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The usual reaction of the stock market to a political crisis is _____.

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  1. For the Stock Exchange to close for a week

  2. A rise in stock prices and an increase in buying

  3. The stoppage of payment on government bonds

  4. A fall in stock prices and an increase in selling

  5. An increase in foreign investment

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Political crisis leads to increase in selling and fall of stock prices.

All the following are included in the "Four Freedoms" President Franklin D. Roosevelt described to Congress in 1941 except:

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  1. Freedom to worship in one's own way

  2. Freedom from fear

  3. Freedom of speech and expression

  4. Freedom to overthrow a tyrannical government

  5. Freedom from want

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Four Freedoms" President Franklin D. Roosevelt  except Freedom to overthrow a tyrannical government.

The maintenance of the peace and safety of the United States was the stated aim of the _____.

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  1. XYZ Affair

  2. Alien and Sedition Acts

  3. Bill of Rights

  4. Federalist Papers

  5. Louisiana Purchase

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The of the peace and safety of the United States was the stated aim of the Alien and Sedition Acts.

All the following photographers created important visual records of aspects of U.S. history except:

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  1. Jacob Riis

  2. Matthew Brady

  3. Dorothea Lange

  4. Jessie Tarbox Beals

  5. Ansel Adams

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Correct Option: E
Explanation:

Ansel Easton Adams was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West. Adams helped found Group f/64, an association of photographers advocating "pure" photography that favored sharp focus and the use of the full tonal range of a photograph.

In Powell v. Alabama, the Supreme Court revoked the death sentences of the "Scottsboro boys" on the grounds that _________.

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  1. the police had forced the defendants to confess their guilt

  2. the defendants had been denied the right to a trial by jury

  3. the defendants had alibis from eyewitnesses who had not been allowed to testify

  4. the defendants had been denied the right to due process

  5. the defendants had been framed for crimes committed by other people

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The defendants had been denied the right to due process.

Which of the following proposed a 1930s relief program in which money would be taken from the wealthy and given to the poor?

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  1. Harold Ickes

  2. Huey Long

  3. John Nance Garner

  4. Alf Landon

  5. Father Charles Coughlin

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Huey Long.

Congress passed the National Recovery Act in 1933 to do all the following except:

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  1. Stabilize prices

  2. Create jobs through public-works projects

  3. Allow industries to regulate themselves

  4. Raise wages

  5. Enforce antitrust laws

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Correct Option: E
Explanation:

There are three main ways in which the Federal antitrust laws are enforced: Criminal and civil enforcement actions brought by the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice. Civil enforcement actions brought by the Federal Trade Commission. Lawsuits brought by private parties asserting damage claims.

The Federal Securities Act created which of the following in an effort to reform business and guard against another stock market crash?

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  1. The Agricultural Adjustment Administration

  2. The Civilian Conservation Corps

  3. The Federal Emergency Relief Administration

  4. The Securities and Exchange Commission

  5. The National Industrial Recovery Act

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is an independent federal government agency responsible for protecting investors, maintaining fair and orderly functioning of the securities markets, and facilitating capital formation.

The impact of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1930 was _______.

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  1. A reduction of the tariff on imports from Germany that caused public outrage

  2. A lower duty on Canadian goods that caused hard times in the Great Lakes states

  3. High tariffs that contributed to a global economic downturn in the 1930s

  4. An export tax on tobacco

  5. Higher salaries for senators

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The impact of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff of 1930 was High tariffs that contributed to a global economic downturn in the 1930s.

All the following are major photojournalists of the Great Depression EXCEPT:

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  1. Margaret Bourke-White

  2. Walker Evans

  3. Althea Gibson

  4. Dorothea Lange

  5. Gordon Parks

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Althea Gibson.