History Study Guide

Question 1

Tariff of 1922 was a law that raised American tariffs on many imported goods in order to protect factories and farms.

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Fordney- McCumber Tariff

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a policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries.

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Isolationism

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the uncontrolled expansion of urban areas.

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Urban Sprawl

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An American labor leader of the twentieth century. served for many years as president of the United Mine Workers and founded the Congress of Industrial Organizations

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John L. Lewis

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the policy of protecting the interests of native-born or established inhabitants against those of immigrants.

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Nativism

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A political leader of the early twentieth century. A Republican, he rose to prominence as governor of Massachusetts

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Calvin Coolidge

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a person who believes in or tries to bring about anarchy.

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Anarchists

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was an American statesman, lawyer, and Republican politician from New York.

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Charles Evans Hughes

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a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.

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Communism

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Murder trial both people were found guilty, may not have been guilty.

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Sacco Vanzetti Trial

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the minimum legal price a seller may charge, typically placed above equilibrium. It is the support of certain price levels at or above market values by the government.

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Price supports

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a long and severe recession in an economy or market.

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Great depression

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an area of land where vegetation has been lost and soil reduced to dust and eroded, especially as a consequence of drought or unsuitable farming practice.

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Dust bowl

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was the 31st president of the United States (1929–1933), whose term was notably marked by the stock market crash of 1929 and the beginnings of the Great Depression.

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Herbert Hoover

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was a government corporation in the United States that operated between 1932 and 1957 which provided financial support to state and local governments and made loans to banks, railroads, mortgage associations and other businesses.

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Reconstruction Finance Corporation

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October 29, 1929. On this date, share prices on the New York Stock Exchange completely collapsed, becoming a pivotal factor in the emergence of the Great Depression.

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Black Tuesday

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was an act sponsored by Senator Reed Smoot and Representative Willis C. Hawley and signed into law on June 17, 1930, that raised U.S. tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods to record levels.

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Hawley- Smooth Tariff

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organization with a stated mission to “improve the health and lives of people affected by poverty or emergency situations by mobilizing and providing essential medical resources needed for their care.”

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Direct relief

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the purchase of an asset by paying the margin and borrowing the balance from a bank or broker.

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Buying on the margin

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was the popular name of an assemblage of some 43,000 marchers—17,000 World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups—who gathered in Washington, D.C., in the spring and summer of 1932 to demand cash-payment redemption of their service certificates.

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Bonus army

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(July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short story writer, journalist

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Ernest Hemingway

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a form of a religion, especially Islam or Protestant Christianity, that upholds belief in the strict, literal interpretation of scripture.

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Fundamentalism

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was an American legal case in 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee’s Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach human

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Scopes trial

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usually refers to four provisions of the U.S. Banking Act of 1933 that limited commercial bank securities, activities, and affiliations within commercial banks and securities firms.

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Glass- steagal act

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was a short-lived U.S. job creation program established by the New Deal during the Great Depression to rapidly create manual labor jobs for millions of unemployed workers. The jobs were merely temporary, for the duration of the hard winter of 1933–34.

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Civil works administration

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was the largest and most ambitious American New Deal agency, employing millions of unemployed people (mostly unskilled men) to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads.

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Workes Progress administration

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Frances Perkins Wilson was the U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, the longest serving in that position

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Frances perkins

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an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck and published in 1939.

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Grapes of wrath

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was a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men from relief families as part of the New Deal.

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Civilian conservation corps

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Richard Nathaniel Wright was an American author of sometimes controversial novels

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Richard wright

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the amount by which spending exceeds revenue over a particular period of time, also called simply deficit, or budget deficit; the opposite of budget surplus. The term may be applied to the budget of a government, private company, or individual.

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Deficit spending

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a foundational statute of United States labor law which guarantees basic rights of private sector employees to organize into trade unions, engage in collective bargaining for better terms and conditions at work, and take

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Wagner act

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is a federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter in May 1933 to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development to the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly affected by the Great

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TVA

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an arrangement for payment by installments.

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Installment plan