BMA 3

Question 1

The stock market crashed because

Answer 1

Everyone pulled their money out of the banks at the same time.

Question 2

fear of communism

Answer 2

Red Scare

Question 3

Two wrongfully executed Italian people who they thought were anarchists

Answer 3

Sacco & Vanzetti

Question 4

group that hated everyone but white people (Western Europeans & Protestant)

Answer 4

KKK

Question 5

monkey trial where the state argued against a school teacher who wanted to teach about evolution but the state outlawed it

Answer 5

Scopes Trial

Question 6

Teddy Roosevelt

Answer 6

Trust Buster

Question 7

Herbert Hoover’s response to the Great Depression was

Answer 7

He wanted the state to fix it; used localism; passive

Question 8

Did many people lose their life’s saving because the banks failed?

Answer 8

Yes

Question 9

Did people begin buying stocks when the stock market crashed?

Answer 9

No

Question 10

Did investors gain money from the stock market crash?

Answer 10

No

Question 11

tax on imported goods

Answer 11

Tariff

Question 12

signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff

Answer 12

Hoover

Question 13

a group of WWI vets who wanted the money they were promised; they marched to Washington during the Great Depression; the current army tear-gassed them

Answer 13

Bonus Army

Question 14

gave 160 acres of land to people if they built a well, built a road, and lived there for 5 years

Answer 14

Homestead Act

Question 15

promised normalcy after WWI

Answer 15

Harding

Question 16

refused to join the League of Nations after WWI

Answer 16

America

Question 17

League of Nations turned into

Answer 17

United Nations

Question 18

during times of war the government can take away your First Amendment rights, especially speech because they were putting pro-German stuff in the papers; people opposed the war

Answer 18

Espionage Act

Question 19

We got Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Philippines, Panama, China, Guam, and Midway through

Answer 19

Imperialism

Question 20

Which was the most important territory we gained out of Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Philippines, Panama, China, Guam, and Midway?

Answer 20

Hawaii

Question 21

the day the stock market crashed (October 28, 1929)

Answer 21

Black Tuesday

Question 22

America claimed the right to intervene in and take stuff from Latin American countries

Answer 22

Monroe Doctrine

Question 23

Did we get Canada from imperialism?

Answer 23

No

Question 24

Did we get Mexico from imperialism?

Answer 24

No

Question 25

started the Spanish-American war

Answer 25

Sinking of the USS Maine

Question 26

famous American military group that received lots of publicity during the Spanish-American War

Answer 26

Rough Riders

Question 27

Did the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory make men’s shirts?

Answer 27

No

Question 28

Were the women in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory young immigrants who spoke little English?

Answer 28

Yes

Question 29

Were the windows and doors of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory all locked during the fire?

Answer 29

Yes

Question 30

Congress can tax you

Answer 30

16th Amendment

Question 31

court case that deemed segregation with equal; separate but equal; made Jim Crow laws legal

Answer 31

Plessy v. Ferguson

Question 32

wanted prohibition

Answer 32

Women

Question 33

women’s suffrage

Answer 33

19th Amendment

Question 34

denied citizenship to the Chinese

Answer 34

Chinese Exclusion Act

Question 35

Rockefeller

Answer 35

Oil

Question 36

Carnegie

Answer 36

Steel

Question 37

Vanderbilt

Answer 37

Railroads

Question 38

Morgan

Answer 38

Banks