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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. What depletes England of gold?

2. During the 1920s how did corporations generally finance corporate expansion?

3. Who opposes Mussolini in the press?

4. Why does Jack Morgan begin to sell pieces of his collection?

5. In 1898 where doesJack Morgan work?

Short Essay Questions

1. After Britain goes off the gold standard in 1919, who wants them back on the gold standard and why?

2. In 1924 what are the House of Morgan ties with the candidates?

3. What are the first two crises that Jack Morgan faces after his father's death?

4. What causes a feud between the two Morgan partners, Morrow and Lamont?

5. How do the Morgan partners come to finance Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis flight?

6. How does the Morgan firm restructure as a result of the Glass Steagall Act?

7. What is the Reconstruction Finance Corporation?

8. What is the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act?

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

10. In 1938 what scandal begins to emerge?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

The Morgans' influence reached worldwide. Choose one or two countries in different parts of the world and discuss the Morgans influence through their initial involvement until the late 1980s or such time as their influence ended. Among things to discuss are why it became involved in the country, how it was involved, what was happening in the country at the time, etc.

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the golden age for the House of Morgan. Why was this called the golden age?

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