All of the following are among Warren G. Harding's weaknesses as president EXCEPT:
a lack of political experience
an inability to detect moral weaknesses and ethical lapses in his associates
an unwillingness to hurt people's feelings by saying "No"
administrative and executive management shortcomings
Which of the following best describes the Republican economic policies implemented under President Warren G. Harding?
A continuation of the same laissez-faire doctrine practiced by President William McKinley's Republican administration
A modification of laissez-faire economic doctrine that included using the courts and administrative agencies to maximize the profits of the business sector
The institution of many government regulatory schemes to curb the exploitative economic and labor relations practices of big business
The development and implementation of economic policies that aided small business at the expense of big business
Which of the following best characterizes U.S. Supreme Court decisions in the 1920s?
Extremely hostile to progressive social reform legislation enacted during the progressive era
Overall, hostile to progressive social reforms, with the exception of maintaining workplace protections for women
Attempting to strike a fair balance between labor and business over collective-bargaining, union-organizing, and right-to-strike legal issues
Upholding antitrust and government regulatory schemes designed to expand government intervention in the economy
As president, Warren G. Harding proved to be:
thoughtful and ambitious but rather impractical
an able administrator and diplomat but a poor politician
politically competent and concerned for the welfare of ordinary people
weak-willed and tolerant of corruption among his friends
The general policy of the federal government toward industry in the early 1920s was:
a weakening of federal regulation and encouragement of trade associations
an emphasis on federal regulations rather than state and local controls
an emphasis on vigorous antitrust enforcement rather than on regulation
a turn toward direct federal control of key industries like the railroads
Two groups who suffered severe political setbacks in the immediate post-World War I environment were:
Protestants and Jews
Organized Labor and Blacks
Small Businesses and Farmers
Women and City Dwellers
Two terms that describe the Harding and Coolidge administrations' approach toward foreign policy are:
Internationalism and moralism
Interventionism and militarism
Isolationism and disarmament
Balance of power and alliance-seeking
The proposed ratio of "5-5-3" in Washington Disarmament Conference of 1921-1922 referred to:
the allowable ratio of American, British, and Japanese troops in China
the number of votes Britain, France, and the United States would have in the League of Nations
the allowable ratio of battleships and carriers among the United States, Britain, and Japan
the number of nations from Europe, the Americas, and Asia respectively, that would have to ratify the treaties before they went into effect
The very high tariff rates of the 1920s had the economic effect of:
stimulating the formation of common markets among the major industrial nations
causing severe deflation in the United States and Europe
turning American trade away from Europe and toward Asia
causing the Europeans to erect their own tariff barriers and thus reduce international trade
The central scandal of Teapot Dome involved members of Harding's Cabinet who:
sold spoiled foodstuff to the army and navy
took bribes for leasing federal oil lands
violated prohibition by tolerating gangster liquor deals
stuffed ballot boxes and played dirty tricks on campaign opponents
The one major group that experienced hard economic times amidst the general prosperity of the 1920s was:
Small -Business People
Farmers
Bankers and Stock Brokers
The Oil Mining Industries
Besides deep divisions within the Democratic party, the elections of 1924 revealed:
Coolidge's inability to attain Harding's level of popularity
the weakness of pro-farmer and pro-labor Progressive reform
the turn of the solid South from the Democrats to the Republicans
the rise of liberalism within the Democratic party
The international economic crisis cause by unpaid war reparations and loans was partially resolved by:
private American bank loans to Germany
forgiving the loans and reparations
creation of a new international economic system by the League of Nations
the rise of Mussolini and Hitler
Al Smith's Roman Catholicism and opposition to prohibition hurt him especially:
in the South
among ethnic voters
among African-Americans
among women voters
The election of Hoover over Smith in 1928 seemed to represent a victory of:
northern industrial values over southern agrarianism
small business over the ideas of big government and big business
ethnic and cultural diversity over traditional Anglo-Saxon values
big business and efficiency over urban and Catholic values
One important cause of the great stock-market crash of 1929 was:
over-expansion of production and credit beyond the ability to pay for them
a "tight" money policy that made it difficult to obtain loans
the lack of tariff protection for American markets from foreign competitors
excessive government regulation of business
The sky-high Hawley-Smoot Tariff of 1930 had the economic effect of:
providing valuable protection for hard-pressed American manufacturers
lowering the value of American currency in international money markets
crippling international trade and deepening the depression
forcing foreign governments to negotiate fairer trade agreements
The federal agency Hoover established to provide "pump-priming" loans to businesses was the:
Tennessee Valley Authority
Bonus Expeditionary Force
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
American Legion
