Why did overproduction of crops that largely resulted from mechanized agriculture hurt farmers economically during the 1920s?
A) The ability to grow more crops drove prices down.
B) Mechanized agriculture eliminated jobs for many farm laborers and sharecroppers.
C) Foreign countries placed high tariffs on imported American agricultural products.
D) More farming led to soil exhaustion which produced the massive dust storms that destroyed
crops.
A
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A) London B) St. Petersburg C) Madrid D) Paris E) Vienna
Social Darwinism so tainted the word "freedom" that many Progressives preferred to speak of "democracy" instead.
a. true b. false
The agency that accomplished many sorely need conservation measures was the
a. CCC. b. WPA. c. CWA. d. NRA. e. Social Security.
As a result of the fall of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson, ________________.
A. Union forces gained control of the entire Mississippi River B. a path into Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi lay open before the Union Army C. the last Confederate outposts in the far West fell to Union forces D. New Orleans fell to Union troops