US History Unit 5

Question 0

What was the purpose of the Palmer Raids?

Answer 0

To round up suspected subversives

Question 1

What happen to the U.S. economy after World War I?

Answer 1

High Inflation and Increasing Unemployment.

Question 2

What was the purpose of the Emigration Act of 1921?

Answer 2

Cap the number of immigrants allowed in the U.S.

Question 3

What is the Teapot Dome Scandal and what president is it associated with
it?

Answer 3

The Teapot Dome Scandal is associated with President Warren G. Harding’s Secretary of the Interior Fall who leased national oil reserves to companies that had paid him $360,000 in bribes.

Question 4

What is isolationism?

Answer 4

No participation in relations with other countries.

Question 5

What was the purpose of the Dawes Plan?

Answer 5

To settle war debts with other countries

Question 6

The Washington Naval Conference failed to outlaw?

Answer 6

The construction of smaller ships and submarines

Question 7

What cause the economic boom in the 1920s?

Answer 7

Innovations led to new industries.

Question 8

What industry still did not prosper in the 1920s?

Answer 8

Farming

Question 9

What invention cause rapid growth in the suburbs oppose to cities?

Answer 9

Automobiles

Question 10

What grassroots organization was formed in the 1920s to inform citizens of public issues?

Answer 10

League of Woman Voters

Question 11

Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington played an influential role in what kind of music?

Answer 11

Jazz

Question 12

Explain the Harlem Renaissances?

Answer 12

It was an outpouring of creativity among African American poets, writers, and artists.

Question 13

Name three famous celebrity athletes in the 1920s?

Answer 13

Gertrude Ederle, Babe Ruth, Jim Thorpe.

Question 14

What was the situation for American farmers in the 1920s?

Answer 14

Failing crop prices led to bankruptcy.

Question 15

Why did some people support prohibition and why did some people oppose it?

Answer 15

Support: because they believed it led to crime, violence, and break up of families. Oppose: bootlegging led to organize crime

Question 16

Explain the Scopes trial and what role did William Jennings Bryan play?

Answer 16

Scopes trial central focus was can the state ban the teaching of evolution in public schools. William Jennings Bryan was the prosecutor for the state of Tennessee.

Question 17

What happen October 29, 1929 and what is that day referred to?

Answer 17

Stock prices fell (Stock Market Crash) also known as Black Tuesday.

Question 18

Why did people stop buying goods in the late 1920s?

Answer 18

People could not afford the products being produce.

Question 19

Explain the bank crisis? (What did people start doing?)

Answer 19

Depositors withdrew their cash from banks

Question 20

What is the Hawley –Smoot Tariff Act and how did it make the Great Depression worse?

Answer 20

Hawley-Smoot Act raised the taxes of imported goods due to this other countries boycott U.S. products.

Question 21

What action did most conservatives think the federal government should take towards handling the Great Depression?

Answer 21

Let the economy stabilize itself without interfering.

Question 22

What was the most vital problem during the Great Depression?

Answer 22

High unemployment

Question 23

Who is Walter Waters and what was he trying to do?

Answer 23

Walter Waters led a protest to convince Congress to accelerate the payment bonuses to WWI veterans.

Question 24

What was the name of FDR’s plan to help fix the problems during the Great Depression and what did he accomplish in the first hundred days?

Answer 24

The New Deal, in his first hundred days congress passed a record number of bills to promote economic recovery.

Question 25

Define what is recession

Answer 25

Recession is a slowdown in economic activity (i.e. unemployment, people stop buying goods)

Question 26

Define what is recovery.

Answer 26

Recovery is when the economy returns back to a high level of economic activity. (i.e. jobs, people purchasing goods)

Question 27

What did the Reconstruction Finance Corporation set out to do?

Answer 27

Save failing banks and business by issuing government loans.

Question 28

What were the two causes for poor crop production in the dust bowl region?

Answer 28

Drought and overused the land.

Question 29

Why did “Okies” head to California?

Answer 29

Promise of steady farm work.

Question 30

Do to not being employed some men disrupted their family unit by?

Answer 30

Men deserting their families became more common.

Question 31

The Agricultural Adjustment Administration did what to help who?

Answer 31

To help farmers by reducing production to raise crop prices

Question 32

The Civilian Conservation Corp and Works Progress Administration provide relief how?

Answer 32

By providing create jobs for the needy.

Question 33

What was the purpose of the Social Security Act?

Answer 33

To lessen poverty in retirement.

Question 34

What were the aspects of the Indian New Deal?

Answer 34

It ended the policy that forced American Indians at assimilate.

Question 35

What was the criticism of the New Deal?

Answer 35

It expanded the role federal government too much

Question 36

Ultimately did the New Deal end the Great Depression?

Answer 36

Why or Why Not? No, the economy continue to struggle into the 1940s .