APUSH Period 7 Review

The Federal Reserve Act gave the Federal Reserve Board the authority to

• issue paper money and increase or decrease the amount of money in circulation by altering interest rates.

• close weak banks.

• take the U.S. dollar off the gold standard

• collect income taxes directly from employees' paychecks

• guarantee individuals banking deposits against bank failures

Which of the following British passenger liners was sunk by German submarines?

• Lusitania

• Arabic

• Sussex

• None of these were American ships.

The Zimmermann note involved a proposed secret agreement between

• Britain and France

• Russia and Germany

• Mexico and Germany

• Mexico and Russia

Two constitutional amendments, adopted in part because of World War I, were the Eighteenth, which dealt with ____, and the Nineteenth, whose subject was ____.

• prohibition; an income tax

• direct election of senators; woman suffrage

• prohibition; woman suffrage

• women suffrage; prohibition

Woodrow Wilson's ultimate goal at the Paris Peace Conference was to

• stop the spread of communism.

• blame no one for starting the war.

• force Germany to pay reparations for the war.

• establish the League of Nations.

The immediate outcome of the 1925 Scopes Trial was that

• attorney Clarence Darrow got the charges against John Scopes dropped.

• the state of Tennessee modified its anti-evolution law.

• the public gained a favorable view of American fundamentalists.

• biology teacher John Scopes was found guilty of teaching evolution and fined.

The Harlem Renaissance can best be described as

• a celebration of black culture and creative expression

• the migration of Southern blacks to northern sections of New York City

• the movement led by Marcus Garvey

• the effort to resist racism and segregation in the North.

• None of these

The term "Hoovervilles" refers to

• industrial sections of cities where poor workers lived.

• shantytowns filled with shacks created by homeless people during the Great Depression.

• picket lines erected by the Bonus Army in their protest against Washington D.C.

• breadlines and soup kitchens that fed the hungry during the Great Depression.

Practice of sensationalizing stories in order to increase subscriptions

• Direct Election
• Scientific Management
• Yellow Journalism
• Muck Rakers

Supreme Court decision that affirmed government powers during a military emergency

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