History of the Americas
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- What was significant about the way the 1902 coal strike was settled?
- Since tariffs were lowered, how did the government make up lost revenue?
- Identify one person who belong to the Anti-Imperialist League.
- When dealing with the effects of the Great Depression, what was one advantage people living in rural areas had over those living in the city?
- Support refute the following statement with two details and one sentence of analysis: President Roosevelt's New Deal programs were the best way for the U.S. government to help Americans during the Great Depression.
- Before the Holocaust began, identify two ways in which Germany discriminated against the Jews.
- Why did other countries except Jewish refugees?
- Describe two anti-trust actions the administration of President Wilson took.
- Identify one job Woodrow Wilson had before he was president.
- Explain how the tern "Gilded Age" reflects U.S. society at the turn of the century.
- Identify one job Theodore Roosevelt had before he become president.
- Specifically, how much control did Puerto Ricans have over their government because of the Foraker Act?
- What was a negative effect of the Pendleton Civil Service Act?
- Why did Secretary of State John Hay issue the policy statements know as the Open Door Policy?
- Describe two ways in which African Americans were discriminated against in the North.
- What actions of Wilson disappointed civil rights advocates?
- Why did women win the way to vote in 1920, after earlier efforts had failed?
- What were Booker T. Washington's views about establishing racial equality?
- Besides Jews, identify two other groups of people the Nazis begin to target.
- How did railroad owners use credit Mobile to make huge, undeserved profits?