APUSH Period 7 Part 2 Review

Major opponent of New Deal - argued that the banks should be nationalized (alsoanti-Semitic)

• Huey Long
• Dr. Townsend
• Fr. Coughlin
• American Liberty League

Organization created by Hoover to aid banks and businesses

• Reconstruction Finance Corporation
• National Recovery Administration
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
• Congress of Industrial Organizations

Supreme Court decision that affirmed government powers during a military emergency

• Korematsu v. US
• Schenck v. US
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Schecter v. US

In the 1920s, movies, radios, and phonographs:

• were all out of reach of most consumers.
• helped create and spread a new celebrity culture.
  
• were not yet available.
• appealed only to women.
  

During the 1920s:

• the Federal Trade Commission aggressively regulated business.
  
• government policies reflected the pro-business spirit of the decade.
  
• the courts became increasingly pro-labor.
  
• the Harding administration distanced itself from the business community.
  

The New Deal concentrated power in the hands of:

• the executive branch.
  
• the legislative branch.
  
• the judicial branch.
  
• state government.
  

In 1940, the “cash and carry” plan:

• allowed Great Britain to purchase U.S. arms on a restricted basis.
  
• allowed Germany to purchase U.S. arms on a restricted basis.
• allowed Japan to purchase U.S. arms on a restricted basis.
  
• none of the above.
  

During WWII, Americans:

• experienced the rationing of scarce consumer goods such as gasoline.
  
• experienced extreme deprivation
• still suffered from high unemployment.
• were told that the end of war might bring a return of the Great Depression.
  

During World War II, African-Americans:

• experienced full equality before the law.
  
• witnessed the end of Jim Crow laws.
  
• witnessed the birth of the modern civil rights movement.
  
• received equal access to the GI Bill of Rights benefits.
  

______ wrote The Great Gatsby which symbolizes the 1920's spirit of money, jazz, speakeasies and post-WWI degenerate fun.

• F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Sinclair Lewis
• Ernest Hemingway
• William Faulkner