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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