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____ gave the government time to restructure the closed banks: the Bank Holiday
2.
_____ was when we were scared of communism. Happened twice, once in WWI and again in the 1950s: The Red Scare
3.
Describe the 14 Points?: Wilson's plan to eliminate the causes of war. Key ideas were:
- freedom of seas
- self determination
- league of nations
- mandate system
4.
Describe the Scopes Monkey Trial: Teacher was teaching Darwin's Theory of Evolution in schools in Tennessee, but the board of education challenged him because that's not what the Bible says happened. The teacher lost his case but people continued to practice it anyway
5.
Did the U.S. factories employ a lot of people in preperation for WWI?: Yes
6.
During the 1920s, when people spend lavishly, you are a ____: consumer
7.
FDR's opponent was _____ because of _____: Democrat Huey "Kingfish" Long who lost the Election of 1932 but wanted to win the Election of 1936.. Senator from Louisiana. Came up with a "Share Our Wealth" plan where each American family would have a minimum of $5,000.00 annual income to provide relief during the Great Depression. His opponents (supporters of FDR) accused him of dictator-like qualities for his near total control of the state government. His movement faded in 1935 when he was assassinated.
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How did the American public react to the Zimmerman Telegram? What was it?: Aroused nationalist anger of the American people and convinced Wilson that Germany fully expected a war with the United States; Germany made a secret offer to Mexico that if Mexico allies itself with Germany, Germany would help Mexico recover lost territories such as Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona in the US
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Name the three R's: Relief, Recovery, Reform
10.
People bought stocks on margin with _____. Describe the process: credit;
I have $10.00, but I want to buy $100.00 worth of stock. I borrow $90.00 of loans, so then I buy my $100.00 stock. I then make a lot of money off of that stock, I make $200.00. However, I still have to pay back the $90.00 I owe the bank, so I pay that back and I still have $110.00. I technically had spend that $10.00 to get the stock, so I have made a profit of $100.00 in stock
11.
Significance of the 100 Days?: First part of FDR's New Deal, they were 100 days of relief acts such as the Bank Holiday
12.
The hate group reincarnated in the 20s was the ____: Ku Klux Klan
13.
Two ways people got around the laws against PRODUCTION of alcohol: bootlegging and making your own
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Were Labor Unions allowed during the Great Depression Era?: Yes, they were legalized
15.
What 1935 program gave umeployment contensation for children?: The CCC
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What caused the Bank Holiday?: The Emergency Bank Relief Act of FDR's first 100 Days of the New Deal
17.
What caused the dustbowl?: Severe drought in the Great Plains that ruined crops in the 1930s. Farms turned to dust
18.
What did the 17th Amendment do?: Granted citizens the ability to vote for senators directly
19.
What did the 18th Amendment do?: Prohibition
20.
What did the 19th Amendment do?: Gave women the right to vote
21.
What got the US involved in WWI?: German unrestricted submarine warfare...Germans wanted to cut off supplies to the Allies, so they formed their own blockade against the British blockade warning that ANY ship coming near "war zone" was to be sunk on sight. Consider the Lusitania crisis
22.
What happened to the AAA?: Deemed unconstitutional in a 1935 Supreme Court decision
23.
What is an Okie?: Natives of Oklahoma forced to migrate westward to California in search of farm or factory work that often could not be found; their farms were destroyed in the dustbowl
24.
What nation did the Treaty of Brest-Lotovsk of 1917 take out of the Triple Entente?: Russia
25.
What type of recovery did the Homeowners Loan Corporation and the FCC provide?: - Homeowners Loan Corporation (HOLC) refinanced home mortgages currently in default to prevent foreclosure
- FCC did ____
- recovery
26.
What was FDR's court packing scheme?: He wanted to remove the Supreme Court as an obstacle for the New Deal, as it had deemed the AAA and the NRA unconstitutional. He proposed a judicial-reorganization bill in 1937 where the president could appoint to the Supreme Court an additional justice for each current justice who was older than 70.5 years. With that rule, he would have been able to add six judges who could help vouch for his side.
27.
What was Prohibition about?: drinking
28.
What was the FDIC?: - FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) guaranteed individual bank deposits up to $5,000. Reform program by FDR
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What was the goal of the Bonus Army of 1932? Who broke up their camp by force?: Bonus march of WWI veterans in Washington DC to demand immediate payment of bonuses owed to the veterans from WWI; Hoover
30.
What was the significance of the Harlem Renaissance for African Americans?: Haven they escaped to from the South in the Great Migration where they had an opportunity to share their culture through the arts; music, literature, visual art
31.
What was the significance of the radio pertaining to FDR?: fireside chats; pep talks for Americans
32.
What was the Treaty of Versailles?: Result of the end of WWI. The French and British insisted Germany be punished. A League of Nations was created. National boundaries were redrawn, creating many new nations such a Poland.
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What was the Triple Entente?: Alliance of Britain, France, Russia (though Russia left) against the Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy
supplemented with further support from nations such as Canada, United States, Brazil, Portugal, Japan
34.
What was the TVA? What does it stand for?: - TVA hired thousands to work on construction in the Tennessee Valley and sold electricity to residents at rates much lower than what was previously
- Tennessee Valley Authority
35.
Who did not accept the Treaty of Versailles? Why?: Henry Lodge; led the Senate against the treaty because he knew it would get the US involved in the League of Nations and would then become involved in European Affairs
36.
Who was Dorothea Lang (FSA)?: an influential American domcumentary photographer/photojournalist. best known for her Depresision-era work for the Farm Security Administration. Her photographs represented the consequences of the Great Depression and influenced the development of documentary photography
37.
Who was Marcus Garvey?: Brought the UNIA to Harlem from Jamaica. Advocated racial pride for African Americans. Established a "back to Africa" movement, encouraging blacks to seperate themselves from society. He was jailed in 1925 when his stock sales were charged as fraud.
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Who was the president during WWI?: Woodrow Wilson
39.
Who were flappers?: Women who challenged the norm of the "acceptable American woman" in the 20s. Dresses in short dresses, danced, bobbed their hair, stood for women's suffrage
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Who were Sacco and Vanzetti: Two Italian anarchists who were set up and framed for a murder they did not commit. They were hanged. Italian Americans got angry because they were just in the wrong place at the wrong time
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Who were the Central Powers?: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy, Ottoman Empire
42.
Who won the Election of 1932?: FDR
43.
Why did Hoover have a bad reputation?: - Hawley-Smoot Tariff failed
- corruption in his government
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Wilson (America) said he wanted to make the world "_____": "safe for democracy"
