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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 political office does Dwight Morrow run for and win?

2. When are the Pujo hearings?

3. Who decides to open an investment house called Morgan Stanley?

4. What company is the forerunner of what eventually becomes J.P. Morgan and Company?

5. Where does Jack buy a tavern?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

6. What is the Reconstruction Finance Corporation?

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

8. Why do the Morgans survive the crash of 1929?

9. What does the US credibility in London and European markets depend on?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Junius Morgan's goal to rival the Rothschilds and its importance in the development of the House of Morgan. Would the House of Morgan have developed as it did without this goal?

Essay Topic 2

The Morgans were involved in a number of major scandals. Choose one of these scandals and discuss. Describe the scandal in detail. Include such things as the firm that was involved, why it was involved, what its involvement was, what Morgan people were involved and how, what the short term and long term effects were, what changes were made in the banking or securities laws (if any), etc.

Essay Topic 3

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

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