EOC Review #1

What was the effect of Plessy v. Ferguson?

• Increased opportunities for minorities

• It legalized segregation throughout much of the nation

• It divided the Progressive Party

• It banned alcohol

What innovation in the automobile industry improved production?

• 40 hr work week

• assembly line

• customized production

• strict safety rules

What did the 18th amendment do?

• It banned sale of alcohol

• It lowered the drinking age

• It rolled back political reforms

• It raised the voting age

After WW1 the US foreign policy was increasingly

• involved in world trade

• offering military advice to Russia

• interested in partnering with Europe

• isolationist

Many in Congress opposed the League of Nations because?

• They believed it would weaken the USA economically

• They thought only Allied nations should make decision

• They were isolationists and didn't want to be involved in foreign conflicts

• Thought it would give the USA a voice in world matters

What was the effect of the New Deal on the role of government?

• The government became less involved in people's lives

• Local government no longer received Federal Support

• The govt gained more power and involvement in people's lives

• The Federal government quit collecting taxes

_______ was created after WW1 to keep peace but was largely considered a failure

• International Friendship Club

• World Wildlife Fund

• The League of Nations

• The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

All of the following contributed to the Great Depression EXCEPT:

• the establishment of bank insurance and the FDIC

• speculation in the stock market

• shaky banking methods and overextension of credit

• overproduction in industry and agriculture

_________ were journalists in the Gilded Age who exposed social and political problems

• Muckrakers

• Fake Reporters

• Investigatory Newsmen

• Sandmen

_____ led the Pacific arena in WW2

• General Douglas Macarthur

• General Wilson Phillips

• Sir Ian McKellan

• Lady Diana Ross