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American Cultures 2 Midterm > Chapters 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24 > Flashcards

Chapters 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24 Flashcards

1
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A writer that investigated the standard oil company for McClure’s

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Ida Tarbell

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2
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In his book, the souls of black folk, he expressed his dual identity as both African and American

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W.E.B. Dubois

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Leader of the AFL. It grew fourfold from 1900 to 1914.

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Samuel Gompers

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In Muller v. Oregon he presented a famous legal brief to the Supreme Court.

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Louis Brandies

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5
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In 1904 she helped organize the national child labor committee.she helped with worming conditions for women and children.

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Florence Kelley

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Ban on the manufacturing, sale, and transportation of alcohol.

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Prohibition

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7
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System that features government ownership of most factories, utilities, and transportation and communications system

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Socialism

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8
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A nonunion workplace

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Open shop

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9
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Workplace where everyone must be a union member

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Closed shop

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10
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Progressives tried to change these to limit the number of hours children could work.

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Labor laws

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11
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Investigative journalist

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Muckraker

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12
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The freedom to negotiate the terms of employment

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Freedom of contract

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13
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A movement to reform problems in America’s urban areas

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Progressivism

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14
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Organization that fought for racial equality

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National urban league

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15
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Established to address the problems of American Indians

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Society of American Indians

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16
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lead by Samuel Gompers. Included skilled workers only and it was the major la or organization of the time

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AFL(American federation of labor)

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17
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one AFL union that tried to organize unskilled workers. 1900 New York City. It received strike support from women’s trade union league. It was mainly Jewish and Italian immigrant women

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ILGWU(International ladies garment workers union)

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18
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opposed capitalism. Leader was William “Big Bill” Haywood.

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IWW(Industrial workers of the world)

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T/F

Like the populists, progressives wanted people to have a greater control of government

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True

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Progressives supported an end to child labor but not women’s suffrage.

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False

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21
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Florence Kelley was know as the terror of the trusts

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False

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22
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The Supreme Court generally supported social reform

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False

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23
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Most labor unions wanted to replace capitalism with another economic system

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False

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24
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The major labor organization during the reform years was the American federation if labor

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True

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By 1902 only about 3% of African american workers were members of unions

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True

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By 1920 more then half of all Americans lived in cities

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True

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27
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Progressives were in favor of banning alcohol

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True

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28
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T/F

The eighteenth amendment was difficult to enforce

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True

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29
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Program that was built on the belief that people did best with the least amount of interferences from government and business

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New freedom

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30
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Wilson’s administration introduced this to make up for revenue lost by lowering tariffs

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Graduated income tax

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31
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Wisconsin governed who was responsible for actively supporting electoral reforms in his state and providing a positive example for officials in other states

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Robert M. La Follette

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32
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The creation of this gave the government the ability to investigate and bring to court corporations that has unfair business practices

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Federal trade commission

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33
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Proposed an amendment to the constitution guaranteeing women the right to vote

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National women’s party

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34
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Presidential power limited by the constitution, supported Richard Ballinger,and did not oppose high tariffs

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President Taft

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35
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Expanded presidential power, supported Gifford Pinchot, and wanted low tariffs

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Progressive party

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36
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T/F

Progressives believed that the best way to break the power of political machines was to reform the election process

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True

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37
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T/F

The average voter was in favor of tax reform and pensions for city employees

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False

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38
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T/F
President Roosevelt was a “hands off” president, preferring not to become too closely involved with important issues that might coast him votes

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False

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39
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T/F

Roosevelt was against business and the wealth that is created for its owners

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False

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40
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Women were not very involved in the food reform movement

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False

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41
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T/F

President Roosevelt’s efforts to balance the needs of, business, consumers, and labor was called the square deal

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True

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42
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T/F

One of Roosevelt’s lasting gifts to the United States was more public transportation

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False

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43
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T/F

Theodore Roosevelt was not considered a progressive president

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False

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44
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One of the first steps leading to the split between president Taft and republican progressives was his refusal to veto the Payne-Aldrich Tariffs

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True

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45
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T/F
Because tafts allies would not seat many of Roosevelt’s delegates, Theodore Roosevelt lost the republican party’s 1912 presidential nomination

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True

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46
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T/F

President Wilson achieved great reform in the area of child labor

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False

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47
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T/F

The national American women suffrage association tried to get voting rights for women by changing laws at state level

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True

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T/F

Carrie chapman Catts leadership led to successes at the state level for women’s suffrage

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True

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49
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T/F

Woodrow Wilson worked hard for changes in child labor

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True

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50
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The assassinations of him caused Austria-Hungary to declare war on Serbia

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Archduke Franz Ferdinand

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51
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Britain, France, and Russia.

Lost against the central powers

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Allied powers

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52
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Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Bulgaria won against allied powers

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Central powers

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53
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The sinking of this ship was the first real threat to the untitled States neutrality during the early years of WW1

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Lusitania

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54
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One of the ways the government successfully raised money for the war

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Liberty bonds

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55
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Gives voters the right to directly elect a U.S. senator

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17th amendment

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56
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Barred the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcohol beverages in the United States

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18 th amendment

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57
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Granted women the right to vote

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19th amendment

58
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Outlawed acts of treason and made it a crime to “nutter, print, write, or publish any disloyal or abusive language” criticizing the government, the flag, or the military

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Espionage act/sedition act

59
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Was the response to the job opportunities for African Americans in northern industry

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Great migration

60
Q

Headed the food administration

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Herbert Hoover

61
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Headed the fuel administration

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Harry Garfield

62
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Believed that American industrial support of the allies was against our stand of neutrality

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William Jennings Bryan

63
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Led the first us troops to land in France in 1917

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General John J. Pershing

64
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Headed the rail road administration

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William McAdoo

65
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Response to the lack of interest among american men to join the military

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Selective service act

66
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We’re blocked form joining the marines

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African Americans

67
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Cable from the German ambassador offering an alliance with Mexico

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Zimmermann note

68
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Protected merchants vessels transporting war material and personnel

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Convoy system

69
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T/F
The fact that European nations were formed based on the cultural heritage of their people weakened their feelings of nationalism

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False

70
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T/F

Austria, Germany, and Italy, formed one alliance while France, Great Britain, and Russia formed another

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True

71
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T/F

At the beginning of the war, it was obvious that the conflict would be a long one

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False

72
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T/F

Germany quickly poured onto Belgium

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True

73
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T/F

The battle of verdin was the longest battle of WW1

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True

74
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T/F

Disease and sickness in the trenches killed as many soldiers as combat did

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True

75
Q

T/F

Mustard gas killed its victims by turning them yellow

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False

76
Q

T/F

During WW1, it was common for women to take over jobs usually held by man

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True

77
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T/F

The League of Nations was at the heart of Wilson’s fourteen points program

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True

78
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T/F
At the peace conference in Europe, it was demanded that Germany pay huge amounts of money to the allies to pay back the cost of the war

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True

79
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T/F

The treaty of Versailles did not weaken the Germans and the central powers allies

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False

80
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T/F
President Wilson’s fourteen points were so well liked that very little was changed and they were put into practice immediately

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False

81
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T/F

The treaty of Versailles was debated in the U.S senate

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True

82
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T/F

WW1 destroyed the economies of both the European allied power countries and the central power countries

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True

83
Q

Scandal during president hardings administration, involved secretary of the interior Albert falls leasing of oil reserves in return for personal gifts and loans

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Teapot dome scandal

84
Q

Was of great benefit to the wealthy because it resulted in bug tax reductions for the rich

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Revenue act of 1926

85
Q

Reduced Asian immigration to almost nothing

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Immigration act of 1924

86
Q

Promoted violence and hatred against Catholics, Jews, African Americans, and immigrants

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Ku klux klan

87
Q

The veto of a bill to boost farm prices with government help was an example of the pro business policies of…

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Calvin Coolidge

88
Q

Lost to Hoover in 1928. He made the Democratic Party was moving in a new direction

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Alfred E. Smith

89
Q

Elected representatives in the New York State assembly were expelled because they were members of this party

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Socialist party

90
Q

They were arrested during the Palmer raids

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Radicals

91
Q

Hardings policies positive and negatives

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Positives- business profits in creased and surplus from tax cuts helped the economy
Negatives- loss of some progressive era labor reforms and farmers driven deeply into debt

92
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T/F
Between November 1919 and January 1920 federal officials arrested thousands of people suspected of radical beliefs in an action called Hoover roundup

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False

93
Q

T/F
The Fordney- McCumber tariff act was intended to help American business, but it failed to help farmers who were to also benefit

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True

94
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T/F

A merger is when separate divisions within a business break up a s go in opposite directions

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False

95
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T/F
One of the reasons membership in the labor unions fell by almost 1.5 million during the Harding administration was because federal courts were upholding “yellow-dog contracts”

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True

96
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T/F

President hardings administration faced several political scandals

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True

97
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T/F

President Harding died in office

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True

98
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T/F

The nomination of Alfred E. Smith for presidential candidate showed that the Democratic Party was set in its old ways

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False

99
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T/F

African Americans did not have to deal with radical discrimination and violence in the north

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False

100
Q

T/F

The red scare and increasing immigration were two reasons some Americans initially supported the ku klux klan

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True

101
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T/F
A 1921 federal anti lunching law sponsored by representative dyer passed with overwhelming support in both the house and senate

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False

102
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T/F
When a mob in Waco Texas burned a 17 year old African American to death, W.E.B Du Bois worked hard to get support for the NAACPs anti lurching efforts

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True

103
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T/F
Marcus Garvey was against the movement to establish a new political state In Africa for African Americans because he believed that African Americans should stay and fight for equality in America

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False

104
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T/F

Mexicans were negatively affected by the new immigration laws

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False

105
Q

T/F

Before an act of congress in 1924, all American Indians had a right to American citizenship

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False

106
Q

He was a harmless renaissance poet. He felt with issues of African American cultural heritage

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Langston Hughes

107
Q

By implementing the assembly line he revolutionized automobile production

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Henry Ford

108
Q

Gangster that controlled Chicago’s underworld

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Al Capone

109
Q

Organized an elite squad of detectives to go after gangsters

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Eliot Ness

110
Q

Became the first pilot to fly nonstop from New York to Paris

A

Charles Lindbergh

111
Q

Movie director, he created biblical epics such as the Ten Commandments

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Cecil B. DeMille

112
Q

They increased productivity, they made work more tedious, they led to increase employee turnover

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Assembly line

113
Q

Emerged during the early 1900s in New Orleans. Type of music

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Jazz

114
Q

American writes whose work reflected their disillusionment with society

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Lost generation

115
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T/F

The volstead act was passed to enforce the eighteenth amendment

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True

116
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T/F

Most women during the 1920s pursued traditionally female careers

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True

117
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T/F

The era of silent films began in the mid 1920s

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False

118
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T/F

Athlete Jim Thorpe became known as the sultan of swat

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False

119
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T/F

The prosecuting attorney in the scopes trial was Charles Darwin

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False

120
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T/F

Fundamentalism declined in popularity during 1920s

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False

121
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T/F

Henry L. Mencken was a critic of the new writers of the new jazz age

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False

122
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T/F
If workers at Henry Fords automobile plant wanted to earn the full $5 wage for an eight hour day they had to follow company rules at home as well as at work

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True

123
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T/F
Manufacturing designed products the were intended to go out of style after a period of time so that they could replace them with new styles

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True

124
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T/F

Most advertisements were trying to sell to men because they were the ones who had jobs

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False

125
Q

T/F

In the 1920s chain style grocery stores began to replace traditional corner markets

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True

126
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T/F

Less alcoholism and fewer alcohol related deaths were two benefits of the prohibition era

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True

127
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T/F

During the 1920s many women began careers that were traditionally open only to men

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True

128
Q

Provided the governments direct grants not loans

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Federal Emergency Relief Administration(FERA)

129
Q

Crisis in the banking industry, business failures, and massive unemployment in the early 1920s

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Great Depression

130
Q

Purchasing stocks on borrowed money

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Margin buying

131
Q

Upward Trend in stock prices

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Bull market

132
Q

Nickname for shantytown s

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Hoovervilles

133
Q

Groups that tried to give direct relief to the needy

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Salvation Army

134
Q

Blamed capitalism for the depression

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Communist party

135
Q

Group of veterans that didn’t get their pay for going into the army

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Bonus army

136
Q

October 29, 1929 stock prices sank to a new low

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Black Tuesday

137
Q

The total values of all goods and services in a given years

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Gross nation product

138
Q

Success comes through individual effort and privet enterprise

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Rugged individualism

139
Q

Economic system in which private business ruins most industries , and competition determines how much goods cost and how much workers are paid.

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Capitalism

140
Q

Won the election of 1932 married to Eleanor

A

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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