Causes and effects WWI
First Red Scare
Effects of Isolationism
The Great Depression
The New Deal
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The United States tried to avoid involvement in World War I by following a policy of?
neutrality
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The Red Scare is the fear of…?
Communism
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Which action best demonstrates the United States effort to isolate itself from European conflicts after World War I?
Lowering tariff rates or Refusing to join the League of Nations
Refusing to join the League of Nations
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Which economic factor contributed most directly to the start of the Great Depression?
buying stocks on margin
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What was a guiding principle of the New Deal economic policies?
Antitrust legislation would destroy the free market economy of the United States. OR Government must assume more responsibility for helping the poor.
Government must assume more responsibility for helping the poor.
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How did the federal government pay for the costs of World War I?
by raising taxes and selling war bonds
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What conclusion can be drawn from the Post WWI strikes?
A. They were caused by immigrants
B. They turned public opinion against unions
B. They turned public opinion against unions
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Which of the following fueled the United States to sign the Four-Power Treaty and the Five-Power Treaty?
A. Desire to put an end to alliances
B. Fear of Soviet expansion in the Pacific
C. Need for maintaining peace in Europe
D. Concern over Japan's rising military power
D. Concern over Japan's rising military power
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Which of the following was a major cause of the conditions depicted in the photograph?
A. Over-farming in the Great Plains
B. Tree felling by logging companies
C. Insufficient irrigation in the Southwest
D. The massacre of buffalo on the plains
A. Over-farming in the Great Plains
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Based on the cartoon, how did President Roosevelt want to ease the Great Depression?
By expanding the role of government in citizens’ lives OR by regulating the stock purchases by individual investors
By expanding the role of government in citizens’ lives
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The purpose of propaganda used during WWI was to?
To promote support for the war effort
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What was the purpose of the Palmer Raids?
A. To identify and punish suspected Communists
B. To find and deport illegal immigrants
A. To identify and punish suspected Communists
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n the 1920s, which United States action furthered the goal of international peace?
Signing a pact to outlaw armed conflict or Advocating a policy to promote isolationism
Signing a pact to outlaw armed conflict
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Americans blamed President Hoover for the Depression. What was the name of the poor "Shantytowns" under his presidency?
Hoovervilles: the nickname given to shantytowns
Hoovervilles: the nickname given to shantytowns
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What did President Franklin Roosevelt focus on during his First Hundred Days?
A. Creating welfare programs to relieve public suffering
B. Regulating banks to solve the root causes of the economic crisis
B. Regulating banks to solve the root causes of the economic crisis
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The efforts of the women pictured and other supporters of their cause eventually resulted in the ratification of which amendment?
19th Amendment
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What concept did this image affect during the 1920’s?
Imperialism or Immigration?
Immigration
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Which American plan helped to restore prosperity to Europe in the mid-1920s?
Dawes Plan
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What are some of the effects of the Great Depression. LIST 2
-High Unemployment
-Bank Failures
-Americans Lost their Homes
-Americans could not afford food
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The following quote is from President Roosevelt in the early 1900s:
"This Second New Deal Act gives "contributors a legal, moral, and political right to collect their pensions
and unemployment benefits.
Social Security Act
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Which constitutional issue was raised by the Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918?
the limits of free speech in wartime
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The convictions of Sacco and Vanzetti in the 1920s most closely reflected?
An increase in nativist attitudes
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Delegates of 62 countries met in Paris to sign an agreement that renounced war "as an instrument of national policy." Of course, the treaty did not apply to wars of self-defense, or to honoring previous commitments, or for other reasons that a country felt it was obliged to fight. What was this called?
Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928
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What is the name given to the day the Stock Market crashed on October 29, 1929.
Black Tuesday
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This was a federal corporation that constructed dams and power plants along the Tennessee river in order to control flooding, prevent soil erosion, and provided electricity to this region.
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)