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STAR - U.S. Study Guide1) New Deal program

that most benefited artists & writers?

2) What was the Tennessee Valley Authority?

Works Progress Administration Government program

to provide electricity

3) Social Security designed to?

4) What organization was formed in the 1920’s to protect individual rights from gov’t abuse?

Provide minimum retirement income

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

5) Why did more people vote in 1920 than 1916? Rose by 8.2 million.

6) Who was Zora Neale Hurston & Langston Hughes?

19th Amendment

Writers from the Harlem Renaissance

7) 1920’s mass production led to an increase in?

8) Why did industrialists, in the 19th century, oppose an increase in coinage of silver?

Advertising & consumerism

Inflation

9) 1840’s, group faced persecution over practicing polygamy. 10) Late 19th century,

poll taxes & literacy tests resulted in?Mormons

Limiting Blacks from voting

11) “Establishment Clause” in the 1st Amendment, was one response to the?

12) First American political parties arose because of differences in viewpoints on interpreting the?

religious persecution

Constitution

13) 1850-1899, least industrialized area/region in U.S.? 14) 19th century

railroad boom contributed to?

South Growth of industry in the

US

15) 1960’ presidential elections religious issue?

16) Immigration from Latin American countries, in last 50 years, caused an increase in what religion?

JFK was Catholic

Catholics

17) Virginia & Kentucky Resolutions, expansion of slavery, & Nullification crisis reveal feud between?

18) Party that dealt w/ big business abusing farmers?

State vs. Federal government

Populists

19) Reforms of Populist Party?

20) Early 20th centuries Americanization movement sought?

Graduated income tax

Assimilation of Immigrants

21) 19th century, growth of U.S. manufacturing affected international relations by?

22) Espionage Act of 1918 limited?

Increase demand for trade

Free Speech

23)ACLU emerged from?

24) Examples of Presidents limiting civil liberties during times of war.

Free Speech, no negative comments on the government &

PresidentLincoln, Wilson, FDR

Violations of people’s civil rights & the Red Scare

25) Hoover created the Reconstruction Finance Corp. to ?

26) SEC was created as a response to?

Loan Money to businesses

Stock Market Crash

27) How did Californians view Dust Bowl Refugees?

28) Explain the Open Door Policy of 1900?

Prejudice and did not want them

Equal access to trade in China

29) Ideas & promotions of Marcus Garvey?

30) What was the “Red Scare” a reaction to?

Back to Africa Movement

Communism

35) Late 19th, early 20th, U.S. gov’t. attempted to boost domestic industry by?

36) Late 19th, early 20th, what influenced urban immigrants to support local political machines?

Imposing Taxes

Provides social services

37) Social Gospel followers felt religion should emphasize ?

38) Interstate Commerce Commission had the power to? (during Theodore Roosevelt)Moral reform and social

services Regulate Railroads

39) FDR’s response to banking crisis?

40) Why did cities grow rapidly during late 1800’s & early 1900’s?

Closed the banks and declared a bank holiday

Immigration and industrialization

41) T. R’s “Big Stick” Policy based on having?

42) Due to the 1924 Immigration Act, this group of people sought to place restrictions on immigrants.

Strong Navy and Great White Fleet

Nativists

43) Ford’s production of Model Ts is due to specialization & ?

44) Marbury v. Madison & McCulloch v. Maryland showed the power of the Supreme Court to?

Assembly line

Judicial review

45) Standard Oil was considered one of these? Eliminating competition.

M_____ & a T_____

46) Muckraking journalists from the Progressive Era?

Monopoly & trusts

Exposed the corruption in the government

47) Effect of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle?

48) New Jersey Plan & Virginia Plan led to the?

Meat inspection actGreat compromise

49) Maryland (Lord Baltimore) founded due to ?

50) 1920’s Republican administration, _________ to help U.S. business grow.

Catholic persecution

Reducing government regulations

51) Describe Great the Great Awakening

1730’s-40’s

52) Declaration of Independence draws John Locke’s Enlightenment idea of?

Religious revival movement Natural rights

53) FDR’s “a date that will live in infamy…” referred to?

Pearl Harbor

39) The _________ &_________were to investigate and report on the welfare of children.

16th Amendment and the Children Bureau

55) Japanese creating an empire prior to WWII conflicted w/ U.S. goal of?

56) WWII Navajo Code Talkers…

Sphere of Influence/ open door

Transmitted US messages in their native language

during WWII

57) Meetings at Yalta & Potsdam focused upon?

58) 1935 Neutrality Act was in response to?

Postwar issues and rebuilding of Europe

Perceived Italy/Japanese/German

Aggression

59) What happened to Japanese Americans on the west coast during WWII?

60) Purpose of Manhattan Project?

Internment Camps

Atom Bomb

61) 1947 General Agreement on Tariffs & Trade (GATT)

62) United Nations statement of principles?

Globalizing Economy and lead to the World Trade

Organization

International peace organization to prevent war

63) Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) was an attempt to?

64) Causes of Korean War?

Communism and North Korea invaded

South

Military alliance in Asia to prevent the spread of

communism

65) U.S. intention to aid any country threatened by communist aggression under the_______.

66) Closest encounter that the U.S. & Soviet Union came to fighting each other (cold war)?

Truman Doctrine

Cuban Missile Crisis

67) Truman Doctrine was to help Greece & Turkey…

68)What factor is most responsible for employment to jump dramatically in manufacturing & service sectors between 1900 & 1950?

Financially resist Communist takeover.

Technology

69) WWII bracero program was an effort to?

70) Largest source of labor in Cal. agriculture during second half of 20th century?Recruit farm workers Mexican Immigration

71) Reasons labor unions opposed Taft-Hartley Act in 1947? 72) Changes in the

balance of power among the 3 branches of gov’t during the 20th century is a result of ____.

Bring down union power organization

Rise in executive power

74)Death caused by ____ virtually eliminated due to post WWII medical science.

Prohibition18th Amendment21st Amendment

Polio

• This movement outlawed alcohol in the United States was called_______ or the _____ amendment

75) 1948, Pres. Truman decided to ______ due to African Americans outstanding service in WWII.

76) Effect of African American civil rights movement on other minority groups?

Desegregate

Encouraged other minority groups

77) 1954, Brown v. Board of Education 78) 1957 Little Rock,

Arkansas… Pres. Used federal troops to?

Desegregation of schools

desegregate

79) United Farm Workers dealt w/ civil rights of? 80) Immigration policies

since the 60’s have?Illegal immigrants and

farm workers

No more quotas

81) Lyndon B. Johnson’s ____ was created to wage war on poverty.

82) 1965 Immigration Act caused…

Great Society

Increase immigration

83) 1965 Voting Rights Act, was influenced by the?

84) Membership increased in the KKK during the 20’s due to?

Selma Alabama March

Immigration

85) Anti-Defamation League (ADL) was founded in response to?

86) Many Eastern European immigrants were _____.

Jews

Catholic

87) Controversial programs that made many Americans feel dependent on the U.S. gov’t?

88) AAA started the subsidizing of _____.

New Deal

Farms

89) Period in which Labor Unions for industrial workers had the greatest strength?

90) _______ recruited women for work during WWII.

30s-50s

WPB

91) Fear of communists & fascists caused the creation of the____. 92) 2nd half of 20th

century… American policies towards ____ were based upon the support/protecting of Israel & Western access to oil.

HUAC

Mideast

93) The increased use of ____ in America has led to less people working in Agriculture & more people in manufacturing/ service jobs.

94) One of the major reasons the white middle class became involved in the Civil Rights Movement was?

TechnologyTV

95) ____ Act of 1964 allows the President to use military force w/out declaring war.

96) Business groups removed the ____ from power & ____ was later annexed in 1898 by the U.S.

War Powers

Queen Liliokalani

97) Federal Reserve System was created to?

98) Late 1800’s & early 1900’s, industrialists used ___ Integration which______ & ______Integration which________.

Vertical :firms control every level of production

Horizontal: business that performs the same service

Regulate banking

99) ____ came out of fear of anarchists, Fascists & communists.

100) Nuclear freeze movement was opposed to the spread of?Palmer Raids

Nuclear Weapons

101) Economic relief package from U.S. to democratic European nation... Preventing spread of communism.

102) Fallout shelters, Berlin Airlifts, Cuban Missile Crisis, were all associated w/?

Marshall PlanCold War

103) Western nations military alliance? 104) Since 70’s, why

has daycare services increased?NATO

Women working

105) Collapse of the ____ is credited to Reagan’s massive defense spending.

106) 1960’s featured the 1st televised Presidential debate between ________.

Soviet Union

JFK & Nixon

107)“Gospel of Wealth”

108) A limit to Progressivism was its failure to address ___________and ____________.

Religious and African Americans civil rights

Written by Carnegie and described the responsibility of the upper class and distribute money for good use.

109__________ used ruthless tactics to build their fortunes.

110) The______ movement in the early 1900’s which aimed to restore economic opportunities and correct social injustices in American life.

Robber Barons

Progressivism