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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.

National Industrial Recovery Act and the Wagner Act dealt with the issue of ________.

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  1. The government's right to set price controls

  2. Employers' rights to exclude women from their workforce

  3. Workers' rights to organize unions

  4. States' rights to regulate interstate trade

  5. Corporations' rights to cooperate in setting industrywide standards

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Workers' rights to organize unions.

In response to the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931, the United States __________.

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  1. issued a document refusing to recognize Japanese actions as legitimate

  2. called a special session of the League of Nations

  3. sent General MacArthur to command U.S. forces in the Pacific

  4. engaged in a policy of watchful waiting

  5. sent the Panay, a naval vessel, to the coast of Japan

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

In response to the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931, the United States issued a document refusing to recognize Japanese actions as legitimate.

Which of the following explains the original purpose of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)?

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  1. To force poor people to deposit their income tax returns

  2. To force employers to insure workers against injury

  3. To insure corporations exploring for mineral deposits

  4. To insure bank deposits up to $5,000

  5. To protect banks against securities fraud

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

To insure bank deposits up to $5,000.