Unit 07: 1890 - 1945 Flashcards
You’ll examine America’s changing society and culture and the causes and effects of the global wars and economic meltdown of this period. Topics may include: • Debates over imperialism • The Progressive movement • World War I • Innovations in communications and technology in the 1920s • The Great Depression and the New Deal • World War II • Postwar diplomacy On The Exam 10%–17% of score
Chapter 18: Progressive Era
What caused economic growth in the Progressive Age? What did this result in?
Economic growth
Explosive economic growth
why?
- increased production
- rapid rise population
- continued expansion consumer marketplace
Result: Farms & cities grew together
The city
(1) focus politics & (2) new mass-consumer society
* * *
Urban inequality
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What was Muchraking?
Cities and American values
= corporate greed undermined traditional american values
- social inequality
Muckraking
- called by Theodore Roosevelt
- Use of journalistic skills expose underside American life
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What was The Jungle (1906) and its effects?
description of unsanitary slaughterhouses and sale of rotten meat stirred public outrage
- caused Pure Food and Drug Act and Meat Inspection Act of 1906
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What was the “New Immigration” of the Progressive Age? What caused this?
from southern and eastern Europe
- peak in Progressive Era
- *
Why:
- WW1 (Italy, Russia, Austro-Hungary)
- Industrial expansion
- Decline traditional argiculture
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Why was immigration cut off between 1840-1914?
- WW1
- legislation
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How did immigrants view America as the “land of freedom?”
Image: US land freedom (equality, free worship, economic opportunity)
Motivation:
- want freedom
- some wanted free prosecution
- some make money then go back home
Chapter 18: Progressive Era
Describe immigrant communities in the Progressive Age:
close-knit “ethnic” neighborhoods
low wages, long hours, dangerous
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How did America become a mass-consumption society?
New meaning to American freedom
Progressive Era:
- large downtown department stores, neighborhood chain stores, mail-order houses
- amusement parks
- 1910: lot of purchase options
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What shift in production took place during the Progressive Age?
Shift from capital goods to consumer products
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How did Fordism develop and how did it exemplify new consumer society?
exemplified new consumer society
developed techniques of production and marketing brought within reach ordinary Americans
Ford Motor Company
1913: adopted production of MOVING ASSEMBLY LINE
- car frames brought on moving conveyor belts
1914: rased wages at factory to $5/day
- attacked skilled laborers
> Workers should be able to afford the goods
Fordism: economic system based on high wages and mass consumption
Chapter 18: Progressive Era
Why did the women’s suffrage movement peak in the Progressive Age?
New visibility: shoppers, entertainers
- Immigrants: low wage factory employment
- Natives: expanded opportunities
no longer confined to young, unmarried women
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What was the “working woman?”
Symbol of female empowerment
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How did the Progressive women’s movement generate tention between generations?
battles between mothers and daughters
- young women spent meager wages on make-up and clothing
- saw curfews as restrictive
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What did “feminism” mean in the Progressive movement?
word entered politics in progressive era
what:
- female emancipation
- attack traditional rules of sexual behavior
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What was Emma Goldman’s contribution to the women’s movement?
toured country lecturing on subject from anarchism to homosexuality
right to birth-control
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What was Margaret Sanger’s role in the women’s movement?
placed the birth-control movement at center of feminism
- reproductive freedom = central female empowerment
- discributed contraceptive devices to poor
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What was the catalyst that motivated women reformers in the Progressive Era?
Catalyst: growing awareness of the plight poor immigrants and conditions of women and children
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What was Jane Addams’s role as a women reformer?
- most prominent female reformer
1889: founded Hull House
settlement house → improve lives immigratns
- built kindergardens and playgrounds
- educate people
Chapter 18: Progressive Era
Describe the woman’s suffrage movement? What was their main focus?
who: socialists, unionists, settlement-house workers
first time mass movement
how:
- new spirit of militancy
- effective advertisement
- parades, billboards, badges
- mostly unsuccessful (expensive)*
result: focused attention securing national constitutional amendment giving right to vote
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What was the Materialist Reform movement, their beliefs, purpose, and supporters?
> reformers sought encourage women’s child-bearing and -rearing abilities and promote economic independence
purpose: government action improve living conditions of poor mothers and children
- mothers’ pension
ideology:
- government should encourage women’s capacity child production & economic situation
supporters:
- feminists
* hoped laws subvert women’s dependence men* - conventional domestic roles supporters
* strenghten traditional families*
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Muller v. Oregon (1908)
what: Louis D. Brandeis filed a brief citing scientific and sociological studies to demonstrate that because women had less strength and endurance than men, long hours of labor were dangerous for women, while women’s unique ability to bear children gave the government a legitimate interest in their working conditions
result: uphend constitutionality of Oregon law setting maximum working hours for women
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What was scientific mangement movement in the progress era?
Scientific Management: improve worker efficiency using measurements like “time and motion” studies to achieve greater productivity
Role of worker: obey detailed instructions of supervisors
skilled workers → erosion traditional influence = loss of freedom
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What was the “Industrial freedom” ideology in the progressive era?
- center of “labor problem”
Progressive beliefs: increasing industrial freedom lay in empowering workers to participate in economic decision
unions = essential principle of freedom
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What was the Socialist Party and who was Eugene V. Debs?
Socialist Party
1901: founded
what:
- free college education
- legislation improve conditions of laborers
- public ownership of railroads and factories
1912: large movement
arose from social exploitation of immigrants
lot of support from American Federation of Labor (AFL)
Eugene V. Debs
most important spreading socialist gospel
- jailed during Pullman Strike of 1894
preached control of economy by democratic government
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What was the American Federation of Labor? (AFL)
- sought closer ties with forward-looking corporations
Employers saw as intolerable
Who:
- most privileged Americans (skilled workers)
- white, male, native-born
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What was the (IWW) Industrial Workers of the World?
Group of Unionists rejected AFL’s exclusionary policies
- trade union & part advocate
- mobilize those excluded by AFL
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What was the Society of American Indians?
founded: 1911
- indian intellecuals
- promote discussion plight of NA
- hope public exposure result remedying injustice
Pan-Indian public space independent white control
Chapter 18: Progressive Era
What caused worldwide progressivism?
strains arise industrialization and urban growth
Chapter 18: Progressive Era
What “Social Legislation” was instituted in Europe?
- pension
- minimum wage
- unemployment insurance
- workplace safety
Chapter 18: Progressive Era
What was “Effective Freedom?”
- wanted reinvigorate idea of activism
> Traditional government posed threat to freedom
> Effective freedom: “power to do specific things”
- required government act behalf those little wealth or power
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What was the philosophy of pragmatism and how did it lead to the failure of Social Darwinsim?
Philosophy: pragmatism
> Institution and social policies must be judged by their concrete effects, not longevity or religious/political doctrine
Experience > doctrine
Evaluating public policy
- experimental approach to social problems
Saw Social Darwinism as failure
Chapter 18: Progressive Era
What progressive reform did states and local government initiate?
- reduced power political bosses
- public control of “natural monopolies” (gas and water)
- improved public transport
- raised property tax
- ballot initiative
- referendum
- recall election
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What was the Oregon System?
plan to restore grasroot democracy
- wanted weaken power political bosses
founder: Willim U’Ren
what:
- Initiate: (direct legislation) enable citizens propose and vote directly on law
- Referendum: popular vote on public policies
- Recall: removal public officials by popular vote
Result:
- won women’s vote in state
- Initiative system = out of control
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How did the “civil harmony” idelogy originate and whta was it?
hoped reinvigorate democracy restoring political power to citizenry
alarmed violent class conflict
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What was the Seventeenth Amendment (1913)?
Seventeenth Amendment (1913)
> provided US senators chosen popular vote rather than state legislatures
Furthermore:
- popular election of judges primary elections among party members
- enfranchising women
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How did disenfranchisement of blacks in the south happen in the progressive era?
Most striking: disenfranchisement of blacks in south
- literacy tests (disenfrachise poor)
Progressive view: “fitness” of voters (not numbers) defined functioning democracy
- government intelligent control over soceity through impartical experts
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How did Theodore Roosevelt become president?
1901: William McKinley assassinated
Teddy = youngest president alive
Chapter 18: Progressive Era
What was Teddy’s Square Deal?
“Square Deal”
> Confront problems caused economic consolidation by distinguishing between “good” and “bad” corporations
- US Steel & Standard Oil - good
- Bad: greedy financiers
Plan: prosecute Northern Securities Company under Sherman Antitrust Act
why: monopolized transport
1904: SC dissolved
Chapter 18: Progressive Era
What was Teddy’s regulations after his reelection in 1904?
1904: reelected → pushed more direct federal regulations
- strengthen Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC)
1906: Hepburn Act
* ICC power examine railroad business * set reasonable rates
1906: Pure Food and Drug Act
regulate manufacturing food and medicine
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What was the Conservation Movement?
1890s: Congress authorized withdraw “forest reserves” from economic development
- restriction economic for greater social good*
- *
Concerted federal policy during Teddy
- milllion acres set aside wildlife preservation
- national parks
Chapter 18: Progressive Era
What was the Sixteenth Amendment (1913)?
Sixteenth Amendment (1913)
enact graduated income tax
Result:
- modernization federal government
- reliable and flexible source of revenue for national state
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What caused a rift in the progressive movement?
Richard A. Ballinger: (Roosevelt exceed authority with forests reserves) place in public domain
- accused colluding business interests
- 1910: Taft fired him
- 1912: Roosevelt challenged Taft republican nomination
failed → Progressive Party
Chapter 18: Progressive Era
How did Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson’s ideologies compare?
Teddy ideology
- saw Wilson as a bygone*
“New Nationalism”
- control and direct power of government
- “restore liberty of oppressed”
what: heavy taxes
Wilson ideology
- democracy reinvigorated restoring market competition and freeing government domination of businesses
- feared big government and big corporations
“New Freedom”
- strengthen antitrust laws
- protect worker rights
- encourage small businesses
Chapter 18: Progressive Era
What was Roosevelt’s Americanism?
{1} immigrants = Americanize (not retain own cultures)
{2} Fitness of Citizenship:
- inborn and relates past experiences
- slaves and descendants - not assimulate
- (mainly whites) capacity for self control
What were 5 of Woodrow Wilson’s policies?
-
Underwood Tariff
- reduced duties on imports
- graduated income tax
-
Clayton Act of 1914
- exempted labor unions from antitrust laws
- barred counts injunctions curtailing right to strike
- (1916) Keating-Owen Act
- outlawing child labor
-
Adamson Act
- 8-h work week
-
Warehouse Act
- credit to farmers stored crops deferally licensed warehouses
Chapter 19: WW1
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Chapter 19: WW1
What was the American International policy before the first WW?
- special rights oversee since Monroe Doctrine (1823)
- control surrounding islands
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What was Roosevelt Corollary?
> (1904) corollary Monroe Doctrine: US intervene militarily to prevent interference from European Powers
- “international police power”
Known as Dollar Dipomacy
- spread of American influence through loans and economic investment
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What was Woodrow Wilson’s International policy? (Moral Imperialism)
Woodrow Wilson international policy
- brought missionary zeal to presidency
Foreign Policy: respect Latin American independence and free from foreign economic downturn
Moral Imperialism
- more military interventions LA (before or since)
- Underscored paradox modern American history: presidents spoke most about freedom intervened most
Chapter 19: WW1
How did Wilson intervene in Mexican policts between 1900 and 1915?
1911: overthrew dictator
1913: Victoriano Huerta took power
result:
- civil war
- American troops land Vera Cruz prevent arrival weapons for Huerta
1914: Huerta fled
more civil war and turmoil
Warning: difficult use American might reorder international affiars
Chapter 19: WW1
Who were the major players in WW1?
Allies:
- Britain
- France
- Russia
- Japan
Central Powers:
- Germany
- Autria-Hungary
- Ottoman Empire
Chapter 19: WW1
How was American alianced divided in WW1?
Sided with Britain:
- British-Americans
- Americans → saw GB as democracy
Sided with Germany
- German-Americans
- Irish-Americans
Chapter 19: WW1
How did the American stance in relation to WW1 change from neutrality to predaredness?
1914: Wilson proclaim American neutrality
- British naval blockade of Germany → stop American merchant vessels
Germany lachned submarine warfare against ships in British ports
May 1915: sank British ship = had American on
result:
- outraged American public
- Wilson pro-Britian
1915: National Defense Act
Policy of Preparedness (in case of intervantion)
Chapter 19: WW1
What was the Zimmerman Telegram and how did it influence American involveness in WW1?
March 1917: message Germany sent Mexico join in coming war agianst states → take back land lost in Mexican-American War
- intercepted by British
April 02: declaration of war
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What was the Fourteen Points (1918)?
Fourteen Points: (1918)
> plan for peace after WW1
- assure country war was moral
- freedom of seas
- free trade
- open democracy
established peace conference after War
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Did the progressives support the War and how did they think about civil liberties?
support
mostly supported war
saw as an opportunity of social reform
Thoughts on civil liberties:
not major concern of Progressives
National state:
- an embodiment of democratic purpose
- freedom flowed participation in life of society (not uprise)
Chapter 19: WW1
How did the national state increase their power in American’s lives?
similar to during the Civil War and Adams’s presidency
National state: unprecedented power & increased power in American’s lives
May 1917: Selective Service Act
> Required millions to be drafted
Chapter 19: WW1
How did the government regulate industry in WW1?
regulate transport, labor and agriculture
War Industries Board:
planned production and allocated war material
- standardized specifications
Railroad Administration:
control transportation
War Labor Board:
represent government, industry, American Federation of Labor
- rose labor
- bettered working conditions
Chapter 19: WW1
How did the US government try to mobilize public opition in WW1?
Civil War: left up to private angencies
WW1: too important leave up to private sector
- some opposed participation
IWW, Socialist Pary
Created Committee on Public Information (CPI)
- war propaganda
- expand democracy
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What was Jeannette Rankin’s role?
- first women in Congress
- voted against declaration of war
- also against war on Japan and Vietnam*
- pacifist
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What was the Nineteenth Amendment (1920)?
> Barred states from using sex qualification for suffrage
Chapter 19: WW1
What was prohibition and why did it come into effect?
Why?
War resulted impose to engage energies of women in Progressive era
What?
National Success during war
Why:
- create more diciplined labor force
- more orderly city environment
- protect wives and children
- way imposing “American” values
1917: Eighteenth Amendment
> Prohibiting manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquor
- ratified 1919
- effect in 1920
Chapter 19: WW1
What was the Eighteenth Amendment (1917)?
1917: Eighteenth Amendment
> Prohibiting manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquor
- ratified 1919
- effect in 1920
Chapter 19: WW1
How did the national government regulate and restirct free speech in WW1?
comparable with Civil War (John Adams) and McCarthy era
First time since Alien Act and Sedition Act (1798)
Espionage Act: (1917)
> Prohibiting spying and interfering with draft and “false statements” that might impede military success
Sedition Act: (1918)
> Crime make spoken or printed statements intended condenm government
Chapter 19: WW1
What constituted at “partriotism” in WW1?
Equal support for government, war, American economy system
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What was Eugenics?
Eugenics: studied alleged mental characteristics of different groups of people
gave rise air scientific expertise in anti-immigration sentiment
- obsessed with racial “purity”
movement:
- discouraged “wrong” racial pedigree having children
- sponsored eugenics fair
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1927: Buck v. Bell
what: Indiana passed law authorized sterilize insane and dumb inmates in mental institutes > not pass on defective genes
SC: upheat constitutionality of laws
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What was the “demand for Americanization” and why did the sentiment arise?
Nationalization = heightened awareness ethnical and racial difference
demanded Americanization
> Creation more homogeneous national culture
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Describe anti-german setiment in WW1?
Thriving ethical institutions = target pro-war organizations
- restricting teaching foreign language
- Demands immigration restrictions
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What mexican segregation took place in WW1?
Increased in Southwest: due to demand for labor on mines
Segregation:
- literacy tests
- own schools and classrooms
- lynching (not as common)
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What restrictions were on Asian-Americans? What was the Gentleman’s Agreement 1907?
1906: San Francisco: confines Asian single public school
- Japanese government protest
1907: Gentleman’s Agreement of 1907
- Teddy
> Japan agreed end migration US
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How did the progressive movement include blacks?
Excluded all Progressive definition of freedom
- barred joining unions
- little access “industrial freedom”
- not participate consumer economy
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What was Roosevelt and Wilson’s views on blacks?
Roosevelt:
- blacks in federal office
- dined with blacks
1906: small group of blacks shots in Texas
result: dishonorable discharge 3 black comanies
* * *
Wilson:
- racial segreation in federal departments
- dismissed black employees
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Who was W.E.B. Du Bois?
effort reconcile contradictions between American freedom for whites and subjugation of blacks
“talented teeth” blacks (educated) must use education and trailing to challenge inequality
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What was Booker T. Washington’s role in the black protest movement?
- typical progressive
1905: meeting at Niagara Falls
organized Niagara Movement
- reinvigorate abolitionist traditions
- *
also organized National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
- NAACP long struggle enforcement of 14th and 15th Amendment
1911: Bailey v. Alabama
> SC overturned southern “peonage” laws make it crime for sharecroppers break labor contracts
Chapter 19: WW1
What was the “Great Migration” in the progressive era?
why
- wartime production
- drastic falloff immigration from Europe
Result: millions jobs for blacks
what
large-scale migration of southern blacks during and after WWI to the North
Motivations:
- higher wages
- opportunities for education
- escape lynching
- prospect of right to vote
Result:
- severe restrictions on employment opportunities
- outbreaks of violence
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What was the Tulsa Roit?
Tulsa Roit (1921) → worst race roit in American History
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What were the 4 problems in America in 1919?
- Flu Epidemic
- racial violence
- Bombs exploded homes of prominent Americans
- 4 million workers striked
* met with mobilization of employers, government, and private patriotic organizations*
1919 Steel Strike
* inspired wartime rhethoric of economic democracy and freedom * won 8-hour day * response:
appealed anti-immigrant sentiment = return to work
propoganda campaign = strikers seen as communists
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What was the Red Scare of 1919 and 1920?
Inspiration: postwar strike wave & social tension and fear of Russian Revolution
- Fear of communism, socialism, and anarchy stretched across the home front during WWI
what: raided offices of radical organizations (Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer)
- 5000 arrested
- deportations
result:
seen as abuse of civil liberties
planted seeds new appreciation of importance of civil liberties
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What was the Treaty of Versailles (1919)?
Wilson’s Fourteen Points = Versailles Treaty
Achieve Wilson’s Points:
- League of nations
- Applied principle of self-determination to eastern Europe
return Home;
- Americans not want to join League of Nations
- Senate rejected Versailles Treaty
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How did Wilson’s rhetoric of “self-determination” reverberate globally?
rhetoric of self-determination reverberated globally
- believed colonial people no able of independence
- *
Others thoughts:
- Egypt wanted independence Britain
- Beijing
- Japan posed include in charter of League of Nations - clause recognizing equality of all people, regardless of race
British and French = “Self-Determination”
not interested in applying to empires
What were the failures of the Treaty of Versailles?
- protests in colonies
- anti-Western nationalism in Middle East and Asia
- Vietnam War (Ho Chi Minh)
- German resentment over treaty help bring about Nazism
Chapter 20: The Great Depression (1920s)
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Chapter 20: The Great Depression (1920s)
How did Calvin Coolidge become president?
Warren G. Harding died heart attack
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How did industrial growth take place after WW1?
- never more close ties between business and government
- productivity and economic output
- adopted Henry Ford’s assembly line
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How did multinational corporations rise during the 1920s?
Europe still recover Great War → American investment overseas exceeded of other countries
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How did consumer goods proliferate during the 1920s?
- marketed by salesmen
- ability to purchase credit
*
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What leisure activities did Americans partake in?
- Sports
- Movies
- vacations
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How did the fruits of increased production in the 1920s result in unequal distribution of wealth?
- Wages increased; corporate profits increased by double
- Handful companies dominated economic sector
- small auto companies outproduced by General Motors and Ford
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How did increased productivity result in chronic unemployment in the 1930s?
Increaed productivity meant less workers were needed
result: chronic unemployment caused by deindustrailization
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When was the “golden age” of American Farming and why?
Peak during WW1
need to feed war-torn Europe
- Government maintained high prices and raised incomes of farmers
- promoted land purchase on credit
Additional (even when government subsidies ended)
- mechanization
- increaed use fertilizer and insecticides
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What happened when the price of farm products fell and income declined in the 1920s?
banks foreclosed 1000s farms
needed migrate out of rural areas (California)
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What was the result of mechanization of farming?
Increased scale of argiculture
resulted: “factory farmers” (large farms could afford mechanization)
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What was the rise of the stock market?
1920s steadily rising prices of stocks front page
assumed value will increase forever
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What was the “welfare capitalism” of the 1920s?
- new style management
- provided private pensions, medical insurance, job security
Welfare capitalism: more socially conscious buiness & more attention “human factor” in employment
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How did employers in the 1920s embrace the American plan and try to defeat strikers? How did labor unions combat this?
American Plan: “workspace free government regulations and unions”
- employed detectives prevent and defeat strikers
labor organizations:
- doomed to defeat
- few in decade
- combatted local politicians, courts, businesses
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What debate over teh Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) arose in competing conceptions of woman’s freedom? What was the result?
Equal Rights Amendment: elimination all legal distrinction on account of sex
Proponents:
logical step after the right to vote
- women not require special legal protection
- needed: equal accesss and opportuity
Opposition (supporters mother’s pension and limiting women’s work hours)
- ament previous achievements*
- represented gaint step backwards
Result:
- not rattified
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What was Robert and Helen Lynd’s Middletown (1929) about?
- study life in typical community in heartland
- lew leisure activities
- new emphasis consumerism replaced politics focus of public concern
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What contributed to the falling voter participation after WW1?
- consolidtion one-party politics in South
- Shift from public to private concerns
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How was the pro-business ethos reflected in Republican politics in the 1920s?
how did the Cooling and Harding ministration respond?
Business lobbied conventions
- wanted lower income taxes and profits
- wanted high tariffs
- wanted support against unions
Coolidge and Harding: supported
resullt: laissez-faire jurisprudence eclipsed Progressive idea of socially active national state
- courts struck down federal laws barred goods produced by children
- overturn minimum wage for women
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How did the 1920s eclipse the ideology of progressivism?
laissez-faire jurisprudence eclipsed Progressive idea of socially active national state
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How did foreign affairs reflect the close relationship between business and government?
How did it mark a retreat from Wilson’s goal of internationalism of military and diplomatic persuits?
Replace Wilson’s view: isolationism
represented reaction against disappointing results Wilson plan
in favor for a unilateral American action mainly to increase exports and trade.
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What was the Fordney-McCumber Tarif of 1922 and how did it further break down Wilson’s legacy?
Fordney-McCumber Tarif of 1922:
raised taxes in imports - highest in history
- repudiation of Wilson’s principle of free trade
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How did the Americans intervene with Nicaragua after the Great War?
Returned troops try to suppress nationalist revolt
leader assassinated by Sandino and seized power (45 year rule)
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What illustrated to the progressives that national power could go wrong and what way their response?
- wartime and postwar repression
- Prohibition
- pro-business polcies
New appreciation civil Liberties as essential to American freedom
- 1920s birth coherent concept civil liberties
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What was the “Lost of Generation?”
- conservatism of American politcs and materialism of culture
- immigration to Europe (especially Paris)
- felt Europe valued art and culture
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What was the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)?
inspiration: arrest antiwar dissenters = ACLU
what:
- most landmark cases to bring about “rights revolution”
- give meaning “freedom of speech”
*
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Describe the Supreme Court’s view on Civil liberties during and prior to WW1?
Nothing protect rights unpopular minorities
- supported Espionage and Sedition Act
- Schencj v. US: upheld conviction Eugene V. Debs for condemning war
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How did the Courts view of civil liberties begin to change in the 1920s?
Judicial foundation for civil liberties born
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How did evangelical protestants respond to increaed ethinical pluralism mass entertainment, and liberated sexual rules?
Threatened
- decline traditional values
- increased visibilities of Catholicsim and Judaism
- “modernists” who sought integrate science and religion
Result: fundamentalists campaign to rid Protestant denominations of modernism and combat individual freedoms
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Who was the most flamboyant apostle of the fundamentalist movement?
Billy Sunday
- revivalist preacher
- huge crowds
- theatrical preaching style & denouncing sins
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Describe the enforcement of prohibition:
selective enforcement
- Wealthy: enjoy access liquor
- Poor, blacks, and immigratns - large scale arrests
- led building new federal prison system
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How was Prohibition a dividing issue?
Questions about local rights and inidividual freedom
Divided Democratic Party:
- “wet” and “dry” wings
- internal battle
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What was the Scopes Trail in 1925?
How did it reflect the division between traditional values and secularism?
John Scopes - Tennessee public school - arrested teaching Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution
Reflected tension between 2 American definitions of freedom:
- Fundamentalist Christians: idea “moral” liberty & religious beliefs
- secularists
Result: jury found guilty, overturned decision on technology
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What caused the rise of the resurgence of the KKK?
Reborn in Atlanta in 1915 after the lynching of Leo Frank
who_: white, native-born Protestants_
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How did the second KKK compare to the original Klan of the Reconstruction?
- First:
- South
- only attacked blacks
- Second:
- parts of North and West
- attacked blacks and immigratns
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What fundamental change in immigration policy took place in the 1920s?
Before WW1: all whites come into US can become a citizen
During 1920s:
- 1921: temporary measure restrict immigration from Europe
- 1924: permanently limited European immigration
Illegal Alien: category established by immigration act that reffers to immigrants crossed US borders (mostly eastern Europeans, Mexicans, Canadian)
- border patrol
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What “race policy” became common in 1920s?
- agreed by South and North
- wanted to improve “quality” of democratic citizenship & employ scientific method to public policy
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Why did immigrant groups assert the validity of cultural diversity as the essence of American freedom? How did they approach this?
motivation:
- immigration restriction
- Prohibition
- revived Ku Klux Klan
- anti-Semitism and anti-Catholicism
Cultural diversity and toleration of difference as essence of American freedom
- claimed to be “ethnic” Americans with equal share in nation’s life
- embrace “American priniciples”
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Meyer v. Nebraska (1923)
expanded freedom all immigrant groups
- equal liberty
- right marry, establish house, bring up childern (interpretation of Fourteenth Amendment)
The decisions gave pluralism a constitutional foundation.
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How did harlem become the center for “Slumming?”
Mecca for blacks during Great Migration
Whites to to halls and clubs in search exotic, primative adventures
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What did the term “New Negro” mean?
associated in politics with pan-Africansim and militancy of Garvey movement
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What was the Harlem Renaissance?
Cultural movement in the 1920s where writers and artistic expressions became common in the black community (art, jazz, peotry, performance)
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Who was Herbert Hoover?
- Iowa
- furtune as mining engineer
- Internationan fame after coordinating overseas food relief
- called self Progressive
*
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What day did the stock market crash causing the Great Depression? What happened?
October 29, 1929; “Black Tuesday”
- $10 billion shares vanished in 5 hours
- result: GREAT DEPRESSION
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What caused the Great Depression?
- Stock Market Crash
- real-estate speculation and bursts
- banks failing
- land remaining undeveloped
- morgage forclosed
- Unequal distribution of income
- Prolonged depression onf farm regions
- Stagnation from consumer and European buyers (industry recovered after wartime)
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How did the global financial system handel the stock crash?
ill equipted
- Germany defauled reparations
- (due to lack of Germany payments) France and Britian not repay American debts
- banks failed (millions families lost savings)
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How did the Depression reverse geographical movement?
Reversed movement from farms to cities
- left cities grow food for families
- deurbanization
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How did the Great Depression cause the collapse of the image of big businesses?
- Sold worthless bonds
- undoaded portfolios while advertising investors maintain holdings
- convicted stealing from customers
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How did the American public react to the Great Depression?
- blamed selves
- (or) unions and socialist organizations: spontaneous and uncoordinated
- Communist Party best response
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How did president Herbert Hoover view the Great Depression?
saw as inadequate and uncaring
people influenced management:
- told economic downturn normal
- businesses opposed federal aid
misakes: unaware how important consumer spending became to economy
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What was Hoover’s response?
- Opposed direct federal invervention
- committed “associational action”
- attempted restore public confidence → made his seen out of touch
- Smoot-Hawley Tariff: (raised tariffs) worsened depression
- Reconstruction Finance Corporation (loaned money failing banks and other compannies)
- approve public-work projects
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What new American Freedom emerged as result of the depression?
- Progressive belief in socially conscious state
- Respect civil liberites and cultural pluralism
How did the progressive movement see the voting process? Pros and cons:
Expand democracy in voting process at all levels of government
However… weakened voting power immigrants
How did progressives expand the voter base and how did the south unermine it?
Exanpanded right to vote for women
- South disenfranchised blacks and poor whites
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Question refers to the excerpt below.
“Women work longer and harder than most men. … A truer spirit is the increasing desire of young girls to be independent … and the growing objection of countless wives to the pitiful asking for money, to the beggary of their position. More and more do fathers give their daughters, and husbands their wives, a definite allowance,—a separate bank account,—something … all their own.”—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898
Which of the following Progressive Era developments does this excerpt most directly support? (5 points)
- Calls for temperance reform
- Expansion of settlement houses
- Decreasing reliance on child labor
- Increasing women in the workforce
4. Increasing women in the workforce
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Question refers to the excerpt below.
“What this country needs above everything else is a body of laws which will look after the men who are on the make rather than the men who are already made.”—Woodrow Wilson, from his “New Freedom” speech, 1913
For which of the following is Wilson advocating protection laws, according to the above excerpt? (5 points)
- Workers
- Consumers
- Lower tariffs
- Good monopolies
1. Workers
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Question refers to the excerpt below.
“There is no tainted money that smells so rank as the money made by the sale of tainted meat. … Insurance frauds, Standard Oil secret rates, and railroad graft and discriminations, are simply forms of theft. The sale of diseased meat is nothing less than wholesale murder.”—from an editorial in The Wall Street Journal, 1906
Which of the following Progressive Era developments does this excerpt support? (5 points)
- Northern Securities Co. v. United States
- Muller v. Oregon
- Pure Food and Drug Act
- Clayton Antitrust Act
3. Pure Food and Drug Act
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Why would a historian consider the “maternalist reforms” an ironic or peculiar aspect of the Progressive Era? (5 points)
- They made settlement houses, which primarily served women and children in poverty, seem discriminatory to modern eyes.
- They were necessary because new developments in the labor industry, including the forming of new unions, excluded women.
- They sought legislation that would improve the lives of women and children, though these improvements came at the expense of limiting the rights of men.
- They introduced gender bias into state laws, limiting women’s economic independence at a time when women sought the right to vote.
4. They introduced gender bias into state laws, limiting women’s economic independence at a time when women sought the right to vote.
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Question refers to the excerpt below.
“The absence of effective state, and, especially, national, restraint upon unfair money getting has tended to create a small class of enormously wealthy and economically powerful men, whose chief object is to hold and increase their power.”—Theodore Roosevelt, from his “New Nationalism” speech, 1910
What did Roosevelt advocate as a solution to the problem he highlights in this excerpt? (5 points)
- A laissez-faire approach to the financial industry
- Federal legislation to regulate business practices
- The end of government privileges for growth
- Seeking assistance of the courts at all levels
2. Federal legislation to regulate business practices
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How was the Clayton Act related to the Sherman Act? (5 points)
- It undermined the Sherman Act by prohibiting federal regulation of businesses.
- It supported the Sherman Act by expanding powers of oversight and enforcement.
- It threatened the Sherman Act by granting permission for some corporate mergers.
- It reinforced the Sherman Act by outlining protections for employees of corporations.
2. It supported the Sherman Act by expanding powers of oversight and enforcement.
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Question refers to the excerpt below.
“The conditions shown by even this short inspection to exist in the Chicago stock yards are revolting. It is imperatively necessary in the interest of health and of decency that they should be radically changed. Under the existing law it is wholly impossible to secure satisfactory results. When my attention was first directed to this matter an investigation was made under the Bureau of Animal Industry of the Department of Agriculture.”—President Roosevelt, from a cover letter to the Neill-Reynolds Report, June 4, 1906
What was the main impetus for investigations like the one for which this report was generated? (5 points)
- A negative account of food-processing facilities written by a muckraker
- Medical reports of foodborne illnesses contracted by meatpackers
- A complaint of unsanitary conditions made by a food industry union
- Public outcry related to the poor health of military personnel
1. A negative account of food-processing facilities written by a muckraker
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How did Wilson’s and Roosevelt’s platforms differ in the 1912 election? (5 points)
- Roosevelt did not address social issues, while Wilson planned to expand laws for workers and women.
- Roosevelt wanted to increase business regulation, while Wilson focused on strengthening the banking system.
- Roosevelt argued for breaking up all monopolies, while Wilson distinguished that there were good monopolies.
- Roosevelt planned to lower taxes on imports, while Wilson wanted to increase them and include more products.
2. Roosevelt wanted to increase business regulation, while Wilson focused on strengthening the banking system.
Which of the following best characterizes the Progressive Era? (5 points)
- Increasing spending to help the poor
- Decreasing spending to help the poor
- Expanding the role of government
- Restricting the role of government
3. Expanding the role of government
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Which of the following ideas about President Woodrow Wilson does this 1916 cartoon support? (5 points)
- He was looking for an excuse to enter the Great War.
- He wanted to keep the nation out of the Great War.
- He was hoping to influence without fighting the war.
- He wanted to declare war to improve the military

2. He wanted to keep the nation out of the Great War
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How did this event eventually lead to U.S. involvement in World War I? (5 points)
- The United States was allied with Austria and had to act to defend it.
- The secret U.S. alliance with various European countries required action.
- The Austrian royal victim was a beloved figure in the American media.
- The alliances of Austria included Germany, which attacked U.S. interests

4. The alliances of Austria included Germany, which attacked U.S. interests
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What idea does this 1918 poster use most to achieve its goal? (5 points)
- That Americans needed to support the war effort, or Germans would end up invading the United States
- That Britain and France were able to confine German dominance to mainland Europe
- That Britain and France were unable to stop the advance of the Triple Entente without American help
- That Americans at home who secretly supported Germany were the real enemy

1. That Americans needed to support the war effort, or Germans would end up invading the United States
06.03 The Great War
Question refers to the excerpt below.
“I venture, therefore, my fellow countrymen, to speak a solemn word of warning to you against that deepest, most subtle, most essential breach of neutrality which may spring out of partisanship, out of passionately taking sides. The United States must be neutral in fact, as well as in name, during these days that are to try men’s souls. We must be impartial in thought, as well as action, must put a curb upon our sentiments, as well as upon every transaction that might be construed as a preference of one party to the struggle before another.”—President Woodrow Wilson, from a message to Congress, 1914
Which of the following events had the greatest influence on changing Wilson’s position from 1914? (5 points)
- Sussex Pledge
- Fourteen Points
- Zimmerman Note
- Russian Revolution
3. Zimmerman Note
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“America from a military point-of-view means nothing, and again nothing, and for a third time nothing.”—From a high-ranking German official, 1917
What development may have changed this perspective by the end of 1918? (5 points)
- The majority of the military served under French or British forces by order of the U.S. Congress.
- The Espionage Act led the U.S. Army to find key information that changed the outcome of the war.
- The U.S. Congress declared war though the military did not have a significant participation in combat.
- The Selective Service Act increased the size and strength of the U.S. military.
4. The Selective Service Act increased the size and strength of the U.S. military
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Why did events like the sinking of the Lusitania and discovery of the Zimmerman Note start to change American public opinion on World War I? (5 points)
- Americans had been largely neutral, but attacks and threats against civilians, trade, and territory gave credence to the preparedness movement.
- Most Americans supported the preparedness movement and the expansion of the armed forces until the death tolls began a steady rise.
- These events killed or threatened Americans and led most to call for an even deeper isolationism that would stop international trade.
- Despite neutrality, Americans had great sympathy for both sides of the war until these events ended virtually any support for Germany.
1. Americans had been largely neutral, but attacks and threats against civilians, trade, and territory gave credence to the preparedness movement
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“I am proposing that all nations henceforth avoid entangling alliances which would draw them into competitions of power, catch them in a net of intrigue and selfish rivalry, and disturb their own affairs with influences intruded from without. There is no entangling alliance in a concert of power. When all unite to act in the same sense and with the same purpose, all act in the common interest and are free to live their own lives under a common protection.”—President Woodrow Wilson, from a speech to the Senate, January 1917
How did senators like Henry Cabot Lodge react to this idea of President Wilson’s? (5 points)
- They supported entry into the war to end the military part but without a role in peace.
- They only agreed with the first portion and continued to argue against entering the war.
- They did not agree that joining an international organization was compatible with isolation.
- They initially supported the idea of an international organization in order to promote peace.
3. They did not agree that joining an international organization was compatible with isolation.
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How did the Espionage Act of 1917 reflect social conditions in the United States? (5 points)
- People believed European spies lived and worked in the United States, so training and sending spies elsewhere was an act of defense.
- Migration was high from Europe, and many people were concerned that those sympathetic to Germany or its cause could be spies.
- Americans were very intolerant at this time of any speech or action that expressed disapproval of or disloyalty toward the government.
- The cities were crowded and entry unregulated, so fear of criminals and other dangerous individuals was at an all-time high.
2. Migration was high from Europe, and many people were concerned that those sympathetic to Germany or its cause could be spies
Which of the following is true about the United States after World War I? (5 points)
- It was a leader in creating a peace organization and defining rules for international diplomacy.
- It remained a key player in promoting peace while advocating increasing military strength.
- It returned to isolationism, avoiding any interaction with other nations beyond negotiating trade.
- It was mostly isolationist but did intervene in limited places and sought peace on its own terms
4. It was mostly isolationist but did intervene in limited places and sought peace on its own terms
06.05 Migration and Deportation
What disillusionment occured after World War 1?
- suffer mental physical scars
- question should have joined war?
Result:
- joined activist organizations
- enjoyed economic boom
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What was the Bisbee Deportation
Cause:
- mexicans other migrants demand better working conditions
- Strike (rumered started communists)
Result:
- armed forces put people on train and deported them
- denied food and water for hours
Wilsons respond:
- commission investigate
- left final decision to Arizon → did nothing
event set the stage for ambiguous federal and state laws involving the treatment of migrant workers and future actions against suspected radicals
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Domestic labor unrest and the Russian Revolution led to what period in U.S. history? (5 points)
- The Roaring Twenties
- The Red Scare
- The Gilded Age
- The Great Depression
The Red Scare
06.05 Migration and Deportation
The man in this image is holding a knife labelled “Bolshevism” and wearing a hat that says “Reds.” How does this political cartoon relate to life in the United States following WWI? (5 points)
- The image is showing how Asians would have to illegally enter the United States as a result of increased immigration restrictions.
- The image is reflecting the belief many Americans held about the subversive nature of Russian immigrants during the Red Scare.
- The image is demonstrating the fear that old immigrants had regarding social acceptance when they first arrived in the United States.
- The image is highlighting many Americans’ concerns about unrestricted immigration from the Western Hemisphere, especially Mexico.

2. The image is reflecting the belief many Americans held about the subversive nature of Russian immigrants during the Red Scare
06.05 Migration and Deportation
The Bisbee Deportation was a reaction to (5 points)
- labor protests and anti-radical sentiment
- illegal immigration and bank failures
- poor working conditions and low wages
- unionization and crop failures
1. labor protests and anti-radical sentiment
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“Numerical Limitations.
Sec. 11. (a) The annual quota of any nationality shall be 2 per centum of the number of foreign-born individuals of such nationality resident in continental United States as determined by the United States census of 1890, but the minimum quota of any nationality shall be 100.”—From a U.S. law, 1924
What factors led to the passing of policies such as the one in the excerpt? (5 points)
- Rising xenophobia and a desire for a more homogenous society
- The need for immigrants to provide cheap factory labor
- Increasing unionization in cities with large immigrant populations
- The lack of adequate housing and sanitation in growing cities
1. Rising xenophobia and a desire for a more homogenous society
06.05 Migration and Deportation
Though Congress passed legislation to restrict immigration in the early 1920s, one border was left relatively open. Which border was this, and why? (5 points)
- The Canadian border was left open because Canada and the United States had recently signed a treaty to restore peace in the North American region.
- The East Coast was left open because of business agreements with Eastern European countries, which brought money to the United States.
- The Mexican border was left open because labor coming from Mexico was particularly cheap, and many agricultural workers were needed.
- The West Coast was left open because Asian immigrants had recently been allowed to enter the United States following a long period of exclusion.
3. The Mexican border was left open because labor coming from Mexico was particularly cheap, and many agricultural workers were needed
06.05 Migration and Deportation
The Immigration Act of 1924 resulted in (5 points)
- increased immigration from Asia and Mexico
- increased immigration from Eastern and Central Europe
- decreased immigration from Asia and Southern Europe
- decreased immigration from Mexico and Eastern Europe
3. decreased immigration from Asia and Southern Europe
06.05 Migration and Deportation
Which labor organization would an immigrant factory worker most likely join in the 1900s and 1910s? (5 points)
- American Federation of Laborers
- Congress of Industrial Organizations
- United Industrial Labor Workers
- Industrial Workers of the World
4. Industrial Workers of the World
06.05 Migration and Deportation
In the 1930s, many Americans experienced a change in their lifestyles. What was this change, and what precipitated it? (5 points)
- During the 1930s, many Americans migrated around the country seeking work because of the financial losses of the Great Depression and the destruction during the Dust Bowl.
- During the 1930s, many Americans moved to Northern cities, creating the first metropolis in the United States, as a direct result of stricter immigration laws and labor reform.
- During the 1930s, many Americans rebelled against the United States government to demand fewer restrictions on unions because of poor working conditions.
- During the 1930s, many Americans achieved a higher standard of living due to increased wages, the availability of household appliances, and the use of credit.
1. During the 1930s, many Americans migrated around the country seeking work because of the financial losses of the Great Depression and the destruction during the Dust Bowl
06.05 Migration and Deportation
What was a cause of the event that led to the headlines in the image? (5 points)
- Farmers left their fields untended to move to cities and work in factories.
- Mechanized farm equipment led to soil erosion.
- Irrigation systems placed by agricultural corporations caused water shortages.
- Pesticides killed prairie grasses, causing loose topsoil

2. Mechanized farm equipment led to soil erosion
Which of the following is true about the treatment of migrant workers from Mexico? (5 points)
- Mexican workers were welcomed in the 1920s because of the abundance of factory jobs, and many obtained citizenship in the 1930s.
- Mexican workers were refused entry in the 1920s due to strict immigration laws, but they were welcomed in the 1930s.
- Mexican workers were offered agricultural jobs in the 1920s, but many were deported in the 1930s due to increased nativist sentiment.
- Mexican workers were not legally allowed to enter the United States during the 1920s and 1930s due to immigration restrictions.
3. Mexican workers were offered agricultural jobs in the 1920s, but many were deported in the 1930s due to increased nativist sentiment
Chapter 21: The New Deal (1932-1940)
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What were the vague content of the “new deal” Roosevelt campaigned on in 1932?
- balanced federal budget
- critisized excess government spending
- Freedom of economic security
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What caused Roosevelt to declare “bank holiday” in 1993? What was it?
- bank funds in stocks lost value and panicked depositors
- suspended majority of states
- people not access money
Temporarily halted all bank operations & passed the Emergency Banking Act (provided funds shore up threatened institutions)
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How did the Emergence Banking Act (1933) and Grass-Steagall Act transform the American financial system?
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Emergency Banking Act: funds shore up threatened institutions
- The Emergency Banking Act was a federal law passed in 1933. Signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) on March 9, 1933, the act granted the president, the comptroller of the currency, and the secretary of the treasury broader regulatory authority over the nation’s banking system.
- Glass-Steagall Act: barred commercial banks from becomin involved in the buying and selling of stocks
Effect:
- (1) Law prevented many irresponsible practices that contributed stock market crash*
- (2) rescued financial system and increased governmental power*
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What happened during first Hundred Days of Roosevelt’s presidency?
- Rapid passage laws
- hoped promote economic recovery (from Great Depresion)
- New agencies
- NRA, AAA, CCC
- National Industrial Recovery Act
- National Recovery Administration
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How did the government combat unemployment in the 1930s?
- created Federal Emergency Relief Administration
- (preffered) temporary jobs
- combat unemployment
- providing national infrastructure
- Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) (set unemployed men work projects like forest preesrvation, flood control, improvement national parks)
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What was the Public Works Administration? What was the long term effects?
- construction of highways, tunnels, courthouses, airports
- created class of American permanently dependent on government jobs
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What was the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)?
built a series of dams to prevent floods and deforestation
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What was the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)?
address disastous plight of American farmers
- set production quotas for major crops
- pay farmers plant less raise farm prices
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How did Roosevelt address the Depression devistating effects on the American housing industry?
- “security of the home” as fundamental right
- moved protect home owners from foreclosure and stimulate new construction
- Home Owners Loan Corporation and Federal Housing Administration
- built thousands units low-rent housing
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What was the 21st Amendment?
Repealed Prohibition
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What was the effects of the “First New Deal?”
Some worked and others did not
- transformed role federal government
- constructed numerous public facilities
- provided relief to millions Americans
- rescued millions of Americans from Depression
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Describe the nature of the Supreme Court in the 1930s and how it influenced policies.
- Controlled conservative judges
- 19th century understanding freedoms
- liberty of contracts
result: invalidate New Deal laws
* failed end Depression → ground to halt*
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United States v. Butler (1936)
declared unconsitutional exercise of congressional power over local economic activities
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What was the most striking development of the mid-1930s?
Mobilization of million of workers in mass-production industries resisted unionization
“Labor’s Great Upheaval”
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How did the government respond to the “Labor’s great upheaval?”
On the side of the laborers
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Describe the nature of American factories at the outset of the New Deal.
- miniature dictatorships
- unions rare, workers beaten and fired
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How did the New Deal change workers demands?
- wanted end employer’s powers
- basic civil liberties
- right to picket, distribute literature, meet discuss grievances
- union recognition
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Describe the Labor’s great upheaval explosion in 1934.
- 2000 strikes
- violent confrontations
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How did labor upheavals poased a challenge to the American Federation of Labor’s traditional policy?
- traditional policy: oganize workers by craft rather than by industry
- 1935: creation of unions of industrial workers
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What was the Congress of Industrial Organizations (and John L. Lewis)?
- led a walout produced new labor organization (CIO)
- secure economic freedom
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What was the UAW’s sit-down strike (December 1936)?
- effective tactic
- General motors
- halted production → agreed negotiate UAW
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How did the labor upsurge alter the balance of economic power?
Balance of economic power and propelled forefront politics labor’s goald of a fairer, freer, more equal America
- economic and social insecurity
- public housing
- universal health care
- unemployment and old age
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How did relgious organization utilize mass media?
Used it to spread their beliefs
- (ironically) anti-modernists took advantage modern communication to communicate anti-modernist opinions
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When was the Second New Deal?
launced in 1935
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How did the first and second New Deal compare?
First: focused economic recovery
Second: economic security
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How did the government try to bring about economic security?
- attack weak demand and economic inequality
- Congress levied highly publicized tax large fortune and corporate profits
- Rural Electrification Agency (REA)
- bring electric power to homes lacked it
- farmers received federal assistance in reducing soil loss
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How did the Second New Deal fail?
Not arrest trend towards larger farms and fewer farmers
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What was the Works Progress Administration (WPA)?
- established Roosevelt (1934 )
- hired 3 million Americans
- contructed thousands public stuff
- compared previous work relief programs: hired white-collar workers as well
- set 100s artists to work
- decorating public buildings
- writers to produce local histories
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What was the Wagner Act (SND)?
Established National Labor Relations Board and faciliated unionization by regulating employment and bargaining practices
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How was the Social Security Act of 1935 the centerpiece of the SND?
Created Social Security System with provisions for retirement, unemployment, disability, public assistance.
- Roosevelt conviction: national government responsible ensure material well-being
- system unemployment insurance
Ideas originated:
- Progressives of 1912
- European coutries had it
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How was the American welfare-state lacking?
- decentralized (lower levels spending and fewer citizens)
- excluded many unmarried women and non-whites
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How did the Social Security represented a dramatic departure from the
traditional functions of government?
Transformed relationship between citizens and government
- before: whether government should intervene economy
- after: how should the government intervene
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How did Roosevelt mobilize America?
Radio:
- harnessed radio’s power
- “fireside chats” 2/3 Americans listen to
Appeal Traditional Values in support new policies:
- “liberalism” a modern meaning
- employ large, active, socially conscious state
- reclaimed word ‘freedom” = New Deal
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What was Roosevelt’s Court packing plan? What was the response?
- replace SC justices over 70 new ones (majority old)
- why: change balance of power to insure Second New Deal
Rejected & inspired “about-face” by judges:
- Court willing support policies
- marked permanent change in judicial policy
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What happened to the Second New Deal with the economic downturns in 1937?
- 1936: reduced federal funding and subsidies = disasterous
- Unemployment rose by 20%
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What was The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money by John Maynard Keynes (1936)?
- Government spending essential sustain purchasing power and stimulate economy
- even during budget deficits
result Keynesian Economics
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How did the New Deal incorporate women into society?
- increase women’s visibility in national politics
- organized feminism disappeared political force
- Not exclude women from benefits (with the exception of CCC)
- most women undercovered
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How did Roosevelt’s symbolic representation of the federal government get undermined by the South?
- Roosevelt: symbolic representation of “the people” (biracial and multi-ethnic)
-
South:
- shaped New Deal welfare state into a white entitlement
- dems political monopoly & Congress
- resulted in exclusion of argicultural and domestic workers (largest category of blacks)
*
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How did the Depression effect women in the workforce?
- unemployment → call for women to remove themselves from workforce
- depression hit industry hardest: propotion of women in workforce rose
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How did the “southern veto” affect blacks in relation to welfare?
- every low benefits
- authorized states to determine eligibility standards
- “moral” behavior
- widespread discrimination
- stigma of dependency of government handouts
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What was the Indian New Deal?
- Ended forces assimilation → cultural autonomy
- increased spending Indian health
- Indian Recognization Act of 1934
- end policy dividing Indian land into smaller plots for individual families and selling rest
most radical shift in Indian policy in nation’s history
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How were Mexican-Americans effected by the Depression?
- encouraged to leave the US
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What was “Last Hired, First Fired?”
- unemployment rate blacks double that of whites
- competition for positions (waiter, porter) whites thought previously were beneath them
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How did Roosevelt appraoch civil liberty and black rights?
- little personal interest
- employed Mary McLeod Bethume: special advisor on minority affiars
- other blacks in federal positions
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Chapter 21: The New Deal (1932-1940)
How did the 1930s represent a shift in black voting patterns?
- (North) abandoned allegiance to Lincoln’s party in favor for the dems
Chapter 21: The New Deal (1932-1940)
How were federal housing policy influenced by segeration?
- insisted housing built be racially segregated
- barred furture sales to non-whites
Chapter 21: The New Deal (1932-1940)
Describe the increased influence of the “left” in the mid-1930s.
- increased influence caused by Depression
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Chapter 21: The New Deal (1932-1940)
What was the Popular Fron movement in the 1930s and why did the Communists have an increase appeal in the Depression?
Appeal:
- involvement unemployment demonstrations
- movement black civil rights
Popular Front:
- communist party want to ally with New Dealers and Socialist
- reform capitalism rather than revolutionize it
Chapter 21: The New Deal (1932-1940)
Describe the Popular Front culture.
- artists depict life of ordinary farms and city dwellers
Chapter 21: The New Deal (1932-1940)
How did the Popular Front movement promote racial tolerance?
- condemned racism as incompatible with true Americansim
- Helped with Scottsboro case (9 blacks convicted raping 2 white women = overturned verdict that blacks can be excluded from juries)
- brought blacks into labor movement
- education campaigns for blacks
Chapter 21: The New Deal (1932-1940)
What was “un-American?”
- 1938: House Representatives established committee
- investigate disloyals
- “un-American” included communists, labor radicals, and the left of the Democratic Party,
- its hearings led to the dismissal of dozens of federal employees on charges of subversion
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Why did the South cause the New Deal to decline?
At odds with Roosevelt’s policies
- feared continuing federal intervention = encourage unionization and upset racial relations
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What were the failures of the New Deal?
- restricted in scope and modest in cost
- not address problem of racial inequality
What were the successes of the New Deal?
- expanded role federal government
- Independent force in relations between industry and labor
- Transformed environment
- hydroelectric dams
- reforestation
- rural electrificatoin
- Restored faith in democracy
- Improved economic conditions
07.06 Module Seven
Why were banks the focus of attention early in the First New Deal? (7 points)
- The banks had been overlending to people and businesses, causing ripple effects throughout the economy when they could not pay out deposits or collect on loans.
- The banks and their employees were the only groups thriving in the midst of the economic downturn and were seen as scapegoats for the widespread suffering of average people.
- The banks themselves had caused the stock market crash by withdrawing their investments all at once on the advice of government officials and economic analysts.
- The banks were seen as to blame for the economic downturn because throughout the previous decade they had strict and limited lending policies that stifled growth.
- The banks had been overlending to people and businesses, causing ripple effects throughout the economy when they could not pay out deposits or collect on loans.
07.06 Module Seven
The establishment of a bank holiday is an example of which goal of New Deal legislation? (6 points)
- Relief
- Recovery
- Reform
- Reduction
- Relief
07.06 Module Seven
Which of the following movements or ideas does FDR’s New Deal program best reflect? (7 points)
- Conservatism
- Communism
- Populism
- Progressivism
4. Progressivism
07.06 Module Seven
Question refers to the excerpt below.
- “Wholly apart from that question, another principle embedded in our Constitution prohibits the enforcement of the Agricultural Adjustment Act. The act invades the reserved rights of the states. It is a statutory plan to regulate and control agricultural production, a matter beyond the powers delegated to the federal government. The tax, the appropriation of the funds raised, and the direction for their disbursement are but parts of the plan. They are but means to an unconstitutional end.*
- From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. … None to regulate agricultural production is given, and therefore legislation by Congress for that purpose is forbidden.”—Justice Roberts, from the majority opinion in United States v. Butler, 1936*
How did conservatives in Congress and the Supreme Court react to New Deal policies? (7 points)
- The Supreme Court upheld the New Deal programs that Congressional conservatives introduced and supported.
- Congressional conservatives pushed for constitutional amendments that would prevent the Court from blocking New Deal programs.
- Congressional conservatives and the Supreme Court both worked to limit the scope of New Deal programs.
- Congressional conservatives supported an increase the number of justices to stop New Deal programs from being declared unconstitutional.
3. Congressional conservatives and the Supreme Court both worked to limit the scope of New Deal programs.
07.06 Module Seven
Which explains how Roosevelt modeled his New Deal programs after Progressive reforms? (7 points)
- He designed programs that kept government interference in the economy at a minimum and allowed consumers to grow businesses.
- He designed programs that strictly regulated big businesses and kept industries from monopolistic influences.
- He designed programs that considered the interests of wealthy citizens over the interests of impoverished citizens living in the United States.
- He designed programs that sought to protect against bank failure and economic insecurity and preserve freedom of choice and inventiveness in business.
4. He designed programs that sought to protect against bank failure and economic insecurity and preserve freedom of choice and inventiveness in business
07.06 Module Seven
What event prompted the U.S. military to become fully involved in World War II? (6 points)
- Britain’s declaration of war against Germany
- Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor
- Germany’s invasion of Poland
- The Soviet Union’s annexation of Eastern European nations
- Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor
07.06 Module Seven
How did the U.S. government react to the bombing of Pearl harbor in the photograph? (7 points)
- It gave up a position of neutrality and issued a declaration of war.
- It immediately retaliated with the use of atomic weapons.
- It became indirectly involved in the worldwide conflict.
- It requested military and financial support from its allies.
1. It gave up a position of neutrality and issued a declaration of war
07.06 Module Seven
Why were posters of this kind produced during World War II? (7 points)
- To generate public support for the war effort
- To demonstrate that victory was certain
- To show the troops that the public valued their sacrifices
- To entertain people during a difficult time for the nation
1. To generate public support for the war effort
07.06 Module Seven
Why was the Battle of the Coral Sea significant for the Allies? (6 points)
- It destroyed the Japanese navy’s carrier fleet.
- It re-opened American trade with Europe.
- It kept the Soviet Union out of the war in the Pacific.
- It showed the strength of aircraft carriers in battle.
4. It showed the strength of aircraft carriers in battle
07.06 Module Seven
Which statement explains why Congress authorized arms sales to any nation that could pay in cash and arrange transportation? (6 points)
- To help the United States build up its wartime production capabilities
- To ensure that naval warfare would not affect the American shipping industry
- To allow U.S. trade to continue during wartime without drawing the nation into war
- To give the United States control over arms build-ups in Europe and Asia
3. To allow U.S. trade to continue during wartime without drawing the nation into war
07.06 Module Seven
Question refers to the excerpt below.
“We call upon the government of Japan to proclaim now the unconditional surrender of all Japanese armed forces, and, to provide proper and adequate assurances of their good faith in such action. The alternative is prompt and utter destruction.”—From the Potsdam Declaration, July 1945
What does this statement indicate about the use of the atomic bomb in World War II? (7 points)
- Allied leaders did not expect the use of atomic weapons to end the war.
- The leaders of Great Britain and the Soviet Union supported dropping the bomb.
- Great Britain and the Soviet Union had also developed atomic weapons.
- The Allies did not ask the Japanese government to surrender before dropping the bomb
The leaders of Great Britain and the Soviet Union supported dropping the bomb. 2
How did the prevalence of destruction in Europe affect the United States following World War II? (7 points)
- The United States did not have to spend time and money rebuilding, which gave it an economic advantage over war-ravaged nations.
- The United States gave financial support to European nations after the war, causing the American nation to go into debt and decreasing its industrial output.
- The United States was prevented from having a say in the restructuring of European boundaries, reducing its political influence in the world.
- The United States took control of damaged factories, rebuilding them and selling them to American and foreign companies at a large profit.
- The United States did not have to spend time and money rebuilding, which gave it an economic advantage over war-ravaged nations