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- Which political branch of the Federal government did the New Deal have the most long-lasting effect on?
- When the king issued writs of assistance in efforts to stop widespread smuggling, American colonists considered it a violation of what right?
- Why did most black Americans become strong supporters of the Democratic party during the Great Depression?
- What was a major result of the increase in back closings seen during the early years of the Great Depression?
- Identify the first-feature length film to feature "talkie" sound
- How did the American Federation of Labor treat African Americans in the 1920's?
- What was the term given to the system in which employers provided workers with fringe benefits such as shorter workweeks and retirement pensions?
- What was the significance of the Brotherhood of Sleeing Car Porters?
- Identify the group of writers who were critical of the cold, impersonal, materialistic nature of modern life
- Future U.S. President who successfully ran the Food Administration Board during WWI?
- Which nation's military troops endured 6 months of hard fighting in order to turn back German offensives?
- is the illegal practice of showing african american/ hispanics only available housing in predominately African-American or Hispanic neighborhoods while avoiding opportunities in predominately Angio
- Currently, the United States is the only highly industrialized nation in the world without a universal health-care coverage system
- In Mein Kampf, _____ envisioned a new world order dominated by an Aryan or Germanic race whereby the races would be divided into three main groups: Culture-creating, culture-bearing, and culture-destroying
- is the power to review and ultimately declare unconstitutional any state or federal law judicial ruling, or executive action as a unconstitutional violation of the United States Constitution
- The grandfather clause was jim crow law requiring individuals whose grandfathers could not vote before 1860 to pass a literacy to qualify for voting
- At the 1848 seneca falls convention, frederick douglass told the audience that one of the ultimate goals of civil rights was to reach the point where " right is of no sex, truth is of no colors"
- The United States Supreme Court reversed its plessy v ferguson decision by ruling in Brown v Board of Education that the separate but equal doctrine was unconstitutional
- In ____, the united states supreme court ruled that an individual can request legal counsel when the interrogation process shifts from exploratory to accusatory
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded in 1909 with its founder ____ serving as the organization's first president