yeer Flashcards
(26 cards)
Why did President Nixon resign? Why? What did he do ?
Presdident Nixon resigned office b/c of the cover up plan. He pleaded the fifth.
What did the picture of the elphent represnt?
The ending of slavery
what did the midwest suffer from
A severe drought ( Dustbowl)
Who repreesnted the New Deal?
W.P.A ( Workers Progress Acossiation) and the Federal Deposit Insurance Coropation (FDIC)
Abuse,Homeless,Violence, Crime repreesnted what ?
Social problems in the 1920s
What is another way of saying the United Nations?
The leuage of nations
WHat was a major development in the U.S.
The Panama Canal
The treay of Verailles was waht?
contained WW1 settelments
Whihc communityb was hot hard by the G.D.
Hovvervilles
What lead the U.S. into war ?
German attacks on U.S. ships
What was a shift of the industrial work force?
Urban
What gave woman jobs?
WW1 on homefront?
Why did the granger movement start?
It was development b/c of law farms, crisis, surplus, and high railroad
How did Muckrakers change society?
By exposing corruption
What did Boss Tweed do?
Boss Tweed had a political machine(corruption)
What was the cause of ethnic neighborhoods?
It was a direct result of immigration in NYC
The Emancipation Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln did what?
Gave freedom to slaves rebelling
Slavey was replaced by debt through what?
Sharecropping in the South after The Civil war
Who started the Nazi Party?
Hitler
Who caused the U.S. to enter the war ?
The Soviet Union
How did the U.S justify the use of a nuclear weapon against Japan?
By saying that it would end the war and save lives
What ended communism in Eastern Europe.?
The Fall of the Berlin wall
what did the completion of the Erie canal do?
The completion of the Erie Canal made it easy to travel between the great lakes and the Atlantic ocean
What did the Kansas controversy do?
The Kansas controversy threatened to change the balance of slaves and nonslaves states
