APUSH Jones review P7

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

With the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the great majority of Americans

• earnestly hoped to stay out of the war

• favored entering the war in support of the Allies

• supported the Central Powers

• wanted to form a military alliance of neutral nations

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.

Top gangster Al Capone was finally convicted and sent to prison for the crime of

• murder.

• income tax evasion.

• kidnapping.

• conspiracy to violate the prohibition laws

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 1920 census revealed that, for the first time, most

• men worked in manufacturing.

• adult women were employed outside the home.

• Americans lived in cities.

• Americans lived in the trans-Mississippi West.

• families had fewer than four children.

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