Modern Nation Test

Question 1

bolsheviks

Answer 1

group run by Vladimir Lenin took over Russia and created communism

Question 2

red Scare

Answer 2

fear of communism

Question 3

welfare capitalism

Answer 3

social welfare policies beginning of business

Question 4

credit

Answer 4

using other person’s money not paying in full

Question 5

teapot dome

Answer 5

harding’s secretary of interior, Albert Fall, accepted bribes from oil companies allowing them to drill federal oil reserves on federal land

Question 6

palmer raids

Answer 6

bombings of certain people who were communist

Question 7

sacco and vanzetti

Answer 7

nicola sacco and bartolomeo vanzetti were arrested for armed robbery and murder trial really based on their political beliefs

Question 8

1918 flu

Answer 8

brought from europe targeted middle age people 50 million dead

Question 9

qualities of new consumers

Answer 9

buying on credit cards
installment buying
durable goods

Question 10

installment buying

Answer 10

paying in small amounts over time

Question 11

henry ford

Answer 11

created first car and own company ford

Question 12

scopes trial

Answer 12

john scopes a teacher put on trial in tennessee for teaching evolution which was illegal

Question 13

prohibition

Answer 13

8th amendment that prohibited the manufacture and transportation, import, export, and sell alcoholic beverages

Question 14

lucky luciano

Answer 14

crime lord from new york
leader of crime and had control of new york
helped us in wwii with naval intelligence

Question 15

al capone

Answer 15

started crime early age
given control of colosimo gang
after valentines day massacre given control of chicago

Question 16

famous people from 1920’s mass entertainment

Answer 16

charlie chaplin, charles lindenburg, amelia earhart, f scott fitzgerald george gershwin

Question 17

people from harlem renaissance

Answer 17

web du bois louis armstrong marcus garvey james weldon johnson legston hughes zora neale hurston paul robeson

Question 18

bootleggers

Answer 18

people that will distribute or sell alcohol

Question 19

speakeasy

Answer 19

illegal bars

Question 20

fundamentalism

Answer 20

people who strictly follow the way of scripture

Question 21

evolution

Answer 21

change over time usually in characteristics

Question 22

flapper

Answer 22

strayed away from the traditional women of 1920’s they wore dresses and listened to jazz

Question 23

financial factors of economic depression

Answer 23

stock market crash lower demand unemployment

Question 24

factors of economic depression

Answer 24

stock market crash, banks lost money, government policies,

Question 25

development of great depression

Answer 25

banks couldn’t hold money farmers weren’t making money
unemployment

Question 26

public works programs

Answer 26

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
Indian Reorganization Act

Question 27

associative state

Answer 27

state with limited sovereignty aka control over that territory

Question 28

incumbent

Answer 28

somebody who holds power in a branch of the government

Question 29

hoovervillies

Answer 29

makeshift shanty towns that sprung up during Great Depression

Question 30

dust bowl

Answer 30

drought like rainfall in the south that caused dust storms

Question 31

subsidy

Answer 31

cash given to individuals by the government

Question 32

america’s reaction to hoover as president

Answer 32

they were angry and shocked that he couldn’t find good solutions to the nation’s problems

Question 33

100 days

Answer 33

the most crucial days of a presidents term

Question 34

new deal

Answer 34

relief: for people suffering from depression
reform: to prevent serious economic crises in the future
recovery: reform a better economy

Question 35

indian reorganization act

Answer 35

gave indians more freedom

Question 36

troubles of the new deal

Answer 36

many people didn’t think it was going to work they needed more plans planned out

Question 37

court packing

Answer 37

FDR upset parts of new deal struck down as unconstitutional

Question 38

minimum wage

Answer 38

amount of money someone could be paid for working
last new deal law

Question 39

impact of new deal

Answer 39

Wages were better
Bigger government
Decreased deficit spending

Question 40

limit of the new deal

Answer 40

relief programs
work relief programs
discrimination

Question 41

New Deal Essay

Answer 41

A plan created by the 32nd to get the nation back on it’s feet after the economic hardship that was the great depression. America was in a period where the president did nothing so when they heard about FDR’s plans they elected him as president. His plan had a lot of good rebuilding plans for relief. reform, and recovery he helped businesses farmers and just people get back normal he fixed deficit spending, gave money to those in need and made the government bigger. As the new deal got better people became greedy and selfish with there needs and they believed that he was doing to much or too little but in the end he helped in more ways than one better than hoover was there things he could have dine better yes could he have done nothing also yes but he got the world back together in a way that Hoover couldn’t and that is what is most important.