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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the Wall Street firms meet on July 31, 1914, when the European markets close?

2. Where is the Morgan ancestral home?

3. What location bought by Pierpont becomes the setting for many business and other meetings?

4. What is the purpose of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation?

5. What country was the Dawes Plan devised to help?

Short Essay Questions

1. What causes a Wall Street panic in 1873?

2. When World War I begins, what are the positions of the US government and the House of Morgan?

3. What is the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act?

4. Why does Father Charles E. Coughlin, a radio priest of the time, attack the banking industry?

5. What are the immediate results of the stock market panic in October 1907 and what is Morgan's role?

6. In 1936 what causes the Congressional hearings into the bankers' role in World War I?

7. What major merger occurrs as a result of the big dive in the stock and commodity markets in October 1939?

8. Who represents Germany at the Paris conference where the Young Plan is adopted and why does he resign from the Reichsbank?

9. At the end of World War I, what is the role of the United States and the Morgans with respect to the world financial markets?

10. Why are loans made to Latin American countries considered risky?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the 1912 Pujo hearings in detail, including what they were, the important people involved, their goal, their conclusion. What was their effect on the Morgans?

Essay Topic 2

Choose either World War I or World War II and describe how the Morgans were involved. Among things to discuss are their position with respect to the war, whether all the firms were on the same side, what influence they had with what governments, how they were financially involved, etc.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the Morgans relationship with the Vatican from the beginning of the Morgan firms through the 1980s.

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