FSOT questions with correct answers

1863 CORRECT ANSWER When was the red cross founded 1937 CORRECT ANSWER What year was FDR's court packing scheme 100,000 in 1934 CORRECT ANSWER the largest denomination of US money ever created 1893 Depression CORRECT ANSWER Profits dwindled, businesses went bankrupt & slid into debt. Caused loss of business confidence. 20% of the workforce unemployed. Let to the Pullman strike 1933 (FDR) CORRECT ANSWER Gold Standard abandoned & turn to silver 1973 Rehabilitation Act CORRECT ANSWER An American piece of legislation that guaranteed certain rights to people with disabilities 1992 - what went wrong (GB1) CORRECT ANSWER GB1 American economy favored powerful not middle class, natioanal debt, employment fell, forced into low paying jobs, losing benefits of pensiosn & health, black & hispanic = hit hardest 3/5 Compromise CORRECT ANSWER The South wanted slaves to count of citizens in order to increase the population, & therefore increasing the number of Southerners in the House of Representatives. The North argued that slaves were property & couldn't be counted. In the end, slaved came to be counted as 3/5 of a person