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+10

• 2012 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.) 19th 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