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Flashcards by Izzy Noone, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Izzy Noone
about 8 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| The constitution of the USA sets out how power should be shared in the country and how a country is governed- true or false? | TRUE |
| What is a change in the Constitution called? | An Amendment |
| Which parts of the government can be checked by the Supreme Court? | President and Congress |
| Is the Federal Government just local or central to the USA? | Central |
| List any two powers of the central government | Can go to war, in charge of the armed forces, change in foreign policy, value of the $/currency |
| Give one power of the state government | Can make laws on local education, local taxes, local law and order |
| Give two ways the First World War boosted US business | Sold weapons to Europe, sold goods such as blankets and uniforms to Europe, manufacturing was not disrupted by war |
| Give two ways the First World War boosted US agriculture | Sold food such as wheat and corn, farmland wasn't affected by the war like European countries, countries in the war couldn't produce their own food so they bought American food |
| How much of the world's corn was the USA producing in the early 1920's? | 70% |
| How did American banks profit from the war? | Made money from LOANS to countries fighting in the war |
| Give two unfortunate facts about America's fate in WWI? | Cost $3 billion/more than 100,000 soldiers died/ horrific injuries from gas attacks |
| What was the name of the President who attended the Versailles Peace Conference n France and when? | Woodrow Wilson in 1919 |
| How many times did the US senate look at the Versailles Treaty and still reject it? | Three times |
| The President set out 14 points in his aims for European Peace. Give two of them | To set up a League of Nations/ all countries should have less weapons/ countries should not have secret agreements |
| True or False: After a year unsuccessfully trying to persuade the USA to accept the treaty the President broke down in tears and cried "I am going to pieces" | True |
| Give two reasons why the USA did not join the "League of Nations"? | They did not want to be the "World's Police"/ Angry at war losses/ Immigrants who had left Europe behind |
| Give two examples of the way the USA had a policy of "Isolationism" | Wouldn't pass the Treaty of Versailles/upset by the number of US casualties/ brought in a quota system for immigrants/ end of OPEN DOOR/ put tariffs on foreign goods. |
| What is a tariff? | A TAX by the GOVERNMENT put on foreign goods coming from ABROAD |
| What was the purpose of the tariffs which were introduced in the 1920's? | To protect American businesses from foreign competition |
| Name two of the products on which tariffs were placed in May 1921, Emergency Tariff Act | Wheat/ sugar/ meat/ wool |
| What is the date of the Fordney-McCumber tariff? | 1922 |
| How many immigrants moved to America between 1900 and 1920? | 12.5 million |
| List two countries from which people emigrated to the USA? | Italy/ Russia/ Ireland/ Germany/ China/ Britain |
| What does W.A.S.P stand for? | White Anglo Saxon Protestant |
| Previously the US had an "Open door" policy on immigration. What limit to numbers was set in 1921? | No more that 3% of the total population of immigrants already living in the USA |
| The 1924 Immigration Act reduced the quota to 2%- True or False? | True |
| Give two views of European immigrants among some Americans? | Poorly educated/ More likely to commit crime/ inferior/ dangerous politics like communism |
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