Midterm Review Answer Key

What to study: ALL study guides from previous units – ALL are located on the wikispace! – WITH THE ANSWERS!!! – rhsencoreacademy.wikispaces.com/US+Global Midterm Review

1.) What’s a trust? When an entire industry is controlled by one company

2.) Why pass anti-trust measures? Create more competition MORE choice for consumers

3.) Laissez-faire – what system? Gov’t does not interfere in economics Capitalism (market economy)

4.) Immigrant/Emigrant? Immigrant – someone who goes INTO a country Emigrant – someone who EXITS a country

5.) Why migrate to US? Better opportunities in US (jobs, land, standard of living) Freedoms in the U.S. Leaving an oppressive government Famine, drought

6.) What did progressives want to accomplish? Fix problems of industrialization Social welfare, promote moral improvement, economic reform, fostering efficiency

7.) Muckraker definition Journalist who exposes big business corruption

8.) Market, Mixed and Command Market – private ownership Mixed – both Command – gov’t

9.) Why fearful of outsiders? Red Scare: Fear of Communism There had been a Communist Revolution in Russia Nativist feelings Emergency Quota Act – LIMIT immigration

10.) 19 th Amendment Women’s suffrage (right to vote) 1920 election

11.) Describe 1920’s Nativism/Red Scare Big Business rule – gov’t “pro-business” Flappers Harlem Renaissance Prohibition Cars New appliances

12.) Great Migration movement of African Americans from farms/rural areas in the south to cities/urban areas in the north Better opportunities – JOBS! Left south b/c of segregation

13.) Dust Bowl – where? Wind storms that kicked up over-used land and created dust storms in the great plains (middle America)

14.) New Deal – gov’t involvement Government programs to provide relief, recovery and reform Gave gov’t a bigger role in fixing economic problems

15.) Supreme Court view of New Deal thought some of the laws gave legislative powers to the executive branch though some of the laws went too far in regulating business

16.) 1930s spending More on domestic affairs To fix depression!

17.) Japanese-Americans in WWII Many were placed in internment camps b/c they were seen as a threat

18.) Appeasement G.B. and France gave into Hitler’s demands for Czechoslovakia to AVOID WAR

19.) Nonaggression Pact Germany and the Soviet Union

20.) Treaty of Versailles and WWII The harsh conditions caused ANGER and resentment among Germans – allowed for a strong leader like Hitler to gain control.

21.) Japan’s goal in Asia? Create an empire

22.) Totalitarianism TOTAL control – dictatorship. Citizens with few rights.

23.) Why could Hitler gain control of Weimar Republic? Weimar Republic was weak – many turned to totalitarian leaders to QUICKLY solve economic problems.

24.) Nuremberg Race Laws Jews lost citizenship status and civil rights

25.) Areas Hitler took in 1938 Austria (unification) and the Sudetenland (area of Czechoslovakia)

26.) Goals of Japanese militaristic gov’t. Control the Pacific – land, islands Free hand in Pacific

27.) Goal of book burning Get rid of Jewish authors’ ideas and books – anything “un-German”

28.) Why did courts allow mistreatment of Jews? Pledged oath to Hitler, not the Constitution Special Courts created – under Nazi leadership Police had a broad range of powers