Fall Semester CBA Part 2

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What was the 19th amendment?

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Women's suffrage

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What was the court packing scheme?

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FDR tried to increase the number of Supreme Court justices to approve his New Deal programs

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What stops one branch of the government from becoming too powerful?

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checks and balances

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This foreign policy by Theodore Roosevelt was used to secure the Panama Canal. The US will negotiate, but we also have a "Great White Fleet".

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Big Stick Policy

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Why did senator Henry Cabot Lodge oppose US membership in the League of Nations?

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He believed that League decisions would involve the US in foreign wars

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The 17th amendment -

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allows direct election of senators by the voters in each state