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- provide one example pf a public works project employed by the president mentioned in 18?
- Which member of the Sons of Liberty rode his horse from Boston to Lexington to warn the minutemen that the British were coming
- this is the name of lewis Germans intelligence test that, at the time, misled many and believing that western Northern Europeans were intellectually superior to the rest of the world and contributes to the passing of the invigoration act as mentioned above in #6
- this is the name of the trial in 1925 in which John scopes allegedly taught evolution in school
- what is the term use to describe the type pf economics that focuses on increasing overall market demand by providing employment temporarily through government spending
- who was the democratic president that advocated government intervention in the economy to help address the problems of the Great Depression
- this is the term used to describe individuals rushing to banks to withdraw money and causing banks to default
- The period of rapid production of cotton in the South is known as the ______________.
- this is the name of the act at the time that forbade the teaching of human evolution in a state-funded school
- this is the racist group that grew the popularity in the 20's and opposed and 'unAmerican' groups -most notably jews, catholics, and blacks
- to what industry did most of these immigrant workers find jobs?
- this is the name for the communist revolution in Russia in 1917
- this is the term used to describe individuals borrowing money to buy stocks
- in what year was the immigration act passed that effectively ban all immigration from Asia and set a total immigration quota of 165,000 for countries outside the Western Hemisphere and set quotas for specific countries were based on 2% of the U.S. population from that country as recorded in 1890.
- this is the early-20th century movement the advocated the improving of human gene pool reproduction and even sterilization of 'defective' individuals
- these are the telling anarchists that were executed based on faulty evidence for the murder of a guard and paymaster
- The area of high cotton production through the South is known as the ___________.
- which act took away power of self-government in MAssachusetts
- What Act suspended a colonial representative assembly, reintroduced writs of assistance, and set up strict measures of collecting taxes in the colonies
- In the South, a person who owned a plantation was known as a____________.