1.21-1.25 ✔️

Question 1

a person who controls a faction or local branch of a political party. They do not necessarily hold public office themselves; most historical bosses did not, at least during the times of their greatest influence.

Answer 1

Party Bosses

Question 2

Most famous example of a Party Boss

Answer 2

Boss Tweed

Question 3

A construction company was formed by owners of the Union Pacific Railroad for the purpose of receiving government contracts to build the railroad at highly inflated prices - and profits. In 1872 a scandal erupted when journalists discovered that the company had bribed congressmen and even the VP to allow the ruse to continue.

Answer 3

Credit Mobilier scandal (1872)

Question 4

In the politics of representative democracies, a party organization that recruits its members by the use of tangible incentives and that is characterized by a high degree of leadership control over member activity.

Answer 4

Political machines

Question 5

A group formed to work for women’s suffrage in the United States.

Answer 5

National American Woman Suffrage Association

Question 6

The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.

Answer 6

16 amendment

Question 7

The amendment that allowed people to directly elect the senators in each state.

Answer 7

17th amendment

Question 8

The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. (amendment) (women get to vote)

Answer 8

19th amendment

Question 9

This law aims to promote fair competition and prevent unfair business practices that could harm consumers. It prohibits certain actions that might restrict competition, like tying agreements, predatory pricing, and mergers that could lessen competition.

Answer 9

Clayton Antitrust Act

Question 10

a United States antitrust law which prescribes the rule of free competition among those engaged in commerce and consequently prohibits unfair monopolies.

Answer 10

Sherman Antitrust Act

Question 11

Who were the three progressive presidents?

Answer 11

Three Progressive Presidents (Thoedore Roosevelt, William Taft, Woodrow Wilson)

Question 12

A type of economic system in which transactions between private groups of people are free from any form of economic interventionism.

Answer 12

Laissez-Faire

Question 13

Immediate cash payments to individuals for immediate necessities such as food and shelter.

Answer 13

Direct Relief

Question 14

a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1938 to rescue the U.S. from the Great Depression.

Answer 14

New Deal

Question 15

Offered farmers subsidies in exchange for limiting their production of certain crops. Meant to limit overproduction so crop prices could increase.

Answer 15

AAA - agricultural adjustment act (New Deal)

Question 16

American New Deal agency that employed millions of jobseekers to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads. It was set up on May 6, 1935, by presidential order, as a key part of the Second New Deal.

Answer 16

Works Progress Administration
(New Deal)

Question 17

a prime agency established by U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933. The goal of the administration was to eliminate “cut throat competition” by bringing industry, labor, and government together to create codes of “fair practices” and set prices.

Answer 17

National Recovery Administration (new deal)

Question 18

an independent agency of the United States federal government, created in the aftermath of the Wall Street Crash of 1929. The primary purpose of the ___ is to enforce the law against market manipulation.

Answer 18

Securities and Exchange Commission
(New Deal)

Question 19

a United States government corporation supplying deposit insurance to depositors in American commercial banks and savings banks. was created by the Banking Act of 1933, enacted during the Great Depression to restore trust in the American banking system.

Answer 19

FDIC(New Deal)

Question 20

3 r’s of the new deal

Answer 20

Relief, recovery, reform

Question 21

Supreme court case that ruled that State-sanctioned segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th amendment and was therefore unconstitutional.

Answer 21

Brown V. Board of education

Question 22

Order issued by President Truman to desegregate the armed forces. The president’s action resulted from a combination of pressure from civil rights advocates, election-year political calculations, and the new geopolitical context of the cold war. (They couldn’t look like terrible people when compared to the soviet union)

Answer 22

Executive Order 9981

Question 23

a group of nine African American students enrolled in Little Rock Central High School in 1957.

Answer 23

Little Rock 9

Question 24

Non violent protest.

Answer 24

Nonviolence

Question 25

a series of political protests against segregation by Blacks and whites who rode buses together through the American South in 1961.

Answer 25

Freedom Rides

Question 26

act of nonviolent protest against a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, that began on February 1, 1960.

Answer 26

Lunch Counter Sit-ins

Question 27

Federal law that banned racial discrimination in public facilities and strengthened the federal government’s power to fight segregation in schools. Tittle VII of the act prohibited employers from discriminating based on race in their hiring practices, and empowered the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to regulate fair employment.

Answer 27

Civil Rights Act of 1964

Question 28

a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting.

Answer 28

Voting Rights Act of 1965

Question 29

The amendment that abolished the poll tax (year 1962)

Answer 29

24th Amendment

Question 30

a United States labor law amending the Fair Labor Standards Act, aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex.

Answer 30

Equal Pay Act of 1963

Question 31

a landmark federal civil rights law in the United States that was enacted as part of the Education Amendments of 1972. It prohibits sex-based discrimination in any school or any other education program that receives funding from the federal government.

Answer 31

Title IX