Goverment

Question 1

What is direct action?

Answer 1

• Any action seeking to achieve an immediate or direct result

Question 2

What was the USA’s federal system?

Answer 2

• All individual states look after their own internal Affairs
• questions that concern other states (such as making treaties with other countries) are dealt with by Congress

Question 3

What are the Constitution?

Answer 3

• Layout how the government is supposed to operate
• what the government is/isn’t allowed to do
• designed to stop one individual becoming too powerful

Question 4

What is Congress?

Answer 4

• Congress and the president run the country
• made up of the Senate and House of Representatives
• Congress and Supreme Court act as watchdogs checking how the president behaves

Question 5

What is the Supreme Court?

Answer 5

• makes sure US government doesn’t miss use their power and pass unfair laws
• Made up of judges usually experience lawyers
• they have the power to say that a law is unconstitutional if they feel like it will harm American citizens

Question 6

What are the different types of government parties?

Answer 6

• Democrats

- Republicans

Question 7

What did the Republicans believe in?

Answer 7

• “ laissez-faire” (leave alone)
• Stay out of peoples lives
• Favourite big businesses and don’t like high taxes because it pleases rich people
• Left businessmen alone to create jobs and spend money

Question 8

What did the Democrats believe in?

Answer 8

• They favoured helping those in need
• they were an ordinary peoples party
• they preferred to intervene in every day life if needed be

Question 9

Who was Franklin D Roosevelt?

Answer 9

• the president in 1933 to 1945

- a democrat leader

Question 10

What did Franklin D Roosevelt promise America?

Answer 10

The 3 R’s :

• Relief ~ help for the sick, old and homeless
• recovery ~ government schemes to help provide jobs
• reform ~ make America a better place for ordinary people + ensure a great depression wasn’t to happen again

Question 11

Who is Harry S Truman?

Answer 11

• President in 1945 after Roosevelt died
• Implement at the Marshall plan
• established the Truman doctrine and NATO

Question 12

What was Trumans fair deal?

Answer 12

• Put in place to help Americans most in need to bring a fairer society (African Americans rights, poverty)
• Minimum wage was increased from 40 to 74%
• supported clearing of slums to make affordable houses

Question 13

Who was Herbert Hoover?

Answer 13

• President in 1929 - 1933 (republican)
• believed America could overcome any problem without any help
• left America to recover on their own
• was a Republican favoured by businessmen and wealthy people