APUSH Period 7 (1890-1945)

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

Practice of sensationalizing stories in order to increase subscriptions

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

What did the Eighteenth Amendment state?

• This amendment outlawed the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol.
• This amendment outlawed the advertisement of alcohol.
• This amendment changed the age a person had to be to buy alcohol.
• This reversed prohibition.

What amendment provided for the direct election (by the voters) of senators (1913 - political Progressives)?

• 16th
• 17th
• 18th
• 19th

Which president was known as a "trustbuster?

• Theodroe Roosevelt
• Woodrow Wilson
• William Howard Taft
• Franklin Roosevelt

Amendment that recognized the important role that women played in the war by giving them suffrage

• 17th
• 18th
• 19th
• 20th

The Influence of Sea Power Upon History

• Henry Cabot Lodge
• John Hay
• Alfred Thayer Mahan
• Robert LaFollette

Practice of sensationalizing stories in order to increase subscriptions

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

Which amendment repealed the 18th Amendment and ended Prohibition?

• 20th Amendment

• 21st Amendment

• 22nd Amendment

• 25th Amendment

Support for the war against Spain came in part from the __________ practiced by some U. S. newspapers, this means exaggerated journalism.

•  Manifest Destiny 
•  Platt Amendment 
• Teller Amendment
• Yellow Journalism