test history II part 1

Question 1

First woman appointed to u.s supreme court.

Answer 1

Sandra Day o’connor

Question 2

-government scandal involving oil reserves and bribery
-Transfers of national oil reserve

Answer 2

The teapot dome

Question 3

A pension system for retirees and support for the unemployed and disabled

Answer 3

social security

Question 4

African American educator and advisor to FDR

Answer 4

Mary Mcleod Bethune

Question 5

FDRs wife and human rights advocate

Answer 5

Eleanor Roosevelt

Question 6

U.S navy Admiral who led victories in the pacific including midway

Answer 6

Chester W. Nimitz

Question 7

Secret u.s project to develop the atomic bomb during WWII

Answer 7

Manhattan Project

Question 8

Genocide of 6 million jews and others by Nazi Germany

Answer 8

Holocaust

Question 9

Chinese national leader who fought Japan and China communists

Answer 9

Jiang Jieshi (Chiang KAI -Shek)

Question 10

Japan’s surprise attack on dec 7 1941 which brought the u.s into WWII

Answer 10

Pearl Harbor

Question 11

• creationism and evolution
  -legal case about teaching evolution in Tennessee School

Answer 11

The scope Trial of 1925

Question 12

Closed all banks until they were found to be sound

Answer 12

Banks Holiday

Question 13

List the labels given during the Twenties (1920)

Answer 13

Roaring twenties, jazz age, golden twenties, lawless decade.

Question 14

the birth of nation

Answer 14

Ku Klux Klan

Question 15

what was the name of Harding’s program

Answer 15

“return to notmalcy”

Question 16

granted woman the right to vote ( ratified in 1920)

Answer 16

19th Amendment

Question 17

died suddenly in 1923 possibly due to a heart attack, blood clot, or food poisoning

Answer 17

speculation of Harding’s death

Question 18

first commercial radio station broadcasted the 1920 election results

Answer 18

KDKA

Question 19

promoted the assembly line and mass production of model T

Answer 19

Henry Ford

Question 20

symbol consumer culture an affordable automobile made by ford

Answer 20

Model T

Question 21

Psychoanalyst who influenced 1920 ideas about sexuality and personal freedom

Answer 21

Sigmund Freud

Question 22

educated independent women who worked drank smoked and challenged gender norms

Answer 22

The new woman

Question 23

president who called for a “return to normalcy”

Answer 23

Warren G. Harding

Question 24

Laws providing federal founds for maternal and infant health

Answer 24

Sheppard- Towner Act

Question 25

Silent film star considered a romantic idol of the 1920s

Answer 25

Rudolph Valentino

Question 26

Baseball hero and symbol of American sports enthusiasm in the 1920s

Answer 26

George Herman (Babe) Ruth

Question 27

first roman catholic to run for president he fail to carry the south

Answer 27

AI Smith

Question 28

1930 law raising tariffs to record levels

Answer 28

Hawley- Smoot Tariff

Question 29

New Deal program employing young men in conservation jobs

Answer 29

CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps)

Question 30

labor union founded in 1935 to organize unskilled workers in mass-production industries

Answer 30

CIO (committee for Industrial Organization)

Question 31

symbol of 1920 female independence with bobbed hair and short skirts

Answer 31

Flapper

Question 32

protects investors by regulating the stock markets

Answer 32

SEC ( Securities and Exchange Commission)

Question 33

catholic priest who criticized the new deal via radio

Answer 33

Charles Coughlin

Question 34

provided affordable housing to low- income families (1937)

Answer 34

NHA (National Housing Act)

Question 35

Muckraking author of the jungle and 1934 California gubernatorial candidate

Answer 35

Upton Sinclair

Question 36

proposing a pension plan that helped inspire social security

Answer 36

Francis Townsed

Question 37

Louisiana senator administration created jobs in infrastructure and the arts

Answer 37

WPA ( Works Progress Administration)

Question 38

first female cabinet member

Answer 38

Frances Perkins

Question 39

program that provided $500 million to feed the hungry created jobs and provided immunizations

Answer 39

FERA (Federal Emergency Relief Adm)