American History Final Exam Study Guide

The court-packing bill would have allowed President Roosevelt to ________.

• appoint up to 8 new justices

• appoint 1 additional justice

• appoint up to six new justices

• appoint all new justices

Although Social Security helped many people, at first it left out many of the neediest Americans, including 65% of all _______.

• African Americans

• immigrants and their children

• elderly

• women

Congress authorized the Farm Credit Administration to help farmers _______.

• refinance their mortgages

• buy equipment

• harvest crops

• do daily chores

Where was the Dust Bowl located?

• in the Northern States

• in the South

• on the coast of California

• in the Great Plains

A long period of rising stock prices is known as a _______.

• bear market

• bull market

• fish market

• food market

Thousands of World War 1 veterans came to Washington D.C. in 1932 to lobby Congress to ________.

• give the veterans a free home

• pass legislation to allow veterans to build a memorial

• give the veterans their medals of honor

• pass legislation giving veterans their promised bonuses early

To get resources, the Japanese military invaded ______.

• Manchuria

• Korea

• the Philippines

• Germany

The Nuremberg Laws _______.

• took businesses away from the Jewish Germans

• took citizenship away from the Jewish Germans

• took homes away from the Jewish Germans

• took personal items away from the Jewish Germans

The Axis Powers

• Russia, Austria, and China

• Japan, Germany, and Italy

• France, Great Britain, Germany

• Japan, Italy, and Russia

What type of group was the America First Committee?

• fascist

• isolationist

• extremist