Exam 2
The purpose of the Works Progress Administration was to ______.
Employ out of work Americans
Who did not benefit from a post-World War I economic boom?
Farmers
Fear of foreign terrorist and radicalism led to the _____ at the end of the 1910s.
First red scare
Who is best associated with the Hull House?
Jane Addams
Which ethnic group was forbidden from immigrating to the United States by the immigration laws passed in the 1920s?
Japanese
In addition to the nickname "the Roaring Twenties," the 1920s have also been labeled the _____.
Jazz age
The so-called Wagner Act ______.
guaranteed American workers the right to organize
President Taft won office because _____.
he was supported by Roosevelt
After World War I came to an end, the United States actively practiced _____in its relations with the rest of the world.
isolationism
What was a Hoover blanket?
newspaper
How was the foundation of the progressive movement different than that of the Populist movement?
the progressive movement was based on addressing issues that occurred in urban areas
Ratified in 1920, the _____ rewarded women who had worked so hard during the Great War with the right to vote.
19th Amendment
By the end of 1936, the Supreme Court had proven itself _____ of Roosevelt New Deal.
An enemy
Henry Ford revolutionized the industrial process by perfecting the _____.
Assembly line process
The reason that Woodrow Wilson won the presidency in 1912 was _____.
Because Taft and Roosevelt split the republican vote
The biggest stumbling block to Progressivism during the Progressive era was _____.
Big Business
An excellent example of the reckless speculation of the late 1920s was _____.
Buying stock on margin
During the great War, what countries made up the Allied Powers?
France, Great britain, Russia
In the Zimmerman telegram _____ urged _____ in invade the United States.
Germany; Mexico
The movement of more than 400,000 southern blacks to northern cities during the war and through the 1920s was known as the _____.
Great Migration
The African American's first literary and artistic movement is known as _____.
Harlem renaissance
In 1937, President Roosevelt tried to add six new justices to the Supreme Court. Why?
He wanted to change the court's makeup to aid their policies
What were the goals of the late 19th century progressives?
Honest government, Effective regulation of business better lives for Americans, Efficient government
The Louisiana native known as the "Kingfish" who criticized President Roosevelt was _____.
Huey P. long
The Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution provided for ______.
Income tax
As farm productivity _____, farmers earned ______ from their crops.
Increased; less
During the Great War, Wilson's administration organized the sale of _____, which guaranteed a fixed rate of return to fund the war.
Liberty Bonds
In response to the crises of the Great Depression, states deported ______ and _____.
Mexican Americans, their american born children
What book brought to light the abuses in the United States meatpacking industry in the early 20th century?
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
A person who opposed immigration in the 1920s because it would dilute what it "meant to be an American" would be subscribing to what type of viewpoint?
Nativism
Who was the last tsar to rule in Russia before the Bolshevik Revolution?
Nicholas the second
Immediately following the conclusion to World War I, the ____divided people in regards to immigration issues.
Red scare
The purpose of the Emergency Banking Relief Act was to _____.
Restore confidence in American Banks
The _____ Trial is a classic example of modernism versus fundamentalism.
Scopes
President Hoover believed the best ways to help the needy during the Great Depression were ______ and _____.
Self reliance, volunteerism
Woodrow Wilson argued that women's suffrage _____.
Should be enacted by the States
During the Great War, the Espionage and Sedition Acts _____.
Stifled free speech
The _____ was designed to bring electricity and jobs to the Tennessee Valley.
Tennessee Valley Authority
What was the immediate cause of the outbreak of the Great War?
The Assasination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
_____ killed roughly 100 million people worldwide in 1918.
The Spanish Flu
The Treaty of Versailles
The US never ratified the treaty, The treaty with wilson's 14 points was a failure, Wilson's health suffered greatly because of the treaty, The treaty of versailles left Germany weak and isolated
What new method of governing cities was first implemented in Galveston, Texas, after a hurricane destroyed the city?
The commission system
The law restricting immigration from Europe to the percentage of that ethnicity's makeup in the 1910 U.S. census.
The emergency immigration act of 1921
In an attempt to lower the risk of war, the United States was party to the ____, which limited the size of naval warships for those who signed the document.
The five powers treaty
President Wilson believed that the keystone to ensuring lasting world peace was _____.
The league of nations
The biggest scandal of the Harding administration involved the ____.
The teapot dome
Need for reforming the workplace was brought to national attention in 1911 when a fire broke out at _____.
The triangle shirtwaist factory
The first "progressive" president was ____.
Theodore roosevelt
____ led the ______ a group of determined Communist revolutionaries in Russia in 1917.
Vladimir Lenin; bolsheviks
Who made up the so-called Bonus Expeditionary Force?
WWI Veterans
