History of the Americas
Explore questions in the History of the Americas category that you can ask Sparky!
- The Supreme Court declared what unconstitutional it delegated too much of Congress' power to president?
- What did FDR's admin create which provided jobs on small construction projects, like buildings and roads in communities around the country?
- What act was funded through taxes on businesses that processed farm goods?
- What was the name given to several university professors who FDR used to help him fix the Great Depression?
- Which of the following New Deal creations still protects bank customers' savings accounts?
- What act did the new Commissioner of Indian Affairs repeal that stopped the forced assimilation of Native Americans?
- Many African Americans shifted their votes to what political party during the 1930s because the New Deal provided jobs and relief benefits to all Americans?
- The main purpose of Roosevelt's first inaugural speech was to specify the _____ he planned to solve the Great Depression.
- In politics, what is an elected official soon to be replaced?
- What economist believed the best way to jump-start an economy was to pront more money and give it to individuals to spend?
- Which New Deal act specified a minimum wage and a maximum 40-hour workweek?
- John Nance Garner, was whose running mate in the 1932 presidential election?
- What is a negative balance, spending more than earning, in the national treasury known as?
- Which branch of the federal government has the power to create a bigot of the federal government
- Which branch of government can declare war
- When was the federal reserve created
- created due to the boston tea party - closed ports and restricted the colonizers
- Who was the first Republican candidate for President (hint: he did not win)
- Name the author of the novel that shifted public opinion in the North against slavery, and name the novel.
- Who was the prominent abolitionist and former slave who published The North Star?