Question | Answer |
1. What was the United States’ foreign policy after WWI? | isolationism |
5. What caused the Red Scare and Palmer Raids? | Bolshevik Revolution and Worker’s strikes |
10. Why did immigration drop before The Great Depression? What parts of the world were most affected? | Quota Laws: limit Eastern and Southern Europeans (Latin Americans not affected) |
13. How did tariffs lead to the Great Depression? | other countries passed their own tariffs and international trade shut down |
16. List the causes of the Dust Bowl. How did it affect migration? | Over farming and Severe Drought; Moved out of the West-especially Okies to California |
2. Mass production, Mass advertising, and installment plans created what type of society in the 1920’s (relates to ta vocabulary term) | Consumer Society |
12. What caused problems for farmers, leading the their Depression? Did their depression happen before or after the Stock Market Crash? | Overproduction and High Taxes- BEFORE stocK market crashed |
21. Which New Deal reforms most directly targeted the basic problem of the victims of the Dust Bowl? | Providing farmers low-cost loans and subsidies |
6. Who did the KKK of the 1920’s attack? | African Americans, Jews, Catholics, Foreigners, Bootleggers |
14. List 3 causes of the Stock Market Crash. | Installment buying, an unregulated stock market, Margin Buying/Speculation, Low Federal Reserve Interest Rates |
18. What is deficit spending and how does it relate to the Great Depression? | Spending more money than you having, leading to high debts: this is how FDR paid for his New Deal in 1933 |
4. List 3 causes of the Great Migration | Jim Crow Laws
Lynchings
Jobs in the North |
22. What federal reform was passed regarding banks in 1933? | insured bank deposits to 100,000 |
Which term describes this cartoon to the left: Define the term
a. Nativism, Imperialism, Progressivism, or Abolitionism? | Nativism-Anti-immigration |
15. How did the Federal Reserve make the economic Depression worse? | increased interest rates making personal and business loans difficult |
19. Describe the different plans of Hoover and Roosevelt relating to the Great Depression. | Hoover preferred natural course, calling for voluntary business changes, while Roosevelt would not hesitate to engage in deficit spending to manage the economy |
3. What invention helped create a national culture rather than one based on regions or race? | radio |
26. Which New Deal program has been the Longest Lasting? Why did the conservatives disagree with it? | Social security: critique-creating a welfare State |
30. What 2 groups were least helped by the New Deal? | Women and African Americans (mostly sharecroppers) |
23. New Deal programs such as the Civilian Conservation Corps and the Works progress Administration were primarily intended to help who? | unemployed |
33. Why did FDR want to “court pack” as shown in the cartoon to the left? | Conservative Supreme Court kept ruling his New Deal programs unconstitutional so he wanted to add members who would agree with him |
31. Why do African American’s vote Democratic? | FDR passing workers reforms and working with a "Black Cabinet" as well as his wife hiring an African American Singer to the Lincoln Memoria |
34. What is the main critique of The New Deal shown in the cartoons below | 1.(bowl with power cartoon)-Gave the Federal Government too much authority
2.(socialist card cartoon)-allowed the government to interfere too much in the economy |
25. How did The New Deal affect the power of labor unions? | Obtained the right to bargain collectively |
28. How did the Supreme exercise their right to judicial review when it came to FDR’s New Deal in the beginning? | Ruled FDRs programs unconstitutional/ FDR fighting back showed Checks and Balances |
32. What were the problems that the Liberals had with the New Deal at first? | Did not provide for the poor, elderly, or protect unions |