Author Question: As secretary of commerce in the Coolidge Administration, Herbert Hoover worked with the Chicago ... (Read 43 times)

RYAN BANYAN · **on:** Sep 21, 2019

Question 1

As the 1920s fame of Charles Lindbergh, Babe Ruth, and Al Capone demonstrates, the mass media promoted people:

A) as role models for Americans to emulate.
B) as elite figures, regardless of why they were famous.
C) who represented traditional WASP values.
D) whose fame was based on lasting, not momentary achievement.

Question 2

The movement that claimed scientific basis to apply Darwinian theory to the natural selection of the fittest human beings to reproduce and improve the human race is known as

A) eugenics.
B) Knights of Columbus.
C) racial segregation.
D) intelligence quota.

Question 3

As secretary of commerce in the Coolidge Administration, Herbert Hoover worked with the Chicago banker Charles Dawes on a plan to aid the recovery of:

A) tenant farmers.
B) the German economy.
C) Central American countries.
D) Eastern European refugees.