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The Second New Deal — Cumulative exam Answers

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What position on international trade did President Wilson’s Fourteen Points take?

A
There should be a reduction of trade barriers among nations.
B
Countries should rely less on trade and more on developing their own resources.
C
A strong system of tariffs should regulate trade and avoid disputes between nations.
D
Trade should be limited to allies in order to maintain peaceful relations between all nations.
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Which best explains how storms and hurricanes contributed to the end of the land boom?

A
They contaminated the environment.
B
They caused property damage, injury, and loss of life for many citizens.
C
They led to extensive fraud and speculation.
D
They changed the state’s climate, which caused many citizens to leave.
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What is an economic goal that Marxism shared with socialism?

A
the end of industrialization
B
the creation of free-market economies
C
the creation of a class-free society
D
the end of a class-free society
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The 1935 Social Security Act paid retirees a stipend based on

A
their lifetime investments and bank account savings.
B
their physical condition at the time of retirement.
C
the number of children that had been in their families.
D
the amount they had contributed to the fund.
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How did the coastline of the Confederacy offer the South an advantage during the Civil War?

A
It enabled the South to implement the Anaconda Plan.
B
It gave the South complete control of the Mississippi River.
C
Its length made it hard for the North to control.
D
It shortness made it easy to defend against invaders.
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Which best describes the impact of railroad expansion on the steel industry?

A
It did not affect the demand for steel at all.
B
It decreased the demand for steel since railroad tracks were built from wood.
C
It increased the demand for steel since steel was used to make railcars and tracks.
D
It decreased the demand for steel since the railroad was generally not used to transport steel.
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The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments all

A
extended voting rights to citizens.
B
were ratified during the Civil War.
C
faced little resistance from the nation.
D
secured rights for African Americans.
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Near the end of the 1920s, demand for consumer goods

A
slowed as wages increased.
B
increased as wages stagnated.
C
slowed as wages stagnated.
D
increased as wages increased.
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Isolationists objected to the League of Nations because

A
it protected the rights of all nations.
B
it was included in Wilson’s Fourteen Points.
C
it encouraged peaceful settlement of conflict.
D
it made the US obligated to defend other nations.
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What was a result of the efforts of John Steinbeck, Dorothea Lange, and Woody Guthrie?

A
Fewer Americans felt sympathetic toward migrants.
B
More Americans decided to become migrants.
C
More Americans became aware of the problems of migrants.
D
Fewer Americans became unemployed.

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