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fsu amh 2020 exam University Of Central Florida Questions with complete solution fsu amh 2020 exam #2 herbert hoover - correct answer republican president who was better educated and had fame for his humanitarian relief; he assumes office just before the great depression al smith - corre...

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fsu amh 2020 exam #2
herbert hoover - correct answer ✔republican president who was better
educated and had fame for his humanitarian relief; he assumes office just
before the great depression


al smith - correct answer ✔opponent of hoover in the election; catholic
democrat who opposes (prohibition) 18th amendment


bank run - correct answer ✔People go to banks to make sure the cash is
theirs and not the banks; Banks don't have enough money to reimburse the
people


hoovervilles - correct answer ✔Slums for the homeless on outskirts of large
cities; it was a way to blame hoover for the great depression


last hired, first fired - correct answer ✔minority groups such as blacks,
mexicans, etc are fired from work


smoot-hawley tarriff act - correct answer ✔raised tariffs by hoover in efforts
to allow a better economic situation for manufacturers and farmers by
protecting agricultural workers


okies - correct answer ✔people who left the dust bowl; slang for someone
from Oklahoma


paul bonnifield - correct answer ✔author of the dust bowl; that argues it's the
story of the people overcoming this natural disaster who could never have
predicted this disaster. They were the builders of tomorrow and were not poor
or had loss of hope; story of triumph

,donald worster - correct answer ✔author if dust bowl; it was a terrible man-
made disaster and it was farmers own ignorance and danger of exploiting the
land which caused the dust bowl; story of humans and societies reaping a
disaster for exploiting the land


election of 1932 - correct answer ✔hoover is re-elected by republicans but
FDR (democrat) wins by a landslide


emergency banking relief act - correct answer ✔4 day holiday where banks
were shut down and the nation could stabilize


glass-steagall banking act - correct answer ✔guaranteed customers would
always have a $250,000 minimum in their accounts; and prohibits commercial
banks from participating in the same activities as investment banks


fair labor standards act - correct answer ✔FDR established a federal
minimum wage of 40 cents per hour and 40 hour max work week


the civilian conversations corps - correct answer ✔managed by the war
department and was to create jobs in environmental work (plating trees, etc.)
and provided basic classes to teach workers; 3 million individuals


tennessee valley authority - correct answer ✔construction work such as
building dams and bringing power to those with no electricity; they brought 1.5
million farms electricity


works progress administration - correct answer ✔helps over 9 million people
and were the worlds largest employer; public work jobs & they hire people to
do projects for the federal government

, revenue act of 1935 - correct answer ✔raised taxes on annual income;
anyone who makes about $15,000 has to pay a higher rate


agricultural adjustment administration - correct answer ✔paying farmers to
destroy their products and not work so the price of goods can increase; the
goal was to raise the price of crops produced by farmers


social security act of 1935 - correct answer ✔self financed retirement fund,
payroll tax, pension payments, single tax rate (affects the poor more than the
rich)


reparations - correct answer ✔were part of the reason people were so
disgusted with the treaty; they felt they didn't deserve all the blame, or need to
pay to make up for starting WWI


disarmament - correct answer ✔treaty trying to limit Germany's ability to
create war in the future


weimar republic - correct answer ✔- the government of Germany that took
over after WWI and they have a democratic elected system of government
and are chosen by the German people and also get the blame for the treaty of
Versailles (forced to surrender and be allies) and this new government has to
deal w all the issues the treaty caused


beer hall putsch - correct answer ✔Hitler is jailed for a few years after trying
to forcefully overthrow the current German government


the nuremberg laws - correct answer ✔were two laws which excluded the
Jews from German life, as well as took away some of their natural rights.

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