Midterm 2024

How did theUS immigration policy change in the 1920s?

Which of the following did the Social Security Act not provide?

Why were banks weaked by the stock market crash?

What is a corporation?

What new technology of the WWI battlefield was used to defend trench systems?Increased firepower of soldiers.

What was the primary goal of the NAACP?

Which social theory states, if you can't support in industrial work then you and your family are holding society back

How did Hawaii become a territory of the US?

In a trend that would haunt American's in the Great Depression, many people began buying things with what?

What is deflation?

Which of the following was not a reason dictators rose to power?

Which of the following was not a reason Taft struggled to gain support of progressive Republicans in congress

The new KKK gained members by supporting what?

What conference addressed the Sudetenland Crisis? It established "peace in our time"

Which of the following was one of the goals of the League of Nations?

What event preceded Germany's invasion of Poland by about one week?

What did the 19th amendment make constitutional?

Which New Deal Agency built dams, controlled flooding, and provided electricity to rural residents?

What was the Bonus Army?

Which of the following was not a lasting effect of the new deal?

According to the concept of laissez-faire, prices and wages are best determined by the

Where did the Roosevelt Corollary state that the US would intervene in order to provide stability

Clara Bow fashionable women of the time period, was a movie star. She is considered to be the first?

What amendment prohibited the sale, manufacture, and transportation of alcohol?

Policies such as the Neutrality Acts, lend-lease, & Cash and Carry are all examples of?

In which New Deal agency was responsible for insuring bank deposits?

What was the goal of many early labor unions?

What were the two major RR companies responsible for building the Transcontinental RR?

What were members of the temperance movement trying to achieve?

Which duo were controversially convicted of armed robbery and murder? Most believed they did not receive a fair trial

What book, written by Alfred, encouraged countries to build up their navies?

What was a promise made by Germany to stop unlimited U-boat attacks on Allied shipping?

Who was NOT a candidate for president in 1912?

In 1923, after failure of the Beer Hall Putsch, Adolph Hitler did what?

President Roosevelt used the West African saying "speak softly and carry a big stick" to express his beliefs that?

What agreement between the Russians & Germans allowed the Russians to leave WWI before it was over?

What was the goal for Hitler's invasion of Poland and the Soviet Union? It means "living space"

What event started WWII?

Roosevelt & Churchill issued a joint statement describing what post-war should look like, what was it called?

Which of the following is the result of Henry Ford's new manufacturing methods?

Reporting that focused on exposing corruption and social problems was known as what?

Why was the jungle written by Upton Sinclair, so influential?

Belief that English speaking nations had superior character, ideas and systems of government is called what?

What was the Great Migration?

What word means the belief that German are the master race?

What law was used to break up trusts that used unfair trade practices?

What manufacturing method did Henry Ford revolutionize the automobile industry?

The Open Door policy and the US response to the Boxer Rebellion involved what country?

How did Marxism anarchism and nativism impact the American public’s view of labor unions?

President Taft followed Dollar Diplomacy. Which of the following is a goal of Dollar Diplomacy?

What was the central issue in the Scopes trial?

Due to economies of scales, big corporations can continue operating during poor economic times because

What was the major failure of the Progressive union?

The Red Scare made Americans afraid of what?

What was the "Pact of Steele?" A treaty between?

Which New Deal Agency sent young men to live in work caps? Worked for the forest agency.

What is the term for complete control over an industry's production, wages & prices without and competition?

What did Roosevelt consider the most important legislation of the New Deal?

What was the name of Wilson's idea for a peace treaty to end WWI?

This movement became popular in the 1920s in response to what many saw as the growing immortality of Americans

Famous industrialist founded Standard Oil, took over 90% of the market, known for ruthless efficiency & philanthropy?

What organization provided refuge and recreation for underprivileged children after school?

Which president championed conservation and national parks?

Famous Industrialist made money investing in and taking over other companies? Be bailed out USA government financially

The young women embraced the new fashions and urban attitudes of the day. What are they called?

The causes of the Spanish-American war are most closely associated with which country?

What was the "Final Solution"?

What is the term used during this era to describe a policy of leaving the economy to regulate itself, to let it be?

Greenwood, a neighborhood of Tulsa, OK was also called the "Black Wall Street." What happened in 1921?

Promote Wilson followed a policy of Moral Diplomacy. Which of the following is a goal of that policy?

The US never joined the League of Nations because they never signed what?

Which New Deal Agency regulated stocks and prevented fraud?

A major reason the US began to seek colonies in the late 1890s was the

What caused the formation of many labor union in the late 1800s?

During the 1920s, US foreign policy became more:

Which of the following was one of the reasons for the high casualties in World War I?

Which of the following countries had dictators in the 1920s?

The region of the Great Plains that suffered from drought in the 1930s was called what?

Which neighborhood in NYC was a center for African American art, literature and music?

Plessy v Ferguson established the doctrine?

What is an intense feeling of pride in your ethnic group? It was a cause of WWI?

What event sparked the Great Depression

What event caused the US to enterWWII?

Famous Industrialist began his career in RRs, created his own steel company. Associated with Frick & Homestead Strike

The Supreme Court ruled that some parts of the New Deal were unconstitutional. Roosevelt responded by?

What regulated trade between the states?

What is the term for a strategy in which a business buys every business in its supply chain, controls raw materials up?

What NYC factory did a major fire occur, killing 146 workers? Fire safety laws were passed afterwards.

Why did the US began to seek colonies in the late 1890s was the

Which of the following did not become a colony of the US after the Spanish-American War?

What caused the "Roosevelt Recession" of 1936-37?

What drove stock prices to artificially high levels in the 1920s

Why did many countries practice appeasement with Germany in the 1930s?

Which of the following is true about the Treaty of Versailles?

Term was used to describe nightclubs because you had to talk quietly to avoid detection

What event contributed to America's entry into the Spanish American war?

Which of the following would best describe Hoover's response to the Great Depression?

Germany asked Mexico to attack the US if the US entered the war against Germany. In return Germany would return land

What amendment provided for direct election of senators?

Which describes the first 100 days of the Roosevelt Administration?