What was Roosevelts REAL motivation behind the court-hacking plan?

Needed more Justices to support his New Deal policies

What is the most different when comparing the New Deal to the Second New Deal?

openly attacked corporate interests

What is true about the "Good Neighbor Policy"?

Expanded on changes from Hoover Administration

What was A. Philip Randolph's Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters?

African-American dominant union

Which Act(s) did the Supreme Court uphold in 1937?

Wagner Act, Social Security Act

What did Thomas Hunt Morgan NOT do?

created first genetic synthesizer

What occurred imediately prior to Word War II begining on September 1, 1939?

Hitler & Stalin signed a non-aggression pact

What jumpstarted the "Roosevelt Recession"?

FDR balancing the federal budget

What did Margaret Sanger do?

pioneered birth control movements

What did NOT happen under the Nuetrality Act of 1935?

Made US part of the World Court

What did the Sheppard-Towner Act do?

federal funds for prenatal and child-health care programs

What was the significance of the Scopes trial?

fundamentalists put on defensive

What did Dr. Francis E. Townsend call for?

elderly receiving government pension

Who was Chiang Kai-Shek?

Leader of China during Mukden Incidents

What is FALSE about the rise of the automobile industry?

spearheaded by Reginald Fessden

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1
What was Roosevelts REAL motivation behind the court-hacking plan?
He didn't want to overwork the courts
He wanted to be reelected
He wanted a better representation for minorities
Needed more Justices to support his New Deal policies
2
What is the most different when comparing the New Deal to the Second New Deal?
openly attacked corporate interests
focused efforts on farms
focused on deflation
3
The democrats were deeply divided in the 1920's
False
True
4
What is true about the "Good Neighbor Policy"?
It helped people realize their faults
It reinforced economic relations with Latin America
Matthew Shaw
Expanded on changes from Hoover Administration
5
What industry was involved in the "Memorial Day Massacre"?
automobiles
coal
steel
oil
6
FDR circumvented cash-and-carry by giving England 50 American destroyers.
True
False
7
What is FALSE about the National Origins Act of 1924?
reduced quota of Europeans to 2%
reduced quota of Asians to 1%
favored northwestern Europeans
based on 1890 census
8
There were many efforts to exclude Mexican immigration in the 1920's.
True
False
9
In October, during the USA's declared neutrality, what US destroyer did the Germans sink?
Mchenry
Reuben James
Marina
Atlantic
10
What term was used to describe blacks in significant second level positions in the government?
Black Cabinet
Black pups
Pin-money workers
Brudders
11
What was A. Philip Randolph's Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters?
anti-immigration organization
parking garage
secret society for congressman
African-American dominant union
12
What organization offered free council in Tennessee to any educator willing to defy the law?
American Civil Liberties Union
American Federation of Labor
Southern Communist Party
National Womens party
13
What was not an occupation of Franklin D. Roosevelt?
seat in the New York State Legislature
Vice President
Governor of New York
Assistant secretary of the Navy
14
Which Act(s) did the Supreme Court uphold in 1937?
Agriculture Adjustment Acts
Wagner Act
Social Security Act
National Recovery Act
15
Who did Hitler and Mussolini support in the 1936 civil war in Spain?
Pancho Villa
The existing regime
Francisco Franco
José Antonio Primo de Rivera
16
Who was the facist trying to overthrow the government in the Spanish Civil War?
Emilio Mola
Fransico Franco
Pancho Villa
Juan Yague
17
Who was Harry Hopkins?
director of the FERA
Electricity magnate
FDR's Vice President
Assistant Secretary of Navy
18
New Deal agencies struck down existing discrimination?
False
True
19
Who was NOT a "debunker"?
Sinclair Lewis
H. L Mencken
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Leo Frank
20
Where was the World Economic conference held in 1933?
Manchuria
Paris
London
Washington D.C
21
What did Thomas Hunt Morgan NOT do?
spearheaded advanced genetics
experimented with fruit flies
created first genetic synthesizer
revealed gene arrangement in chromosome
22
FDR was an isolationist.
False
True
23
What did the Teapot Dome scandal involve
steel companies
wheat production
warships
oil reserves
24
In the campaign of 1940 who did Franklin D. Roosevelt choose as his Vice President?
Wendell Wilkie
Charles Lindbergh
Burton Wheeler
Henry Wallace
25
What is FALSE in regards to the Congress of Industrial Organization?
less militant than the AFL
under John L. Lewis
expanded to women and blacks
targeted unorganized industries
26
What did the Southern Tenant Farmers support?
Radicals
Communism
Socialism
Liberation
27
What is NOT a country that Hitler invaded
France
Sweden
Norway
Netherlands
28
What term was used to describe the lighting war that ended when France fell?
Lebensraum
Phony war
Blitzkrieg
Anschluss
29
What occurred imediately prior to Word War II begining on September 1, 1939?
Hitter occupied Czechoslovakia
Hitler & Stalin signed a non-aggression pact
France fell
Appeasement
30
What was the first thing Gregor Mendel performed hybridization on?
Vegetables
Fruit Flies
People
Cows *moo
31
What jumpstarted the "Roosevelt Recession"?
Failure of Greenfield International Reserves
The rise of the Shawlites
Assassination of Huey Long
FDR balancing the federal budget
32
How did the people public take to FDR's Quarantine speech?
They didn't know it happened because it was a secret speech
Hostile
Neutral
Love it
33
What did Margaret Sanger do?
contributed to mental health development
worked in the Hull House
supported full unionization of all workers
pioneered birth control movements
34
What amendment repealed prohibition?
18
19
21
20
35
What did NOT happen under the Nuetrality Act of 1935?
Was supported by isolationists
Mandatory arms embargo
Pres. warned public travelling on warring nations' ships
Made US part of the World Court
36
Who said it: " I am a Negro - and beautiful"
Countee Cullen
James Johnson
Langston Hughes
Zora Hurston
37
What did the Sheppard-Towner Act do?
limited child labor
limit agricultural production
federal funds for prenatal and child-health care programs
designated state funds to construction projects
38
What was the significance of the Scopes trial?
glorified William J. Bryan
modernists shut down
workers allowed union membership
fundamentalists put on defensive
39
What is FASLE about the Farm Security Administration?
assisted small farmers
made huge improvements
provided loans to help farmers relocate to better lands
40
FDR supported the Social Security Act in 1935.
False
True
41
What did Dr. Francis E. Townsend call for?
wanted more public works built
strident attacks on banks
distribution of surplus riches to poor
elderly receiving government pension
42
What is FALSE regarding the KKK?
largest clan in South
presented as patriots and morality defenders
allowed women
concerned with Jews, Catholics, foreigners
43
Who was Chiang Kai-Shek?
Lead rebel cause into Manchuria
Leader of China during Mukden Incidents
Director of foreign affaris in China
Leader of Japan during Mukden Incidents
44
What is false about the "American plan"?
pretext for harsh union busting
crusade for open shop
organized by Philip Randolph
reduced union membership
45
What did The Birth of Nation glorify?
capitalism
immigrants
patriotism
KKK
46
What act employed young men to work in rural and wilderness settings?
American Liberty League
Tennessee Valley Authority
Civilian Conservation Corps
National Recovery Administration
47
What kind of strike did the United Auto Workers have?
Sit Down Strike
Matthew Shaw Strike
Flying Strike
Working Strike
48
The Great Depression destroyed the success ethics.
False
True
49
What is FALSE about the rise of the automobile industry?
increased demand for suburban housing
spearheaded by Reginald Fessden
gateway to expand other related industries
50
Hitler was opposed by Britain and France in his march into Austria.
False
True
51
The US became embroiled in arguments with Japan over the sinking of the Panay.
False
True
52
What is TRUE about Asian Americans during the Great Depression?
had trouble competing for jobs with poor white migrants
the college educated generally weathered crisis fairly well
found it easier to move into mainstream professions
Able to keep from losing jobs to white Americans
53
What was the first commercial radio station in America?
99.1
National Broadcasting company
KDKA
NPR
54
What did the McNaury-Haugen provide parity for?
grain, cotton, tobacco, rice
cotton, wheat, tobacco, potatoes
cotton, wheat, corn, rice
oranges, banana, pineapple, apples
55
1921-1922 saw uninterrupted prosperity and economic expansion
True
False
56
What is FALSE about the Agricultural Adjustment Administration?
payed farmers subsidies for leaving land idle
tax on food processing
limited agricultural production
deemed constitutional by supreme court
57
What is FALSE in regards to the Reconstruction Finance Corporation?
much of the federal funds went to larger corporations
enacted under the Hoover administration
operated on a small scale
failed to produce significant recovery
58
What allowed the gov't to lend or lease arms to any nation pivotal to the defense of the U.S.?
Cash-and-carry
Burke-Wadsworth Act
Dawes Plan
Lend-lease
59
What is NOT true about Calvin Coolidge's term?
lost election of 1928
comfortable victory in 1924 election
just as passive as Harding
won attention with the Boston Police Strike
60
What was term for the day the Stock Market crashed?
Black Wednesday
Black Friday
Black Monday
Black Tuesday
61
Congress approved the McNary-Haugen bill twice. How many times did Calvin Coolidge veto it?
He never vetoed it
twice
once
62
What is NOT true about the 1937 "cash-and-carry" policy?
Warring nations could only purchase non-millitary goods
Warring nations had to ship their own goods from the US
Isolationists opposed the idea
Warring nations had to pay cash
63
What were Pin-money workers?
They sold pinwheels for money
Mexican immigrant workers
Married women working for extra money
Young children selling things on the street
64
What did the Federal Emergency Relief Administration do?
gave cash grants to states to lift bankrupt relief agencies
experiment in regional planning
guaranteed small bank deposits
established right to collective bargaining
65
What was NOT a legacy of the New Deal?
Increased government prsence in the economy
Divided the Democratic Party
Beginning of American Welfare State
Elevated rokers and farmers
66
The Japanese suffered heavy losses like the Americans when Pearl Harbor was attacked
True
False
67
What is NOT in the 5-Power Pact?
France and Italy could have 1.75 tons each to US's 5 tons
Ratio of armerments
Limits for total naval tonnage
US and Britan could have 5 tons to China's 3 tons
68
What occured between the US and the Soviet Union in 1933?
US reassured Soviets of interest to stop Japanese expanding
US flourished in Russia
Russia sent over soldiers to learn war strategy
Agreed to open formal diplomatic relations
69
What portion of the population believed Germany posed a direct threat to the safety of the U.S?
2/3
1/6
All of them
None
70
What did people call the "liberated" women?
Flaps
Flappings
Flapper
Floozies
71
What is FALSE about the NRA?
powerful enforcement mechanism
stated right to collective bargaining
maintained employment & production
directed by Hugh S. Johnson
72
What were "pink-collar" jobs?
provided health care for women
being detective like the pink panther
jobs in the garment industry
low paying service occupations
73
Who succeeded Warren Harding?
Al Smith
Calvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
74
What is NOT true about the Emergency Immigration Act?
enacted in 1921
was based on 1910 consensus
curbed immigration at 3% per nationality
banned East Asia immigration
75
Who created the first analog computer?
Howard Aiken
Gregor Mendal
Reginald Fenssenden
Vannevar Bush
76
What was meant by the term "open shop"?
Union membership is mandatory
no worker required to join a union
free ice cream scoops in shops
union membership is forbidden
77
What was the term used to describe the quiet lull between winter & spring during WWII?
Phony war
Lebensraum
Appeasement
Blitzkrieg
78
What country was not attacked during the "blitzkreig"?
France
Belgium
Sweden
Denmark
79
Who is largely identified with "appeasement"?
Chiang Kai-Shek
Marco Polo
Neville Chamberlain
Franklin Roosevelt
80
In the 1920's birth control was legal in all states.
False
True
81
Where was the "dust bowl" drought?
Great Plains
South
North Bend
PNW
82
Which was NOT an effect of the Fair Labor Standards Act?
National Minimum Wage!
Child Labor Laws!
40 Hour Maximum Work Week!
Enforced Right to Collective Bargining!
83
What was the function of the American Liberty League?
arouse opposition to the New Deal
Provide relief for unemployed men
to press for the "New Deal"
gather support for unions
84
What did the Economy Act do?
gave small depositors an amount of security
reopened banks under the federal reserve
brought rise in farm prices
cut federal employees salaried
85
What Act inaugurated the first peacetime military draft in American History?
Palmer-Cox Act
Statecraft Act
Atlantic Act
Burke-Wadsworth Act
86
What party did FDR associate with?
Democrat
Republican
Bull Moose
Communist
87
Who was instrumental in creating the the American Lincoln Brigade?
Herbert Hoover
Southern Tenant Farmers
Modernists
American Communist Party
88
What were the goals of the Washington Conference of 1921?
Stopping a Naval Arms race between US, Japan and Britain
Equal Rights Amendment
Recognize a treaty between US and Britain
Meeting of Democrats to establish their agenda
89
What did Charles E. Laughlin call for?
monetary reforms
Share-Our-Wealth Plan
pension for the elderly
right to unions
90
What is NOT true about welfare capitalism?
instituted paid vacation
gave workers control of own fate
gave managers more control
enacted by Henry Ford
91
What does WPA stand for?
Working People Association
Women's Property Administration
Matthew Shaw
Works Progress Administration
92
What was the first feature-length movie with sound?
talkie
The Public Enemy
Snow White
KDKA
93
What is FALSE anout the 1936 "Referendum"?
Roosevelt carried nearly every state
Democrats lost presence in both houses
Union Party was Established
Roosevelt was reelected with hardly any opposition
94
Congress was more than willing to permit assistance to the allies during WWII
True
False
95
What did the Harlem Renaissance rise from?
african roots
harlem shake
factory workers
mass farming
96
Who made the Temporary National Economic Committee designed to deal with anti-trust laws?
Harry Hopkins
FDR
Huey Long
sHerbert Hoover (lol)
97
Where did Hoover go for his ten week good will tour in 1929?
Britain
Italy
Rural South
Latin America
98
Finish the title of the book: How to win friends and..
influence people
prevent enemies
get money
love yourself
99
FDR's court-packing plan was supported by the public.
False
True
100
In 1936, US offered assistance in Falangists' revolt in Spain.
True
False
101
Which party was Benito Mussolini a part of in Italy?
Socialist
Facist
Communist
The 2,500th Anniversary of the Peacock Throne Party
102
What was NOT one of the effects of the WPA's policies?
Worked with the National Youth Administration
Employed Writers, Artists and Musicians
Made Women Work for Federal Aid
Emplowed 2.1 Million People
103
What is FALSE in regard to Huey Long?
launched attacks on banks, oil companies & utilities
created Share-Our-Wealth Plan
possible viable third party candidate in the 1936 election
succeeded himself as governor
104
What is FALSE about the Emergency Banking Act?
Treasury Dept inspection of all banks before reopening
cut federal employee salaries
protected larger banks from being dragged down
gave federal assistance to some troubled institutions
105
Who was NOT a person who worked to insure relief programs were avalible to blacks?
Harry Hopkins
John Collier
Harold Ickes
Eleanor Roosevelt
106
In 1941 American ships patrolled the Pacific ocean in response to German submarines
True
False
107
What did Hitler want to created between Germany & Austria?
Union
Lebensraum
Appeasement
Anschluss
108
What is NOT true about the Dawes Plan of 1924?
France and Britain reduced reparation demands
Was negotiated by FDR
Our great nation, 'Murica,lent money to Germany
Was created by Charles Dawes
109
what did fundamentalists want?
all workers in unions
more immigration for factories
preservation of tradition
teaching of evolution
110
Did congress approve FDR's request to extend cash-and-carry to allow for the sale of arms?
Congress didn't know
FDR never asked congress
Yes
No
111
Who pioneered the theory of modulation, allowing music and speech transmission via radio?
Gregor Mendel
Thomas Morgan
Woodrow Wilson
Reginald Fessenden
112
Who directed the Works Progress Administration (hint hint)?
Harry Richards
Harry Long
Harry Hopkins
George Thompson
113
What Act gave the government authority to curb irresponsible speculation by banks?
Securities and Exchange Commission
Wagner Act
Glass-Steagall Act
Economy Act
114
Who challenge Sigmund Freud's ideas about mental health?
Carl Jung
Margaret Sanger
John Watson
Woodrow Wilson
115
What did FDR do two days after inauguration?
enacted the Economy Act
called Hoover for help
shut down all banks
Enacted the Glass-Steagall Act
116
In response to the Great Depression, many Mexican Americans..?
successfully organized effective ressistance
left the united states entirely
migrated south
moved into California
117
What did the SEC do?
guaranteed small depositors some insurance
lifted up troubled banks
roots of social security
police the stock market
118
Which of these is FALSE in regards to the Social Security Act?
Implemented Retirement Pension for workers
Federal Aid to the Disabled
Retirment Pension began immediately
Direct Assistance from government to needy elderly
119
No one believed Germany posed a direct threat to the United States in 1940
False
True
120
Americans in the West did NOT recieve special attention from the New Deal policies.
True
False
121
What limited immigration to 3% per nationality based on the 1910 census?
20th Ammendment
Emergency Immigration Act
Big Stick Diplomacy
Native Origins Act
122
What did the modernists want?
abstract art
increased media exposure
literal bible interpretation
adaptation to science
123
What did Charles Evans Hughes do?
Wanted an alternitive to League of Nations
Was the Sec. of Treasury
Helped with Kellog-Briand Pact
Stripper for hire
124
How long after Hoover's inauguration did the Great Depression begin?
2 years
24 days
16 months
8 months
125
What was the term for the U.S & Britains statement of war aims.
The new promise
Reuben James
The Atlantic Charter
Common principles
126
What did the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation do?
ensured large banks wouldn't fail
guaranteed all bank deposits up to $2,500
called on businesses to establish blanket codes
127
Industrialists feared overcapacity thus made strenuous efforts to curb competition.
True
False
128
What is FALSE about the TVA?
turned Tennessee Valley into a prosperous region
program to encourage growth of local industries
program for reforestation and farmer productivity
provided electricity
129
What president ran for three terms?
Warren Harding
Woodrow Wilson
Franklin Roosevelt
Calvin Coolidge
130
In 1941 American Ships patrolled the Pacific Ocean as far as Iceland.
False
True
131
Which of the following was NOT undermined by the Supreme Court?
TVA
NRA
CCC
AAA
132
FDR supported the Social Security Act in 1935.
True
False
133
Who defended prohibition?
Jews
wets
Catholics
Protestants
134
What is FALSE in regard to the Indian Reorganization Act?
Some regained original tribal lands
Allowed a tribal government
Gave tribes up to 4 million acres of new land
It restored the tribes' right to own land collectively
135
What party did the League of Women's Voters members belong to?
republicans
democrats and republicans
not associated with any party
democrats
136
What was the Lebensraum?
The party before Hitler came to power
A kind of mushroom
The "bible" of the Aryan race
Living space for German master race
137
The government assisted American economic expansion in Latin America aggresively in the 1920s.
True
False
138
What is the term for farmers that left to California in search of work?
Okers
Okies
Okis
Ogres
139
What was NOT part of the Hoover Program?
forgoing demands for higher wages
cut layoffs
urged business leaders to cooperate voluntarily
forbid child labor
140
Who was the leader of the National Women's Party?
Alice Ringo
Alice Paul
Alice George
Alice John
141
Roosevelt enacted the Highest & most progressive peace time tax in history.
False
True
142
Women found it easier to establish themselves in psychiatry than in other medicinal practices.
False
True
143
What did the Kellog-Briand Act do?
Outlawed war as instument of national policy
Monopolized the cereal industry
Allied all nations that signed
Limited Naval tonnage
144
Who was the target of the Leo Frank Case?
Catholic
Jew
Women
African American
145
What was FDR's "bombshell message" about reducing gold value of the dollar?
Challengin traditional views
Accepted no compromise
Warning of Hanford Project
He's so sexy
146
What did the Scottsboro case involve?
illegal immigration
blacks in white neighborhoods
2 girls who cried rape
unrestricted cotton farming
147
Who wrote The Grapes of Wrath?
John Steinbeck
John Green
John Ford
John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt
148
The government adapted public policy to ensure efficiency in the industries in 1920.
True
False
149
Who invaded Manchuria in 1931?
Germany
Japan
US
China
150
What party made up a majority of an isolationist lobby known as the America First Committee
Democratic
Populist
Republican
Bull Moose
151
What act enforced section 7(a) of the Industrial Recovery Act which was undermined by the SC?
Wagner Act
Holding Company Act
National Labor Relations Act
Recovery Act
152
What was a defining feature of The Man Nobody Knows(1920)?
portrayed African heritage
derailed success ethics
"super salesman" Jesus
first American ghost story
153
Who was the first female cabinet member, and in which position?
Loretta Lynch, Sec. of the Interior
Frances Perkins, Sec. of Labor
Matthew Shaw, Sec. of Education
Madeline Albright, Sec. of State
154
What of the following did NOT provided mortgage relief?
Civilian Homeowners Corporation
Farm Credit Administration
Frazier-Lemke Farm Bankruptcy Act
Federal Housing Administration
155
What was the largest public works project of the New Deal?
Building the Empire State Building
Yomesite National Park
Building schools in the Northwest
Grand Coulee Dam
156
What was the purpose of FDR's "quarantine speech"?
Convince the public to support isolationism
Reassure the public that influenza was no longer an issue
Warn Mussolini against his intentions to invade Ethiopia
To warn Japan against futher expansion
157
The New Era was a prosperous time for labor organizations.
False
True
158
What is false about Warren Hardings presidency?
party loving scorpion
baffled with presidency responsibilities
Surrounded by scandalous cabinet members
pushed the McNary-Hagen bill
159
What trial did Clarence Darrow participate in?
Atlantic Charter
Scottsboro
Scopes
Leo Frank
160
What group campaigned for an Equal Rights Amendment?
National Women's party
Populists
NAWSA
League of Women Voters
161
What was FDR's position on the Roosevelt Corellary?
He refused to permit American intervention
He used it to push American economic interests
He used it to increase the power of the Executive Branch
He created it
162
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