Unit 3 Exam Review

shared a belief that industrialization and urbanization had created serious social and political problems.

Socially conscious journalists who dramatized the need for reform were known as _______.

Book written by Upton Sinclair that related the despair of immigrants working in Chicago’s stockyards.

Settlement house in Chicago opened by Jane Addams in 1889.

Organization that urged women to buy goods produced under fair, safe, and healthy working conditions.

Hundreds of members were arrested when they picketed outside the White House.

A bitter battle between Theodore Roosevelt and his successor, William H. Taft led to a ___.

The Federal Reserve Act placed national banks under the control of _____.

One reason powerful nations rushed to grab colonies in the 1800s was the desire for ____.

The belief that life consists of competitive struggles in which only the fittest survive is known as ____.

An assertion of America’s desire for free trade with China

President Woodrow Wilson promised a foreign policy guided by ________.

The ________ in the early 1900s led to the growth of other industries and of suburban communities.

The significant changes in the manners, morals, and mindset of many women in the 1920s came to be symbolized by the ____.

The ___ of 1925 pitted fundamentalists against supporters of the theory of evolution.

One of the main reasons for the 1929 stock market crash was that _____.

The Great Depression forced many Americans to live in shantytowns known as __.

The ______ gave President Roosevelt the authority to temporarily close banks while they got their accounts in order.

The fear that communist were working to destroy American life created a reaction known as the ____.

A key provision of the GI Bill of Rights

One American was born every 7 seconds during the peak of __________________.

_________ originated in the gospel and blues traditions of African Americans.

Critics of the culture of the 1950s complained about its __________________.

Group of writers and artists who despised materialism and conformity.

Michael Harrington’s book ______ shocked Americans in 1962 with its claim that 1/4 of Americans still lived in poverty.

Book that helped spark the environmental activity

The high point of President Nixon’s foreign policy efforts was his ______, which led to official recognition of that country.

Timothy Leary, communes, and the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco were part of ______.

This law was the result of the consumer rights movement of the 1960s.

In the late 1970s, the EPA determined that Love Canal, New York was ______.

How did the continued migration of Americans to the Sunbelt during the 1970s affect politics.

__________ believed that federal welfare programs rewarded lack of effort and worsened poverty.

____________ research funding increased substantially under George H.W. Bush

President Ronald Reagan sought world peace through ____.

_____________ stressed science and secular ideas rather than religious beliefs.

_______ often had a pessimistic, skeptical world view.

At first, what did President Hoover rely on to relieve the depression?

Why did Lyndon Johnson’s support for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 surprise many Americans?

In the case of United States v. Nixon, the Supreme Court ordered President Nixon to __.

How did Prohibition contribute to the growth of organized crime?

____a cover up by the Nixon administration of its involvement in a burglary of Democratic Party headquarters.

skyrocketed in 1991 as a result of the U.S. victory in Operation Desert Storm