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Question 1

What landmark New Deal Program provided unemployment insurance and a pension for the elderly?

Accepted Answer

Social Security Act (SSA)

Question 2

What agency was created to regulate the stock market?

Accepted Answer

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)

Question 3

What was Woodrow Wilson's WW I plan for peace called?

Accepted Answer

Fourteen Points

Question 4

Hidden night clubs where people could hear jazz and drink alcohol were called?

Accepted Answer

Speakeasies

Question 5

Humans socially evolve using natural selection and justified social class differences?

Accepted Answer

Social Darwinism

Question 6

What amendment granted women suffrage or the right to vote?

Accepted Answer

amendment 19

Question 7

Cuba, Guam, Puerto Rico, and Cuba came under the control of the US as a result of which war?

Accepted Answer

Spanish American War

Question 8

What is the name of the famous port of entry for immigrants in NYC which opened in 1892?

Accepted Answer

Ellis Island

Question 9

After helping to build the RR's Congress virtually banned immigration from what country?

Accepted Answer

China

Question 10

What was completed at Promontory Point Utah in 1869?

Accepted Answer

Transcontinental Railroad

Question 11

What did the homeless during the Depression sarcastically call their home communities?

Accepted Answer

Hoovervilles

Question 12

What New Deal provided jobs for young men to plant trees and build small dams?

Accepted Answer

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Question 13

Name of the cultural movement in the 1920's that included people like Langston Hughes

Accepted Answer

Harlem Renaissance

Question 14

What did FDR shut down and promised would reopen with the stability and trust of the people?

Accepted Answer

Banks

Question 15

The 1st law to regulate the railroads and outlawed excessive rates?

Accepted Answer

Interstate Commerce Act

Question 16

Type of warfare used during WWI that led to long drawn out battles with little movement?

Accepted Answer

Trench warfare

Question 17

What did FDR call his program to reform and restore the economy?

Accepted Answer

New Deal

Question 18

Farmer groups formed a political party called the people's party, what is it better known as?

Accepted Answer

Populists

Question 19

What amendment provided for the direct election of senators?

Accepted Answer

amendment 17

Question 20

What New Deal Program was created to insure people's bank deposits?

Accepted Answer

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)

Question 21

1890 law that outlawed business monopolies for stifling competition.

Accepted Answer

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

Question 22

A danger signal during the 1920s was the vast expansion of buying on what?

Accepted Answer

Credit

Question 23

In the 1930s a drought unique weather conditions turned the Great Plains into what?

Accepted Answer

Dust Bowl

Question 24

What Irish immigrant monopolized the steel industry?

Accepted Answer

Andrew Carnegie

Question 25

The Roaring 20's was known for what type of new music?

Accepted Answer

Jazz

Question 26

What did the REA help provide which FDR believed was a necessity every household should have?

Accepted Answer

Electricty

Question 27

What outlawed the production, sale, and consumption of alcohol in 1919?

Accepted Answer

18th amendment

Question 28

Name of Progressive reformers who wrote books, magazines, newspapers to promote their cause.

Accepted Answer

Muckrakers

Question 29

What was the most sensational muckraking book of all written by Upton Sinclair?

Accepted Answer

The Jungle

Question 30

US President in 1901 that advocated for overseas expansion and carried a "big stick."

Accepted Answer

Teddy Roosevelt

Question 31

In 1935 the Supreme Court ruled what 2 New Deal programs unconstitutional?

Accepted Answer

NRA and the AAA

Question 32

Women mostly in cities who boldly flaunted social norms in the 1920s were called what?

Accepted Answer

Flappers

Question 33

Which of Wilson's Fourteen Points did European leaders accept?

Accepted Answer

League of Nations

Question 34

The search for raw materials and new markets to sell products in led to what foreign policy?

Accepted Answer

Imperialism

Question 35

FDR used radio to talk to Americans to give them hope, this became known as?

Accepted Answer

Fireside Chats

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