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History of the Americas
Explore questions in the History of the Americas category that you can ask Sparky!
- What was the name given to southern extremists that supported slavery and the right to secession?
- What group experienced an early depression in the 1920s?
- during the 1920s, the US economy moved through which phase of the business cycle?
- How did the unemployment rate of African-Americans compared to everyone else?
- Some Americans blamed the depression on this government:
- What did John Maynard Keynes believe caused the depression?
- European reaction to the Hawley Smoot Tariff was:
- Why were banks one of the first institutions that fill the effects of the stock market crash?
- What was the destination of most dust bowl immigrants?
- Why did the rural depression that had the farmers during the 1920s go largely unnoticed by the rest of the nation?
- Why did President Hoover response to the great depression fail?
- Prominent female social scientists of the 1930s, like Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead, brought widespread contributions to the field of:sociology.psychology.anthropology.economics.political science.
- Franklin Roosevelt took America off the gold standard and adopted a managed currency policy designed to:reduce the price of gold.reduce the amount of money in circulation.stimulate inflation.restore confidence in banks.shake up the Federal Reserve Board.
- Eleanor Roosevelt had honed her own skills and developed a personal network of reform activists through:her personal association with women's colleges and sororities.her experience in settlement houses and women's reform organizations.running for local offices in New York state.her long resistance to Franklin Roosevelt's personal infidelities.sitting in on Franklin Roosevelt's cabinet meetings when he was governor of New York.
- jackson's ------ background made him popular with --------- and they thought he represented the --------peoplea-humble-politics-commonb-scary-comon people-high classc-humble -voters -common
- andrew jackson was elected as the ------- president in 1812
- Previously, only ________ _____________ who owned property had the right to ____________. Some states had begun to expand suffrage laws before Jackson's election. These laws gave all ---------- ------------the right to vote.A-all males-vote-females and malesB-white males-vote-whit malesC-white males-married-unmarried males
- • Polk sent diplomat John Slidell to ____________ City. o Slidell intended to make an offer of . . $_____ million for California, New __________, and the disputed region in ___________. o The Mexican president {refused / agreed }to meet with him.A.mexico,30,mexico,texas,refusedB.new york,20,mexico,organ,agreed--------------------------------• In 1846, Polk ordered __________ troops to be stationed near the Rio Grande. o Mexico viewed this move as an act of _____________ and ordered its troops to ________ on the US soldiers.A.4,000,ivazion,fireB.4,000,treasion,fire--------------------------------• Polk asked Congress to authorize _______ with Mexico, and Congress agreed to his request. o The war was {popular / unpopular} with northerners.A.war,unpopularB.war,popular
- US generals Zachary ___________ and Winfield _________ achieved the main victories that defeated Mexico.A.taylor,scottB.scott,taylor
- In the early 1800s, ____________ ruled California and the Southwest region of the present-day United States.A.great britainB.rusaC.mexico