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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
