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Isolationism - Answer a belief that the United States should avoid entanglements with other nations Why was isolationism popular in the U.S. during the 1920s-1930s? - Answer Depression made foreign policy remote and unimportant & fearful because of war What event represented the key failure of the League of Nations? - Answer Denouncement of the Treaty of Versailles Name the Axis Powers of World War II - Answer Germany, Italy, and Japan "Rome-Berlin-Tokyo axis...

The assembly Line - Answer the adoption replaced past factory working process Machine placement - Answer innovated by Henry ford, wanted line to 'move by itself'. Unpredicted prosperity - Answer in the 1920s made everyone believe that no matter birth, anyone could be rich. Resulted in excess investments. Money without work - Answer idea that lead to over investment in the stock market by the general population. The Great Depression - Answer A time ...

The transcontinental railroad was completed in - Answer 1869 The "frontier thesis" holds that - Answer the frontier experience explains the historic development of American society Which of the following is NOT one of the "Reconstruction Amendments?" - Answer 12th Amendment Which of the following amendments stated that States were obliged to extend "due process of law" and "equal protection of the laws" to all citizens of the United States? - An...

Cause of Cold War - Answer Erupted as a result of the difference in the values & systems of the US & USSR Yalta Conference - Answer Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met to make plans for the postwar world Yalta Conference Agreements - Answer Formed the United Nations (UN) Divide Germany into 4 occupation zones Allow free elections in the countries they liberated from German rule Containment - Answer Under this policy Truman & future US presidents aimed to preve...

1. 60s activism. - Answer By 1970, over 1/2 of Americans were under the age of 30 - University enrollment quadrupled Many protests for injustice/inequality 1967 Time Magazine - "Man of the Year" generation under 25 2. 60s activism part 2. - Answer 1960 - Hayden & Haber formed Students for a Democratic Society 1962 Manifesto - called for political reform, radical equality, and workers rights "New Left" - govt reform is the key to social issues Reform coming from ...

Fraud, stocks were overpriced, credit was too easy - Answer What caused the stock market to crash? The stock market crash, imbalance in foreign trade, no money in circulation, average income $2300 a year, people weren't earning enough to survive, all sources of income were cut off or on short supply - Answer What caused the depression? Herbert Hoover - Answer too little too late, committed to laissez faire economy, not committed to any government activism Roosev...

Rise of Professions - Answer Young, educated men and women experts, smart jobs new middle class Six characteristics of Progressivism - Answer - Acted out of concern of industrialization effects & conditions - Believe in progress & peoples' ability to recognize & solve problems - Believed they had right to intervene in people’s lives (coercion) - Turned to gov. @ all levels to effect reforms - Evangelical protestantism and natural & social sciences inform it - Very popu...

Percentage of US natives occupied after the civil war - Answer half Nomadic tribes, depended on the buffalo and the horse, lived in bands of 300-500 - Answer Apache, Comanche, Cheyenne Key animal to plains indians, utilized every part - Answer buffalo divided into labor castes according to gender - Answer plains Indians held positions of authority, such as medicine man or chief - Answer indian men responsible for child rearing and artistic activity - ...

Articles of Confederation - Answer 1st Constitution of the U.S. (weaknesses-no executive, no judicial, no power to tax, no power to regulate trade) John Dickinson - Answer Drafted a declaration of colonial rights and grievances, and also wrote the series of "Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania" in 1767 to protest the Townshend Acts. Although an outspoken critic of British policies towards the colonies, Dickinson opposed the Revolution, and, as a delegate to the Continenta...

Reform Movements - Answer -Rooted in idea that humans can change society -Most reformers were middle-class women -Great awakening helped man think that they can change society Temperance (1810) - Answer -Arguments for temperance -William Cobbed said that one can ask to drink freely -People drank a lot of alcohol -Alcoholic republic -American temperance union(1883) - people complained that workers didn't work as hard enough -Humanitarians thought that alcohol leads to po...