US History 30 week exam review Flashcard

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Which development was a result of the Progressive movement?

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Government increased its regulation of business practices.

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The term muckraker was used during the Progressive Era to describe

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investigative journalists who exposed societal problems

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After World War I, a “return to normalcy” was most clearly demonstrated by

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opposition to joining the League of Nations

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The main idea of this 1937 cartoon about President Franklin D. Roosevelt is that the president is...

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attempting to exercise too much influence over the Supreme Court

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Passage of the Social Security Act (1935) helped American workers by

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providing financial assistance after retirement

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What was a major result of President Herbert Hoover’s use of the military to drive the Bonus Army out of the nation’s capital?

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President Hoover’s reelection campaign was damaged.

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The Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s expanded the influence of African Americans by

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promoting the artistic contributions of African Americans

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The New Deal reform that helped labor unions win the right to represent workers was the

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passage of the National Labor Relations (Wagner) Act

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In the poem, what is Langston Hughes’s criticism about United States foreign policy during World War II?

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Claims of fighting for democracy abroad are inconsistent with segregation at home.

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The Manhattan Project led by Robert Oppenheimer was part of the World War II effort to

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develop the atomic bomb