American History: Connecting With the Past Volume 2

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Cards In This Set

Front Back
The progressive measure that gave voters the right to remove a public official through special election was
Recall
In the long run, the New Deal had all of the following effects on the economy except:
Substantially altering the distribution of wealth in America
The German government believed that the sinking of the Lusitania was a legitimate act because the ship was:
Carrying munitions to Britain
Although the United States proclaimed neutrality at the start of World Wall 1, Americans were not completely impartial because:
Exaggerated reports circulated about German atrocities in Belgium
The fourteen points included:
Self- determination for all peoples
The first feature length film to feature "talkie" sound was:
The Jazz Singer with Al Johnson
During the 1920's some employers adopted a system known as "welfare capitalism," which:
Subsidized housing cost of the poor
The most popular radio shows, movies and literature of the Depression reflected America's desire to:
Escape the economic problems of the day
In 1905 Teddy Roosevelt intervened to force a peace in a war between :
Russia and Japan
The black leader who became the chief spokesman for the new civil rights movement and who helped to found the Niagara movement and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was:
W.E.B. Dubois
In his inaugural address, Franklin Roosevelt told Americans that they had "nothing to fear but:
Fear itself."
One branch of the US government capable of providing leadership to the national reform movement of the early 1900's was the:
Presidency
The United States truly became a consumer society during the 1920's, which meant that:
Bought things both for their needs and pleasures
The death toll in the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire was much higher than it should have been because:
The management of the company had locked the emergency exits so that employees could not sneak away from work.
In the Scottsboro case of the 1930's, all of the following events occurred Except:
The youths eventually were acquitted by one of the juries that heard the case