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Hist Exam 2 quiz q's
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The West's leading industrial center, a producer of oil, automobiles, aircraft, and Hollywood movies, was | Los Angeles, California |
| Charged with policing the land boundaries of the United States and empowered to arrest and deport persons who entered the country in violation of the new national quotas or other restrictions, the Immigration Act of 1924 created | the U.S. Boarder Patrol |
| Which of the following was a cause of the Great Depression that began in October 1929? | collapse of real-estate prices in southern California and Florida |
| After World War I and the 1920s, the Progressives recognized | that the public power could go grievously wrong, as in Prohibition |
| In 1925, what was the Tennessee trial in which a public schoolteacher faced charges of violating the state's law prohibiting the teaching of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution? | The scopes trial |
| Upon taking office in 1921, Warren G. Harding promised a return to | normalcy |
| At the beginning of 1929, most American families had accumulated | no money in their savings accounts |
| What two countries suffered the largest reductions in immigration quotas to the United States under the Johnson-Reed act of 1924? | Italy and Russia |
| The vibrant black culture in 1920s New York City that included poets and novelists Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, and Claude McKay was called | the Harlem Renaissance |
| Who were the two immigrants arrested for their participation in a robbery in which a security guard was killed whose case became a cause célèbre? | Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti |
| By the mid-1930s, more than two-thirds of American families owned radios. Many families tuned in to hear Roosevelt's radio addresses, known as | "fireside chats." |
| effort undertaken on part of the federal gov to supply cheap electrical power for homes and factories in a seven-state region, preventing flooding, and putting the federal government in the business of selling electricity by building a series of dams was | the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) |
| Which of the following is true of Franklin D. Roosevelt? | He contracted polio and lost the use of his legs in 1921. |
| What group benefited enormously in California from New Deal dam construction? | corporate farm owners |
| The period during the mid-1930s when the Communist Party sought to ally itself with socialists and New Dealers in movements for social change and urged reform of the capitalist system was called | the Popular Front |
| What was the name of the organization that Congress created in March 1933 that established the federal government as a direct employer of the unemployed in hiring young men to work on projects to improve national parks, forests, and flood control? | the Civilian Conservation Corps |
| At a time of widespread hunger in the United States, the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) did which of the following? | set production quotas for major crops and paid farmers not to plant some crops |
| This New Deal program sought to improve the conditions of poor landowning farmers and sharecroppers | Farm Security Administration |
| Who authored The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money and asserted that large-scale government deficit spending was appropriate during economic downturns? | John Maynard Keynes |
| As part of the New Deal, which multifaceted agency was established in 1934 and hired some 3 million Americans, in virtually every walk of life, each year until it ended in 1943? | Works Progress Administration (WPA) |
| What province of northern China did Japan invade in 1931? | Manchuria |
| In the 1944 case of Korematsu v. United States, the Supreme Court ruled that | the internment of people of Japanese descent was not based on race. |
| Which of the following was a feature of American involvement in World War II? | It took the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor to shock a reluctant nation into entering the war. |
| A. Mitchell Palmer | Attorney General palmer raids- thought radicals planning to overthrow gov mail bombs being sent to congress raided homes and found nothing arrested 4000 ppl w/o trial |
| Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (both italian) | bank robbery killed 2 ppl , suspects were italian both men were anarchists very little evidence called wops on trial made men dress up as robbers executed by electric chair |
| In German, a u-boat literally meant: | underwater boat |
| The clip from Peter Jackson's They Shall Not Grow Old: | revealed the horrors of trench warfare |
| When World War I began in 1914, President Wilson: | Announced a policy of American neutrality |
| The area between enemy trenches was known as | "No Man's Land" |
| What holiday originally celebrated the end of World War I? | veteran's day |
| The purpose of George Creel’s Committee on Public Information was: | To whip up public support for the war and promote anti-German propaganda |
| In exchange for declaring war on the United States, Germany promised Mexico what? | the return of land lost to the United States in the Mexican War |
| The most important factor leading to the U.S. entry into World War I was: | German violations of American neutral rights |
| During World War I, the groups that suffered the greatest attacks on their civil liberties were: | German-Americans and antiwar Socialists |
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