What did the Fordney-McCumber Tariff and Smoot-Hawley Tariff demonstrate about U.S. trade policy from 1920 to 1930?
A) the United States was committed to laissez-faire economics.
B) the United States was willing to raise tariffs to protect domestic manufacturers.
C) the United States wanted to maintain lower tariffs.
D) the concept free trade would never be abandoned.
E) the nation had completely abandoned the principles of free trade.
B
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Which of the following best describes the differences in the ideas about freedom held by former slaves and their northern allies?
a) Former slaves attempted to maintain the family task system of work rather than adopt the individual piecework system northern capitalists pushed. b) Former slaves sought to improve their prospects by migrating to cities, while the federal government hoped to find employment for them in rural areas. c) Former slaves hoped to resettle elsewhere as individual farmers rather than continue to work the land that their families had worked for generations. d) Former slaves were more interested in gaining a liberal arts education rather than the vocational training many northerners wanted to provide.
How did the emergence of urban culture affect the lives of women?
a. Women had larger families as more children entered the workforce to supplement their family's income. b. Traditional sex roles changed, so fewer women stayed home to raise the family. c. Salaries of female workers began to climb during this period. d. Being less restricted, some women felt more comfortable expressing themselves. e. More women than men were able to attain graduate degrees.
Which group in American society benefited most from prohibition?
a. The upper middle class benefited most because they were exempt from prohibition. b. Those who benefited most were the ones who controlled the illegal production and sale of alcoholic beverages. c. As the champions of this "noble experiment," conservatives were the ones who benefited most. d. Churches and psychologists benefited due to the increased role they played in counseling alcoholics. e. The judicial system benefited as its role in enforcement gave it more power in state and local government.
Which of the following was NOT a principle that Jefferson espoused?
A. People may be trusted to make political choices based on correct principles. B. The life of the independent farmer in a free market is an economically preferable and morally superior social condition. C. Human reason is the powerful tool that will unlock the secrets of nature and improve human society. D. Radical change is periodically necessary to make sure that equality and democracy continue to be extended to all men and women of all races and faiths.