USA history topic 1

Question 1

what are the 3 seperations of power in the USA

Answer 1

legislative
executive
judicial

Question 2

name 4 powers the president has

Answer 2

Propose Legislation
Submit the Annual Budget
Sign Legislation
Veto Legislation
Act as Chief Executive
Nominations Chief
Commander in Chief
Negotiate Treaties
Pardon

Question 3

why was the “return to normalcy” effective in bringing the vote of the pepole to the republican party

Answer 3

people thought he meant return to normalcy after the war when he actually meant a steady and stable way of life

Question 4

what other factors and polices did help the “return to normalcy” gain the vote

Answer 4

• Unemployment had gone from 950,000 in 1919 - 5,010,000 in 1921
• Introduced tariffs to protect American goods
• Department of Public welfare
• Committee to study “race question”

Question 5

what year was the house of UN american activities committee set up

Answer 5

1947

Question 6

how many names where on mcarthys list

Answer 6

205
in 1950

Question 7

when was little rock and how did the government help the African Americans

Answer 7

it was in 1957 and the government sent in federal troops to protesct the 9 children from the protesters who didt want them at there school

Question 8

what was the changing point which changed public opinon on Vietnam

Answer 8

the Tet offensive 1968 as there were heavy losses for the USA which made the us public want to pull there soldiers out

Question 9

how many soldiers went to Vietnam

Answer 9

over 3,000,000
58,000 diead

Question 10

how where the soldiers picked to go

Answer 10

threw a draft system which would be broadcasted out to the public

Question 11

what and when was brown vs the board of education case

Answer 11

1954 it was a court case that argued that the racial segregation in education was unconstitutional and resulted in the desegregation of schools

Question 12

what was plessy vs Ferguson and when was it

Answer 12

it was a case in 1896 that argued that racial segregation wasn’t against the constitution if it was seprate but equal

Question 13

what was the NAACP and when was it set up

Answer 13

1909 national association for the advancements of coloured people in civil rights. they were a groups set up in order to help organise protests and fund lawsuits which would lead to the progression of African american civil rights

Question 14

when was the montgomery bus boycott

Answer 14

1955-1956 december to december

Question 15

what was the percentage of bus users where black in 1953

Answer 15

75%

Question 16

martin Luther king pushed for the desegregation of what city in Alabama in 1963

Answer 16

Birmingham albama

Question 17

what where Jim crow laws

Answer 17

segregated most aspects of life however it depended on the state

Question 18

what and when was the 15th amendment

Answer 18

-1870 all us citizens have equal voting rights (except women)
- some us states countered this with rules like you have to own property or the literacy tests made hard on purpose for African Americans

Question 19

migration to the north (great migration)

Answer 19

took place from 1917 to 1940 as places like Chicago and new york in the north wernt trenched in Jim crow laws but also there where many job vacancy in industry jobs for the war effort and many able bodied men went to war leaving these jobs behind
- red summer 1919 tensions arose as men came back from war and found it harder to get jobs as there where many more pepole and there was a big demographic change from before.

Question 20

how many black pepole migrated north between 1917 and 1940

Answer 20

2 million

Question 21

what was the new deal and when

Answer 21

1933 to 1938 was a series of programmes final reforms and regulations to show the US goverment felt resposible for the welfare of the people Franklin d Roosevelt founding the american weafae state
- aims to re inflate the economy
problem was people didn’t want help from the goverment

Question 22

what where the alphabet agienceys

Answer 22

they were started as part of the new deal to create jobs. increase crop prices and lower poverty.
new agineceys made jobs

Question 23

what was the national recovery administation

Answer 23

set up to enforce practices of business

Question 24

what and when was the stonewall riots

Answer 24

new York 1969- it happened as there was a raid of a gay bar in green-which village on the 28th of June as homosexuality was mostly illegal in the USA. men dressed as women had to be checked by female police officers and arrested if they where. fights broke out which lead to the beating of many people

angry crowds gathered out side the night club

Question 25

what is the gay liberation front

Answer 25

set up in new york in 1969 it

Question 26

delano grape picker boycott

Answer 26

1965 - 1970 10,000 workers in table growers vineyards went on striker in order to stop being taken advantage of because there

Question 27

what year was the brown berets founded and when

Answer 27

1967

Question 27

what was the Watergate scandle

Answer 27

1972 2 men broke into the water gate office building to steal democrat plans and tap phone wires however the burglurs where cuaght one time and traced back to nixion which he lied about
1974 nixion chose to resign instead of an impeachment trial

Question 28

what was the AAA

Answer 28

agricultural adjustment ageinceys
Regulated major crops such as wheat, cotton and milk. Bought leftover crops and subsided (paid) farmers to grow less crops that were overproduced.

Question 29

what was the NRA

Answer 29

• national recovery -administration
  Set up enforced codes of practise for businesses - working hours and minimum wage. Business could choose not to join but could be boycotted by public if they didn’t display a blue eagle

Question 30

how much did a ford model T cost in 1924

Answer 30

5 years wadges - aorund 260 dollars
however could be bought on hire purchase