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The law restricting immigration from Europe to the percentage of that ethnicity's makeup in the 1910 U.S. census.

Emergency Immigration Act of 1921

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 Adams

Which ethnic group was forbidden from immigrating to the United States by the immigration laws passed in the 1920s?

Japanese

Immediately following the conclusion to World War I, the ____divided people in regards to immigration issues.

The Red Scare

The purpose of the Works Progress Administration was to ______.

employ out of work americans

The so-called Wagner Act ______.

guaranteed American workers the right to organize

In 1937, President Roosevelt tried to add six new justices to the Supreme Court. Why?

he wanted to change the courts make up to aid his policies

President Taft won office because _____.

he was supported by Roosevelt

As farm productivity _____, farmers earned ______from their crops.

increases, less

President Wilson believe that the keystone to ensuring lasting world peace was _____.

league of nations

During the Great War, Wilson's administration organized the sale of _____, which guaranteed a fixed rate of return to fund the war.

liberty bonds

The movement of more than 400,000 southern blacks to northern cities during the war and through the 1920s was known as the _____.

migration

What was a Hoover blanket?

newspaper

The purpose of the Emergency Banking Relief Act was to _____.

restore confidence in american banks

President Hoover believed the best ways to help the needy during the Great Depression were ______ and _____.

self reliance and volunteering

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

How was the foundation of the progressive movement different than that of the Populist movement?

the progressive movement was based on current issues in urban areas

Ratified in 1920, the _____ rewarded women who had worked so hard during the Great War with the right to vote.

19th

Thereason that Woodrow Wilson won the presidency in 1912 was _____.

Because Taft and Roosevelt split the republican vote.

What new method of governing cities was first implemented in Galveston, Texas, after a hurricane destroyed the city?

Commissioners System

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.

Five Powers Act

In the Zimmerman telegram _____ urged _____ in invade the United States.

Germany, Mexico

During the great War, what countries made up the Allied Powers?

Great Britain, France, and Russia

The African American's first literary and artistic movement is known as _____.

Harlem Renaissance

The Louisiana native known as the "Kingfish" who criticized President Roosevelt was _____.

Huey Long

The Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution provided for ______.

Income Tax

After World War I came to an end, the United States actively practiced _____in its relations with the rest of the world

Isolationism

What book brought to light the abuses in the United States meatpacking industry in the early 20th century?

Jungle by Upton Sinclair

In responds to the crises of the Great Depression, states deported ______ and _____.

Mexican-Americans, and their american born children

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 Bolshevick Revolution?

Nicholas the 2nd

The _____ Trial is a classic example of modernism versus fundamentalism.

Skotes

_____ killed roughly 100 million people worldwide in 1918.

Spanish Flu

The _____ was designed to bring electricity and jobs to the Tennessee Valley.

TVA

The biggest scandal of te Harding administration involved the ____.

Teapot Dome

In addition to the nickname "the Roaring Twenties," the 1920s have also been labeled the_____.

The Jazz Age

Need for reforming the workplace was brought to national attention in 1911 when a fire broke out at _____.

Triangle Waist Shirt Factory

The first "progressive" president was ____.

Theodore Roosevelt

____ led the ______ a group of determined Comunist revolutionaries in Russia in 1917.

Vladimir Lenin, Bolsheviks

Who made up the so-called Bonus Expeditionary Force?

World War 1 Veterans

What were the goals of the late 19thcentury progressives?

a. honest government b. effective regulation of business c. better lives for americans d. efficient government

The Treaty of Versailles.

a. the united states never ratified the treaty b. the treaty with Wilson 14 points was a failure c. treaty of Versailles left Germany weak and isolated d. ?

By the end of 1936, the Supreme Court had proven itself _____ of Roosevelt New Deal.

an enemy

What was the immediate cause of the outbreak of the Great War?

assassination of arch duke Franz Ferdinand

Henry Ford revolutionized the industrial process by perfecting the _____.

assembly line process

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 stocks on margin


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