Midterm Review 1

President Franklin D. Roosevelt's response to Supreme Court decisions that declared several New Deal laws unconstitutional was to

• ask Congress to limit the Court's jurisdiction

• propose legislation to increase the size of the court

• • demand the resignation of several

  justices

• ignore the Court's rulings

Which of the following was NOT put in place specifically to impact African Americans from voting?

• Poll Tax

• Grandfather Clause

• Literacy Tests

• Black Codes

The Supreme Court decision for Plessy

v. Ferguson 1896 did which of the following

• denounce business combinations in

  Restraint of trade

• Sanctioned separate but equal public facilities of for African Americans

• Declare that the 14th Amendment

  • applied principally to the protection of corporations

• • Defined the constitution is color-blind

The construction of the Panama Canal negatively impacted the builders by causing an outbreak

• the Black Death

• the flu and leprosy

• smallpox

• malaria and yellow fever

In 1845, the immediate cause of war with Mexico was

• Annexation of Texas & a border dispute

• Tariffs

• Mexicos debt to U.S.

• the issue of slavery

The political cartoon represents which issue that was controversial during the Gilded Age

• Currency

• Voting rights

• Tariffs

• Women’s suffrage

The Gilded Age was an economic period * known for (Based below)

• strong presidents who controlled the private industry and often regulated It

• congressional laws that

  ) disenfranchised trusts in order to give power back to the federal government

• an era when big business controlled

  • almost every aspect of government and
    the American economy

• • major advancements in workers' rights

  • and their ability to be paid equal wages

continuation of the policies alluded to * in the cartoon would best be exemplified by

• rulings of the Supreme Court that applied protections of the 14th amendment to corporations

• government efforts to break up monopolistic giants such as AT&T or

  Standard Oil

• supreme court decisions that applied the Sherman Anti-trust Act to labor unions

• deregulation of the many industries to increase competition and lower prices

Which of the following is a result of the * Platt Amendment

• • US had the right to annex Cuba

• • allowed Cuba to receive back their prisoners of war (POW)

• • Cuba had to lease naval stations such as Pearl Harbor

• • Cuba had to lease naval stations such as Guantanamo Bay

The de Lome Letter, a Spanish document * which angered many Americans and helped stir them toward war

• • A pointed out the number of spies in
    America.

• • Ridiculed US President as weak and ineffective.

• • established a direct link between the

  • Spanish and Mexico in a plot against
    American interests.

• • openly mocked and ridiculed the United States people