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Review 1st semester history
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History
9th Grade
01/02/2008

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Term
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were charged and convicted of ?
Definition
robbery and murder
Term
What happened to union membership in the 1920's?
Definition
dropped considerably
Term
Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer believed that he needed to protect the American people from what?
Definition
political radicals
Term

The main factor causing urban sprawl in the 1920's was what?

Definition
the automobile
Term
The teapot Dome scandal centered around what
Definition
oil-rich lands
Term
to protect their own interests, employers often accused striking workers of being what?
Definition
communists
Term
What was a reason for the public's negative reactions to organized labor in the 1920's?
Definition
fears of communism
Term
What called for the abolition (doing away with) of private propertry so that wealth and power would be equal among all people?
Definition
communism
Term
What would an anarchist say about scandals in the Harding administration?
Definition
that all forms of government should be abolished.
Term
Were changes in the movie industry caused by the popularity and availability of the automobile?
Definition
no
Term
What does the Harlem Renaissance refer to?
Definition
A celebration of African-American culture in literature and art.
Term
Charles Lindberg was a famous
Definition
pilot
Term
What were underground nightclubs called?
Definition
speakeasies
Term
Did prohibition ban only alcoholic beverages manufactured in the United States?
Definition
no
Term
John Scopes challanged what Tennesse law?
Definition
Teaching evolution
Term
What did fundamentalists believe?
Definition
The Bible should be taken literally.
Term
What does the term "Double Standard" refer to?
Definition
Stricter moral standard for women than men during the 1920's.
Term
Industries where only union members can be empllyed are called what?
Definition
closed shops
Term
What do we call the process of returning to a peacetime economy after a war?
Definition
demobilization
Term
What did we call young writers who criticized American culture during the 1920's?
Definition
The Lost Generation
Term
Who was the first pilot to complete a solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean?
Definition
Charles Lindbergh
Term
What does the Twenty-first Amendment do?
Definition
Ended prohibition
Term
The l920's was often called?
Definition
The Jazz Age
Term
Who made up the Bonus Army?
Definition
WWI Veterans and their families
Term
What does it mean to buy stock on margin?
Definition
borrowing money to help pay for the stock
Term
Why did people call shanty towns "Hoovervilles?"
Definition
They were disgusted with Hoover not helping the common people enough.
Term
A cause for the farming crisis in the 1020's was
Definition
The demand for crops fell after WWI-overproduction
Term
What happened on October 9, 1929?
Definition
The stock market collapsed
Term
What did the Works Progress Administration do?
Definition
gave people jobs building hospitals, schools, parks, airports etc.
Term
Why did Americans lose their savings during the depression?
Definition
Banks did not have enough money to pay all withdrawingt depositors.
Term
What was the civilian Conservation Corps?
Definition
young men from 17-24 who worked and provided some of the money for their families
Term
Who said "We have nothing to gear but gear itself?"
Definition
Franklin Roosevelt
Term
What did the Federal DEposit Insurance Corporation do?
Definition
insure bank accounts up to $100,00
Term
Why did Congress create the Social Security Administration?
Definition
provide retirement income and other services for the elderly
Term
Did the Progressive movement want to promote business monopolies?
Definition
no
Term
Who were Muckrakers?
Definition
Journalists
Term
In his book "The Jungle," what was Upton Sinclair trying to expose?
Definition
unsanitary conditions in the meat-packing industry
Term
Who was the first person to use the presidence as a "Bully Pulpit?"
Definition
Theodore Roosevelt
Term
What is the main goal of the NAACP?
Definition
equality among the races
Term
What effect did WWI have on the suffragist (women getting to vote) movement?
Definition
It hastened (hurried up) passage and ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment.
Term
What was the main goal of the prohibitionists?
Definition
to eliminate (stop) the use of alcohol in society
Term
Was the need for cheap labor a cause for U.S.imperalism?
Definition
no
Term
Who told Frederic Remington, "you furnish the pictures and I"ll furnish the war?"
Definition
William Randolph Hearst
Term
The Roosevelt Corollary was built on what other document?
Definition
The Monroe Doctrine
Term
What war ended with the Treaty of Paris?
Definition
The Spanish American War.
Term
Was the United states involved in the Russo-Japanese War?
Definition
NO
Term
What was the reson for the Boxer Rebellion?
Definition
remove foreign influence from China
Term
"Remember the Maine" became a rally cry for U.S. citizens after what happened?
Definition
The Maine was sunk in Havana Harbor
Term
What was the purpose of the Open Door Policy?
Definition
to increase trade interests
Term
Why did rapid growth of industry in the U.S. help fuel imperalism?
Definition
we were producing to may good for our own people to buy (needed someone else to buy our goods)
Term
Which nation was not a member of The "Big Four"
Definition
Russia
Term
Who rejected Wilson's "Fourteen Points" peace plan?
Definition
Allied Leaders
Term
Was American isolationism a cause of WWI?
Definition
No
Term
What was a result of the Selective Service Act?
Definition
Men were required to register for military service.
Term
What was the policy that kept the U.S. out of war for three years called?
Definition
Neutrality
Term
What was the major mistake made by the Treaty of Versailles?
Definition
treating all nations justly, including the losers
Term
The "powder keg" of Eastern Europs was lit when what happened (started WWI)
Definition
JArchduke Ferdinand was assassinated
Term
Germany violated neutratality in the Atlantic Ocean when it sank what ship?
Definition
The Lusitania
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