Hist Test 2

The fourteen points attempted to:

Which act restricted the freedom of speech by authorizing the arrest of anyone who made "false statements" that might impede military success?

When Eugene Debs was sentenced under the Espionage Act, what did he tell the jury?

Who fired their employees if they failed to comply with the standards set by the Sociological Department for Americanization?

During the war, in which way did Americans react to German-Americans?

The Gentlemen's Agreement did what?

Which was NOT a technology used in World War One?

"Birth of a Nation" was a film that

Who led the black separatist movement?

The attempt to improve the human species through controlled hereditary:

This claimed the right of the U.S. to act as a police power in the Western Hemisphere

This was used by William Howard Taft rather than military intervention

As war broke out in Europe, Americans were:

In 1916, Woodrow Wilson

This Outlined the German plan for an attack on the U.S. by Mexico

This established the right of national self-determination

This was the government's attempt to shape public opinion

Was part of a new, more militant generation of college-educated activists

Which amendment barred states from using sex as a qualification for voting?

Which Amendment prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcholic beverages

The Espionage Act (1917) and the Sedition Act (1918) did what?

The anti-German crusade included

Who Founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

"The Great Migration" refers to

This was never radified by the United States Senate

American novelists like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway were part of the

Which city was considered the "capital" of Black America?

Herbert Hoover was

Whhich issue became the focus of the 1928 presidential race?

Hoover's response to the Depression was

What would NOT be considered a characteristic of a flapper?

Which 1920s presidency was plagued with scandals?

"Banned in Boston" referred to

This case upheld that the Espionage Act was constitutional

This case overturned a law that stated public schools instruct classes in English

One of the most flamboyant of the fundamentalist preachers of the 1920s was

This Act stated that American women who married Asian men forfeited their nationality

What were the National Catholic Welfare Council and the Anit-Defamation League of the B'nai B'rith lobbying for in the 1920s?

Slumming refered to

The bakcbone of economic growth during the 1920s was the increased consumption of

This advocated company unions

This Was proposed by the National Women's Party

This involved the secretary of the interior, who recieved money in exchange for leasing government oil reserves to private companies

This prohibited movies from depicting nudity, long kisses, and adultery

This trial pitted creationists against evolutionists

This group Flourished in the 1920s, especially in the North and West

This Act Set quotas that favored immigraion from northern and western Europe

Included writers and poets such as Langston Hughes and Claude McKay

The Hawley-Smoot Tariff

The Reconstruction Finance Corporation

The first thing that Rooselvelt attended as President was the

The New Deal concentrated ower in the hands of the

What did the American Libert League do?

Most historians argue that a recession reoccured in 1937 beacuse Roosevelt

Which group wlecomed black members and advocated the passage of anti-lynching legislation and the return of voting rights to souther blacks?

Fearing the growth of the Coomunist Party in America, Congress passed the

What ended the Great depression?

During the Roosevelt administration, the democratic party emerged into a coalition that included all of the following except?

What phrase best describes Elenor Roosevelt's tenure as first lady?

In John Steinbeck's piece about the Dust Bowl, he explained that the migrants were hated because

In his 1932 campaign for the residency, FDR promised American;s a policy change that he called

Immediately after his inaugural, Roosevelt

This Act established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

This organization put young men to work in national parks

This organization combined economic lanning with releif

This Act Raised farm prices by establishing quotas and paying farmers not to plant more

He was the head of the "End poverty in California" movement

This movement was led by Louisianna senetor Huey Long and gained a national following

The Second New Deal focused on

This act created the National Labor Relations Board

This Act included old age pensions, unemplyment relief and aid to dependent children

The "Court-Packing" Plan was

This relied on large scale government spending

This included the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934

The Scottsboro case....