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Post-World War 2 Baby Boom -> (?) ->Expansion of population into suburban areas ->(?) Which pair of phrases best completes the diagram?

(1) increased demand for housing; (2) increased deforestation

Widespread support for the American war effort during WWI was promoted by the...

Committee of Public Information

At Yalta, the "Big Three" agreed that...

Germany would be divided into four occupied zones after the war

In the case of Plessy v. Ferguson, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of

Jim Crow Laws

Which of the following people advocated for separation of the races?

Marcus Garvey

The belief that life consists of competitive struggles in which only the fittest survive is known as?

Social Darwinism

We are not now required to ascertain the scope of the phrase "general welfare of the United States" or to determine whether an appropriation in aid of agriculture falls within it. ... It is a statutory plan to regulate and control agricultural production, a matter beyond the powers delegated to the federal government. Which constitutional amendment did the Supreme Court use as a basis of this ruling?

Tenth

The goals of which organization included providing education on new farming techniques and calling for the regulation of railroad and grain elevator rates?

The grange

Which of the headlines describes the issues faced by the Federal Government at the onset of the Great Depression?

Unemployment Rates reach record high

Many social Darwinists believed that the U.S. would grow strong by ...

allowing its most vigorous members to rise to the top

The political cartoon above was most likely drafted to support what federal action?

antitrust laws

Some 100,000 Japanese Americans were evacuated from the West Coast during WWII and made to live in internment camps...

because some West Coast leaders questioned their loyalty

In the late 1800's , how did railroad monopolies create economic hardships for farmers?

by charging high prices to ship agricultural goods to market

Based on the cartoon, how did President Roosevelt want to ease the Great Depression?

by expanding the role of government in citizen's lives

In 1954, the Geneva conference, which was held to negotiate peace in Indochina,resulted in 2 compromise agreements.. Which policy guided U.S. opposition to this declaration?

containment

The Open Door Policy was an assertion of America's ...

desire for free trade with China

What did the Dawes Act of 1887 do?

divided reservation land for individual settlers and Native American families

The creator of this cartoon was expressing his concern about what?

expansion of Executive power during the Great Depression

The Harlem Renaissance was an important cultural outpouring in which African American writers...

explored the pains and joys of being black in America

The end of the Cold War is often associated with which of the following events

fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989

Shortly after the U.S. victory in the Spanish-American War, U.S. forces....

fought against an insurrection in the Philippines

Progressives shared a belief that industrialization and urbanization...

had created serious social and political problems

The Roaring Twenties is characterized by...

installment plans, prohibition, and flappers

How did the military innovation shown in this photograph affect the course of WWI?

it helped break the stalemate of trench warfare

In the case of Plessy v. Ferguson the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of ....

jim crow laws

When citizens can only meet in public for certain purposes, they regard such meetings as a strange proceeding of rare occurrence, and they rarely think at all about it. When they are allowed to meet freely for all purposes, they ultimately look upon public association as the universal, or in a manner the sole, means which men can employ to accomplish the different purposes they may have in view. —Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, 1840 Which value is best reflected in this excerpt?

liberty

Which statement best explains how the application of electricity in the early 1900's affected the development of the U.S. economy?

manufacturing processes became more efficient

Socially conscious journalists who dramatized the need for reform were known as ?

muckrakers

After WWI, what did the U.S. government hope to achieve by lending money to Germany?

political and economic stability in Europe

The Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) monitored what?

railroad operations

The Bonus Army was a group of WWI veterans who were violently disbanded after they came to Washington D.C. to...

seek early payment of the money promised to them by congress

The Bessemer process created strong, light weight...

steel

One of the main reasons for the 1929 stock market crash was that...

stock prices had risen too high because of overspeculation

Many Americans denounced Germany for its sinking of the ...

the Lusitiania

No single great material work which remains to be undertaken on this continent is as of such consequence to the American people as the building of a canal across the Isthmus connecting North and South America. its importance to the nation is by no means limited merely to its material effects upon our business prosperity. The policy outlined in the excerpt was greatly influenced by the problems that the U.S. Navy had recently confronted during...

the Spanish-American War

Which of the following occurred as a result of the Sherman Antitrust Act?

the federal government could dissolve business monopolies

President Wilson's "peace without victory" idea formed a key part of ...

the fourteen points

The goals of which organization included providing education on new farming techniques and calling for the regulation of railroad and grain elevator rates?

the grange

The movement of African Americans from the rural South to the industrial North in the early 1900's is known as what?

the great migration

the political activism of the group described in the excerpt contributed directly to-

the ratification of the 19th amendment

Sensational headlines and pictures were characteristics of the ...

the yellow journalism

Imperialist nations built up their military strength...

to expand and protect their interests around the World

According to his critics, why did President Roosevelt propose increasing the number of justices on the Supreme Court?

to get more New Deal supporters on the Court

What was the primary purpose of the program being promoted by this poster?

to increase food supply during a farm-labor shortage

The Agricultural Adjustment Act raised crop prices by paying farmers ...

to not plant all of their land and to kill excess livestock

What was Congress's purpose in passing the Lend-Lease Act?

to provide Britain with the aid it needed but could not afford

The economic good times of the 1920's became threatened by...

uneven distribution of wealth and growing consumer debt


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