USII Final Exam #2

Question 1

signed into law fifteen pieces of legislation in the first hundred days of office

Accepted Answer

Franklin Roosevelt

Question 2

poor people in cities often waited in these to get free food from charities and public agencies

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bread lines

Question 3

These people lived on and worked land owned by someone else

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tenant farmers

Question 4

The forbidding by law of the manufacture, transport, and sale of alcohol

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Prohibition

Question 5

This plan arranged for US loans to Germany.

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Dawes Plan

Question 6

Under this president, the national economy boomed.

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Calvin Coolidge

Question 7

United States President from 1929 to 1933

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Herbert Hoover

Question 8

group of men who formed to terrorize African Americans who wanted to vote in elections

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KKK

Question 9

Rising prices

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inflation

Question 10

This event caused hundreds of thousands of people to migrate from the Great Plains

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Dust Bowl

Question 11

National amendment banned the manufacture, distribution, and sale of alcohol in the US

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18th Amendment

Question 12

General that led the federal troops to clear out the Bonus Army from Washington DC

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Douglas MacArthur

Question 13

Used by Henry Ford to assemble cars more efficiently

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assembly line

Question 14

At its heart, the Scopes Trial was a clash between

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Religion and science

Question 15

Millions died from a pandemic of this disease after WWI

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influenza

Question 16

Jay Gatsby was a literary creation of this author.

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F. Scott Fitzgerald

Question 17

The time at which the stock market collapsed in the Great Crash

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Black Tuesday

Question 18

This was the first movie to have sound synchronized with the action.

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Jazz Singer

Question 19

A form of credit often used to purchase stock in the 1920s

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buying on margin

Question 20

President Harding’s Secretary of Treasury

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Herbert Hoover

Question 21

Fear of suspected communists and radicals thought to be plotting revolutions inside the US

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Red Scare

Question 22

outpouring of African American culture

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Harlem Renaissance

Question 23

This baseball star was the home run king in the 1920s.

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Babe Ruth

Question 24

The symbol of the “New Woman” of the 1920s.

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flapper

Question 25

many homeless people grouped together to build shantytowns of tents and shacks

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hoovervilles

Question 26

A time of economic down turn and high unemployment between 1929 and 1941

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Great Depression

Question 27

One who sells illegal alcohol

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bootlegger

Question 28

1925 trial of a Tennessee schoolteacher for teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution

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Scopes Trial

Question 29

Once known as Boulder Dam, construction on this project brought needed employment to the SW

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Hoover Dam

Question 30

Theory that money poured into the top of the economic pyramid will flow does to the base

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trickle down economics

USII Final Exam #2

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USII Final Exam #2

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