Standard 6 - Study Guide Questions

Question 1

How did the New Deal change American Government?

Answer 1

It was the first time the government took responsibility for ensuring prosperity

Question 2

Under the New Deal, more regulations were placed on ______________ and _________________.

Answer 2

Agriculture and Manufacturing

Question 3

What grew in both size and importance as a result of the New Deal?

Answer 3

The Federal Government

Question 4

Name some of the programs started during the New Deal

Answer 4

AAA, FDIC, CCC, WPA (There are others, too)

Question 5

During what period did women first start working jobs that had been held exclusively by men?

Answer 5

WWI

Question 6

Most people see the _________________ as the official beginning of the Great Depression

Answer 6

Stock Market Crash of 1929 (Black Tuesday)

Question 7

How did the KKK change during the 1920’s?

Answer 7

It advertised openly, spread to other parts of the country, and started crusading against immigrants, Catholics, and Communists.

Question 8

Why did the KKK start to lose credibility in the late 1920’s?

Answer 8

A number of leaders were caught up in sex scandals, which made people realize they weren’t as “moral” as they claimed

Question 9

What effect did the tariffs of the late 1920’s have?

Answer 9

Americans didn’t buy foreign goods, so other countries passed tariffs on Americans goods and stopped purchasing our goods. Trade between countries slowed greatly.

Question 10

When the sale of alcohol was prohibited in the US, who began controlling the alcohol trade?

Answer 10

Organized criminal networks / the mafia / Men like Al Capone

Question 11

Why were fewer immigrants admitted into the US during the 1920’s and 1930’s?

Answer 11

The government placed quotas on the number of immigrants to could enter the country

Question 12

How did the Great Depression impact families?

Answer 12

Marriages, birth rates, and divorces dropped. 25 % were out of work.

Question 13

What event outside of the US made Americans fear that the US could become Communist?

Answer 13

The Communist Revolution in Russia

Question 14

Why is the Harlem Renaissance considered significant?

Answer 14

It was the first time that the country as a whole was presented with a view of the African-American experience; It also helped break down racial barriers

Question 15

What was the unemployment rate in the US during the Great Depression?

Answer 15

25%

Question 16

<p>What factors led to the Dust Bowl?</p>

Answer 16

<p>Overfarming, overgrazing, extreme drought</p>

Question 17

Who was the President at the beginning of the Great Depression?

Answer 17

Herbert Hoover

Question 18

What inventions allowed people to live in suburbs rather than in the hearts of cities?

Answer 18

Cars, streetcars, bridges, subways, etc.

Question 19

The FDIC was created to restore people’s faith in _________.

Answer 19

Banks

Question 20

What was the unemployment rate for African Americans during the Depression?

Answer 20

Nearly 50%

Question 21

During the 1920’s, what did the Federal Reserve do to interest rates and why was this bad?

Answer 21

It reduced them. This caused more people to go out and buy on credit - even people who didn’t have the money to repay it!

Question 22

During the 1930’s, what did the Federal Reserve do to interest rates, and why was this bad?

Answer 22

It increased them. This made it very unlikely for people to borrow and spend money, so no new spending was happening and the economy slowed WAAAY down.

Question 23

<p>The Platt Amendment gave the US control over which other country?</p>

Answer 23

<p>Cuba</p>

Question 24

What was the “Big Stick” in Teddy Roosevelt’s “Big Stick Diplomacy?”

Answer 24

The US Navy

Question 25

What Civil War battle gave the Union control over the Mississippi River?

Answer 25

Vicksburg

Question 26

What group was angry with Andrew Johnson for going easy on former Confederate officials?

Answer 26

The Radical Republicans

Question 27

Booker T. Washington was most well known for starting what?

Answer 27

The Tuskeegee Institute

Question 28

The Populist Party represented the interests of what group of people in the late 1800’s?

Answer 28

Farmers

Question 29

What was added to the Constitution to protect states and individuals from the abuse of power by the federal government?

Answer 29

The Bill of Rights

Question 30

Why did the American colonists resent British taxes?

Answer 30

They didn’t have any say in them - the colonists wanted to be represented!

Question 31

Why was Roger Williams banished from Massachusetts?

Answer 31

He had been teaching that there should be a separation between church and state

Question 32

What President claimed the Mexico invaded US territory and killed Americans so that he could get approval to go to war with Mexico and take land from them?

Answer 32

James K. Polk