(GED) social study

Question 1

executive order 9066

Answer 1

japanese internment
-authority order to forcefully relocate n correl
-whom?japanese decent to ‘interment’ camps
-response to pearl harbor bombing
-p.h. bombing December 7 1941

Question 2

17th amendment

Answer 2

“political graft”
-direct election of senators unlike before by state legislatures
-reminding electors of senators to sit the office for 6 years
-in case of sudden lost of the senator, state legislatures can temporary fill a senator until direct(special) election is done again

Question 3

18th amendment

Answer 3

“prohibition”
-outlawed alcohol
-form in response to Progressive movement (Temperance movement)
-women led this which also results them getting voting rights later

Question 4

19th amendment

Answer 4

“declaration of rights and sentiments”
-(mainly known as declaration of women’s independence)
-seneca falls convention
-some women can vote even before this but
most are selectively allowed by states (most states & W of mississippi) so no real freedom

Question 5

neutrality act of 1935

Answer 5

-characteristic of “isolationism”
-prohibit the export of arms to belligerent
-by both citizens & government, due to WWI

Question 6

22nd amendment

Answer 6

-to limit a president serving terms to 2
-franklin d. roosevelt (1933-1945)
-one who broke the tradition of 2 terms (8years) for presidency led to the creation of this amendment at 1951
-or max of 10 years for condition in which sudden lost of a president occur to fill in

Question 7

1st n 2nd amendments

Answer 7

-freedom of (5) speech, religion, press, assembly, petition
-rights to bear arms

Question 8

4th n 13th amendments

Answer 8

-protection against unreasonable searches and seizures
-abolition of slavery

Question 9

5th, 14th n 6th amendments

Answer 9

-5: due process: government to respect legal rights before doing “deprive someone of life, liberty or property”
-protection against self-incrimination & double-jeopardy (trial twice on same crime)

-14: 5th must also include state government level instead of just federal one

-6: right to speed n public trial, counsel (defend themselves adequately in court)

Question 10

Wade-Davis Bill

Answer 10

-1864 by radical republicans but vetoed by abraham lincoln
-to make readmittance to Union very challenging and humiliating for former Confederates
-Confederates entering must swear complete royalty and never been culpable of encouraging rebellion during Civil War

Question 11

1869

Answer 11

completion of first continental railroad
-built from 1863 to 1869
-to san francisco

Question 12

fiefdoms

Answer 12

-names of land offers by many rulers to nobilities after Rome’s empire fall due to instability by power contending groups
-violent time ware those time

Question 13

John Locke

Answer 13

-wrote the two treaties of government
-impact generations of constiution framers to establish government of US

Question 14

ecomienda system

Answer 14

-by spanish to abuse native american population as source of labor
-a spanish official has right to own a portion of n.a. to do anything at the expense of millions of n.a. lives
-in return, they were supposed to indoctrinate them in christian faith

Question 15

european colonialism to redistribute wealth n resort back to mother country

Answer 15

-is used in 18th century and known as ‘mercantilism’
-very influential in histories of dutch, english, french, spanish empires
-later gradually replaced by free market capitalism at late 18th n 19th centuries

Question 16

english east india company

Answer 16

-initially known as ‘joint stock company’
-due to it was a combined venture of several investors who pooled in resources and shared in the profits
-like modern corporation system, so can see it as the historic start of corporation

Question 17

18th century of europe

Answer 17

-advances in agricultural and fewer plagues
-dramatically increase (100mil to 180mil) in population help with
-industrial revolution started n took place main in 19th century

Question 18

the iron law of wages

Answer 18

-the money paid to workers will always reduce to minimal for the workers to keep alive and working
-due to massive competition in labor market
-employers not worry they won’t like it bcuz someone is always there to take the position when not rejected
-established during 18th/19th century but not know of who started

Question 19

adam smith

Answer 19

-often referred to as ‘father of modern economics’
-the book was ‘the wealth of nations’
-main idea is for government not to try and interfering in the economy n it should be completely unregulated

Question 20

upper class, working class

Answer 20

bourgeoise, proletariat
-by karl marx