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US History test 4
US history 4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Carrie Chapman Catt | Head of NAWSA arguments in favor of voting rights. |
| Marcus Garvey | Founder of Universal Negro Improvement Association, leading spokesman for "negro nationalism in 1920's. |
| T.S. Elliot | St. Louis born Harvard 1915,attended Oxford; 1st major poem "the love song of J Alfred Prufrock" musing of an ineffectual man who "after tea & cakes could never find "the strength to force the moment to its crisis" |
| William Faulkner- | Notable Southern writer born near Oxford, Miss; Sartoris (1929) "own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about" , "would never live long enough to exhaust it" The Sound of Fury (1929) |
| McNary Haugen Bill | Introduced in Spring of 1924, to secure "equallity for agricultrue in the benefits of the protective tariff. Goal was to achieve "parity" to raise domestic farm prices to a point where farmers would have the same pruchasing power. |
| Norman Thomas | Social party candidate polled 882,00 votes. |
| John Collier | Commisioner of Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) |
| Wagner Act | put the power of the federal government begind the principle of unionization. |
| A. Philip Randolph | Led a picketing rally in Philadelphia against racial segregation at the opening of lthe 1948 Democratic National Convention. |
| Executive Order 9066 | a code for relocation during Pearl Harbor |
| What two themes were important to "the Roaring twenties" 1920's? | Radical ideas, The jazz age and the new morality of civil rights to blacks and women. |
| Red Scare | Fear among many Americans after WWI in particular noncitizens which was a reaction to the Russian Revolution, mail bombs, strikes and riots. |
| Att. General Mitchell Palmer | After a bomb destroyed his house, he headed the General Intelligence Division as a terror campaign. |
| J. Edgar Hoover | collected files on the radicals during the Red Scare. |
| KKK revival | devoted to "100 percent Americanism" and restricted its membership to native-born White protestants; they reached many states even Colorado. |
| Nicolo Sacco & Bartolomeo Vanzetti | who were arrested on May 5, 1920 for a robbery and murder in South Braintree, Mass. |
| Immigration Act of 1924 | This measure banned the people of East Asia entirely but set a quota fo 2 percent for Europeans based on the 1890 census, allowed fewer of the "new" immigrants. |
| Fundamentalism v. Modernism | found threats fro the new ideas in churches due to the new scientific theories. |
| John Scopes | a high school teacher who taught evolution persuaded by the city of Dayton, Tenn. to accept an offer form the American Civil Liberities Union to defend a test case-mainly to put their town on the map. |
| Clarence Darrow | renowned trial lawyer of Chicago an confessed agnostic to make "the monkey trial" case against the high school teacher an exercise in public education. |
| 18th ammendment | prohibition of the manufacture, sale, or transportation of liquor from the US for beverage purposes. |
| Volstead Act | provided for the enforcement fo Prohibition and stricter regulation of water power. |
| 1920 Election | Harding won by a landslide. |
| Joseph Stalin | Soviet Union dictator |
| Benito Mussolini | Italian dictator |
| Adolf Hitler | Germany/ decade of dictator |
| Japan | young military leaders |
| Hilter-Stalin Pact (Nazi-Soviet Pact) | Aug 23, 1939 |
| Rocognition of the Soviet Union 1933 by US | 160 million people; 1/6th of the world land, economic. |
| Good Neighbor Policy in Latin America | FDR took troops out form Haiti and Cuba, Revoked Roosevelt Corollary, Hero in Latin America |
| Reciprocal trade agreements | designed to help economy, negotiated by Secretary of State Cordell Hull, lowered tarrifs by 50% of recpiprocated by other country, 21 countries by 1939. |
| American Isolation | Nye Committee blames US involvement in WWI on sale of weapons & trading with European conutnries. |
| Neutrality Acts of 1935,36,37 | US can't trade with any country at war. Military cutbacks. |
| Spanish Civil War 1936-39, US embargo | Dress rehearsal (leading to, getting ready for) WWII |
| Constitutional Ammendment? | Can't go to war unless invaded |
| William Jennings Bryan | a fundamentalist leader and secretary of state, prosecutor on "the monkey trial" denouncing Darwinism & prohibiting the teaching of evolution |
| 19th ammendment | granted women the right to vote |
| Al Capone | the most cleebrated gangster, chicago-based bootlegging, prostitution, and gambling empire brought him an income of $6o million |
| "return to normalcy" | Harding reflected his own conservative values saying in his Boston campaign for presidency "America needs normalcy, not revolution..." |
| Warren G. Hardings presidency | He was the only President elected on his birthday. |
| Washington Naval Conference | attempted to limit the size of arms. Several scandals srufaced after he died. |
| the Budget and Accounting Act | prepared a unified federal budget and General Accounting Office to audit the accounts. |
| Teapot Dome Scandal | an oil deposit under the sandstone in Wyoming, Teapot Dome had been set aside as a naval oil reserve and let petroleum companies exploit the deposits. Bribes of $400,000 were taken by Fall from oil tycoons. |
| Calvin Coolidge's presidency | His nickname was "Silent Cal" he had the shortest inaugural address, for exercise he rode a mechanical horse. Twice he signed legislation -business taxes.A conservative, identified nations's welfare with the success of big business industrial development. |
| Kellogg-Briand Pact | A treaty with Aristide Birand and Frank Kellogg and agreement where the two countries, the French and the US would never go to war against eachother. |
| Hoovers response to the stock crisis and unemployment rates | a) rugged individualism b)pump priming and trickle down c) reconstruction Finance Coruption d)Bonus Army marches d) blames Hooverviles |
| 1928 election | Hoover won by a landslide 444 to 87 votes against Smith. |
| Herbert Hoover | 1st President born west of Mississippi River, thought the economy was sound and didnt give help during the Great Depression. |
| Al Smith | Democrat Governor of New York nominated for presidency in the 1928 election. |
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