Unit 7:Chapters 35-39
1. Know definitions of
a)New Immigration:Southern, Eastern Europe/Old Immigration:Northern Europe
b)"Return to Normalcy"-US adapting to a peacetime economy/laissez-faire
c)Red Scare-spread of communism to satellite nations
d)"melting pot"-
e)buying stop "on margin"-
2. What effect did high tariffs have on the economic health of the 1930's?
3. How was the Immigration Act of 1924 discriminatory?
4. Identify/define/explain
a)Teapot Dome Scandal-1924, Secretary of Interior Albert Fall's leasing of government owned oil lands in Wyoming and California to private oil businessmen in return for interest free "loans" from them.
b)Kellogg-Briand Pact 1928-moral indictment of war. It was an "international kiss" that outlawed war as an instrument of hate policy, but contained no enforcement mechanism.
5. Who was the first president to be elected after women won the right to vote? Harding
6. What was the relationship between the Red Scare and the Sacco-Vanzetti Trial? They were tried mostly on basis of their radical ideas and alien status, not facts.
7. What exception to war did the Kellogg-Briand Pact make? Self-defense was allowed
8. Did Hoover supposer the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and why? Yes, because it didn't offer direct relief to individuals
9. How did the Underwood Tariff affect our tariff poilicy? Reduced rates of the earlier Payne-Aldrich Tariff and initiated a graduated income tax made constitutional by the 16th amendment.
10. Hoover was a millionaire, a mining engineer, an administrator of relief activities and SEcretary of Commerce before he became President.
11. The decade after WWI and the decade after the Civil War are similar because both periods experienced considerable corruption.
12. See p. 773
13. See p. 748
14. During the 1930's, tariffs were so prohibitively high in western Europe and the United States that international trade was significantly hampered.
15. What did it mean to "Hooverize"? Economize
16. The Birth of a Nation glorified the KKK.
17. What effect did the NAtional Origin Act of 1924, have on American immigration policy?
18. What was the effect of American tariff legislation of the early 1920's? Hawley Smoot and Fordney McCumber Tariff raised tariff 40%~international trade at a standstill.
19. What are economic, political and social characteristitics of the 1920s?
20. Know Dates of
a)inauguration of FDR-March 1933
b)National Industrial Recovery Act-1933
c)Reconstruction Finance Corporation-1932
d)FDR attempts to "pack the court"-
e)National Origins Act-1924
21. Know what each was supposed to to and date of each:
a)AAA 1933-Agricultural Adjustment Association:paid farmers not to overproduce
b)Truman Doctrine 1947-financial commitment to nations fighting communism
c)Good Neighbor Policy 1933-Repudiated Roosevelt corallary
d)Atlantic Charter 1942-Roosevelt and Churchill declared war on aims became basis fo the United Nations
22. World War I made the US a creditor nation. It also pushed us into a period of neoisolationalism. A "Red Scare" developed in this country after WWI and WWII.
23. FDR wanted promote economic recovery by increasing government spending and consumer demand and encourage business to invest.
24. Which other pf the government would have had to agree with FDR's attempt to "pack the court"?
25. What political background did FDR have? US Senate, Vice-Presidential nominee
26. Who are known as the "Big Three" and the "Grand Alliance?"-Britain, US, Soviet Union
27. Know the dates of these conferences.
a)Yalta-Feb 1945
b)Potsdam-April 1945
28. How did the Reciprocal Trade Agreements of the 1934 afftect the Hawley-Smoot Tariff? gave the president the authority to undertake tariff-reduction aggreements (without Congress approval) with foreign countries~reduced US tariffs and culminated with GATT.
29. What relationship between the Neutrality Act of 1939 and "cash-and-carry"? required all remaining trade with belligerent countries to be on "cash-and-carry" basis.
30. What affect did the Good Neighbor Policy have on the Platt Amendment?
31. During the "lame-duck" period of 1932-1933 the health of the economy was...
32. The TVA was very successful despite the fact that critics called it socialistic. This idea of SEnator Norris even established a "yardstick" to test electrical rates.
33. Roosevelt tried to "pack the court" because he wanted ot have the court in accord with public opinion, but Congress refused to go along with this scheme.
34. Organized labor made many gains during the NEw Deal.
35. In the period between Reconstruction and the 1920's, Black voters usually supported Republicans. During the 1930's many Black voters shifted their support to FDR.
36. How did the fall of France in 1940 affect US puclic opinion rregarding our involvement int he conflict?
37. Know the Lend-Lease Act(1941) and its effect on our neutrality. Argued that aiding Britian would help self-defense. Allowed the president to transfer war materials to any country whos defence was vital to us
38. Which groups did the immigration quoteas of the 1920's discriminate against? Chinese, Japanses, Italians,Russians, Austra-Hungrians
39. What was the issue in the 1925 Scopes Trial? Darwinian evolution being taught in school.
40. Did Japan send out peace feelers before the atomic bomb was dropped? Yes, secretly.
41. After the fall of France in 1940, what were most americans willing to do? Join the war.