Examination II

Question 1

was a United States federal law of the New Deal era designed to boost agricultural prices by reducing surpluses.

Answer 1

Agricultural Adjustment Act

Question 2

During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies’ railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control.

Answer 2

Berlin Blockade

Question 3

were the 43,000 marchers—17,000 U.S. World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups—who gathered in Washington, D.C. in the summer of 1932 to demand cash-payment redemption of their service certificates.

Answer 3

Bonus Army

Question 4

was a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men.

Answer 4

Civillian Conservation Corps

Question 5

was a legislative initiative proposed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt to add more justices to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Answer 5

Court-Packing Plan

Question 6

was an act passed by the United States Congress in March 1933 in an attempt to stabilize the banking system.

Answer 6

Emergency Banking Bill

Question 7

is a United States government corporation providing deposit insurance to depositors in U.S. commercial banks and savings institutions

Answer 7

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Question 8

was a statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I.

Answer 8

Fourteen Points

Question 9

was an American sociologist and workers-rights advocate who served as the U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, the longest serving in that position, and the first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet.

Answer 9

Frances Perkins

Question 10

was an American physician who was best known for his revolving old-age pension proposal during the Great Depression.

Answer 10

Francis Townsend

Question 11

U.S. legislation passed in 1944 that provided benefits to World War II veterans

Answer 11

G.I. Bill of Rights

Question 12

effectively separated commercial banking from investment banking and created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, among other things.

Answer 12

Glass-Steagall Banking Act

Question 13

was an Act implementing protectionist trade policies sponsored by Senator Reed Smoot and Representative Willis C. Hawley and was signed into law on June 17, 1930. The act raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods.

Answer 13

Howley-Smoot Tariff

Question 14

was an American politician who served as the 40th governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932 and was a member of the United States Senate from 1932 until his assassination in 1935.

Answer 14

Huey Long

Question 15

was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri.

Answer 15

Langston Hughes

Question 16

Proposed in late 1940 and passed in March 1941, the Lend-Lease Act was the principal means for providing U.S. military aid to foreign nations during World War II.

Answer 16

Lend-Lease Bill

Question 17

bad or faulty distribution : undesirable inequality or unevenness of placement or apportionment (as of population, resources, or wealth) over an area or among members of a group.

Answer 17

Maldistribution Act

Question 18

was an American initiative passed in 1948 to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $12 billion (nearly $100 billion in 2018 US dollars) in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II.

Answer 18

Marshall Plan

Question 19

is a United States federal law. Congress enacted it over President Harry Truman’s veto.

Answer 19

McCarran International Security Act

Question 20

was an agency of the United States government created in early 1918 by President Woodrow Wilson which was made up of twelve members from business and labor.

Answer 20

National War Labor Board

Question 21

based on the widespread disillusionment with World War I in the early 1930s and the belief that the United States had been drawn into the war through loans and trade with the Allies

Answer 21

Neutrality Act of 1937

Question 22

was a British Conservative Party statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 1937 to May 1940.

Answer 22

Neville Chamberlain

Question 23

were Italian-born American anarchists who were controversially convicted of murdering a guard and a paymaster during the April 15, 1920 armed robbery of the Slater and Morrill Shoe Company in Braintree, Massachusetts, United States

Answer 23

Sacco and Vanzetti

Question 24

nine African American teenagers, ages 13 to 20, falsely accused in Alabama of raping two white women on a train in 1931.

Answer 24

Scottsboro Nine Act

Question 25

reserved the rights of labor unions to organize and bargain collectively, but also outlawed closed shops, giving workers the right to decline to join a union.

Answer 25

Taft-Hartley Act

Question 26

a federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter on May 18, 1933, to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation

Answer 26

Tennessee Valley Authority

Question 27

was the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end

Answer 27

Treaty of Versailles

Question 28

was an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War.

Answer 28

Truman Doctrine

Question 29

was a U.S. Supreme Court case in which the Court held that the U.S. Congress’s power to lay taxes is not limited only to the level necessary to carry out

Answer 29

U.S. v. Butler

Question 30

was an American New Deal agency, employing millions of people to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads. It was established on May 6, 1935,

Answer 30

Works Progress Administration