US History II Semester Exam Review

awarded contracts to construction companies to build highways, dams, schools, etc

What is the name of the teacher who illegally taught evolution?

Where was the Cotton Club, where many African Americans got their start, located?

What is the name of the scandal where US oil reserves were leased to private interests?

Which president didn't like federal relief believing relief should come from the state/city?

What type of person rode the rails during the Depression?

The assassination of the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary will start what war?

Singer who symbolized soul

hired works directly, including thousands of women, to build or improve airports, roads, etc

African Americans moved from the South to the North during the

The _____  __________ Loan Corporation lengthened mortgage repayment terms.

This organization will pass anti-lynching legislation by lobbying the House of Rep.

The NAACP's greatest triumph was what?

Why did the Fuel Administration start daylight savings time?

When the bonus bill was voted down what did the veterans do?

leader of the "Back to Africa" movement

Schecter v. US struck down what?

What country established the Sussex Pledge & swore they would sink no more ships w/o warning?

What man will become president after Harding dies?

What president hoped that public works would provide jobs lost in the private sector?

What is it called when you spy to acquire government secrets?

first African American representative elected to Congress

The Selective Service Act called men to service through what?

What region lost their crops because the soil dried up?

A key cause of the Depression was

What is organization that will be formed to look for Communist conspiracies?

sponsored the Federal Number One program

Which court case ruled that freedom of speech could be curbed during war?

What act was seen as insurance?

The Committee on Public Information was supposed to sell Americans on what?

pilot for the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight

What countries make up the Big Four that attended the peace conference at the end of the war?

Which president seemed to mess with the seperation of powers when he "packed the court"?

WWI veterans lobbied Congress for what?

What was created to regulate the stock market?

warning against breeding the "inferior"

What man increased efficiency by dividing the assembly of his product into simple tasks?

Gangster in Chicago during Prohibition

When machine guns were created it led to what being created?

Did depositers get their money back if a bank closed?

The Emergency Quota Act will base an immigrant's admission to the US on what?

What act paid farmers not to grow certain crops?

Which amendment ended Prohibition?

Which president will appeal to Americans' return to normal life after the war?

established a 40-hour workweek

Snow White is the first ____________________ film.

What was the Universal Negro Improvement Association formed to do?

After WWI, many Americans didn't want to get involved in whose affairs?

The Espionage and Sedition Acts were supposed to silence criticisms about what?

government's right to control people to protect their safety

Many people viewed what 2 men with suspicion because they were immigrants & anarchists?

Which decade glorified personal freedom?

In the 20s, young people started looking for what type of job?

Which amendment increased federal police powers?

What are Harding's friends nicknamed?

What is the term used to describe the flowering of African American arts in the 20s?

Zimmermann telegram guaranteed what country Texas, New Mexico, & Arizona if they helped Germany

Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy made up what group during WWI?

How will the Ku Klux Klan add to their membership?

Which president believed that you shouldn't interfere with business?

What did state governors do to prevent bank runs?

What will be added to films in 1927?

Which president wanted to restore confidence in the banks?

What was Babe Ruth's nickname?

During WWI what invention was used to observe enemy actions?

What is the name of the act that outlawed the teaching of evolution?

Britian, France, and Russia make up what group during WWI?

Serbian nationalist group behind the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand

Method of loaning money to the government to pay for war

Who did General Pershing attempt to capture?