Unit #7

Question 1

This convention was the start of the movement for women’s rights led by Lucretia Mott & Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

Answer 1

The Seneca Falls Convention

Question 2

What is suffrage?

Answer 2

The right to vote

Question 3

What year did the 19th Amendment pass? (The Amendment that extended the right to vote to women.)

Answer 3

1920

Question 4

When did The Great Depression begin?

Answer 4

1929

Question 5

What war is likely caused by the Great Depression?

Answer 5

WWII

Question 6

How did the American economy transform in the 1920’s?

Answer 6

The American economy completed the transition from a traditional economy to a free market economy.

Question 7

What is a Bank Run?

Answer 7

• When a large number of people want to take their money out of banks at the same time.
• This causes banks to run out of cash- causing a lack of confidence in the bank.
• Banks go out of business & people lose their life savings.

Question 8

What event is widely believed to be the beginning of the Great Depression.

Answer 8

The Stock Market Crash of 1929

Question 9

What war created huge demand for U.S. wheat?

Answer 9

WWI

Question 10

In 1934 the________ began which was an environmental disaster that made the Great Depression worse.

Answer 10

Dust Bowl

Question 11

2.5 million Americans left the Dust Bowl Region in the 1930’s in the Okie Migration. Where did most of those people end up moving to?

Answer 11

California

Question 12

What 3 things did FDR hope to accomplish with The New New Deal?

Answer 12

• Relief for poor and unemployed people.
• Recover the economy to former levels.
• Reform the financial systems. (To avoid another crash)

Question 13

This was a New Deal work program focussed on improving the environment.

Answer 13

CCC- The Civilian Conservation Corps

Question 14

The FDIC

Answer 14

-New Deal Program
-insured bank deposits
-stopped runs on banks
(Because we always know we will get our money back)

Question 15

This New Deal jobs program employed 8.5 million Americans. The focus was on infrastructure, but this agency also employed artists and writers.

Answer 15

WPA-Works Project Administration

Question 16

This New Deal Program provides retirement and disability benefits. The program has come to be an important form of personal identification.

Answer 16

SSA- Social Security Act

Question 17

Economic instability leads to:

Answer 17

Political instability

Question 18

How does the Great Depression end?

Answer 18

Massive government spending caused by WWII.

Question 19

What do most historians believe was the root cause or “starting gun” of WWII?

Answer 19

The Treaty of Versailles

Question 20

WWI & WWII should be understood as:

Answer 20

Two stages of a single conflict.

Question 21

Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbor?

Answer 21

The U.S. cut off Japan’s oil supply.

Question 22

Why did Germany lose WWII?

Answer 22

Germany was overextended and fighting a two front war.

Question 23

What is the Cold War?

Answer 23

The conflict in the second half of the 20th Century between the U.S. & the Soviet Union (U.S.S.R.)

Question 24

What two Japanese cities did the United States drop atomic bombs on at the end of WWII?

Answer 24

Hiroshima & Nagasaki

Question 25

How many people were murdered during the Holocaust?

Answer 25

6 million

Question 26

What year did WWII end?

Answer 26

1945

Question 27

What was the economic conflict in the Cold War?

Answer 27

Communism Vs. Capitalism

Question 28

What was the political conflict in the Cold War?

Answer 28

Democracy Vs. Totalitarianism