US HISTORY EOC REVIEW

A major purpose for the creation of the Federal Deposit Insurance corporation (FDIC) during the 1930's  was to ...

• limit government borrowing
• break up banking monopolies
• strengthen consumer confidence in the banking system
• implement monetary policies to fight the Depression

Which event was a factor related to the rapid change in Unemployment after 1929?

• passage of the Espionage and Sedition Acts
• United States refusal to join the league of Nations
• Increase in Immigration
• Stock Market Crash

How did Ronald Reagan's reform of U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War impact the nation's economy?

• increased inflation
• caused a recession
• created more jobs in the defense industry
• reduced the national deficit by half

"Brother, can you spare a dime?""Those days you did everything to save a penny.""If they come to take my farm, I am going t fight."" the only thing we have to fear is fear itself"

• Roaring Twenties
• Great Depression
• World War II
• Cold War

The name given to the corrupt political boss and political machine located in New York during the late 1800's was ....

• Carnegie Hall
• Rockefeller Center
• Manhattan Project
• Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall

All of the following are factors that led up to industrialization except....

• Free Enterprise System
• Large Labor Force
• Inventions
• Medical Research

The United States eventually responded to Germany’s unrestricted submarine warfare during the 1910s by 

• withdrawing military forces from Europe
• suspending trade with Britain
• signing a treaty with Austria-Hungary
• entering World War  One

The main purpose of the Homestead Act of 1862 was to 

• provide land for building a transcontinental railroad
• raise revenue for the federal government
• maintain a balance between slave and free states
• encourage settlement of public lands in the west

The Bessemer process was a method of producing cheap 

• Oil
• Steel
• electricity
• cotton cloth

The term "muckraker" has been used to describe authors whose writing dealt mainly with 

• criticizing the government's welfare policies
• publicizing Constitution issues relating to minority groups
• advancing the cause of press freedom
• exposing social conditions in need of reform