APUSH Unit 7 Quizizz

Which common experience did Mexican Americans share with other "non-white" groups during the Great Depression?

• A sharp increase in employment as domestic servants, due to lack of industrial jobs

• Migration from large urban areas to the countryside for jobs

• Loss of jobs to white Americans

• Mass deportations by the federal government

What might have been a typical experience of the individuals in the above photo in the years soon after their immigration?

• Availability of work for them being restricted solely to menial jobs

• Opportunity only for agricultural work

• Increased employment opportunities due to wartime labor shortages

• High levels of unemployment for their social group, despite job opportunities arising from WWII

"The facts which the Pujo Investigating Committee and its able Counsel, Mr. Samuel Untermyer, have laid before the country, show clearly the means by which a few men control the business of America. The report proposes measures which promise some relief. Additional remedies will be proposed. Congress will soon be called upon to act.

How shall the emancipation be wrought? On what lines shall we proceed? The facts, when fully understood, will teach us.

…The dominant element in our financial oligarchy is the investment banker. Associated banks, trust companies and life insurance companies are his tools. Controlled railroads, public service and industrial corporations are his subjects. Though properly but middlemen, these bankers bestride as masters America's business world, so that practically no large enterprise can be undertaken successfully without their participation or approval. These bankers are, of course, able men possessed of large fortunes; but the most potent factor in their control of business is not the possession of extraordinary ability or huge wealth. The key to their power is combination—concentration intensive and comprehensive…

…The creation of the Money Trust is due quite as much to the encroachment of the investment banker upon railroads, public service, industrial, and life-insurance companies, as to his control of banks and trust companies. Before the Money Trust can be broken, all these relations must be severed. And they cannot be severed unless corporations of each of these several classes are prevented from dealing with their own directors and with corporations in which those directors are interested."

—Louis D. Brandeis, Other People's Money—and How Bankers Use It, published in 1914

The above excerpt best supports which of the following view points within the Progressive movement of the early nineteenth and late twentieth centuries regarding how "big business" should be regulated?

• Government should let competition work in the marketplace to "bust" the large corporate combinations.

• Government should regulate, so as to encourage "good" behavior and discipline "bad" behavior by the large corporations.

• Large corporations needed to learn to self-regulate.

• Government should regulate in such a way to encourage competition by preventing the emergence of large corporate combinations.

"The facts which the Pujo Investigating Committee and its able Counsel, Mr. Samuel Untermyer, have laid before the country, show clearly the means by which a few men control the business of America. The report proposes measures which promise some relief. Additional remedies will be proposed. Congress will soon be called upon to act.

How shall the emancipation be wrought? On what lines shall we proceed? The facts, when fully understood, will teach us.

…The dominant element in our financial oligarchy is the investment banker. Associated banks, trust companies and life insurance companies are his tools. Controlled railroads, public service and industrial corporations are his subjects. Though properly but middlemen, these bankers bestride as masters America's business world, so that practically no large enterprise can be undertaken successfully without their participation or approval. These bankers are, of course, able men possessed of large fortunes; but the most potent factor in their control of business is not the possession of extraordinary ability or huge wealth. The key to their power is combination—concentration intensive and comprehensive…

…The creation of the Money Trust is due quite as much to the encroachment of the investment banker upon railroads, public service, industrial, and life-insurance companies, as to his control of banks and trust companies. Before the Money Trust can be broken, all these relations must be severed. And they cannot be severed unless corporations of each of these several classes are prevented from dealing with their own directors and with corporations in which those directors are interested."

—Louis D. Brandeis, Other People's Money—and How Bankers Use It, published in 1914

The above excerpt best demonstrates which of the following key Progressive beliefs about reform?

• That the "natural laws" of the marketplace would eventually bring an ordered and advanced nation

• That purposeful intervention was essential to improving and advancing the nation

• That banking reform was key to solving the problems of the nation

• That only a strong federal government could institute order in the problems wrought by an industrial economy

"I have read your extremely interesting report and I agree that the time has come for a review of the work of the Office on New Weapons. I think you had better go ahead and work this out with the Chief of Staff and Chief of Naval Operation – confining the whole thing to a very small number of people.

I am returning the report for you to lock up, as I think it is probably better that I should not have it in my own files."

—Memo from President Franklin D. Roosevelt to Vannevar Bush, scientist, and director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development during WWII

The memo best supports which statement regarding U.S. success in WWII?

• American and British scientists collaborated to improve Allied military capabilities.

• The Axis powers did not keep up with the U.S. in military spending.

• Rapid advances in science and technology during WWII changed American society.

• Science and technology research were a key part of U.S. strategy.

Which event in the four years following this article would BEST fulfill Luce's desired role for the United States in the world?

• Passage of the Lend-Lease Act

• The issuing of Executive Order 9066

• Participation in the Yalta Conference

• The declaration of war on Japan after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.

Which of the following MOST OFTEN stood in the way of attempts to achieve the broader goals suggested in the excerpt above?

• War hawks in Congress who demanded American intervention when Hitler invaded Poland in 1939.

• American shippers who smuggled goods to England in defiance of the Neutrality Acts for the immense profits they might gain.

• The realization that without American aid, Hitler might conquer all of Europe.

• Secret agreements made by President Roosevelt, without the approval of Congress, to provide war materials to England after the fall of France in 1940.

The image above was MOST LIKELY a reaction to which of the following events or processes?

• The mass mobilization of American society to provide troops for the Second World War.

• The mass mobilization of American society to provide war material and supplies for the Second World War.

• A popular commitment to extending democratic ideals as a result of the Second World War.

• The continued segregation and discrimination towards African-Americans during the Second World War.

It can be inferred that Roosevelt was particularly concerned about the stat of world affairs due to the

• Treaty of Versailles, which ended the First World War.

• Washington Naval Disarmament Conference, which placed limits on different countries' naval capacity.

• Munich Agreement, which granted Germany territory in exchange for a pledge not to annex more.

• Briand-Kellogg Peace Pact, which was a pledge by numerous countries to "outlaw" war.

In which of the following Supreme Court cases were both the circumstances and the majority opinion of the court similar to those of Korematsu v. United States?

• Bakke v. US Regents (1978)

• Brown v. Board of Education (1954)

• Schenck v. United States (1919)

• Dred Scott v. Sanford (1847)