In 1916, Wilson nominated Louis Brandeis, a staunch progressive who had fought in court against the exploitation of women and children workers, to the Supreme Court. He was the first Jewish justice on the Court. Following Brandeis's nomination, Wilson supported improved credit for farmers and workers' compensation for federal employees. He then pushed through a law to eliminate child labor, but the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional in 1918. When American railroad unions threatened to strike in 1916, Wilson supported and signed into law a bill securing an eight-hour workday for railroad employees—the Adamson Act, which paved the way to shortened workdays for all industrial workers.
Why was Tennessee not under occupation?:
"Because it ratified the Fourteenth Amendment, Tennessee was the only state that seceded from the Union that did not have a military governor during Reconstruction. This did not placate those unhappy with the Confederate defeat." - Wikipedia history
Which states took the longest to be re-admitted?:
1. South Carolina July 9, 1868
2. Mississippi Feb. 23, 1870
3. Florida June 25, 1868
What impact did riots in Memphis and New Orleans have on Reconstruction?:
"The riots catalyzed support for the Fourteenth Amendment, extending suffrage and full citizenship to freedmen, and the Reconstruction Act, to establish military districts for the national government to oversee areas of the South and work to change their social arrangements." - Wikipedia history
Consumer Culture
A society in which mass production and consumption of nationally advertised products comes to dictate much of social life and status.
Jazz Age
Term coined by writer F. Scott Fitzgerald to characterize the spirit of rebellion and spontaneity among young Americans in the 1920's, a spirit epitomized by the hugely popular jazz music of the era.
Flappers
Young women of the 1920's whose rebelling against prewar standards of feminist included wearing shorter dresses, bobbing their hair, dancing to jazz music, driving my cars, smoking cigarettes, and indulging in illogical drinking and gambling.
Harlem Renaissance
The nation's first self-conscious black literary and artistic movement, centered in New York City's Harlem district, which had a largely black population in the wake of the Great Migration from the South.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Organization founded in 1910 by black activists and white progressives that promoted education as a means of combating social problems and focused on Leah all action to secure the civil rights supposedly guaranteed by the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments.
Modernism
An early-twentieth-century cultural movement that rejected traditional notions of reality and adopted radical new forms of artistic expression.
Nativism
Reactionary conservative movement characterized by heightened nationalism, anti-immigration sentiment, and laws setting stricter regulations on immigration.
Sacco and Vanzetti Case (1921)
Trail of two Italian immigrants that occurred at the height of Italian immigration and against the backdrop of numerous terror attacks by anarchists despite the lack of clear evidence, the two defendants, both self professed anarchists, were convicted of mister and executed.
Immigration Act of 1924
Federal legislation intended to favor northern and Western European immigrants over those from southern and Eastern Europe by restricting the number of immigrants from any one European country to 2 percent of the total number of immigrants per year, with an overall limit of slightly over 150,000 new arrivals per year.
Scopes Trial (1925)
Highly publicized trail of a high school teacher in Tennessee for violating a state law the prohibited the teaching of evolution, the trail was seen as the climax of the fundamentalist war on Darwinism.
The Mongols were an empire that succeded in preservating their culture and their ways thanks to the comercial spirit they had.
They traveled all around Asia conquering territories and using their abilities for diffusing their culture by the means of selling and offering their products.
They were a culture opened in the sense that everyone could chose what to believe and how to live, this was a way of showing Asia how they lived and inspiring millions of people to be part of the culture.
This characteristic has made the mongols remain as a culture and it continues the enlargement of their followers.
That statement IS arguable because not everyone would agree and also NOT defensible since theres no proof to back it up with, so the answer would be (D)
