HTY 104 Exam 2 vocabulary terms

Question 1

__=(1932 Hoover) "made" gov $ available for businesses, etc to stimulate economic activity.

Accepted Answer

Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)

Question 2

__=a meeting of British prime minister Churchill, Soviet premier Stalin & President Roosevelt in Feb 1945 near WW2s end.

Accepted Answer

Yalta Conference

Question 3

__=General welfare act which gave better provisions for the elderly, blind, unemployed, children, mothers, etc.

Accepted Answer

Social Security Act

Question 4

__=establishes minimum wage, overtime pay, recordkeeping & youth employment standards of employees in private sector etc

Accepted Answer

the Fair Labor Standards Act

Question 5

___= controversial plan in the 1920s to subsidize American agriculture by raising the domestic prices of farm products.

Accepted Answer

McNary-Haugen bill/ relief act

Question 6

__=nonprofit organization(1920) founded to defend/preserve rights/liberty promised to people under US law/constitution.

Accepted Answer

American Civil Liberties Union

Question 7

__=US fed law passed in 1940 that made it a criminal offense to advocate the violent overthrow of the gov.

Accepted Answer

Smith Act

Question 8

__=(1935)protected employee(r) rights, incite collective trade, hide private labor/management to protect worker welfare

Accepted Answer

Wagner National Labor Relations Act

Question 9

__=(1933-1942)public work relief program for unemployed/unmarried men from relief families as part of the New Deal.

Accepted Answer

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

Question 10

__=(July 27-Aug 3, 1919)major racial conflict where 38 people died (23 black & 15 white) & over 500 were injured.

Accepted Answer

Chicago race riot

Question 11

__=(1935) replaced FERA by Roosevelt as an employment and infrastructure program.

Accepted Answer

Works Progress Administration (WPA)

Question 12

__=coalition of working/middle-class parties united for defense of democratic forms against a presumed Fascist assault.

Accepted Answer

Popular Front

Question 13

__=U.S. gov propaganda agency during WWII. Documented US's mobilization for war effort in media & radio broadcasts, etc.

Accepted Answer

Office of War Information

Question 14

__=(1933 Mar 9) provided for the reopening of the banks as soon as examiners had found them to be financially secure.

Accepted Answer

Emergency Banking Relief Act

Question 15

__="roaring 20s" mass culture helped redefine ideals of "the good life" & made it available to national community.

Accepted Answer

mass culture

Question 16

___= Created by John Lewis in 1937 after the AFL indicated reluctance to organize unskilled workers.

Accepted Answer

Committee/Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)

Question 17

__=The classic theme of America the Embattled, always threatened by Germans, Soviets, or illegal immigrants. Fear.

Accepted Answer

Four Quarter Sphere World/Fortress America

Question 18

__=Isolationists saw it as a foreign issue & debated staying out of the war or joining the Allied against Nazi Germany.

Accepted Answer

U.S. public opinion of WWII

Question 19

__=farm-relief bill embodying the schemes of major national farm organizations under Henry Wallace to help small farms.

Accepted Answer

Agricultural Adjustment Act/Administration (AAA)

Question 20

__= American physician who was best known for his revolving old-age pension proposal during the Great Depression.

Accepted Answer

Dr. Townsend

Question 21

___= a proposed amendment to the US Constitution stating that civil rights may not be denied on the basis of one's sex.

Accepted Answer

Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)

Question 22

__=(1936-37) sit-down strike against GM automobile production in Flint. Caused uproar against industry/factories in US.

Accepted Answer

Flint Michigan Autoworkers’ Strike

Question 23

__=an American theoretical physicist & director of the Los Alamos Laboratory & responsible for the tomic bomb creation.

Accepted Answer

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Question 24

___=caused Maine's unemployment to rise 15%; farmers lacked $ for taxes/mortgages & refused to ask for help.

Accepted Answer

The Great Depression

Question 25

__=(1918)minimum wage law to women & children employed in D.C.’s Children’s Hospital. mandate

Accepted Answer

Adkin v. Children’s Hospitals

Question 26

__=(1933)Law passed by US congress let the President regulate industries to help with economic recovery from deflation.

Accepted Answer

National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)

Question 27

__=term during the Harlem Renaissance implying more advocacy of dignity/refusal to submit to Jim Crow racial segregation

Accepted Answer

the “New Negro"

Question 28

__= began as cheaply sold radio sets from WW1, but transcended national boundaries & gained great popularity in people.

Accepted Answer

radio broadcasting

Question 29

___ = American white supremacist terrorist and hate group whose primary targets are African Americans, POCs, lgbt, etc.

Accepted Answer

the Ku Klux Klan

Question 30

__ = treaty among the major nations who won WWI. Treaty agreed to prevent an arms race by limiting naval construction.

Accepted Answer

the Washington Treaty System

Question 31

__ = period in American history (1920s-1930s) where many African-Americans moved South to North to get better jobs.

Accepted Answer

Harlem Renaissance

Question 32

__=(New Deal 1933)Public works construction agency made by national industrial act because of Great Depression.

Accepted Answer

Public Works Administration (PWA)

Question 33

___ = The Cabinet department of the United States government concerned with promoting economic growth.

Accepted Answer

Department of Commerce

Question 34

__trial = evolution be taught in public schools (1925). Forever changed how we view the scientific creation of humans.

Accepted Answer

the Scopes Trial

Question 35

__=young women (1920s) who wore short skirts, bobbed hair, listened to jazz, & spoke their hate for acceptable behavior.

Accepted Answer

Flappers

Question 36

__=Under Hoover, the agency gave loans to the states to operate relief programs. was replaced by WPA in 1935.

Accepted Answer

Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA), Federal Emergency Relief Act (FERA)

Question 37

__=(1933)New Deal agency established by Roosevelt. Goal was to stop cut-throat comp. & make codes of fair practices.

Accepted Answer

National Recovery Administration (NRA)

Question 38

___= A notable African American poet that emerged during the Harlem Renaissance.

Accepted Answer

Langston Hughes

Question 39

__=high exposure to celebrities personal lives on global scale & tied to consumer interests of celebrity brands, etc.

Accepted Answer

celebrity culture

Question 40

__=belief in the religious teachings & a strict divide between righteous people & evildoers. Creationism > science

Accepted Answer

fundamentalism

Question 41

__= creates an understanding of the status of the national defense effort/policies/gov activities.

Accepted Answer

Office of Facts and Figures

Question 42

__=(1945) Truman, Churchill, & Stalin met in Potsdam, Germany to negotiate terms for the end of WW2.

Accepted Answer

Potsdam Conference

Question 43

__=(1920s) court case of 2 Italian immigrants unjustly charged/executed for alleged robbery/murder.

Accepted Answer

Sacco-Vanzetti case

Question 44

___ = an American birth control activist, sex educator, writer, and nurse.

Accepted Answer

Margaret Sanger

Question 45

__= Gave Mainer's work-relief & economic stimulus measures. ERA made grants to distribute funds & make improvements.

Accepted Answer

New Deal

Question 46

__=(1941) was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II.

Accepted Answer

Lend-Lease Act

Question 47

__=US's biggest advocate of wealth distribution during Depression. Was senator in 1930s. Assassinated in 1935.

Accepted Answer

Huey Long

Question 48

__= the media icon associated with female defense workers during World War II.

Accepted Answer

Rosie the Riveter

Question 49

__=(1935-1936)New Deal US federal agency relocated struggling urban/rural families to communities planned by federal gov

Accepted Answer

Resettlement Administration

HTY 104 Exam 2 vocabulary terms

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HTY 104 Exam 2 vocabulary terms

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