APUSH 31-33
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Disillusioned by war and peace, Americans in the 1920s what ideas reflect American views in domestic and foreign affairs | denounce "radical" foreign ideas, condemn "un-American" life styles, shun diplomatic commitments to foreign countries, and restrict immigration |
| Businesspeople used the red scare to | break the backs of fledgling unions |
| The most tenacious pursuer of radical elements during the red scare of the early 1920s was | Mitchell Palmer |
| The KKK of the 1920s was a reaction against | the forces of diversity and modernity that were transforming American culture |
| Immigration restrictions of the 1920s were introduced as a result of | the nativist belief that Northern Europeans were superior to southern and eastern Europeans |
| The Immigration Act of 1924 discriminated directly against | Southern and Eastern Europeans |
| Enforcement of the Volstead Act met the strongest resistance from | eastern city dwellers |
| The most spectacular example of lawlessness and gangsterism in the 1920s was in | Chicago |
| According to John Dewey, a teacher's primary goal is to | Educate a student for life |
| Basic facts of the Scopes Trial were? | centered on the issues of teaching evolution in public school |
| Henry Ford's most distinctive contribution to the automobile industry was | relatively cheap automobiles |
| Frederick W. Taylor, a prominent inventor and engineer, was best known for his | promotion of industrial efficiency and scientific management |
| The automobile revolution resulted in all of the following | the consolidation of school, the spread of suburbs, a loss of population in less attractive states, and altered youthful successful behavior |
| Charles Lindbergh's solo flight across the Atlantic made him an American hero especially because | his wholesome youthfulness contrasted with eh cynicism and debunking of the Jazz age |
| the first talkie motion picture was | The Jazz Singer |
| How did automobiles, radios, and motion pictures affect American life? | Contributed to the standardization of Am. Life |
| The 1920 census revealed that, for the first time, | Most Americans lived in the cities |
| Margaret Sanger was most noted for her advocacy of | Birth Control |
| Job opportunities for women in the 1920s | Tended to cluster in a few low paying fields |
| All of the following are true of Marcus Garvey, founder of the United Negro Improvement Association, | promoting the resettlement of American blacks in Africa, cultivating feelings of self-confidence and self-reliance among blacks, being sent to prison after a conviction for fraud, and promoting black-owned businesses |
| Buying stock on margin meant purchasing | It with a small down payment |
| As secretary of the treasury, Andrew Mellon placed the heaviest tax burden on | The middle-income groups |
| Which one of the following members of President Harding's cabinet proved to be incompetent and corrupt? | Albert Fall |
| During the 1920s, the Supreme Court | Often ruled against progressive legislation |
| One exception to President Warren G. Harding's policy of isolationism involved the Middle East, where the United States sought to | secure oil-drilling concessions for American companies |
| The 1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact | outlawed war as a solution to international rivalry |
| The Fordney-McCumber and Hawley-Smoot Tariff laws had the long-term effect of | raising the tariff rates, had been substantially raised from the opening of the decade |
| The Teapot Dome scandal was centered around corrupt deals and bribes involving | mishandling of naval oil reserves |
| During Coolidge's presidency, government policy was set largely by the interests and values of | The business community |
| One of the major problems facing farmers int he 1920s was | Overproductions |
| In the early 1920s, one glaring exception to America's general indifference to the outside world was its | armed intervention in the Caribbean and Central American |
| America's European allies believed they should not have to repay loans the U.S. made to them during WWI because | They had paid a much heavier price in lost lives, so it was only fair for the US to write off the debt |
| America's major foreign policy problem in the 1920s was addressed by the Dawes Plan, which | provided a solution to the tangle of war-debt and war-reparation payments |
| Describe Al Smith's appeal AND weaknesses | Catholic religion, support for the repeal of prohibition, the big-city background, and radio speaking skill were political liabilities for Alfred E. Smith |
| When elected to the presidency in 1928, Herbert Hoover | combined small-town values with wide experience in modern corporate America |
| As a result of the Hawley-Smoot Tariff of 1930 | the world wide depression deepened |
| President Herbert Hoover believed that the Great Depression could be ended by doing all of the following | directing assisting businesses and banks, keeping faith in the efficiency of the industrial system, continuing to rely on the American tradition of rugged individualism, and lending federal funds to feed farm livestock |
| The Reconstruction Finance Corporation was established to | make loans to businesses, banks, and state and local governments |
| President Hoover's public image was severely damaged by his | handling of the dispersal of the Bonus Army |
| What was the Stimson doctrine? | The 1932 Stimson doctrine declared that the United States would not recognize any territorial acquisition achieved by force of arms |
| What contributed most to the Franklin Roosevelt's development of compassion and strength of will | FDR's affliction with infantile paralysis |
| The most vigorous "champion of the dispossessed"-- that is, the poor and minorities-- in Roosevelt administration circles was | Eleanor Roosevelt |
| In 1932, FDR campaigned on the promise that as president he would attack the Great Depression by | experimenting with bold new programs for economic and social reform |
| One striking new feature of the 1932 presidential election results was that | that African Americans shifted from their Republican allegiance and became a vital element in the Democratic party |
| When FDR assumed the presidency in March 1933 what kind of political support idd he have? | he received unprecedented congressional support |
| The Glass-Steagall Act | created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to insure individual bank deposits |
| The most immediate emergency facing FDR when he became president in March 1933 was | the collapse of international trade and unemployment |
| FDR took America off the gold standard and adopted a managed currency policy designed to | Stimulate inflation |
| The single most popular New Deal program was probably the | Civilian Conservation Corps |
| The most complex and ambitious New Deal effort to achieve recovery and reform the entire American economy was the | National Recovery Act |
| Probably the most radical New Deal program that provoked widespread charges of creeping socialism was the | Tennessee valley authority |
| President Roosevelt's chief "administrator of relief" and one of his closest advisors was | Harry Hopkins |
| Senator Huey P. Long of Louisiana gained a large national following by promising to | give every family 5,000 dollars |
| All of the following contributed to the Dust Bowl of the 1930s | Dry-farming techniques, droughts, the cultivation of marginal farmlands on the Great Plains, and soil erosion |
| The Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 attempted to | reverse the forced assimilation of Native Americans into white society by establishing tribal self-government |
| The fate of most of the Okies and other Dust Bowl migrants who headed west to California was that they | escaped the deprivation and uncertainty of seasonal farm labor when they found jobs in defense industries during WWII |
| The Federal Securities Act and the Securities Exchange Commission aimed to | Provide full disclosure of information and prevent insider trading and other fraudulent practices |
| The strongest criticisms leveled against the Tennessee Valley Authority was that it | represented the first stage of "creeping socialism" |
| The most controversial aspect of Tennessee Valley Authority was its efforts in | Electrical power |
| The Social Security Act of 1935 provided all of the following | unemployment insurance, old-age pensions, economic provisions for the blind and disabled, and support for the blind and physically handicapped |
| The Wagner Act of 1935 proved to be a trailblazing law that | gave labor the right to bargain collectively |
| The 1936 election was most notable for | its reflection of a bitter class struggle between the poor and the rich |
| President Roosevelt's Court-packing scheme in 1937 reflected his desire to make the Supreme Court | more sympathetic to New Deal Programs |
| As a result of the 1937 Roosevelt recession | Roosevelt adopted Keynesian (planned deficit spending) economies |
| By 1938, the New Deal | Had lost most of its momentum |
| FDR's New Deal was most notable for | proving moderate social reform without radical revolution or reactionary fascism |
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