2024 ESL WWI, 20s, and 30s Review

What was the purpose of the Bill of Rights?

• To protect individual rights

• To establish government rights

• To establish a list of restricted rights

Who proved to be the most willing to use the government to solve economic problems of the American people?

• President Roosevelt

• President Hoover

• President Coolidge

Who committed Graft in the Teapot Dome Scandal?

• Warren Harding

• Frances Perkins

• Albert Fall

Jefferson wrote what document that listed the North American colonies' grievances that justified revolution against England?

• Articles of Confederation

• Constitution

• Declaration of Independence

What was the purpose of Social Security?

• Provide a financial safety net for retired Americans

• Established a social network to help worker find jobs

• To insure bank accounts in case of bank failures

What is the preferential treatment of native born Americans or exclusion of a group based on national origin called?

• Selective pairing

• Progressivism

• Nativism

Teddy Roosevelt’s domestic policy, the Square Deal, dealt with …

• Tariffs, Banks, and Trusts

• Conservation, Consumers, and Corporations

• Immigration, Tariffs, and Conservation

Which describes the Civilian Conservation Corps?

• Make-work programs to build dams, bridges and hospitals in and around cities.

• Building or repairing trails and buildings in remote national parks creating jobs for men 18-25.

• Provides funding to save or establish companies that will create jobs, mainly in construction.

When President Wilson asked Congress to declare war on the Central Powers it was because he felt the United States needed to do so in order to...

• Increase our world influence by increasing our area of hegemony

• Establish a blocking action against newly communist Russia

• Make the world safe for democracy

Membership in the alliance of the League of Nations could obligate the U.S. into a future war is why the American senate refused to take what action?

• Ratify the Treaty of Versailles

• Declare war on Japan

• Authorize the colonization of the Marshall Islands