President Hoover supported which of the following anti-Depression measures?
a. Federal government loans to banks, corporations, railroads, and local governments through the auspices of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
b. The Muscle Shoals Bill designed to dam the Tennessee River and provide low-cost electricity to poor residents of the Tennessee Valley
c. The public dole system then being used in Britain
d. A limited number of federally financed public works projects such as the construction of a gigantic dam on the Colorado River for irrigation, flood control, and electric power
e. Employment of young people in conservation projects
a, d
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John F. Kennedy's New Frontier program focused on
a. providing tax breaks for poor Americans. b. creating a new era of scientific and social progress. c. reforming the nation's medical system. d. rebuilding the nation's transportation infrastructure.
What was the Great Awakening?
A) It was an attempt at opening the eyes of Americans to the need for a more rational American religion. B) It was the realization by the colonial elites that regulations imposed upon them by the Board of Trade were restricting their liberties. C) It was a movement by American religious leaders to reunite many warring sects into one Protestant church. D) It was a scientific movement in which people were encouraged to observe the natural world with the naked eye. E) It was a religious revival movement that emphasized the sinfulness of human beings and the need for immediate repentance.
Relations between Vietnam and China were historically characterized by ________
A) Vietnamese enthusiasm for Chinese culture B) resistance to Chinese rule C) change D) direct Chinese rule
The Union general in charge of the Freedmen’s Bureau was __________
A) Oliver O. Howard B) Samuel Chapman Armstrong C) William T. Sherman D) John Fee