History of the Americas Questions
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When a company loses profits, how might a company respond?
What did you call the protest by WWI veterans due a bonus in 1945 who marched to Washington to demand early payment?
When there is an overproduction of goods, this is called what? What happens to prices?
What percentage of people were unemployed during the Great Depression?
President Hoover was part of what political party?
What do you call a market for shares of companies?
President Lincoln's and Johnson's Reconstruction plan resulted in which of the following groups gaining control of southern state legislatures?
Who was a New York Governor and Democratic candidate for President?
The Radicals in Congress took control of Reconstruction after the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson, and re-imposed military rule in all of the former Confederate states except
The Freedmen's Bureau and other radical Republican programs encouraged blacks to become lazy and sponge off of government welfare
Upon "redeeming" their states, Bourbon Democrats repealed the Radical Republicans' taxes and replaced them with _____
The practice of sharecropping did not satisfy freedmen's hopes for land ownership, but it did represent a step away from slavery and towards freedom by (select TWO)
The Freedmen's Bureau protected blacks from manipulative white landlords
The founders of the Ku Klux Klan saw themselves as the chivalric knights of old, defending _____ from predators, especially black federal soldiers.
Who was a Union army veteran and Republican candidate for president?
How did Gettysburg address summarize the civil war?
This was created to reform, and restore confidence in, the stock market by providing a means to monitor the market and to enforce laws regarding the sales of stocks and bonds
FDR was supported by and was very popular with the Republican Party.
This protected the right of workers to join unions and established the National Labor Relations Board to settle disputes between employers and employees.
The Social Security Act did not have a long-term impact on the American economy.