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Unit 3
Some like vocab or sumthin like that.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Which of the following was not a cause of the Great Depression? | The Court Packing Plan |
| The Smoot-Hawley Tariff raised prices on foreign goods to encourage people to buy American. The effect was that | Foreign countries placed tariffs on American goods. |
| The practice of purchasing stock by making a small down payment and borrowing the rest from the broker was known as | buying on margin |
| The Dust Bowl was caused by | Overfarming and drought |
| is a practice where investors purchased high-risk stock or assets hoping to make quick money | Speculation |
| The National Recovery Administration sought to | Establish better working conditions while ensuring corporate profits. |
| Eleanor Roosevelt's maiden name was | Roosevelt |
| The __________ changed government policy toward Native Americans by protecting their culture and ending assimilation. | Indian New Deal |
| The main purpose of the fireside chats was to | Restore consumer confidence |
| Which of the following was not one of FDR's 3 Rs? | Rithmatic |
| As a result of the Great Depression, the automobile industry | Saw a decrease in the number of luxury car sales. |
| About ___ percent of the population owned stock in 1929. | 10 |
| The AAA tried to help farmers by | Reducing surplus |
| The Social Security Act did all of the following except? | National Healthcare |
| In 1932, an election year, Hoover agreed to support the ______ _______ _________, which would loan money to banks, credit unions, and insurance companies. | Reconstruction Finance Corporation |
| According to Hoover, _____ should provide relief to the deserving poor | private charities |
| ______ proposed the "Share Our Wealth" plan as an alternate to the New Deal. | Huey Long |
| Which of the following was not a critic or enemy of FDR? | Francis Perkins |
| The CCC is which type of relief program? | Work Relief |
| Herbert Hoover believed that the government | Should influence the economy very little |
| group of WWI veterans who marched to Washington in 1932 to demand their war bonuses early. | Bonus Army |
| the 1925 trial of John Scopes for teaching evolution in public school | Scopes Monkey Trial |
| The European policy of ___________ allowed Hitler to take over territory in Central Europe in hopes of avoiding war | appeasement |
| The practice of capturing strategic islands in the Pacific to attack the Japanese mainland was known as | Island Hopping |
| The companies that received the most defense contracts during World War II can best be described as | Big buisness |
| Which was not a leader of the Big Three? | Benito Mussolini |
| The Zoot Suit riots erupted in Southern California as a result of racial tension between whites and | Hispanics |
| ____________ was the Supreme Court decision that began the mass desegregation of public schools. | Brown v. Board |
| American foreign policy of stopping Soviet expansion (domino theory) is often called | Containment |
| The _______ ____ was a political and economic struggle between the US and USSR that lasted nearly five decades. | Cold War |
| The GI Bill did all of the following except | Guaranteed a job in the profession of their choice. |
| In ___________, Governor Orval Faubus tried to keep black students from entering an all-white school. | Little Rock, AR |
| American troops first saw action during World War II in | North Africa |
| During World War II, the program to recruit Mexican agricultural workers was called the | Bracero Program |
| The Soviet Union's first manmade satellite was | Sputnik |
| Truman called his domestic agenda (economic and social programs) the | Fair Deal |
| In the 1950s, the most important medium for transmitting culture to the masses was | Television |
| __________ became the symbol for American working women on the homefront. | Rosie The Riveter |
| The secret mission to develop the nuclear bomb was called the | Manhattan Project |
| In the years after World War II, the US experienced a large population explosion. Though it can be attributed to several things, the most significant was the ____ ____ that occurred between 1946 and 1964 | Baby Boom |
| Quickly constructed and relatively inexpensive ________ were housing editions in the 1950s that helped fuel economic growth | Levittowns |
| Under the _____________ the US spent billions of dollars in financial aid to make european economies more resistant to communism | Marshall Plan |
| the unofficial advisory cabinet to President Franklin Roosevelt | Brains Trust |
| a public program for unemployed young men from relief families who were put to work on conservation and land management projects | Civilian Conservation Corps |
| offered support to Greece and Turkey in the form of financial assistance, weaponry, and troops to help train their militaries and bolster their governments against Communism. | Truman Doctrine |
| first nine African American students, | Little Rock Nine |
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Keagan Jackson