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Question 1

What was a challenge that U.S. Faced after 9/11

Accepted Answer

Discrimination and fear of other terrorist attacks by other the same people, Acts and laws passed to destroy terriorist attacks (Patriot Acts), Americans tortured people for information about the attacks for knowledge, People losing family members and homes

Question 2

14th Amendment

Accepted Answer

Extended Citizenship to African Americans

Question 3

What effect did the end of Reconstruction have on Black Americans in the South

Accepted Answer

Jim Crow laws were made mistreating Black Americans, Black Americans had no money or jobs after Reconstruction, Black Americans were discriminated by southerners

Question 4

What issues lead to strikes during the 19 century

Accepted Answer

Business started cutting peoples wages down and firing union supporters

Question 5

What factors motivated movement during the Great Migration

Accepted Answer

More job opportunities in Northern cities

Question 6

What group migrated during the Great Migration and where did they migrate from/to

Accepted Answer

African Americans and they moved from the South to the North

Question 7

What are some results of Urbanization

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safer conditions in factories, demand for better pay, organized labor unions started to happen

Question 8

15th Amendment

Accepted Answer

Allowed African Americans the right to vote (men)

Question 9

21st Amendment

Accepted Answer

Ended the 18th amendment allowed to sell and drink alcohol again

Question 10

Who was Huey "Kingfish" Long

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Also wanted to guarantee an income of $5,000, A senator (and governor from Louisiana) who wanted to tax the wealthy

Question 11

what led to the growth of labor unions

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better work conditions, Wanting higher wages, equals for black and women workers, less work hours

Question 12

Who Made the Fourteen Points

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Woodrow Wilson

Question 13

What was Prohibition

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The ban on drinking and selling alcohol during the 1920s

Question 14

Industrialization

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A time of rapid growth in transportation, machines, railroads, oil, etc...

Question 15

What type of laws were created to stop big businesses during the progressive era?

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Sherman anti-trust laws (outlaw monopolies)

Question 16

What was a robber baron

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steal money from the poor to make themselves rich

Question 17

20th Amendment

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Moved the start of Congress' session to January 3rd, Moved the swearing in of the President from March to January, clarify what happens if the President dies or is disqualified

Question 18

What was the Harlem Renaissance

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A small town in NYC known for jazz, poems, and arts by African Americans

Question 19

What changes occurred in the US society during the 20s

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The U.S economy starts to boom different music, art, poems, etc are made, A bunch of scandals happen during this time as well as airplanes and cars

Question 20

Find 1 of the 3 Central powers (WW1)

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Ottoman Empire, Germany, Austria-Hungary

Question 21

How did the U.S respond to 9/11

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The U.S. started a war against terrorism with the newly founded NATO help, The U.S. started putting security in airports and new agencies

Question 22

What was Urbanization

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People move from rural towns to big cities for jobs b/c of machines

Question 23

What was the Treaty of Versailles

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A treaty that ended WW1 and treated Germany harshly

Question 24

What are some of the Organizations added to help end the Great Depression

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CCC- Civilian Conservation Corps (helped millions of unemployed men), PWA (helped the unemployed built dams bridges hospitals schools airports), AAA- Agriculture Adjustment Act (Told farmers to stop planting many crops), SEC- Securities Exchange Act (Oversees the stock market no more crashes)

Question 25

What was the Espionage Act

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Kept Americans from speaking against the war and the govt.

Question 26

The outcome of mechanized agriculture

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The production of mechanized agriculture made farming more efficient

Question 27

What was a Captain of industry

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business leader who served their nation in a positive way

Question 28

Hoover believed that the Great depression would..?

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Resolve by itself with the help of the American people and not by him

Question 29

What did Harding call for?

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A return to normalcy

Question 30

What effect did the 19th amendment have on the United States

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Gave Women the right to vote letting more people vote for a president

Question 31

The Patriot Act is:

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Passed by Congress to stop, detect, and prosecute terrorism in America

Question 32

Name a cause of the Great Depression

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People started to go into personal debt, Stock Market crashes, business were making to many products and started firing workers, 20% of the banks closed wiping $10 million of peoples savings

Question 33

Monopoly:

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When one person owns the entire company and products (NOT SHARED)

Question 34

18th Amendment

Accepted Answer

The ban of selling and drinking alcohol

Question 35

16th Amendment

Accepted Answer

US government could collect income tax

Question 36

Why did the U.S. want to expand during SAW (Spanish American War)

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The U.S. wanted to be a world power resorting in Imperialism

Question 37

What Was the Women Suffrage Movement

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A movement to give women the right to vote and the same rights as men have

Question 38

Immigration act of 1924

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Limited the amount of immigrants into the country

Question 39

What is The Great Migration

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African Americans moving from South to Northern cities for better jobs

Question 40

13th Amendment

Accepted Answer

Abolished Slavery

Question 41

What are some key differences between the SAW (Spanish American War) and WW1 (World War 1)

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SAW U.S. wanted to take land (Imperialism) WW1 they did not want too, WW1 used deadly gases in war SAW they did not use gas, WW1 an assassination started the war SAW USS Maine blowing up started it, More countries fought in WW1 then in SAW

Question 42

how did western expansion affect Indigenous Americans

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Many tribes tried to adapt to American cultures before assimilation, Many didn't want to leave their lands and attacked the US Soldiers, Many tribes people were arrested or killed because they didn't want to move

Question 43

What is the Dawes Act

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assimilate problems with reservation lands individual indigenous Americans

Question 44

What concerns led to the US senate to reject the Treaty of Versailles

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The League of Nations making it so US has to fight in Europe's wars, Limiting US ability to create its own foreign policy

Question 45

17th Amendment

Accepted Answer

direct election of senators

Question 46

What was the Jungle

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A book about what people were really eating and the reality of wage slavery

Question 47

Who was Father Coughlin

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A man who wanted inflated currency and nationalized banks (Anti-Semitic)

Question 48

Find 1 of the 3 ALLIED Powers (WW1)

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Russia, America, France

Question 49

What is a Trust

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Company is owned by a group of people picked by the owner of the company

Question 50

Effects of transportation changing during the Industrial Revolution

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Transportation was much easier because of trains, steamboats, railroads etc

Question 51

Goals of the new deal program

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Recovery-Business will be helped out after firing employees NRA, Reform-American economy will be fixed from the deep pit of debt AAA, Relief-people who had been fired from their jobs and the govt. helps CCC

Question 52

Progressivism:

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Movment to solve society's problems caused by the industrialization

Question 53

What laws were added because of The Jungle

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Federal Meat Inspection Act- set the standards for sanitation and packing, Pure Food and Drug Act- forbidden the sale of mislabeled food and drugs

Question 54

19th Amendment

Accepted Answer

Allowed women the right to vote

Question 55

What impact did Jim Crow laws have on Black Americans living in the south

Accepted Answer

Black Americans felt mistreated and they knew they had the same rights

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