s. [USSRG:22,1,2]
28. E President Truman’s Fair Deal expanded on the ideals of the
New Deal, and thus borrowed from its name to convey
Truman’s desire to continue the wave of reform that President
Roosevelt began. [USSRG:86,1,1]
29. B The National Recovery Agency was declared unconstitutional
by the Supreme Court as a result of the case of Schechter v.
United States. [USSRG:58,1,2]
30. E After a failed vice-presidential run in 1920, Franklin D.
Roosevelt ran for Governor of New York under the urging of
presidential candidate Al Smith. [USSRG:43,1,1-2]
31. E President Hoover, a man dedicated to the idea of self-reliance
and voluntarism, opposed government relief and strongly
advocated for private donations to charities and church
groups. [USSRG:34,2,2]
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32. D Southern Democrats of the New Deal era were often known as 48. D The area of farmland in the central United States that was
Dixiecrats for their devotion to the status quo of the South. destroyed by soil erosion and dust storms was known as the
[USSRG:67,2,3]
Dust Bowl. [USSRG:26,1,1]
33. E The FDIC, which was created to insure accounts with deposits 49. D The three presidents preceding Franklin D. Roosevelt –
up to $2,500, is officially known as the Federal Deposit Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover –
Insurance Corporation. [USSRG:47,1,2] all belonged to the Republican Party. [USSRG:39,1,1]
34. C The Depression did little to dampen the public’s enthusiasm 50. A President Roosevelt often addressed the public through radio
for radio entertainment, leading to a drastic increase in radio broadcasts known as fireside chats. [USSRG:41,2,2]
ownership during the 1930s. [USSRG:31,2,3]
35. B In the 1970s, the term stagflation was invented to describe the
economic situation created by a lack of growth coupled with
inflation. [USSRG:97,1,2]
36. E In an effort to protect high school and college students from
dropping out of school or becoming radicalized by fascist
propaganda, the Works Progress Administration created the
National Youth Administration under the leadership of Mary
McLeod. [USSRG:62,2,3]
37. D The Works Progress Administration and other New Deal
initiatives that came before it, such as the CCC, CWA, and
PWA, were created to bring relief to the American people
through government employment opportunities. [USSRG:61,2,2;
USSRG:62,1,1]

38. A The Tennessee Valley Authority was extremely successful in

protecting against flooding, providing relief, and bringing
electricity to those in need. [USSRG:50,1,2]
39. C The G.I. Bill gave many hundreds of thousands of veterans a
chance to enter the middle class by providing healthcare,
education, and loans. [USSRG:92,1,3]
40. A Known for his nationally syndicated radio show Father
Charles Edward Coughlin ranted against the evils of
communism and blamed the Great Depression on an
international banking conspiracy. [USSRG:56,1,1]
41. C The Republican Party chose Alfred Landon to run against the
incumbent President Roosevelt, who won in a landslide.
[USSRG:68,2,2]

42. E In his inaugural speech in front of capitol hill, President

Roosevelt revealed his desire to free America from the grips of
fear, as fear itself is the only thing to fear, and return the
American people to prosperity. [USSRG:38,1,1]
43. D Emboldened by the successful passing of the Emergency
Banking Act through Congress, President Roosevelt appointed
Harry Hopkins as the head of the Federal Emergency Relief
Administration. [USSRG:45,2,4]
44. C Huey P. Long, nicknamed the Kingfish, was a populist
politician that gained fame as the Governor of Louisiana and
then pushed for national redistribution of wealth. [USSRG:55,2,2]
45. C The famous economist John Maynard Keynes was known
primarily for his belief that deficit spending by the government
could stimulate demand enough to bring a country out of
depression. [USSRG:73,2,1]
46. A Temporary workers known as scabs were often hired by
companies to take the place of striking workers in order to end
the strike. [USSRG:60,2,2]
47. D In early 1933, Giuseppe Zangara fired five shots at then
President-elect Roosevelt, but missed and instead fatally
wounded Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak. [USSRG:39,2,1]
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1. A The downturn of October 1937, which began with a stock
market crash that was eerily similar to the crash of 1929, was
called the Roosevelt Recession. [USSRG:72,2,1]
2. E The creation of pension plans gave the American public the
resources to invest their savings in the stock market for the first
time, which led to a major expansion of the stock market and
mutual funds. [USSRG:94,1,4]
3. A During and after the Depression the Democratic Party
welcomed many new Mexican American members who felt
alienated by the rich white community. [USSRG:75,1,2]
4. D After enduring the hardships of World War I, the majority of
Americans favored isolationist policies designed to minimalize
interactions between the United States and the outside world.
[USSRG:9,2,1]
5. C Nations that are on a gold standard back up the value of their
currency with gold. [USSRG:10,1,1]
6. C The “four horsemen of the apocalypse” were four Supreme
Court Justices during the New Deal era that stood against
government regulation of industry and commerce. Justice
Cardozo was not a member of this group, and was often
considered a proponent of judicial restraint. [USSRG:58,1,1]
7. C The black opera singer Marian Anderson performed a large
concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial arranged by
Eleanor Roosevelt and the NAACP. [USSRG:73,2,2]
8. A Social Security was first created during the second New Deal,
and still provides old age insurance to retired American
workers. [USSRG:66,2,2]
9. B The large slums that were created around many major cities
were known commonly during the Depression as
“Hoovervilles.” [USSRG:23,1,2]
10. E In lieu of real dollars, many small towns began printing and
using local scrip as legal tender. [USSRG:17,2,2]
11. C The drug thalidomide caused a wave of birth defects that
brought about the Kefauver-Harris amendment to the Food
Drug and Cosmetic act, which demanded more rigorous
testing of drug safety. [USSRG:87,1,3]
12. E The phenomenon of buying on credit that began in the 1920s
was based on the concept of “buy now, pay later.” [USSRG:7,1,3]
13. A The Dawes Plan restructured post-World War I debt by
loaning money to Germany to pay reparations to France and
England, who, in turn, used this money to pay back loans to
the United States. [USSRG:9,2,1]
14. E President Roosevelt used the Interstate Commerce Clause of
the Constitution to justify the regulation of business and
finance in the New Deal. [USSRG:70,1,2]
15. C The Indian Reorganization Act marked a clear departure from
the forced assimilation of Native Americans into American
society that was part of the Dawes Act of 1887. [USSRG:76,1,3]
16. D After the failure of more liberal and politically active unions of
the nineteenth century, the American Federation of Labor
stayed more conservative and focused on the goal of increasing
wages and decreasing working hours. [USSRG:52,1,2]
17. B The practice of buying on margin, which was popularized in
the 1920s, involved a person using a stockbroker’s loan to buy
stocks, and then repaying the loan with part of the dividends
from the gains of the stock. [USSRG:11,2,1]
18. A The International Monetary Fund, the IMF, was created at the
1944 economic conference at Bretton Woods in order to
stabilize the global currency exchange system. [USSRG:89,1,1]
19. C The great stock market crash of 1929 began on October 24th
with the beginning of high volume panic selling, and was
continued on the 28th and 29th when the market lost about
25% of the average stock value. [USSRG:12,1,2]
20. E The “Four Freedoms” enumerated by President Roosevelt did
not include the freedom from harm, although this too was a
major priority for the president. [USSRG:89,1,4]
21. E The continuous cycle of newer industries replacing outdated
ones is known as creative destruction, a term coined by
Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter. [USSRG:9,1,2]
22. C Due to its focus on richer voters, the straw poll conducted by
te Literary Digest on the eve of the 1936 election predicted
victory for the Republican Alfred Landon. [USSRG:69,1,1]
23. E After being denied entry into Cuba, the 930 Jewish passengers
of the S.S. St. Louis were denied asylum in the United States.
[USSRG:79,1,2]
24. B In 1919 Eleanor Roosevelt discovered her husband’s secret
affair with Lucy Mercer, which continued in an on-and-off
fashion until his death in 1945. [USSRG:41,1,2]
25. A Harry S. Truman was a politician in Missouri before rising to
national prominence as Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Vice
President. [USSRG:85,2,1]
26. C Many stock traders on Wall Street during the 1920s would
artificially raise the prices of stocks by trading them back and
forth in a scheme known as “pools.” [USSRG:11,2,2]
27. A President Roosevelt’s popular radio broadcasts were called
fireside chats due to the relaxed, conversational nature of the
President’s speeches. [USSRG:41,2,2]
28. B The New Deal established the role of the federal government
in times of crisis to one of intervention and proactive measures
to regain stability. [USSRG:83,1,2]
29. C The main route for westward migration to California during
the Depression was Route 66. [USSRG:26,1,1]
30. C The Good Neighbor policy of President Roosevelt promised
nonintervention in the internal and external affairs of Latin
American countries. [USSRG:78,1,2]
31. E From 1924 to 1938 the total membership of women in labor
unions quadrupled, showing a clear increase in female
participation. [USSRG:76,1,1]
32. E Government unemployment relief programs such as the
Works Progress Administration were designed to create
temporary, low-paying jobs as employers of last resort.
[USSRG:62,1,2]
33. C The series of three Neutrality Acts that were passed during the
1930s limited American involvement in World War II.
[USSRG:80,1,1]
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34. A Although the use of tax cuts was central to Kennedy’s

economic policy, he based these cuts on Keynesian fiscal policy
and not on supply-side economics. [USSRG:90,2,2]
35. E The Federal Housing Administration expanded home
ownership by decreasing requisite down payments and
expanding loan periods to enable smaller monthly payments.
[USSRG:65,2,3]

36. A The Civilian Conservation Corps was an important New Deal

organization that sought to create jobs for American workers,
mostly focused on public beautification and conservation.
[USSRG:46,1,2]

37. E The Bank of the United States, the home bank of thousands of
Jewish immigrants, closed in December of 1930 due to the
massive depletion of cash holdings caused by the bank panic.
[USSRG:13,2,1]

38. D President Roosevelt’s quarantine doctrine was based on the

idea of isolating the aggressor nations of the world as one
would a sick patient. [USSRG:80,2,1]
39. D The Wagner Act gave federal support for unions to undergo
collective bargaining, a major step in the labor movement and
an important aspect of the New Deal reforms. [USSRG:60,1,1]
40. E President Hoover’s efforts to provide relief through bank
bailouts and several welfare programs were undermined by his
dedication to a balanced budget, which required a large tax
hike. [USSRG:35,1,3]
41. B Historians commonly group the initiatives of the New Deal
into the three R’s: relief, recovery, and reform. [USSRG:45,1,3]
42. D Historian William E. Leuchtenburg once called Franklin D.
Roosevelt the first modern president. [USSRG:38,1,2]
43. E The G.I. Bill greatly expanded the amount of Americans
attending college by funding the education of hundreds of
thousands of veterans. [USSRG:93,2,1]
44. C In spite of the fact that slavery had been abolished in 1863, the
vast majority of southern black farmers remained bound to
rich white landowners as sharecroppers. [USSRG:27,2,1]
45. B The 1920s were often called the age of prosperity due to the
vast increases in consumption and production that occurred
during the decade. [USSRG:7,1,1]
46. A The disease known as polio is caused by a viral infection that
targets the nervous system. [USSRG:40,2,2]
47. D The large amount of young men returning home after World
War II created a large increase in birthrates called the “baby
boom.” [USSRG:92,2,5]
48. C Upton Sinclair was known nationwide for authoring the
famous novel The Jungle and campaigning to end poverty in
California. [USSRG:54,2,3]
49. B The Works Progress Administration was the first major New
Deal initiative that focused on the welfare of artists and
writers, through the Federal Arts Project and the Federal
Writers’ Project. [USSRG:62,1,1]
50. D The International Band for Reconstruction and Development,
created at the Bretton Woods conference, is known commonly
as the World Bank. [USSRG:89,2,2]
 
SOCIAL SCIENCE COMPREHENSIVE 03
1. B Associationalism is a term used to describe the voluntary
cooperation between businesses and the government on
economic policy. [USSRG:53,1,3]
2. B The term caveat emptor – buyer beware – is often used to
describe the virtually regulation-free stock market of the
1920s. [USSRG:47,2,1]
3. D The Fair Labor Standards Act finally accomplished several
goals of the labor movement by creating a minimum wage,
limiting work hours, and prohibiting child labor. [USSRG:64,1,4]
4. E General Douglas C. MacArthur, who became famous during
his campaign in the Pacific Theater of World War II, was
appointed by President Hoover to remove the Bonus Army
from its encampments. [USSRG:37,1,2]
5. E The theory of mature capitalism held that the American
economy of the 1930s had reached a permanent plateau of
productivity and efficiency. [USSRG:49,2,2]
6. A The failure of the Vienna bank Kreditanstalt in May of 1931
worsened the already dire economic crisis by causing many
more European banks to fail as well. [USSRG:14,1,1]
7. E The Securities and Exchange Commission was created by
President Roosevelt in 1934 to replace the Federal Trade
Commission in regulating the stock market. [USSRG:47,2,2]
8. B Groups called John Reed Clubs were infamous for distributing
communist propaganda. [USSRG:38,2,1]
9. B The Employment Act of 1946 committed the government to
maintaining the highest possible levels of purchasing power,
production, and employment. [USSRG:90,1,1]
10. C The 25 years before the 1920s is often referred to as the
“golden age of agriculture” by historians due to the large boom
in agricultural production that occurred during this time
period. [USSRG:9,1,1]
11. B The economic collapse of capitalism was predicted by Karl
Marx, the progenitor of modern socialism. [USSRG:35,2,3]
12. C President Roosevelt refused to support a federal anti-lynching
bill because he did not want to lose the vote of the Southern
white Democrats that had been important in his election to
the presidency. [USSRG:74,1,3]
13. D The Ponzi scheme, a method to steal money from investors by
promising a large return and paying out small dividends to
hold off fraud suspicions, is named after its originator Charles
Ponzi. [USSRG:10,1,2]
14. C The American Communist Party, the only political party in
the United States to truly fight against white supremacy, came
to the aid of the Scottsboro boys. [USSRG:28,2,2]
15. D The Agricultural Adjustment Administration was designed to
stabilize crop prices and support farmers in general. [USSRG:47,2,3]
16. B Monetarists believe that the cause of deflation in crop prices
during the Depression, which reduced the profits earned by
farmers, was a decline in the stock of available money.
[USSRG:16,2,2]
17. E The American plan to pump investment funds into Europe
after World War II to enable reconstruction as known as the
Marshall Plan. [USSRG:88,2,2]
18. D The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or
OPEC, was responsible for increasing the price of oil after the
1973 Yom Kippur War. [USSRG:97,1,2]
19. C After graduating from the prestigious Groton Preparatory
School, Franklin D. Roosevelt attended Harvard University
beginning in 1899. [USSRG:40,1,1]
20. D Although President Roosevelt’s New Deal did much to aid
African Americans as part of the general population, Harry
Truman was the first president to truly extend the idea of New
Deal liberalism to include civil rights for African Americans.
[USSRG:85,2,1]
21. A President Ronald Reagan, who distrusted the power of the
federal government, began the dismantling of the New Deal
State through privatization and deregulation. [USSRG:98,1,1]
22. C President Roosevelt called for the repeal of the 18th
amendment’s prohibition of alcohol sale and consumption,
leading to the passage of the 21st amendment to repeal
prohibition. [USSRG:44,1,2]
23. A The National Industrial Recovery Act is considered as part of
the First New Deal, as it was created within the first few
months of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s presidency. [USSRG:46,2,1]
24. C Frances Perkins, a women’s rights and labor advocate, was the
most notable female member of President Roosevelt’s brain
trust. [USSRG:44,2,2]
25. E John Steinbeck’s own hometown of Salinas, California was the
site of mass burnings of his book The Grapes of Wrath, which
was seen as an attack on the Californian agricultural elite.
[USSRG:31,1,13]
26. C President Reagan strongly believed in the reduction of the
federal government’s power and the deregulation of the
marketplace. [USSRG:98,2,1]
27. A The 1934 midterm elections increased the Democratic
majority in both houses of Congress by a significant amount.
[USSRG:57,2,1]
28. B After World War II, many returning servicemen worked for
the Veterans Administration, totaling 17% of the work force.
[USSRG:89,2,2]
29. A The increased pressure from foreign competition coupled with
the expansion of the service industries caused a decline in
industrial output as the American economy began to
modernize. [USSRG:97,2,3]
30. E Despite the general public opinion that married women
should stay out of the work force, necessity forced many wives
to find employment. [USSRG:30,1,1]
31. B The privatization of an industry refers to the transfer of
ownership of utilities and services from the government to the
private sector that occurred largely during the Reagan
administration. [USSRG:99,1,1]
32. E The Dawes Act, passed in 1887 to legislate the forced
assimilation of Native Americans into American society, was
passed long before the New Deal of the 1930s and is distinct
from the Dawes Plan that restructured European debt
payment after World War I. [USSRG:76,1,3; USSRG:60,1,1; USSRG:46,2,1;
USSRG:47,2,3]
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33. E President Hoover’s main attempt to bring relief to the public  

was through the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, but the
effects of this initiative were negated by tax increases.
[USSRG:35,1,2]

34. A The Public Works Administration, which was decidedly

different from the other New Deal work relief programs, was
created as part of the National Industrial Recovery Act.
[USSRG:46,2,1]

35. E The theory of underconsumption held that the economic crisis

was caused by a lack of purchasing power and demand.
[USSRG:54,1,3]

36. C Because of the sheer volume of legislation created by the

Roosevelt Administration within the first three months of his
election, President Roosevelt’s successors have been measured
by their actions during their first 100 days in office. [USSRG:44,2,1]
37. D A man of many talents, Herbert Hoover learned to speak
Mandarin while working as a mining engineer in China.
[USSRG:34,1,1]

38. A Unlike the auto bandits of the Great Depression, Al Capone

ran a large crime syndicate that focused on the distribution of
illegal alcohol. [USSRG:32,2,2]
39. A Dr. Francis Townsend became famous nationwide for his
campaign for government funded retirement pensions for all
Americans over the age of 60. [USSRG:56,2,1]
40. B After several years of ignoring blatant signs of foreign
aggression, the American public finally supported going to war
after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. [USSRG:80,2,3]
41. E The day after his inauguration, President Roosevelt called for
an emergency session of Congress on the 9th of March, and
instituted a national banking holiday until that date.
[USSRG:45,2,1]

42. A Due to the massive reduction in available gold reserves, Great

Britain was forced to leave the gold standard. [USSRG:14,1,1]
43. B The National Housing Act of 1934, which created the Federal
Housing Administration and the Federal Savings and Loan
Insurance Corporation, was proposed by economist Marriner
Eccles. [USSRG:65,2,1]
44. A The American Liberty League was an elite group of business
leaders that utilized a strict interpretation of the Constitution
to justify their campaign against the government regulation of
the New Deal. [USSRG:52,2,5]
45. A In March 1932, Charles Lindbergh’s infant son was the victim
of a brutal kidnapping and murder that tugged at the anxieties
and insecurities of the American people. [USSRG:32,2,4]
46. E President Reagan’s chief economic advisor Arthur Laffer
warned of the danger of high taxes, which he claimed were
detrimental to investment and the economy as a whole.
[USSRG:98,1,2]

47. D The Bonus Army, a collection of over 20,000 World War I

veterans, converged in Washington D.C. to lobby for the early
payment of their bonuses. [USSRG:37,1,1]
48. C The San Francisco General Strike, which was started by the
International Longshoreman’s Association, virtually paralyzed
the city. [USSRG:52,1,1]
49. D The American public often associated the labor movement
with socialism due to its extremely liberal nature, which often
undermined union support. [USSRG:8,2,2]
50. B Born among the wealthy elite of New York, Franklin D.
Roosevelt grew up as a privileged young man. [USSRG:40,1,1]
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1. B Medicare –completely separate from Medicaid – is housed
within Social Security and still provides healthcare to many
elderly Americans. [USSRG:94,1,2]
2. A As the world economy collapsed and the Soviet Union
flourished, many Americans found merit in the ideals of
Communism. [USSRG:35,2,4]
3. E Beginning with the AAA of the New Deal and continuing in
multiple acts passed by the Truman Administration, the goal
of agricultural legislation was that of halting overproduction to
raise the prices of crops. [USSRG:47,2,3]
4. C Vast differences in benefits paid out by Social Security can be
traced to the local administration of benefits payments.
[USSRG:67,2,3]
5. C Although many large cities cut their budgets in any way
possible during the Depression, unemployment relief was the
first to be severely reduced by major cities. [USSRG:23,2,1]
6. C The result of many simultaneous withdrawals of large accounts
can create a bank panic, where the bank lacks the funds to
honor all requested withdrawals. [USSRG:13,1,1]
7. E The Wagner Act was submitted to Congress by former
National Labor Board Chairman Robert Wagner, who was
then serving as a senator from New York. [USSRG:59,2,4]
8. C The idea of a “family wage” was that men should be paid
enough to support a wife and children in order to support the
traditional family structure. [USSRG:8,2,1]
9. C Historians often refer to the New Deal relief system as a dual
welfare state, as it created relief to entitled workers and welfare
to the poor. [USSRG:68,1,3]
10. B The Communist Party organized the Popular Front campaign
to gain support from progressive civil rights and labor groups.
[USSRG:60,2,1]
11. D The New York Journalist Louis Howe became Franklin D.
Roosevelt’s publicity manager and advisor during the early
1920s and maintained this relationship until the President’s
untimely death. [USSRG:41,2,1]
12. A The technical name for stocks that represent ownership of a
part of a company is securities. [USSRG:10,2,2]
13. E Former Louisiana Governor Huey P. Long created a “Share
our Wealth” society that pushed for the redistribution of
wealth based on a progressive tax. [USSRG:55,2,1]
14. C The only two states that the Republican candidate Alfred
Landon won in the election of 1936 were Vermont and
Maine. [USSRG:69,1,1]
15. C The All-American Canal’s construction through the
cooperation of multiple New Deal agencies marked a
significant step towards economic cooperation and recovery.
[USSRG:64,1,2]
16. E The current chairman of the Federal Reserve Board is Ben
Bernanke, who has also done research on the stock market
crash. [USSRG:14,2,2]
17. A The Johnson Act of 1934 regulated the international trade of
bonds by prohibiting the trade of bonds with countries in debt
to the United States. [USSRG:77,2,1]
18. A The phenomenon of land speculation led the Miami Daily
News to print the longest ever newspaper issue with 504 pages.
[USSRG:10,1,2]
19. A The “Treaty of Detroit” between the United Auto Workers
and General Motors resulted in the company giving annual
cost of living allowances, which index wages for inflation of
the general price level. [USSRG:92,1,1]
20. A The Council of Economic Advisors was created as part of the
Employment Act of 1946 as part of the Government’s
commitment to correctly managing the economy. [USSRG:90,1,2]
21. D The majority of females in the 1920s work force were un-
married, poor, and most often either black or foreign born.
Most working women of the time were domestic servants or
filled simple white-collar jobs. [USSRG:8,2,1]
22. D The Revenue Act of 1932 required a balanced budget in order
to make sure the government did not accrue any debt from
budget deficits. [USSRG:35,1,3]
23. A The Taft-Hartley Act, which included a provision that forced
labor leaders to make an anti-Communist pledge, shows the
American people’s fear that labor unions were tied to the
Communist Party. [USSRG:91,2,2]
24. D Lyndon B. Johnson was a member of President Roosevelt’s
brain trust as a “political dealmaker.” [USSRG:45,1,1]
25. B The main tools used by the Federal Reserve are the buying and
selling of government bonds and the manipulation of the
Discount rate. [USSRG:14,1,3]
26. D The neo-Austrian school of thought on the economic collapse
of 1929 is based in the ideas of Austrian economist Friedrich
von Hayek. [USSRG:18,2,1]
27. C Famed economist John Maynard Keynes blamed under-
investment for the triggering of the Depression and claimed
that the large decline in investment of the early 1920s was a
major reason for the crash. [USSRG:19,1,4]
28. A Farmers during the Depression struggled with the problem of
deflation, which lowered the price they could sell their goods
for. Deflation, a decrease in price levels, should not be
confused with disinflation – a slowing inflation rate.
[USSRG:16,2,1]
29. B Although the IMF was supposed to set the conditions of their
loans to developing countries, these conditions were most
often set by the United States. [USSRG:89,1,2]
30. C The Wagner Act, which was passed during President
Roosevelt’s second term, is considered part of the second New
Deal. [USSRG:60,1,1]
31. A On the eve of the 1936 election, a poll conducted by the
Literary Digest incorrectly predicted Alfred Landon to win due
to its focus on higher demographics of the population.
[USSRG:69,1,2]
32. C Eleanor Roosevelt was an outspoken advocate for the rights of
women and minorities, and often showed public support for
these interest groups. In one such occasion the First Lady
insisted upon sitting in the colored section at the Southern
Conference for Human Welfare. [USSRG:73,2,2]
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33. D Due to the continuing shipment of American Arms to China 50. C The mass production of homes in large suburban
during the Sino-Japanese conflict, Japanese planes attacked the neighborhoods greatly decreased the cost of housing in post-
American gunboat Panay. [USSRG:80,1,3] war America. [USSRG:92,2,4]
34. A The Judicial Procedures Reform Act is known commonly as  
president Roosevelt’s court packing plan. [USSRG:70,2,1]
35. A Famous black opera singer Marian Anderson was denied use of
Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American
Revolution. [USSRG:73,2,2]
36. C In a 6 to 3 vote the Supreme Court struck down the
processing tax used to fund the Agricultural Adjustment
Agency, thus dooming the initiative’s future. [USSRG:58,2,3]
37. B In a fireside chat broadcast made after the Emergency Banking
Act was passed, President Roosevelt convinced the American
people to return their savings to the banking system.
[USSRG:45,2,3]

38. E The Savings and Loans Crisis was caused by the removal of
geographic restrictions on investments made by Savings and
Loans institutions during President Reagan’s wave of
deregulation. [USSRG:98,2,1]
39. A After World War II, the American government urged
producers to channel their war-time production into useful
peacetime applications. This desire to transfer war production
into peace time led General Motors to mass produce the Jeep.
[USSRG:89,2,1]

40. E The main stated goal of the IMF was to stabilize the values of
world currencies by pegging exchange rates to the value of the
United States Dollar. [USSRG:89,1,1]
41. B The main missing piece of the Social Security Act was the
omission of a healthcare provision. It was not until the
Johnson administration that healthcare was added to Social
Security in the form of Medicare and Medicaid. [USSRG:67,2,1]
42. E The last day of the stock market crash, October 29th, is
known as Black Tuesday for the figurative mourning of the
financial community for the fall of the market [USSRG:12,1,3]
43. E The practice of granting concessions to an aggressive party to
achieve short term peace is known specifically as appeasement,
a term often used to describe the Western powers’ treatment of
German aggression in the 1930s.. [USSRG:80,2,2]
44. A The introduction of floating exchange rates after the value of
the dollar became too artificially high marked the end of the
Bretton Woods system of fixed exchange rates. [USSRG:88,2,1]
45. D Simon Kuznets – Nobel laureate and father of national income
accounting – was a major proponent of the mal-distribution
thesis that blamed the economic collapse on the inefficient
distribution of wealth. [USSRG:19,1,2]
46. C Adolf Berle, a member of President Roosevelt’s brain trust, was
a critic of big business and corporate America who authored
The Modern Corporation and Private Property. [USSRG:50,2,2]
47. C In 1933, the United States and the largest European powers
met at the London Economic conference. [USSRG:77,2,2]
48. B The Tydings-McDuffie Act officially denoted the Philippines
as a commonwealth on track for independence instead of
remaining as an American “island possession.” [USSRG:78,2,3]
49. B The New Deal had a significant effect in increasing the size,
influence, and power of the federal government without
drastically changing foreign policy. [USSRG:81,1,1]
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1. B The Bonus Army set up camp in an open area called Anacostia
Flats and in nearby empty federal buildings. [USSRG:37,1,1]
2. A The Civilian Conservation Corps differed from the CWA and
PWA in that it focused on younger workers and aimed to
complete conservation and beautification projects. [USSRG:46,2,1]
3. B The idea that some industries desired protection from
dangerous competition is known as corporate liberalism.
[USSRG:53,1,2]
4. D The many work relief programs of the New Deal – the CCC,
CWA, and PWA – were criticized for being “make-work”
assignments that only created jobs for the sake of employment
without any real objectives. [USSRG:46,2,2]
5. E After being elected in his own right in 1948, President
Truman unveiled a 21-point plan for the expansion of federal
programs to provide further relief and reform for the American
people. [USSRG:85,2,1]
6. D Huey P. Long’s political career was jump started by his
election to the office of Governor of Louisiana, where he built
up a political powerhouse. [USSRG:55,1,3]
7. D The nationally syndicated CBS radio show “The Golden Hour
of the Little Flower” was hosted by the popular Father Charles
Edward Coughlin. [USSRG:56,1,1]
8. E The effect of the New Deal on demand was largely negated by
the vast decreases in state budgets during the Depression.
[USSRG:49,2,3]
9. D Many poor southern sharecroppers fell to diseases caused by
nutritional deficiency such as pellagra and rickets. [USSRG:27,2,1]
10. B The National Industrial Recovery Act suspended anti-trust
laws to allow industries to create their own regulatory codes in
conjunction with labor unions. [USSRG:48,2,2-3]
11. A Cost of Living Adjustments – COLA – were first included in
the 1950 Treaty of Detroit and then became an important way
for unions to include inflation in their negotiations for wages.
[USSRG:92,1,1]
12. D Famous conservative publisher William Randolph Hearst sent
spies to university campuses to find “red” professors in an
effort to stop what he saw as a communist conspiracy.
[USSRG:36,1,1]
13. E The failure of President Hoover to come through with his
promise for civil rights reform led many African Americans to
switch their allegiance to the Democratic Party. [USSRG:28,2,1]
14. E The Mississippi Flood of 1927 gave the public a glimpse at the
dismal ability of future President Hoover to deal with disaster
and illustrated the racial inequality of the South. [USSRG:28,1,2]
15. A In an attempt to protect small farmers from bankruptcy,
Congress passed the Farm Credit Act. [USSRG:53,2,2]
16. C Although they had long known each other as distant cousins,
Franklin and Eleanor fell in love in 1903. Franklin and
Eleanor were actually fifth cousins once removed and shared
the surname Roosevelt before they were married. [USSRG:41,1,2]
17. B The author Horatio Lager perfected the use of the rags to
riches storyline that typified novels for young men before the
Depression. [USSRG:31,1,3]
18. E The dual errors of President Hoover’s recovery plan were of
increasing taxes and keeping a balanced budget
simultaneously, which negated the effect of recovery efforts.
[USSRG:39,1,1]
19. E The unsafe and unsanitary conditions of illegal abortions
during the Depression led to the death of 8,000 to 10,000
women every year. [USSRG:29,1,1]
20. E The American people saw President Hoover’s treatment of the
Bonus Army as unforgivable, which hindered his chances at
reelection. [USSRG:37,1,3]
21. C After World War I, the British Pound Sterling was reinstated
to its status as the main currency of the international gold
standard. [USSRG:20,2,2]
22. D The Marshall Plan gave $13 billion in grants to European
countries to aid in rebuilding after World War II. [USSRG:88,2,2]
23. A In 1934, the Securities and Exchange Commission was created
to regulate the stock market, taking over the job of the Federal
Trade Commission. [USSRG:47,2,2]
24. C President Reagan’s tax cuts effectively redistributed wealth
from the poor to the wealthy. This was shown by a 75%
increase in income for the nation’s richest 1% of people over
the course of the 1980s. [USSRG:98,1,2]
25. C The Council of Economic Advisors, which was created by the
1946 Employment Act, was first utilized by President
Truman. [USSRG:90,1,2]
26. C Frances Perkins, who served as Secretary of Labor for President
Roosevelt, believed that the President’s paralysis helped
transform him from a “privileged playboy” into a more
empathetic person. [USSRG:41,1,1]
27. C The House Committee on Un-American Activities charged
the Federal Arts Project with communist propaganda, which
led to the termination of the Federal Theatre Project.
[USSRG:63,1,1]
28. D The National Association of Manufacturers, or NAM, was
strongly opposed to the New Deal as it represented the
regulation of big business. [USSRG:53,1,1]
29. D During a summer outing to his family’s vacation home in
1921, Franklin D. Roosevelt contracted the poliomyelitis virus
and was left with severe paralysis of the legs. [USSRG:40,2,2]
30. C The Glass-Steagall Act included a small provision that created
the FDIC, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, to
protect banks and depositors through government insurance of
deposits up to $2,500. [USSRG:47,1,2]
31. B The G. I. Bill allowed millions of veterans returning from
World War Two to purchase homes. [USSRG:92,2,3]
32. B President Reagan’s chief economic advisor was Arthur Laffer,
who warned against high tax rates. [USSRG:98,1,2]
33. B About 250,000 children took to the streets as vagrants during
the 1930s due to disillusionment with their homes and
communities. [USSRG:30,2,2]
34. E The Reconstruction Finance Corporation was President
Hoover’s first major departure from his devotion to
voluntarism and self reliance. [USSRG:35,1,2]
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35. E Investment magnate Merrill Lynch brought investment

opportunities to millions of Americans in small towns and
rural areas in his pursuit of the idea of “people’s capitalism. “
[USSRG:94,2,2]

36. C Although many have claimed that President Roosevelt’s New

Deal was focused on stimulating demand, historians now
believe that the primary goal of these policies was simply to
provide relief. [USSRG:49,1,1]
37. D The American stock market was completely unregulated until
the Securities Act of 1933 created a source of regulation for
the young market. [USSRG:47,2,1-2]
38. E In a dramatic gesture, Franklin D. Roosevelt walked to the
podium on crutches to deliver a nomination speech for Al
Smith at the Democratic National Convention. [USSRG:43,1,1]
39. E The EPIC program, End Poverty In California, was created by
the famous muckraking journalist Upton Sinclair. [USSRG:55,1,1]
40. D Before the Great Depression, Californian agriculture depended
on the labor of migrant workers who immigrated from
Southeast Asian nations such as the Philippines. [USSRG:26,1,3]
41. A President Lyndon B. Johnson’s “War on Poverty” included the
Economic Opportunity Act, which provided job training
nationwide. [USSRG:96,2,2]
42. C About 10 million acres of cotton were destroyed by the AAA’s
initiative to halt overproduction, which ultimately succeeded
in doubling farm incomes from 1933 to 1936. [USSRG:48,11]
43. E The Public Works Administration was an important New
Deal work relief program headed by Harold Ickes. [USSRG:46,1,2]
44. E President F. D. Roosevelt’s advisor Harold Ickes compared his
anti-monopoly campaign to President Andrew Jackson’s
campaign against the United States Bank. [USSRG:73,1,1]
45. D By attacking and occupying Manchuria, the Japanese Empire
took its first step out of the League of Nations. [USSRG:22,2,1]
46. D Local charities and church groups lost the vast majority of
their contributions due to the Depression, and were largely
unable to provide much aid to the public. [USSRG:23,2,1]
47. E In order to protect the savings of the American People,
President Roosevelt pushed for the Glass-Steagall Act to
separate investment and commercial banking. [USSRG:47,1,1]
48. B After World War II, new farming technologies decreased the
need for human labor in the agricultural industry, especially
after 1970. [USSRG:96,1,2]
49. E The Dust Bowl severely affected areas in Colorado, Texas,
Oklahoma, and Kansas, but did not actually reach the West
Coast. [USSRG:26,1,1]
50. B The Democratic ticket of James Cox and Franklin D.
Roosevelt lost the election of 1920 but gave the emerging
politician some vital experience. [USSRG:40,2,1]
 
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1. C The 930 Jewish passengers of the S.S. St. Louis was famously
turned away from both Cuba and the United States but
eventually found refuge in several European countries.
[USSRG:79,1,2]
2. D After leaving Columbia University’s law school, Franklin D.
Roosevelt passed the bar and became a corporate lawyer.
[USSRG:40,2,1]
3. B New Ph.D. graduates were highly unlikely to find
employment on university faculties, but were often hired by
the government. [USSRG:16,1,3]
4. A The Federal Arts Project launched the careers of many writers
such as Ralph Ellison and Richard Wright. [USSRG:62,2,4]
5. E The idea of the “stream of commerce” is the argument that a
nationally organized industry can be regulated through the
interstate commerce clause because interstate trade then
becomes a part of the business. [USSRG:71,2,1]
6. B Members of the Roosevelt White House advocated for the
inclusion of a Department of the Consumer in the presidential
cabinet. [USSRG:54,1,2]
7. D The main goal of the Depression-era labor movement was to
increase the purchasing power of workers. [USSRG:50,2,3]
8. A The neo-Austrian school of thought, based on the theories of
Austrian Friedrich von Hayek, blamed the Federal Reserve
Board for the stock market crash. [USSRG:18,2,1]
9. C The Works Progress Administration differed from its
predecessors in many ways, but still was based on creating jobs
by employing workers for public works projects. [USSRG:62,1,2]
10. D After the plan to create the International Trade Organization
failed, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade was started
in its place. [USSRG: 88,2,3]
11. B The rise of the stock market after World War I shifted
American investment from Europe to the domestic stock
market. [USSRG:20,2,2]
12. A A key piece of John Maynard Keynes’ theory that under-
investment caused the Great Depression is that a reduction in
residential construction in the late 1920s caused a large
decrease in investment right before the stock market crash.
[USSRG:19,1,3-4]
13. C After being called in to aid in rescue operations and security
assignments after the 1927 Mississippi Flood, the National
Guard abused the African American survivors. [USSRG:28,1,2]
14. B President Lyndon B. Johnson’s dedication to civil rights
legislation pushed Southern whites into the Republican Party,
which created the foundations of a new conservative
movement. [USSRG:86,2,1]
15. E The conservative Democrats of the South were known as
Dixiecrats. [USSRG:67,2,3]
16. D In keeping his promise for social reform, President Truman
created the Presidential Civil Rights Commission to begin his
social reform agenda. [USSRG:86,1,1]
17. A The theory of underconsumption held that a lack of
purchasing power in the hands of the public was perpetuating
the economic hardship of the Depression. [USSRG:54,1,3]
18. B President Hoover received his college education at Stanford
University in California. [USSRG:34,1,1]
19. E The Taft-Hartley Act was passed by Congress over the veto of
President Truman in 1946. [USSRG:85,2,1]
20. B Melville Fuller served as a justice of the Supreme Court before
the Depression era. [USSRG:58,1,1]
21. E The stock market rash ruined the confidence that the
American public once had with purchasing on credit, so
installment plans became rarely used. [USSRG:12,2,1]
22. E Edwin Nourse was appointed by President Truman as the first
Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors in 1945.
[USSRG:90,1,2]
23. C The Japanese economy of the 1930s was based on the export
of silk to finance the import of supplies for the industrializing
economy. [USSRG:22,2,1]
24. C By subsidizing decreased cultivation of farmland, multiple acts
after World War II aimed to halt overproduction. The Soil
Bank Act was one of these pieces of legislation. [USSRG:95,2,3]
25. D From 1929 to 1933 the national unemployment rate increased
from about 3% to just fewer than 25%. [USSRG:15,1,1]
26. D The idea of American Jingoism is that of an aggressive foreign
policy utilizing violence to protect national interests, which
can be somewhat described as Imperialism. [USSRG:77,1,3]
27. E In 1934, French and German farms had far more access to
electricity, giving them a better rural standard of living and
more efficiency. [USSRG:64,1,3]
28. B The migration of poor blacks from the South to the cities of
the North after World War II is considered to be the most
consequential demographic shift of the 20th century.
[USSRG:85,1,2]
29. D Frances Perkins became the first woman to be appointed to a
presidential cabinet position when President Roosevelt chose
her as his Secretary of Labor. [USSRG:75,2,4]
30. A The Fair Labor Standards Act created an hourly minimum
wage of 25 cents and limited the work week to 44 hours.
[USSRG:61,2,1]
31. E Between his election in 1932 and his tragic death in 1945,
Franklin D. Roosevelt served as President of the United States
for 13 years. [USSRG:39,2,2]
32. B In 1952, Jonas Salk developed an effective vaccine against
polio that has saved the lives of untold millions of people.
[USSRG:40,2,2]
33. A In New york, the summer of 1935 was highlighted by a
citywide strike against butcher shops held by the United
Council of Working-Class Women. [USSRG:53,2,4]
34. E Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected to four presidential
terms before his untimely death. [USSRG:38,1,2]
35. B The Bonus Army was made up of around 20,000 World War I
veterans seeking to be paid out their veterans benefits.
[USSRG:37,1,1]
36. B The idea of judicial restraint is that judges should limit the
exercise of their own authority. [USSRG:58,1,1]
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37. C In spite of all the violence that the world witnessed in the
1930s, the United States remained devoted to isolationism.
[USSRG:80,1,1]

38. D The first major sit-down strike occurred at the Goodyear tire
and rubber plant in February of 1936, when workers refused
to work but did not leave their workspaces. [USSRG:60,2,2]
39. C Huey P. Long agreed with the neo-Austrian school of thought
that the cause of the Depression was the mal-distribution of
wealth. [USSRG:55,1,3]
40. A The Tax Reduction Act of 1964, which was designed by
President Kennedy but passed by his successor President
Johnson, is commonly identified as Keynesian in nature.
[USSRG:90,2,2]

41. B Franklin D. Roosevelt’s victory in the presidential election of

1932 was the largest landslide victory since Abraham Lincoln’s
virtually uncontested reelection. [USSRG:39,1,2]
42. E President Hoover believed early on that the crisis was only
temporary and was caused by the European reparations
system, not the foundations of the American economy.
[USSRG:34,2,1]

43. B In the aftermath of the pension boom, most businesses

switched their retirement benefits to 401(k)’s. [USSRG:94,2,1]
44. B Just weeks before the stock market crash of 1929, economist
Irving Fisher predicted that stock prices had reached a
permanently high plateau. [USSRG:10,2,1]
45. D President Truman’s plan for nationalized health insurance was
opposed by the American Medical Association and Congress.
[USSRG:93,2,3]

46. B The Federal Farm Board of the Hoover Administration, unlike

similar initiatives under the New Deal, decreased supply by
buying up crops rather than burning them. [USSRG:35,1,1]
47. C Although the court-packing plan failed, President Roosevelt
eventually influenced older justices to retire by restoring
retirement benefits for Supreme Court Justices. [USSRG:72,1,1]
48. C During the Great Depression, high school attendance rates
increased from under 50% to over 75% over the course of the
1930s. [USSRG:30,2,3]
49. D In the election of 1936, Alfred Landon won only two states for
a total of 8 electoral votes. [USSRG:69,1,1]
50. D After the stock market crash of 1929, President Hoover asked
businesses to maintain wage levels and investment spending to
stabilize the economy. [USSRG:14,2,3]
 
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1. B Despite the success of the New Deal, the upper class still did
not support welfare and income redistribution and did not
increase their support for the Democratic Party. [USSRG:83,2,1]
2. C Increased foreign competition and corporate outsourcing led
to the decline of the industrial Northeast, which became
known as the Rustbelt. [USSRG:97,2,3]
3. A The Home Owners Loan Corporation was introduced to
provide cheaper loans to homeowners facing the possibility of
foreclosure. [USSRG:65,1,3]
4. D Economists Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz believe that
the inaction of the Federal Reserve caused the stock market to
crash. [USSRG:18,1,2]
5. D The day after his inauguration, President Roosevelt
immediately began to address the current banking panic.
[USSRG:45,2,1]
6. A Lazaro Cardenas, a renowned economic and social reformer,
was elected to the presidency of Mexico during the
Depression. [USSRG:78,2,1]
7. D Upton Sinclair, a famous author and longtime socialist,
switched his political allegiance to the Democratic Party in
1933 to follow his political aspirations. [USSRG:54,2,3]
8. B The supply-side economics of Arthur Laffer and President
Reagan emphasized the fact that high taxes decrease the
amount of funds available for investment. [USSRG:98,1,2]
9. D The leader of the black Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
was A. Phillip Randolph, who pushed President Roosevelt to
create the Fair Employment Practices Commission. [USSRG:83,2,3]
10. E The five largest industries in America prior to World War I
were printing, machinery, lumber, iron and steel, and malt
liquors. [USSRG:19,2,2]
11. A John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers union organized
the Committee for Industrial Organization in response to the
AFL’s refusal to create a widespread industrial union.
[USSRG:60,1,3]
12. D The majority of government spending shifted from New Deal
agencies to the War Production Board during World War II.
[USSRG:82,1,2]
13. B Unlike mafia bosses like Al Capone that evaded the
government to illegally distribute alcohol, auto bandits like
Bonnie and Clyde became famous for striking out against the
rich elite. [USSRG:32,1,1]
14. A In order to reform the practices of the AAA and reclaim the
land lost to the Dust Bowl, President Roosevelt pushed for the
creation of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment
Act. [USSRG:64,1,1]
15. D Shortly after the passage of the Kennedy tax cuts, government
spending was greatly increased by the escalating violence in the
Vietnam Conflict. [USSRG:97,1,1]
16. A In 1965, President Johnson signed the Medicare Bill into law,
which created a Social Security-funded healthcare program for
the elderly called Medicare. [USSRG:94,1,2,]
17. C As part of his “Great Society” plan for social reform, President
Johnson expanded funding for many welfare programs,
especially AFDC. [USSRG:85,1,3]
18. B The Chicago Outfit, an illegal organization known for alcohol
distribution, was led by the infamous Al Capone. [USSRG:32,2,2]
19. E There was a 23% decrease in the marriage rate from 1929 to
1932, which was accompanied by a 14% drop in birth rates.
[USSRG:29,1,1]
20. D The Japanese desire for national autarky, or economic
independence, led them to expand their economic capacity
through territorial gains. [USSRG:22,2,1]
21. B Upton Sinclair’s program to End Poverty In California is
known by the acronym EPIC. [USSRG:55,1,1]
22. A The Native American people had an unemployment rate that
was three times higher than the national average during the
Depression. [USSRG:76,1,2]
23. D One important component of the Works Progress
Administration was the National Youth Administration.
[USSRG:62,2,3]
24. B Herbert Hoover graduated from Stanford University with a
degree in geology. [USSRG:34,1,1]
25. C The United Automobile Workers were successful in gaining
recognition and bargaining rights with General Motors
through the use of a sit-down strike. [USSRG:61,1,1]
26. A The great drought of the 1930s created a large desert-like Dust
Bowl that destroyed millions of acres of farmland. [USSRG:25,2,1]
27. E The passage of the third Neutrality Act prevented the United
States from intervening during the Spanish Civil War, when
the fascist Francisco Franco overtook the Spanish government.
[USSRG:80,1,2]
28. D The banking system in America faced a period of relative
stability from the end of World War II until the deregulation
of the Reagan Administration. [USSRG:95,1,1]
29. B During his campaign for the presidency, Franklin D Roosevelt
agreed with President Hoover when he promised a 25% cut in
the federal budget. [USSRG:39,1,2]
30. C At a conference of American States held in Uruguay, President
Roosevelt promised not to interven in Latin American Affairs,
which is known now as the “Good Neighbor Policy.”
[USSRG:78,1,1]
31. D Terms such as “Hoovervilles” and “Hoover blankets” that were
used during the Depression show that the public blamed
President Hoover for their economic hardship. [USSRG:33,2,1]
32. E The Quarantine Doctrine of President Roosevelt compared
aggressor nations to diseased patients that must be isolated
form the other nations of the world. [USSRG:80,2,1]
33. D A discontented middle class in Brazil supported a military
coup that successfully installed the pro-industrial nationalist
Getulio D. Vargas to the presidency. [USSRG:21,2,4]
34. E The Soviet Union’s relative isolation and lack of international
ties created insulation from the failure of global markets.
[USSRG:22,1,2]
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35. C President F. D. Roosevelt’s Republican opponent in the 1936

election, Alfred Landon, is best described as a fiscal
conservative with no intention to change the New Deal.
[USSRG:68,2,2]

36. B Albert Einstein’s 1933 escape from Nazi Germany alerted

many Americans to the dangers of the Nazi regime. [USSRG:79,1,1]
37. C The Securities and Exchange Commission was created by the
Securities Exchange Act in June of 1934. [USSRG:47,2,2]
38. C Frank Capra directed many movies that centered on decent,
upstanding heroes from small towns confronting the urban
elite. [USSRG:31,2,2]
39. E The black student fund of the National Youth Administration
was put in the hands of famous educator Mary McLeod.
[USSRG:62,2,3]

40. C The cell phone is often seen as a product of the deregulation of

the telecommunications industry. [USSRG:98,2,2]
41. C At its peak employment, the Civil Works Administration
employed 4.2 million workers, more than the 3.5 million of
the Works Progress Administration and 250,000 of the CCC.
[USSRG:46,1,2: USSRGL46,2,1; USSRG:62,2,1]

42. A The FDIC was originally created to insure deposits of up to

$2,500 and has generally increased this limit with inflation
over the years, to the current level of $150,000. [USSRG:47,1,2]
43. D The Resettlement Administration, which was created to
relocate farmers to more arable land, became the Farm
Security Administration after its director Rexford Tugwell
resigned in 1937. [USSRG:64,2,3]
44. C The idea of having “most favored nations” in American
international trade was created by the Reciprocal Trade
Agreement Act. [USSRG:77,2,3]
45. E Far from a political advisor, Arthur M. Schlesinger is a notable
historian of the New Deal and Great Depression. [USSRG:45,1,2]
46. E Stuart Chase, an amateur economist and journalist,
championed the theory of underconsumption in his book, A
New Deal. [USSRG:54,1,3]
47. E The Revenue Act of 1932 committed the federal government
to a balanced budget by limiting spending to the amount of
money available. [USSRG:35,13]
48. E The plight of Southern sharecroppers was recognized by the
Communist Party as a chance to fight back against racial
apartheid by supporting local resistance efforts. [USSRG:28,1,1]
49. D The Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 was often called the
“Indian New Deal” because of the broad reform that it
brought to Indian-government relations. [USSRG:76,1,3]
50. E The Smoot-Hawley Tariff was the last high protective tariff
passed by the American government. [USSRG:20,2,2]
 
SOCIAL SCIENCE COMPREHENSIVE 08
1. C Deflation was a terrible thing for American farmers, because it
inevitably leads to lower price levels and thus lower profits.
[USSRG:16,2,1]
2. B The Supreme Court decided in the case of Louisville Joint
Stock Land Bank v. Radford that the Emergency Farm
Mortgage Act violated the fifth amendment for the
government’s taking of private property without just
compensation. [USSRG:58,2,3]
3. E During the Depression, white-collar workers were employed at
higher rates than workers in manufacturing. [USSRG:16,1,2]
4. B Many Americans who feared the growing power of the radical
Huey P. Long were relieved to hear of his assassination in
September of 1935. [USSRG:55,2,2]
5. B During the Bonus Army’s stay in Washington, D.C., the
president of the United States was Herbert Hoover. [USSRG:37,1,1]
6. D The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of
1965 were passed by devoted civil rights reformer President
Lyndon B. Johnson. [USSRG:86,2,1]
7. D The International Trade Organization, had it succeeded,
would have begun with the United States and Great Britain as
its founding members. [USSRG:88,2,3]
8. D The majority of organized labor aligned with the Democratic
Party after World War II. [USSRG:83,2,1]
9. C In the summer of 1925, the Miami Daily News printed the
longest ever newspaper issue. [USSRG:10,1,2]
10. C The economist Alvin Hansen wrote that because it took $2
billion more out of the economy than it contributed, Social
Security actually reduced total consumption. [USSRG:72,2,3]
11. B After helping Woodrow Wilson gain the Democratic
nomination for the Presidency, he was rewarded with a cabinet
position, and was then considered by President Wilson to be
his protégé. [USSRG:42,2,1]
12. B The deregulation of the airline industry and the reduction of
the Federal Aviation Administration caused the airline price
wars of the 1990s. [USSRG:98,2,2]
13. B President Reagan, who believed in a severely limited and small
federal government, began to dismantle the legacy of the New
Deal. [USSRG:98,1,1]
14. B The Works Progress Administration was created in 1935 by
the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act, long after the
creation of the other major work relief initiatives. [USSRG:62,2,3]
15. B The Tydings-McDuffie Act of 1934 made the Philippines a
commonwealth of the United States and initiated a 10-year
program towards national independence. [USSRG:78,2,3]
16. E Franklin Delano Roosevelt grew up within the comfort of his
family’s estate in the small town of Hyde Park, New York.
[USSRG:40,1,1]
17. D The American Federation of Labor remains a very large and
influential labor union to the present day as the AFL-CIO.
[USSRG:52,1,2]
18. A The American invention of artificial silk was very dangerous
for the Japanese export trade, which was dependent on the
export of silk during the Depression era. [USSRG:22,2,1]
19. A About 22 million Americans were introduced to investment
during World War I, when the government sold Liberty and
Victory war bonds to help fund the war. [USSRG:10,2,2]
20. A Eleanor Roosevelt was very politically active as First Lady and
used her position to advocate for civil rights and equality.
[USSRG:73,2,2]
21. E The Truman Administration quickly fixed the first post-
World War II recession by introducing Keynesian fiscal policy
via military contract spending increases. [USSRG:90,2,1]
22. B Relief, reform, and recovery are the three R’s of the New Deal,
which are the three categories used to sort through the many
New Deal initiatives. [USSRG:45,1,3]
23. B The National Labor Relations Board was created by the
Wagner Act to oversee employee elections for unions.
[USSRG:60,1,1]
24. C The Monetarists believe that the deflation of the Depression
was caused by a decline in the stock of money. [USSRG:16,2,2]
25. B Filipinos were labeled as “American nationals” after the
annexation of the Philippines, which meant that they lacked
the rights of full citizens. [USSRG:78,2,2]
26. A The idea that strength and resolve could beat economic
hardship led many young boys to idolize the physical and
mental strength of Superman. [USSRG:75,2,1]
27. D As vocal proponents of Keynesian fiscal policy, Alvin Hansen
and Paul Samuelson were known as American disciples of John
Maynard Keynes. [USSRG:87,2,1]
28. E The Mississippi Flood of 1927 threatened the City of New
Orleans but did the most damage about 12 miles north of the
city of Greenville in Mississippi. [USSRG:28,1,2]
29. C The main purpose of the Kefauver-Harris Amendment was to
add new safety testing measures for new drugs. [USSRG:87,1,3]
30. A The Marshall Plan for post-World War II recovery in Europe
was officially known as the European Recovery Program and
gave aid to finance reconstruction in over a dozen countries.
[USSRG:88,2,2]
31. D A 1936 Gallup Poll showed that 82% of people agreed that
wives should not work if their husbands do, because females in
the work force block jobs that could be given to a man.
[USSRG:30,1,2]
32. A Charles Evan Hughes served as the Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court from 1930 to 1941. [USSRG:58,1,1]
33. C The New Deal’s fiercest opposition came from the leaders of
big business who feared regulation. [USSRG:52,2,5]
34. B The Tennessee Valley Authority was very successful in a wide
range of different initiatives, such as providing power and
creating environmental projects. [USSRG:50,2,1]
35. D In order to halt overproduction, the AAA allowed farmers to
destroy millions of acres of crops and slaughter millions of
livestock in order to drive prices up. [USSRG:48,1,1]
36. E The Memorial Day Massacre occurred on May 30, 1937 when
Chicago police broke up a picnic of organized steel workers
from Republic Steel. [USSRG:61,1,2]
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37. C After President Hoover went back on his promise of civil

rights reform, disillusioned Southern blacks began to switch
allegiance to the Democratic Party. [USSRG:28,2,2]
38. D President Hoover feared that any comprehensive aid program
would create a class of dependent citizens. [USSRG:35,1,1]
39. D As part of the Civil Works Administration’s dedication to
relief efforts, the organization employed all of the unemployed
teachers in the city of Boston. [USSRG:46,1,2]
40. E Although President Lincoln – the Great Emancipator – had
been a member of the Republican Party, the Democratic Party
of the twentieth century became the party of social reform.
[USSRG:28,2,2]

41. E The revolutionary forces of Grau San Martin were doomed by

the presence of American naval forces in Havana harbor,
allowing Carlos Mendieta to seize power. [USSRG:78,1,2]
42. E The bank Kreditanstalt was located in Vienna until its collapse
in May of 1931. [USSRG:14,1,1]
43. A In what is called the Rape of Nanking, Japanese forces brutally
murdered and raped 300,000 civilians in 1937. [USSRG: 80,1,3]
44. A The Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation was
created to insure home loans made by savings and loan
institutions as a lender of last resort. [USSRG:65,2,2]
45. A The virus poliomyelitis attacks the nervous system of its
victims, leading to paralysis. [USSRG:40,2,2]
46. E The Democratic Party, which lost some Southern support due
to the social reform of the New Deal, was given the winning
margin in 1948 by African Americans living in the North.
[USSRG:86,1,2]

47. B The Fair Labor Standards Act limited the work week to 44
hours and included a provision to gradually reduce this to 40
hours over the next two years. [USSRG:61,2,1]
48. E The Indian Reorganization Act abolished the federal policy of
forced assimilation and began to grant freedoms to Native
Americans that had been denied for over a century. [USSRG:76,1,3]
49. D Decreasing birth rates during the Depression were made
possible by the widespread availability of contraception.
[USSRG:29,1,1]

50. C At the height of the Depression, the City of New York reached
a total unemployment of one million people. [USSRG:16,1,1]
 
SOCIAL SCIENCE COMPREHENSIVE 09
1. A President Roosevelt attended the prestigious Groton Prep
School before going to Harvard University. [USSRG:40,2,1]
2. C President Truman appointed the conservative Edwin Nourse
as the first Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors to
appease Republicans and the business sector. [USSRG:90,1,2]
3. B The Glass-Steagall Banking Act protected savings accounts by
separating investment and commercial banking. [USSRG:47,1,1]
4. E In 1947, veterans made up 70% of college student bodies due
to the G. I. Bill’s funding for education, making it responsible
for an expansion in college education. [USSRG:93,2,1]
5. D A call loan is a loan that is made without a date on which the
lender can demand full payment at will, which often leads to
very long term loans. [USSRG:14,2,1]
6. A The leader of the global economy before World War I was
Great Britain, but this role was passed on the the United States
after the war due to the Dawes Plan. [USSRG:20,2,3]
7. B The Federal Reserve buys and sells government bonds on the
open market to any available markets in order to manipulate
the domestic money supply. [USSRG:12,1,1]
8. C The “Kingfish” was the former Governor of Louisiana and
Senator, Huey P. Long. [USSRG:55,2,2]
9. E Dr. Francis Townsend campaigned for a federally funded old-
age pension of $200 per month paid to every American citizen
over 60 years old. [USSRG:56,2,1]
10. E Veterans’ benefits were basically the only form of government
assistance prior to the New Deal. [USSRG:36,1,2]
11. E The term stagflation – simultaneous stagnation of growth and
inflation – symbolized the limitations of Keynesian demand
management by showing how it can fail to produce results.
[USSRG:97,1,2]
12. C The rising costs of the Vietnam Conflict in the late 1960s
caused CEA Chairmen Walter Heller to urge President
Johnson for a tax increase. [USSRG:97,1,1]
13. E The idealistic director of the Resettlement Administration, an
organization designed to help resettle farmers whose land had
been destroyed by erosion, was Rexford Tugwell. [USSRG:64,2,3]
14. E In comparison to the 90% of German and French farms that
had access to electricity in 1934, only 11% of American farms
had the same access. [USSRG:64,1,3]
15. B Although unemployment relief remains a key facet of modern
welfare programs, the CCC did not make it out of the
Depression era. [USSRG:83,1,3]
16. E In 1918, three years before he contracted polio, Franklin D.
Roosevelt contracted influenza and was unable to serve in the
military during World War I. [USSRG:40,2,1]
17. B John L. Lewis, a member of the United Mine Workers,
organized the CIO after becoming dissatisfied with the
American Federation of Labor. [USSRG:60,1,3]
18. B Louis McHenry Howe served President Roosevelt as his
publicity manager and closest advisor. [USSRG:41,2,1]
19. B During his time as a mining engineer in China and Australia,
Herbert Hoover produced a standard textbook for mining
engineers. [USSRG:34,1,1]
20. A The many home loan programs of the New Deal helped
expand the middle class and endear the people of the
American suburbs to the Democratic Party. [USSRG:83,2,2]
21. B The S.S. St. Louis carried 930 Jewish passengers that were
denied asylum in the United States and Cuba but eventually
found refuge in other European countries. [USSRG:79,1,2]
22. B Clubs that sprang up in major cities to distribute communist
propaganda in different media were named after the
communist activist John Reed. [USSRG:38,2,1]
23. E The National Association of Manufacturers, along with other
organizations like the American Liberty League, aggressively
opposed the New Deal. [USSRG:53,1,1]
24. B There were many reasons for the expansion of the middle class
after World War Two, but deregulation was not one of them.
[USSRG:92,2,1]
25. E The economist Joseph Schumpeter believed that the under-
consumption of the 1920s was a product of wages not keeping
up with labor productivity, causing workers to not be able to
afford the products they made. [USSRG:19,1,3]
26. E The main financial stimulus of the Cold War was the creation
of a military-industrial complex that pumped money into the
American economy. [USSRG:82,1,3]
27. A President Hoover rationalized his decision to remove the
Bonus Army from its encampments by saying that they were
communist agitators that threatened the very existence of the
government. [USSRG:37,1,4]
28. A A prominent activist and reformer, Eleanor Roosevelt was an
important member of the League of Women Voters.
[USSRG:41,1,2]
29. E At its peak from 1933 to 1934, the Civil Works
Administration employed 4.2 million workers in various
public works projects. [USSRG:46,1,2]
30. C Unemployment in the Soviet Union was almost nonexistent
during the Great Depression due to the nature of the
command economy and booming agricultural and
manufacturing industries . [USSRG:23,1,2]
31. B The first major relief effort undertaken by President Hoover
was the creation of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to
bail out failing banks. [USSRG:35,1,2]
32. E The Soil Conservation Service encouraged the creation of
“shelterbelts” made of brush and trees to break up wind
patterns that were eroding exposed fields. [USSRG:64,1,2]
33. A While speaking to a group of American legionnaires in Florida,
then President-elect Roosevelt was shot at by Italian
construction worker Guiseppe Zangara, whose bullets missed
him but fatally wounded Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak.
[USSRG:39,2,1]
34. B The main work relief program of the second New Deal was
the Works Progress Administration, which was created in
1935 and employed a total of 8 million people during its eight
years of existence. [USSRG:61,2,2]
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35. D In 1933, unemployment peaked at 24.9%, the highest level

during the Great Depression. [USSRG:15,1,1]
36. C The labor movement was often associated with socialism after
the Russian Revolution of 1917. Many Americans feared that
the radical unionization of workers was a prelude to a
communist revolution. [USSRG:8,2,2]
37. D After World War II, collective bargaining made private
pension plans an important part of almost all labor contracts.
[USSRG:94,1,3]

38. B Adolf Berle, who authored The Modern Corporation and

Private Property, was a member of President Roosevelt’s brain
trust and an outspoken critic of big business. [USSRG:50,2,2]
39. A After Justice Van Devanter took advantage of the reinstated
retirement benefits for Justices of the Supreme Court,
President Roosevelt appointed Hugo Black to replace him.
[USSRG:72,1,1]

40. E The 1932 election saw the incumbent Herbert Hoover lose in
a landslide, as the up and coming Franklin D. Roosevelt
received 472 electoral votes out of the 531 possible. [USSRG:39,1,2]
41. D Considered by many to be the crowning achievement of the
second New Deal, Social Security is still very important to the
present day. Medicare is a component of Social Security that is
very important but was not signed into law until 1965.
[USSRG:66,2,2]

42. A The neo-Austrian school of thought believes that the Federal

Reserve did too much in the 1920s, which inhibited the ability
of the free market to adjust. [USSRG:18,2,1]
43. C Upton Sinclair, the famous author and activist, ran for
Governor of California as the Democratic candidate in 1934.
[USSRG:54,2,3]

44. D The famed photographer Dorothea Lange gained notoriety for

her iconic pictures of struggling farmers, which she took for
the Farm Security Administration to document the plight of
such farmers. [USSRG:65,1,1]
45. C Promises of jobs in fruit and vegetable picking in California
led many farmers affected by the Dust Bowl to head West.
[USSRG:26,1,1]

46. A The case of Louisville Joint Stock Land Bank v. Radford struck
down the Emergency Farm Mortgage Act, which set a
precedent for the end of the AAA that was brought about by
United States v. Butler. [USSRG:58,2,3]
47. C The Tax Reduction Act of 1964, which was created by
president John F. Kennedy, was passed by President Lyndon
B. Johnson after his predecessor’s tragic death. [USSRG:90,2,2]
48. C Southern California was the hardest hit area of the State,
which was shown by the fact that half of the State’s 350,000
unemployed workers lived in the city of Las Angeles.
[USSRG:26,2,2]

49. C The encampment of the Bonus Army at Anacostia Flats was

adjacent to the Potomac River. [USSRG:37,1,3]
50. D A provision to provide healthcare to the elderly was left out of
the Social Security Act to appease the medical community, but
was added in 1965 by President Johnson in the form of
Medicare. [USSRG:67,2,1]
 
SOCIAL SCIENCE COMPREHENSIVE 10
1. A The ”Internationale” was a famous communist hymn that was
sung by dissidents marching the streets of Detroit during the
Depression. [USSRG:38,2,1]
2. E The policy of forced assimilation of Native Americans was
legislated by the 1887 Dawes Act. [USSRG:76,1,3]
3. D By the time of President F. D. Roosevelt’s inauguration in
1933, half of all home mortgages in America were in default.
[USSRG:23,1,1]
4. E Marian Anderson’s concert from the steps of the Lincoln
Memorial was attended by 75,000 people and heard on the
radio by several million. [USSRG:73,2,2]
5. C During the 1930s, American ownership of radios more than
doubled due to the relative cheapness of radio entertainment.
[USSRG:31,2,3]
6. E While speaking at the Seventh International Conference of
American States in Montevideo, Uruguay, President Roosevelt
enumerated his “good neighbor policy” for the first time.
[USSRG:78,1,2]
7. D The drug Thalidomide caused a wave of birth defects and led
to the adoption of the Kefauver-Harris Amendment to the
Food Drug and Cosmetic Act. [USSRG:87,1,3]
8. B The Daughters of the American Revolution owned
Constitution Hall in Washington D.C. during 1939, when
black opera singer Marian Anderson was denied the right to
sing there. [USSRG:73,2,2]
9. A A total of 1.1 billion shares were traded on the stock market in
1929, a far cry from the 317 million that were traded a decade
earlier in 1919. [USSRG:11,1,1]
10. D Companies that decide to “go public” have decided to sell
shares of their business on a stock exchange. [USSRG:10,2,2]
11. E Marriner Eccles, who would later serve as the Chairman of the
Federal Reserve Board, created the National Housing Act to
make home loans more available and safe. [USSRG:65,2,2]
12. C From 1924 to 1938, the number of female union members
quadrupled from 200,000 to 800,000. [USSRG:76,1,1]
13. D President Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote for the Harvard
Crimson while in college. [USSRG:41,2,1]
14. D The Johnson Act prohibited the trading of bonds with
countries in debt to the United States. [USSRG:77,2,1]
15. A The Rural Electrification Administration was created to bring
energy resources to rural farmers who had previously been
unable to obtain electricity. [USSRG:64,1,4]
16. B Despite the many aggressive offensives of the axis powers prior
to 1939, it was not until the German invasion of Poland that
France and England entered World War II. [USSRG:80,2,3]
17. E The 1934 Securities and Exchange Act created the Securities
and Exchange Act to regulate the Stock Market. [USSRG:47,2,2]
18. D Famed economist Irving Fisher proclaimed that stock prices
were at a permanently high level, just two weeks before the
great crash. [USSRG:10,2,1]
19. D The Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 created the
Works Progress Administration. [USSRG:62,1,2]
20. E While in school, Franklin D. Roosevelt always gave his social
life the highest priority. [USSRG:40,1,1]
21. E Many corporate leaders who opposed the New Deal formed
the American Liberty League to campaign against the radical
reform of the Roosevelt Administration. [USSRG:52,2,5]
22. C Annual Improvement Factors, or AIF’s were added to labor
contracts to provide yearly wage increases to match inflation
and industry standards. [USSRG:92,1,1]
23. D The Taft-Hartley Act was passed in 1946, despite the veto of
President Truman. [USSRG:85,2,1]
24. D The Dawes plan called for Federal Reserve loans to Germany,
which would then be used to pay reparations to England and
France. [USSRG:9,2,1]
25. D Aided by a Brazilian middle class that was frustrated by the
Great Depression, Getulio D. Vargas was able to take power.
[USSRG:21,2,4]
26. A The immigration acts of 1921 and 1924 placed draconian
immigration restrictions that greatly reduced the amount of
immigration to America. [USSRG:8,1,2]
27. C The first relief program created by the Roosevelt
Administration after passing the Emergency Banking Act was
FERA, the Federal Emergency Relief Administration.
[USSRG:45,2,4]
28. A The expansion of the German state in the 1930s was
rationalized by the ideologically charged concept of
Lebensraum, which combined elements of anti-Semitic hatred
and national autarky. [USSRG:22,2,1]
29. B Nobel laureate Simon Kuznets contributed to the mal-
distribution thesis on the cause of the Depression, which
blamed the great collapse on an inefficient distribution of
wealth. [USSRG:19,1,2]
30. B The Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 established job
training camps as a part of President Johnson’s “War on
Poverty.” [USSRG:96,2,2]
31. C President Roosevelt always sought to maintain the support of
big business, which he did so through bringing in conservative
advisors and appointing Joseph P. Kennedy as the head of the
SEC. [USSRG:52,2,4]
32. E The stagflation of the 1970s resulted from a combination of
stagnant growth and inflation. [USSRG:97,1,2]
33. A From 1928 until his election to the Presidency in 1932,
Franklin D. Roosevelt served as Governor of New York for
two terms. [USSRG:44,1,1]
34. D The Glass-Steagall Banking Act protected the savings of the
American people by separating investment from commercial
banking and creating the FDIC to insure deposits. [USSRG:47,1,1-2]
35. D The Tennessee Valley Authority spanned across seven states
and was very successful in its electrification, conservation, and
flood control efforts. [USSRG:50,2,1]
36. E President Roosevelt’s advisor Harold Ickes compared the
President’s fight against monopolies to President Andrew
Jackson’s fight against the United States Bank during the
1830s. [USSRG:73,1,1]
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37. C The Kennedy tax cuts were extremely successful in lowering

unemployment, which dipped all the way down to 3.7%.
[USSRG:97,1,1]

38. A While serving as Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Franklin D.

Roosevelt advocated for an aggressive naval building program
and supported the American entry into World War I.
[USSRG:77,1,2]

39. B The Scottsboro boys were on a freight train from Chattanooga

to Memphis when they got in the infamous fight that would
lead to their national celebrity. [USSRG:28,2,2]
40. D The discount rate is the interest rate at which the Federal
Reserve makes loans of last resort to banks. [USSRG:12,1,1]
41. D In 1933, as an act of fiscal responsibility, President Roosevelt
suspended retirement benefits for Supreme Court Justices
through the Economy Act. After retirement benefits were later
restored, Justice Van Devanter took advantage and retired.
[USSRG:72,1,1]

42. B During the Great Depression, female vagabonds were known

as “sisters of the road.” [USSRG:30,2,2]
43. D With 57% of the popular vote, Franklin D. Roosevelt easily
won the election of 1932. [USSRG:39,1,2]
44. C The financial turmoil during the summer of 1931 led many
investors to switch their holdings from the Pound Sterling into
gold, which depleted the nation’s gold reserves and spelled the
doom of the gold standard. [USSRG:21,2,1]
45. B The Savings and Loans Crisis of 1986-1989 was ended by
bailouts from the Federal Savings and Loans Insurance
Corporation. [USSRG:98,2,1]
46. D The local taxpayer revolts of the late 1970s were the result of
resentment against increasing welfare spending and the
demands of special interest groups. [USSRG:97,2,1]
47. A In 1919, the New York Times named Herbert Hoover to its list
of the top ten most important living Americans. [USSRG:34,1,1]
48. D When foreign competition after World War II began to
diminish the importance of American industrial production,
the ensuing shift towards the service industries greatly
decreased the ability of unions to organize. [USSRG:97,2,3]
49. E The Dow Jones average hit its all-time low of 41.22 during
July of 1932. [USSRG:38,2,1]
50. D The Republican successor to President Harry S. Truman was
Dwight D. Eisenhower. [USSRG:86,2,3]