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History of the Americas
Explore questions in the History of the Americas category that you can ask Sparky!
- What is the study of the environment and landforms called?
- What European country claimed land along the Hudson River and present day New York City originally?
- What is the study of tool bones, and pottery called?
- What is the name of the journey from Africa to the West Indies in America where enslaved people were brought?
- Which two groups debated over the ratification (approval) or the U.S. Constitution?
- The Federalists and Democratic-Republicans were the first...
- During reconstruction Republicans nominate a new state governments because of
- John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Robert Livingston, and Roger Sherman
- how the New Deal attempted to revive American industry; created the National Recovery Administration
- On January 6, 1936, when the Supreme Court decided that the Agricultural Adjustment Act was unconstitutional for levying this tax on the processors only to have it paid back to the farmers. Regulation of agriculture was deemed a state power
- sought to halt the slide in prices, wages and employment by suspending antitrust laws and setting production quotas, price policies, wages working conditions and other business practices
- on May 27, 1935, when the Supreme Court declared the act of not holding the law of Section 7a legally, unconstitutional because it assigned lawmaking powers to the NRA in violation of the Constitution's allocation of such powers to Congress
- the director of the NIRA and persuaded the public to patronize participating companies indicated by the NRA Blue Eagle insignia
- called for an end to poverty and unemployment by issuing confiscatory taxes on the rich to provide every family with a decent income, health coverage, education and old age pension
- established by Congress in May 1933 to combat the depression in agriculture caused by crop surpluses and low prices. It subsidized farmers who agreed to restrict production
- guaranteed workers the right to organize unions and bargain collectively
- a Catholic priest, threatened to mobilize a large constituency against the limitations of the early New Deal
- The American economy collapsed, leaving millions of people in fear of what?
- a Californian physician who called for government pension to all Americans over the age of 60
- known as the Kingfish, organized the Share-Our-Wealth Society; from Louisiana